skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to spoil a magnificent movie, the Russian classic Stalker [1]. If you haven't watched the film and want to one day, please stop reading this comment.

It is a deep film with many themes but one main theme involves a curious plot device. From the Wikipedia article: "The Zone contains a place called the "Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside." The theme of that plot device is that once a group of explorers finally get to the room they refuse to go inside. The "Room" isn't a monkey-paw like device that distorts your wishes and gives you a bad outcome, rather it sees inside your soul and gives you what you truly desire. It raises questions about man's conscious desires compared to his unconscious desires. Do you really want to know what you truly desire, even the desires you hide from yourself?

I can't do justice to the film but I think of it often and usually with respect to AI and the unreasonably effective algorithms that drive modern feeds. TikTok is in some ways our first true glimpse into the "Room" of Tarkovsky's Stalker.

All this to say: I don't see any of the things you are saying you see on TikTok. Whether you like it or not the algorithm is sending you what you engage with. You have been sorted into the "desires wild canoe ride" TikTok. You are sorted into the "desires smug fashion gatekeepers" TikTok.

And if you happen to have read this comment and haven't seen Stalker - it is still worth it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
I don't think it is a matter of the provider not knowing that antibiotics aren't for viral infections. They have patient after patient after patient coming in demanding to get an antibiotic. At some point, many of those providers give up and give in. I'm proud of my wife for not being one of them.
> Back to running up the meter, ignoring me when it rains, and have mercy if you are disabled or have a dog.

Why is this argument always coming up? "Uber does good stuff because the competition (taxis) suck"?

If there is a good taxi market, then there are excellent taxi companies. I book one on an app, I see where it is, I pay in the app. I did for a decade. What's the problem?
The problem is that there was a medallion system in some cities, that make taxis suck. The solution to bad regulation obviously can't be having a company just circumvent it.

To Judge the profitability of Uber, look at how it does in every citi where there is good competition. Because any city can do that, with the flip of a switch. Just deregulate taxis and Uber is a taxi company among others.
If it's a static site? Probably safe-ish, I suppose bots and bored teens could DDOS it. You could also choose a non-standard port, that might cut down on the noise.
Some of our rendering processes take multiple days to complete, and the blackbox software we use doesn't have a pause button. So it's not that we're in need of 99.99999% uptime, but there's actually never a moment where rebooting a machine would be convenient (or indeed cost us money). Being distributed over nodes means I can reboot them and the processes are not disrupted.
Zoning law and economic mechanism can prevent this. Increasing housing price will stop new resident/business moving in.
>Remember that (as the Twitter thread reminds us) the entire CSAM scanning effort is voluntary. The government is not forcing Apple to scan for CSAM, so how would they force Apple to scan for anything else?

Which is the point that you seem to largely be ignoring. Apple has its own motivations here and it isn't purely a question of what the government is forcing them to do. Apple knows that once encryption is broken, it is broken for everything. This new proposal is much more targeted and gives Apple control while also preserving their ability to say no on technical grounds for further privacy invasions. That is why they would prefer it over the previous government proposal.
> Selling EV charging products based on Raspberry Pi, which is a prototyping board, is unwise.

What's the difference between a prototyping board and a product built using the lessons learned while integrating the prototyping board? The compute module is intended for use as an embedded board that simplifies development by mass producing the more difficult, expensive parts of embedded computers and letting the end user install it in a product. It's intended for exactly this sort of use case.

> When both device manufacturers were contacted by the white hat penetration testers who conducted the penetration testing, the response was typically reactive seeing the device makers put in place a new server, app updates and firmware updates to the chargers. This is symptomatic of the general lack of strategic security thinking that goes into the manufacture of many embedded devices today. For example, one of the chargers had a Raspberry Compute Module 3 (CM 3) which lacked the necessary security features for such a use case.

They updated with patches for the vulnerabilities. What more do you want?

It's not like there are two kinds of computers, on one side insecure prototyping computers like Raspberry Pis that can be made to do unintended things, and on the other side secure IoT EV charger computers that only do what they are intended to do. There are only EV chargers that are controlled by general-purpose computers.
I would love to know how these are secured. I doubt there's MFA or even rate limiting.

> 2) These routers were deliberately placed on the internet by people that knew enough about them to do so.

That's making some very generous assumptions.
aaaand they've blocked audio until 18:17ish, timestamp url: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1114111652?t=00h18m17s
Yeah that makerspace rendering is insane. A sewing machine, combo wrenches, some plant in a vase, actual monkey wrenches (for time travelers wtf), and a slugging wrench like iron workers use in heavy construction.
It's a good question. Not too long into the rideshare explosion I tried a couple of apps that were more or less interfaces for yellow cab services. Definitely a weaker experience: longer wait time and not as much information (real or perceived) about what was actually happening in the dispatch-pickup process. And it cost more too.

