skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the FBI controlled address, presumably a Coinbase deposit address

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qq2euq8pw950klpjca...

Which got funds from

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3EYkxQSUv2KcuRTnHQA8t...

This is the wallet explorer used for clustering the wallet

https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/123085fff68ee703/addre...

I have no idea why they censored out parts of the bitcoin addresses as googling the uncensored part and transaction quantities lets you find them on countless sites.
And maybe that’s the answer here. Or maybe the legal and moral boundaries don’t coincide. But the facts of the case haven’t changed, so there’s no reason you’d expect any genuinely held opinion to have changed.
For the past few years, Australian police have been loudly whinging to journalists about their inability to tap encrypted messaging apps, and demanding parliament give them all kinds of Orwellian powers to force developers to add back doors. This puts a whole new light on that! Let's hope it was reverse psychology directed at the crooks, and they'll stop it from now on.
Oh wow, the Aussie feds even did a 2 minutes YouTube explainer https://youtu.be/qq9wnMXvgOc
My point is the view of the world for the two parties here is totally different (unless you are a founder on the edge of success without enough funding on the line to lose your mind at an intern, and if so - interested on your take).

Not empathizing with the founder other than noting it would be sort of predicable for the founder to react like this. IP is big
You know, I was joking the last few times the subject came up, but I'm getting seriously worried that the more people mention using that kind of trick on HN, the faster advertisers will catch on and start building reddit-based SEO strategies.

Not sure how we should react :/
Oh I see! Thanks!
What is the ethical line that was crossed? There is no basis for this unless you think that Radon intends to monetize, and then become a direct competitor.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this - but I found it significant that the beta is starting as Windows only.
This was obviously the norm in the 90s and 2000s. Then the Mac started gaining mindshare after OS X with the dev community.

Today, I just assume a beta launch will work on a Mac.

In the last few years, it seems Microsoft has done a great job with features like WSL on Windows.

So is this a sign that Windows is regaining mindshare?

Yeah... probably reading too much into this...
Weird. Why would they do that?
I'm rather partial to the opening line of Michael Crighton's Congo:

Only prejudice, and a trick of the Mercator projection, prevents us from recognizing the enormity of the African continent.

Then it launches into a modern high-tech version of Heart of Darkness.
Clean room design of software has absolutely nothing to do with copyright because software concepts cannot be copyrighted. I would encourage you to study these legal concepts further before you debate them, because you’re coming off quite uninformed. Copyright has a specific purpose and specific limits. Studying a competitive software product and cloning it (even non clean room) is, again, not a copyright violation unless you’re literally pulling code from the competitive product. Nearly all clean rooms are to avoid patents and specific implementation thereof in the software space. This is different when it comes to other fields, so I get the confusion.

Theft of intellectual property in the case you cited also barely touches copyright. Put another way, copyright status of the property in question is largely immaterial to securing a conviction on the allegation.
I was hoping they would use a CoreXY mechanism
I see what you mean and there's of course some truth to it. He's stuck in a corner and no matter what he does now, some will write if off as insincere. I don't doubt that.

But besides honing communication skills and maybe tune back his ego some (for the future), do you really think the whole situation (including his apology) would not have been vastly improved by consulting with someone knowledgeable in PR?

If you think his apology sounds sincere and is worded appropriately, or his Twitter activity since the fiasco, does (or has done) him any good, then I guess we disagree on this.
The guy made a whole blog post attacking him. You shouldn’t defend yourself?
What has happened to YC?

