skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t follow the research here but I was pretty sure it was a joke at first because after the initial quote (preceded by the statement “ Consider the statements below. What do they describe? A trip on psychedelics? A dream?”):

> I felt I could reach through the screen to get to another place.
Lasers became entire fans of light sweeping around, and then it felt as if the screen began to expand.
I saw old stone buildings … like a castle … I was flying above it.

I was presented with 3 options, a Dodge Ram, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and some other truck. I was trying really hard to figure out what the statement had to do with vehicles until I scrolled down (on mobile) more to realize it was a poorly placed advertisement. Not sure why the internet thinks I want to buy a truck, but I imagine there could have been even more hilarious things that could have fit the context better.
The phone company lets them put whatever number they want in their caller ID when they call you. It's a zero-security string. Receiving calls and texts doesn't work the same way.
Yea. Why blame softwares (with multiple user filed bugs) when you can blame the user (again)?
Twitter Suspends India’s Minister of Communications After Sony DMCA Notice
Would that then just be a proxy for not being a white male and present the same problems? I am not sure what this solves to prevent discrimination.
That may be a big part of it, but also it takes a long time to get large files from Mars to Earth. It seems at least plausible that the videos are released now because it took that long to send, or was queued up at a lower priority than other lower-bandwidth data.
I wonder how much these causes are for worker's rights vs some politician trying to win a popularity contest by bashing these "evil tech foreign giants".

But I know nothing about pre-Uber Italian taxi regulations.
Did the same, ordered an orchid title (publisher in US this time), the publisher offered 20 % discount on Amazon's price without even asking. The conditions that Amazon offers to their sellers must be truly dreadful.
Could you share your cease and desist template?
It wouldn't matter. In (most of?) the US, anything you so must meet all the latest code, so if you aren't rich you line in a tent (I'm exaggerating slightly, but you are forbidden from a building a 1970s car, house, etc)
Aren't these sites all extortion schemes? If you guys are offering to remove someone's info from a site like that, it must mean that you're either hacking into their databases, or you're working with them.

I can see the value proposition here for those sites, because potential victims probably decide to not pay because they see that their information is posted in a lot of sites, and taking them all down would be too expensive. Having a centralized (and clean/fancy looking) service like yours could convince those people to finally pay up, and the profits are split between the network sites.

Or am I completely misunderstanding this?
"Not Just Bikes" is the name of the YouTube channel. Confused me before I clicked.
The FDA heavily restricts import of foreign drugs. That's been the case since the Thalidomide incident in the 60s. Essentially drug manufacturing is a closed market, not a free one. Even if one gets rid of the incumbents like Pfeizer or AstroZenica, the same system just breeds the same perverse incentives.
Let’s be honest though. Windows is supported through OEM licenses. M$ (yeah, I’m dusting this off here, due to the context) isn’t strapped for cash.
4chan isn’t minimally moderated. The rhetoric you see is curated I have been banned from 4chan a number of times for reasons I’m not sure of other than the fact that I don’t share the same, let’s call them political, beliefs as most of the posters there. It’s a white supremacists echo chamber by design, not coincidence.
The CNBC article says 48 states were also participating alongside the FTC? That gives a (surely misleading or unwarranted?) impression of a substantial failure.
> Just because a human has designed the algorithm doesn't make it non-automated: "A process might still be considered solely automated if a human inputs the data to be processed, and then the decision-making is carried out by an automated system. A process won’t be considered solely automated if someone weighs up and interprets the result of an automated decision before applying it to the individual."

Lawyers have a tendency to create employment for other lawyer-type professions it seems.
The docker issue and original HN thread have countless instances of folks who have hit and been hacked by the exact same issue. There is clearly a major problem with the docker documentation, usage, etc. that is causing people to continually be taken by surprise with its iptables behavior.

The blame game doesn't help solve the real problem that people are unknowingly putting services directly on the public internet when they think they are secured by a firewall. With how many millions of people use docker every day IMHO the severity of this issue is far too great to ignore. A simple mitigation to fail and warn a user when it appears they might be hitting this issue (i.e. before docker run changes iptables config, give a quick look to see if it looks like it's already configured for the most common ufw or other setup) would stop this from happening for 99% of cases.
I just took a look and yeah I'm going to take the hardest possible pass on that website. Yikes.
What about interfacing with the outside world, which doesn't always use UTC?
These jobs will get done remotely in Ukraine. We have ubiquitous fiber internet, extremely cheap real estate, and 5% flat income tax for the self-employed.

I know a significant number of young women here who can speak English, have a computer, and decent home office, and are earning $1k-$2k/month for run-of-the-mill marketing jobs full-time for American companies.