Multiple recent companies are making the rounds with clear unethical behavior: Repl.it, TripleByte, Lambda School.
A founder seems to be unreasonably kicked from bookface. Meanwhile PG and friends show support for these actions while waxing on about how they are extremely particular about the moral compass of founders.
The OP probably meant "transformative" and not "derivative."
Apparently it's some variant of SIP. I'm surprised that it's been a decade and no one has RE'd it all and written an open-source client (or have they all been threatened by lawyers...?)

http://blog.krisk.org/2013/09/apples-new-facetime-sip-perspe...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509717
TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE! there is no "loser pays costs" rule/law for the entire US. it is a case by case thing, determined by a judge, in most cases, even in copyright cases. the link you posted even says that.

the comment you replied to was saying that there is no nation-wide law protecting victims of unnecessary or unjust lawsuits, and there isn't. you simply cannot count on getting your costs paid for if you win in any case.
Ah, yes, the Car Talk show’s preferred firm! They retained Hugh Louis Dewey as their Chief Legal Counsel. The full staff list is linked below. And just because I can’t help giving a small sample, here are there defense lawyers:

Defense Attorney Justin Volk V
Defense Attorney II Heronimus B. Blind
Defense Attorney III Donnatella Dicoppas
Defense Attorney IV Gil T. Azell

https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
I think that the people here speculating about the FBI and private keys are greatly overestimating the competency of these hackers.

While it's possible this it he FBI flexing some muscle that they have a backdoor into bitcoin's hashing algorithm, what seems much more likely (to me) is:

There is a more sophisticated hacking group which created this particular ransomware package. They sell this ransomware package to less sophisticated criminals.

(https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428996/colonial-pipelin...)

Is it so hard to imagine a scenario where the more advanced creators of this ransomware kit gave instructions to their purchasers on things like private keys, and the end user simply ignored them?

Somebody ignoring a warning when installing a software, and that allowing the FBI to subpeona access to the server where it was running, and grab this private key, seems FAR more likely to me than the FBI having a backdoor into BTC, or this all being a cover spy novel plot, or anything like that.
Same. I don't really have enough motivation to grind leetcode for weeks on end to be sharp enough to insure I'll do well in these interviews, so I mostly don't bother, even though I'm really overdue to find a new job.

It helps that my current company is 100% remote and has been for three years now, since they got rid of our office before anyone knew there would be a pandemic.

Also now it's looking like most companies are itching to get people back in the office, and I'm not wanting that, in part since it would likely require me to move since I live outside of Chicago.
Scrape/crawl from Golang but execute JavaScript in webview
yeah patent trolls and frivolous lawsuits are definitely a problem, but this doesn't really smell the same.

and i see your point, he seems to be within his rights to do this. even if i would be pretty irritated if someone ripped off my idea after working with me, it's problematic if he is being bullied from doing so.

i don't know how that extends to ethics though, which seems to be the theme of his post. either there's a moral code and i think he's shading the wrong side, or its the law of the jungle and then the ceo is free to use a lawsuit to stop him.

i think it's just the general sense of thirst and drama that i get from his blog and emails that make me think he's really after the publicity instead. which he has accomplished.
I wish duckduckgo had better results. google still better
AI4Animation: Deep Learning, Character Animation, Control
Energy density is a meaningless measure for cars. $ per mile isn't. If you have a heavier battery, you just need a bit more of it to drive the same amount of miles. It just boils down to cost in the end. You can also trade weight for mileage and have less battery. That lowers the cost and improves the mileage. Apparently Tesla has pushed internal cost per kwh of storage below 100$ now. That price is going to drop further.

But lets look at actual mileage at two roughly comparable cars (same vendor and brand):

Mustang Mach E 88kwh/300 mile EPA range. Or about 3.4 mile per kwh.

2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1 does 5.6 gallons per 100 miles (with the 8 cylinder engine). Or about 18 miles per gallon.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/43610.shtml

These are just official numbers, take them with a grain of salt. Also, both cars have a couple of variants obviously. Particularly the petrol mileage is likely to get a lot worse over the lifetime of the car as the engine wears out. This is less of a thing with EVs. And you probably have to drive the petrol Mustang like a nun to actually get 5.6 gallons per 100 miles. Likewise EVs have different mileage depending on driving style, temperature, etc. Lets just say they are both a little bit worse typically.

But they are nice numbers to work with and they are based on real world efficiency rather than archaic notions of potential energy, energy density, etc.

With these numbers, 1 gallon is roughly the equivalent of a bit over 5kwh when it comes to mileage in a gas guzzler like the Mustang. Cost for that from a super charger depends on a few factors. Likewise for a gallon of fuel (e.g. taxes). On a super charger at 28cents per kwh, it's like filling your tank for about 1.40$ per gallon , which would be a pretty good gas price that most of the world has not seen in a few decades. A super charger is probably the most expensive place to get your electricity. So, you might do better if you have cheap nightly grid rates or rooftop solar. There are lots of ways to get that number down. But 1.4$ per gallon equivalent is a lot cheaper than petrol. About 2x depending which state you live. Closer to 3x in some states. EVs are a bit heavier than petrol cars of course. But not 10x. Nowhere close to that. Maybe 1.5x or so. Half the energy cost per mile at the price of 50% extra weight is not a bad choice.

That's the reason people are switching to electric. It's just cheaper. It gets better when you also consider maintenance cost. It gets better still when battery and vehicle prices continue to drop. Purchase price of EVs is currently still slightly higher than the equivalent petrol car. But not for very long apparently.

Your mileage may vary but nowhere near 10x. More like 0.5x.
> Llvm [...] stable GCC API

In GCC, the compiler frontends are generally developed in parallel with, and distributed in parallel with the backend. There are some frontends which are distributed separately, but I expect that gcc-rs will be integrated into the mainline gcc source tree once complete. So it's not really an issue in practice. To put it another way: llvm api breakage doesn't affect clang, but it does affect other compilers using llvm.

Gcc is like a BSD, while llvm is like linux (except that linux makes a commitment to compatibility which llvm does not).
How does the IRS even find out you buy a car? There’s no federal sales tax. You just pay your state taxes.

If it’s a “nothing fancy” car, maybe a 30k accord or less, and he has a good income, it’s not going to raise any flags with either state or fed.

Bottom line - pay your taxes and you’ll be fine.

I can’t emphasize enough how good a feeling it is to have the title to your own car.
Blurbs are not legal documents, and every commercial artist is fully aware of that and has been for a long time.

The collection comes with a CD-ROM of the images — but Juracek said she requires people to license images from her for commercial use by contacting her directly. Juracek said in the lawsuit that Capcom never contacted her for a license.

I might buy this argument if it she was suing the creators of some breakout indie game, but Capcom is a mature corporation with a legal budget and staff. If you rip off one of their products in a commercial context they will not hesitate to redirect your attention from the blurb on the back of the videogame case to the legal small print that says what you may or may not do with it.
No, it is directly to avoid copyright. It doesn’t protect against patents. Trademarks are irrelevant. What other form of IP is there?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
> But it's still arguably "morally wrong".

According to who? You? Hundreds of people in this thread disagree with you. As does the law.
Backlash or just following the evidence?

"We provide strong evidence for greater male variability in preferences. We find that men are more likely to have extreme time, risk, and social preferences, while women are more likely to have moderate preferences."

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2026112118
Initial iPods used spinning disks. Solid state was not a factor in early iPod success.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+Classic+Hard+Drive+Replace...
TL;DR

1. If you control Intel Management Engine (exploit/backdoor/whatever), you have full control over the system.

2. That full control comes with, among everything else, the ability to put the CPU in a deep debug state ("Red Unlock")

3. In Red Unlock, you can basically play with the CPU's internals at will using a debug cable (just a modified A-A USB3 cable on many modern systems; "DCI").

4. It turns out that in Red Unlock state there are also undocumented instructions that let you do the same thing straight from code running on the CPU itself.

Notice how the security relevance stops at #1. We already know that if you control ME, you control the system. So there is no security impact to this discovery. The prerequisite is already total control.