(By contrast the salary for a Doctor here is about $1.5k)

I know young men who basically replicated entire American departments, in Ukraine.

You Americans should really be weary about this widespread move to remote.
Point 1 is a dubious complaint. There are other companies with significant presence in "advertising, eyeballs on screens, and proprietary data". Facebook is far from having a monopoly on this. Furthermore, it is far from clear what demonstrable consumer harm is taking place as a result of this "uncomfortable level of power".

To point 2: monopolistic behavior resulted in consumer harm and clear negative impacts on the wider economy. The original laws have been reinterpreted for a variety of modern cases (see - antitrust case against Microsoft).
In the US, local policy is the best we have for changing land use at the moment. I'd love nothing more than for states or the feds to wrest control away from municipalities and counties, since local levels do not have a good understanding of land use. However, acting on the local level does not preclude acting at higher levels. It's just that both changing policy and changing who controls the policy might be a bigger challenge than working within the current separation of powers.

And even though local communities only change small parts of a system it's still changing the system, and demonstrating to other cities what is possible. My planning commissioners think that apartments "destroy" neighborhoods. When they see nearby communities adopting apartments without neighborhoods getting destroyed, it makes change more likely.

One thing about setting policy at a higher level is that it would still have the same effect that lower levels should enact to optimize their decarbonization path. Even if global policy is the same, different regions have different decarbonization paths.
Instead of 20% being completely random, could you instead present some newsletters that are completely opposite to what they prefer? For example, if someone actively reads conservative political commentary, adding in some random newsletters about cars or travel doesn't improve bias (correct me if I'm wrong). It would not be better to offer some percentage of liberal political commentary? And vice versa of course. My suggestion is imperfect because I'm leaving out the middle/moderate viewpoint and touting only extremes, but I'm ultimately trying to drive toward not diversity a of topics but diversity of viewpoints on interested topics.
Are you certain about how those countries are reporting?
Most of the people I know who have joined startups early could have, or did have, FAANG offers, or finance, or anyway something with bigger comp at the same time. I admit to sample bias here, somewhat unavoidable.

I would say the defining feature of most (the others had experience hating big corp life) the people who chose the startup is that they cared more about what the startup was trying to do than the paycheck. It's a harder decision to make now than it was in 1998, but in some ways it's the same decision.

I have to disagree with the mentorship aspect of OP - that isn't inherent, that's a choice, and companies of all sizes choose to do it poorly.

Full disclosure - if I were counseling a wet-behind-the-ears developer today I'd probably encourage them to try FAANG life for a little (assuming they could); worst case is you learn some useful stuff and get a nice nest egg.
Why are you separating Facebook, the consumer platform, and Facebook, the business, from each other? Neither can exist without the other, because they are the same business.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Multiple overlapping layers of security would have given newsblur a backup in case of accidental "footguns".

Unauthenticated mongodb instances are a pretty common problem - it's why a
"script kiddie" was so successful.
Well of course, the ban was an accident and it was reversed as soon as YT realized they were anti right wing.
What is your ritual, turn the water on and then move under the stream or stand under the shower head and then turn the water on? Do you use the coldest setting?
Chine has nailed execution at the highest level, no doubt.

But it is not yet an innovation machine. They are consistently a step behind in technological capabilities. This is not just in space technologies, it is hard to find areas where China invented and refined something truly innovative first.

Happy to be convinced otherwise with counter examples.
Was that during the PowerPC era? Would have been natural for IBM to want their own chip powering their employee's machines.
This is actually a great point that I'd never considered.

Its completely true based on my FB or twitter feed where you can find thousands of people who couldn't pass a GED test arguing a bout science that they don't understand.
> The gig economy industry has managed to steal back decades worth of workers rights

If workers didn't think these jobs were better options than whatever existed before, they'd still be working jobs other than these.

People opted in to this.
^ tptacek wrote a nice post on Hashicorp Serf - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25783338
With chess, strategy is usually based on intuition, tactics is on analysis. The early game is mostly strategy, end game is mostly tactics.

It's hard to analyze early on. You have things where you sacrifice a pawn for a better position, or sacrifice a bishop for a bishop for seemingly no gain. It's difficult to even define a good position; your queen is in the center, able to threaten everywhere, but it faces threats from everywhere too.