Also notice how what these instructions let you do isn't new. The same researchers already showed how to do the same thing via an external debugger (CRBUS access) last year. So this does not open any new capabilities for CPU research.

What it does do is make things more convenient. Now you can do this without an external debugger, "only" with an ME patch/exploit and code running on the system itself, which means you could e.g. have it apply custom microcode patches on every boot (by patching your UEFI firmware to do it). Also, the USB debug thing doesn't work on all motherboards (some are missing the required connections), while this would work.
Nope! I specifically tried that in the course of researching my post for the other thread, and again now. This doesn't work either on the browser or command line, including using DNS-specific software like dig or host. I think I found a spot in the systemd source code where it specifically says it will refuse to attempt single-label lookups to remote nameservers, and all my Linux systems are relying on systemd-resolve for all of their DNS lookups.

If I specifically change my nameserver away from 127.0.0.53 for a query and point it anywhere else, these single-label names immediately resolve correctly again.

I was also speculating in the other thread that it might be hard to get systemd to reverse this decision just for the one host "ai". Even though we now have twice as many examples of hosts that are broken by this, I still think it might be hard to get it fixed!
Not really. Don't apologize unless you first Google "how to apologize" and are willing to mostly follow the advice you get. The problem is that to follow that advice you need to publicly accept that you were the bad guy unequivocally which many high ego people are not willing to do.
I suspect it's more like a natural consequence of using hardware overlays for video, which can't easily be captured by reading the normal framebuffer. The DRM came later.
But out or those 6 million, who can actually afford it?

The US has shown a general lack of care for it's citizens health. I honestly wouldn't be shocked of this was just a way for biogen to have a massive spike in their stock so it's holders can cash out.
Isn't facetime encrypted ?

and assuming it is - would doing this android or web break that or keep it solid?

Will the folks using iOs devices be warned that they are sharing audio/video with a lesser protected device?

I wouldn't mind having another secure option that everyone could use easily.
That would defeat the purpose of DRM. Maybe rightholders won’t be as stringent since this is apple, but typically they insist on all participants holding a license.
Problem is, I expect 2010 google search would be considerably worse now than it was in 2010, because "SEO" has had another decade to evolve.
dont forget adding quotes to things to stop the random "did you mean to spell this?" crap

basically, like everything in modernity, its a race to the bottom of the infinite dullards of popular
Does fixing constitute bringing back everything to the state things were at when the global lock was taken or does it also need to handle requests that occurred after? (I’m more of a db person with a small understanding of web apps)
We had a startup called Runnable in 2013 that did a similar thing as repl.it. Coding sandboxes in many languages by spinning up docker containers on the backend [1]. We solved a lot of scaling problems, but I honestly thought the innovation was mostly handled by docker. And that was by 2013.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20140702013410/http://runnable.co...
PG will say what he needs to say for his investments to pan out. He’s even written a desperate essay on Mighty’s behalf when their reception was less than stellar. I wouldn’t read into his opinions that much.
I don't find this apology sincere. Especially when you say that you inappropriately use your power. Would that mean that you will still use your power inorder to shutdown Radon's open-source project that he developed just for fun?
Wikipedia is speaking to a broader application of copyright than software. It’s also targeting an international audience, where this varies.

Again, you’re coming off uninformed here and relying on Wikipedia (which doesn’t speak to that context) isn’t really helping.
I took the job on the side. It was literally the equivalent of "set up a couple of static web servers with FTP accounts, and move everything over." It was about 8 hours of work and 100 hours of meetings.
Right, except SpaceX has put humans in the ISS.
There was no ethical lines crossed. If you have proof that he copied code from your repo then that is illegal. But if he copied the idea, there's nothing ethically wrong with that. The one who crossed an ethical line is you. You can't protect ideas, only actual code.

What is ethically wrong is bullying a former intern with legal threats. You need to learn this, I guess the hard way.
How much better than the competition were they then? Did you understand why you were using such a dangerous alternative?
I suspect the Russian ones are up to plenty that's "interesting", but not in a particularly positive way.
I mean, look.. cryptocurrency is a deeply political disruption to nation states that always had absolute controll over their national currencies. If a totalitarian government ever is to maintain power, banning cryptocurrency would be a necessity, and so far there's direct evidence of this as I've pointed out. (Another thought experiment: why crypto is banned in North Korea?)
Comparing Google now to Alta Vista is not very helpful. They don't get to rest on their laurels. Search is less helpful now, and it's not clear to me that they care enough to do something about it.
I think it's a question of scale (and the term has historical connotations as well obviously). I probably wouldn't call it neocolonialism but as a german citizen I do think that the less dependent on american companies we are, the better.
Could you explain the text at the bottom? Translation of the above text?
I wouldn't be surprised if Amjad is currently thinking how to coerce Radon to take down the post, too.
Raising wages without corresponding increase in productivity just leads to inflation, which disproportionately benefits asset holders. If everyone's wages go up, no one's wages go up, barring an increase in productivity. We are seeing that play out as we speak across the United States. CPI grossly underestimates real inflation, particularly in inelastic categories like housing, education, and healthcare. Massive improvements in technology have hidden the inflation of basic needs like food. A loaf of bread is still the same loaf of bread 20 years later so CPI doesn't adjust its price downwards even though in real terms that loaf costs much less to produce and ship in 2021 than 1980 due to technology. But the real price of land and the real cost of a skilled human's time (for housing, education and healthcare) haven't changed so we see massive inflation there, even though food prices seem like they're following CPI. In effect, the wage for unskilled workers in the 1980s was artificially propped up by the minimum wage, and now we're seeing the market reset to the true real (in an economic sense) value of their productivity as real world inflation outstrips CPI but minimum wage indexes to CPI. Meanwhile the nominal wages for skilled professionals have kept pace since their real value wasn't artificially propped up by minimum wage.

You can argue for a higher minimum wage now (say $25/h) but 10-20 years down the line you'll be back where you started. Housing, education, and healthcare will increase faster than CPI until the new equilibrium is reached and the minimum wage represents the true real value of the productivity of an unskilled job. The real solution is to automate all of these jobs away and fund free community college for STEM majors and trade schools so that you get real productivity gains rather than more monopoly money to play with.
>It also seems to use CloudFlare's network.

So basically Cloudflare Warp+?
I’m linking Wikipedia to help you out.

Clean room design doesn’t protect you from patents. That’s not how patents work, simple as that.
Conceptually
The answer should be obvious.

Is the return from investments more than you would pay in interest on a car loan?

If yes, then take out a loan for the maximum amount possible and invest the remaining, available funds that would have gone toward the car and you will come out ahead. Otherwise, just forget the loan and pay cash.
It's a trade-off for hand-movement distance vs having to use modifiers.

e.g. to type (), you hold Shift then type 89. That's probably easier than needing an extra row of keys for symbols, even if you use the symbols frequently.
That just implies locking into an ad supported model. Personally, would prefer to pay. Stewart Russel wrote in his book that when surveying humans the value they ascribed to not being able to google fo a year was something like $17,000 per year. Just some absurd number.
I can't remember the last time I searched on Google without appending "reddit" to the end.
Thanks, that’s what we love to hear. Please do let us know if you have any feature requests/ideas :)
And don't forget that governments will subsidize your low wage employees with things like food stamps and WIC but they won't subsidize the capital cost and ongoing maintenance of your robots.
It's certainly seen as neo-colonialism, or at least exploitation, by some people. Here are a couple of examples of Australian protest songs about American economic and military expansion into our country:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tl1IvmJvel0

https://youtube.com/watch?v=anx_o43Y27Y
I like using https://picc.io for sharing images on static websites
Neocolonialism is a made up word and really is not a thing