This is where intuition kicks in. I know that I've had a lot of bad games letting enemy pawns in the center or with higher value pieces moved too aggressively early game. There's no analysis that can tell me why, but you develop it looking through your old games.
I recall struggling in algebra as I didn’t follow the particular process that the teacher went through, while some friends seemed to readily follow this same teacher, and yet upon one on one discussion, I had no problem comprehending the same.
Apple's M1 now supported by Linux kernel in version 5.13
determining whether a face is friendly or annoyed is a high-level cognitive process.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. The human brain has an enormous amount of dedicated circuitry for recognizing and interpreting human faces. When something goes wrong in that circuitry we can't just "do it in software" and we call it face-blindness.
>you're not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are extreme left positions in current US politics

Close to 2/3rds of the American public supports universal healthcare and ending the drug war. Therefore they can't by definition be extreme left positions.

"63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all"

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...

'65% of voters support ending the “War on Drugs.”'

https://drugpolicy.org/press-release/2021/06/50th-anniversar...
>Speaking from personal experience, you can reform yourself.

I 100% agree that people can reform themselves, but I also can just as easily see it not happening. Currently the product is "trust me" with little other than that as far as I can see. If they go the distance to make sure everything is fully transparent then I would be more neutral. But when my personal data is on the line I try to be a bit more skeptical.
It's not all that great blaming the victim. They clearly made the right moves with at least some of their configuration decisions and leaned on the underlying platform not being bonkers (but alas, it was: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4737 and https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/22054).

Should they have hardened in all the other ways for defense in depth, e.g requiring authentication from localhost? Sure. Should the attacker have not done the attack? Without a doubt. But should docker have not completely undone a security control?

Yes, and the fact that docker seems to have persisted with the current state is the topic of discussion.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613217
It's a sad state of affairs when the judicial system of a country feel empowered to pass laws by themselves.

-"Today is a historic day for liberties," Supreme Court president Arturo Zaldívar said.

Sounds political to me.
Is this inspired by what Chris Okasaki calls persistent data structures in his marvelous little book?
> because they're comparing to the Acer Aspire they can buy at BestBuy on discount for $300.

...it even has a bigger screen and hard drive!
This article misses one critical point - the near collapse of our healthcare system, not just here in the United States but around the world. The problem being the run on emergency services and ICU resources. Look at what’s happening in India at this very moment. All in all, over 600,000 Americans died in confirmed Covid cases and even accounting for that there were an additional 300,000 deaths in excess of the annual average whose cause was not established. Many assume Covid but no posthumous testing was being performed. We’re going to armchair quarterback this for years to come, but we shouldn’t forget the facts of an overloaded healthcare system.
A simple runtime check by docker to detect the most common configuration issue (ufw enabled for a service port that's about to be run by a container) is just another layer of protection to add to the stack IMHO. How can it hurt?
When Democrats riot, it's a "peaceful protest".

When anybody else protests, it's a "riot", or "insurrection" or "white supremacist rally".

You'd have to be outright retarded to "protest" at this point.
These visuals I regularly experience are similar to those experienced on shroom, but far less intense/intrusive/encompassing.

They're fairly distinct in sensation from visuals experienced through imagining, which are fairly distinct from daydreaming, which are fairly distinct from dreaming.

I wish we had a language expressive enough to share these qualitative experiences - my writing does little to express them.
Having all of the context from operating system version to all the dependent software packages has terrific advantages in deployment and provisioning. One single command for the predictable and repeatable launch of the DB and all the services is super useful even without Kubernetes or other orchestration.
It's iMessage garbage spewing into SMS. On iOS you'll get a little heart or some other animation, to "support" this with SMS they give the reaction and the whole quote.
Anecdotal of course, but I've had the opposite experience. When I install Windows, the first thing I do is let Windows Update take care of everything. You could say it's "installed automatically". The only drivers I've needed to install in the past 5 years was Nvidia drivers for graphics cards or the odd printer driver. And downloading these drivers is super easy taking 5 minutes at most - the first search result for "nvidia download drivers" is the correct one.

Maybe I'm just unlucky, but every time I've installed Linux something with the drivers always breaks - video playback is choppy, wireless drops randomly, audio breaks, the fingerprint reader doesn't work. Using WSL2 or a VM is much easier when I want Linux.
What a dystopian future you’re painting. Even “discussing” becomes “promoting fringe ideology”. Only “experts” can have these forbidden conversations.

Yikes. I can only imagine how little progress we would have made as a civilization with an a approach like that.
How does this compare to DeleteMe (which I already pay for)?
Nice try, basilisk-generating AGI, almost had me.
Check the Johns Hopkins link again (as an aside, JHU is the data source for the link whihch you've posted)

Underneath that chart they break down data for many more than those 20 countries.
Very easy choice. All services paid explicitly.

Having thing given for free to be then exploited for various purposes is reason why these services are shit - because you are not the client, the guy who pays for your data or advertising space is.
Workers were convinced that the jobs are better based on advertising from these companies. That doesn't mean the jobs actually are better options.
FTC decisions are made by a majority vote of the commissioners. No more than three can be of the same party. It is unlikely this case was filed early for political reasons.

The judge notes two problems (at least!):

(1.) the FTC approved the purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. Why does it want to change its mind?

(2.) they don’t even attempt a serious market definition. If Facebook is a monopoly, what is it monopolizing? Who else is in the market? This is an absolutely central question in any monopolization or horizontal merger case. Indeed, getting the judge to accept your theory of the market is a big part of the job.

The economics staff at the FTC is not incompetent (I know several people there), but they have a tough job in this case. If it has been up to me I would not have allowed the Instagram and WhatsApp purchases, but the FTC itself approved them!
Also, malice is inherently stupid.
Wait... people run their databases on public IPs?
You can make the exact same argument in reverse. When decisions materially affect real people, it is unacceptable and fundamentally unfair to rely on human judgement, along with its biases and capriciousness. Clear, transparent policy applied evenly and without bias is a more fair approach for people.
By your anecdotal logic, if you encounter an unusually cold winter day, that will be proof that global warming doesn't exist.
They didn't say those careers had enough vacants for every introvert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions
People don't seem to appreciate the innovation involved in lowering the cost of manufacture.

Is there nothing innovative about building out a nationwide network of bullet trains? Have you seen the machines they build bridges with? They ain't buying them from Germany.
There is no difference - inaction is a choice, as is action.
Wasn't its banning in the first place an example of international pressuring bullying a smaller nation to pass laws its people didn't want? Did anyone expect the laws to be effective?
There is an entire industry around this effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect

https://mindplace.com/products/kasina-ganzframes

Basically Sound and Light "Mind Machines" have been utilizing this effevt for decades.
If I remember right it was an explanation for why so many elderly folks fall for scams. Their ability to parse grifters declines, literally a part of the brain related to trust declines as we get much older. Here is some discussion in Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-older-adults-...
> We're all forced to work jobs

We're not all forced to work jobs that pay less than a living wage, in dangerous or dehumanizing conditions, without benefits like retirement or health care, with the possibility of being terminated without warning by an algorithm. But cutting off unemployment benefits leaves many people with few, if any, other choices.
Um why isn’t this working for me
I was working in early 2019 as well. I used a program to grab blocks quickly instead of just looking at the screen for hours to wait for a block. I did receive an email warning but did not get fired. I also spoofed location so I can tell the app I am at the warehouse on time even if I was late.
I literally can't open Twitter links on my phone (Firefox as browser). It always says "something went wrong" and reloading a bunch of times doesn't help either. If I use the same link on Desktop (or change my phone browser's user agent) it works. I think its a fuck you pattern to get me to install the app.
Interesting. I do not have aphantasia. Actually it is easy for me to visually imagine. However, trying out this Ganzfield flicker for more than 5 minutes did nothing for me. Maybe I will try again later in a darker room and for a longer duration.
There is a crappy movie called "Surrogates" that goes down this path.
I consider myself pretty docker savvy. I had no idea about this footgun, and my brain is full of all kinds of docker minutiae.

Everyone knows docker runs as root, and therefore be careful using it, just as you would sudo. It seems this is a major fail in docs.

I kinda get why it's the default, but it needs to be made way better known that by default -p punches a hole through ufw.
Does anyone understand the ruling and judicial process there, I'm assuming its in Spanish and I also don't know what the case was about. Was this appellate or original jurisdiction, if so how and if not, is that a factor in the Mexican Supreme Court?
A definition seems hard to come by. I've been informed here in the past that Hacker News is a social network too. It's not implausible to me, since it's a site where you can comment about stuff, just like Facebook.
Alternative headline: how my unauthenticated database ended up on the public web.
At a minimum, this is a false dichotomy. Stopping for a moment to think creatively, there are many alternatives. Many of those alternatives would probably serve human welfare better than what we have today.

Living in the country that produces and exports the most weapons, and that also extracts the most hydrocarbons, I came to believe that I lived a superior life via effective propaganda. Now I come to see that these actions are not only against my values, but that they also cause great harm.

There must be superior alternatives.
What? Without censorship a single line of thought, the most vocal, comes to dominate while a majority of people who disagree decide to leave for a new place. This happened all the time in the early internet, it happened to 4chan after Obama became president and it happens in subreddits everyday.
> YouTube would fit that definition.

Then it’s a bad definition. Who organises family gatherings on YouTube?
At least, for now, people can resist by suing, without fearing unfairly being punished. However, punishing for making false claims will suppress only the weaks by making it harder to sue powerful entities, as they'll get doubly punished for failing to prove their own rights.