I could accept the higher cost as just part of fairly pricing out ride service, but the weaker experience was a hard pill to swallow.
Funny enough, this very page was the top result for me on Google.
I find it a little hilarious that any distro is aimed at non-power users. The middle of the Venn diagram of “non-power user” and “will install an OS that isn’t the one that came with their computer” must be vanishingly small.
Programmers have got to be the only people who think giving away hard, creative work for free is the only right way to do things. We all gotta eat and programs take time and expertise to build and maintain. Wouldn’t you like to be able to make a living from something you built rather than having a boss and working for a company where your future will never be in your control? I sure would. If people can pay for literally every other product/service in the world they can pay for programs too. There’s nothing wrong with charging for your labor.
It wasn't sarcasm.
Intuitively, this makes sense to me. Material costs of working from home vs commuting are highly variable, but considering time costs: if you value your employee's time, and they're spending more of it to get to work each day, shouldn't they receive more money?
Thanks! I want to learn what could go wrong. Can you point me to any resource/book to study this particular matter?
At first glance this looks strictly worse than something like Atlantic Station in Atlanta from 15 or so years ago, where you have a similar sort of mixed use development but also have tons of underground parking for when you need to visit the area or (as a resident) leave the area.
These routers are secure by default. This is only visible because users have chosen to have their routers expose their admin pages to the public internet.

I have never seen a router that had its admin page visible to the WAN by default.
I wonder how underpaid they were? AI and deep learning neural networks are coming.
quick response here for your request... your request for low opacity text is here. Also your concern about licensing is never an issue with Tabnine as we only train on fully permissive code.
Step 1: Get copies of pictures of targets kid in bath from phone/SNS

Step 2: Manipulate pictures so that hash collides with CSAM

Step 3: Get pictures back on targets phone so they get scanned.

I don't have the skills or understanding of how the hashes are created but would this be possible?
the report cory refers to covers lyft as well. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
i submitted it before i realised this "end of the line" post was on the front page.
I never used iCloud photo. I never hosted my photos on Google photos. But when Apple talks about using their CSAM technology for 3rd party apps, even if I'm sending my photos to my private synology? Well that's when I see the writing on the wall and head out. There is no perfect candidate, but selling me on privacy, and doing what they are doing now is the line in the sand for me.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/09/apple-child-safety-feat...
I was amused by the “built neighborhood” being entirely renders.
SD-WAN / VPN / Many many many other solutions.
If you disable the router's remote administration feature and/or change the router's default administration password, it should be safe.
People took out loans to buy expensive taxi licences and were financially ruined by this speculation.

And young professionals cheered the process on.
Or in Chicago… call up taxi company at 4:30x they promise to come. Never show. Call and ask where they are, they hang up on me. No recourse, miss flight.
On Chromium-based browsers I use an extension called AutoplayStopper [1] which works well for me. It allows you to add exceptions for certain sites too which is helpful.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...
How do they pull of this off? I’m assuming Google would defend aggressively against these type of clients.
Yes, thank you. That is what I meant. My use of the phrase "caused by CBD" was unintentionally confusing.
What might actually qualify as hubris, is thinking you've discovered the best solution for everyone else's future problems.
If you are going to hire someone else's car[1], you will need to provide them with your driver's license and the person at the desk will do "face recognition" to check whether it's your license, and they will check with some kind of database - at least their own to see if you've been banned from their premises, maybe a DMV one or their insurance to see if you have points on your license for previous driving related convictions which will affect their decision to lend you a car. Since it's their car they will deal with tax, but they will ask you if you have medical conditions which will affect your driving (or make you read the terms and sign that you haven't). And they will do all this in advance of you hiring their car, and after you're done they will check over the car looking to see if you misused it, and will keep a record of use so if they get informed about a speeding ticket or parking fine in future, it goes to you to pay it.

So ... this is your hellish dystopia, your "boot stomping on a human face forever", Hertz rent-a-car?

[1] analogous to you using Apple's iCloud servers.
I'm not lamenting how long it took, I'm lamenting that the claims were exaggerated to begin with, because Koko never stopped stumbling like that.
The trouble with Lucida Grande was that it didn't have an Italic variant. Which was a bit of a glaring oversight for a default font
So, if I was exposed I will see the router's login page?
Why do you exhibit such rage towards fellow humans seeking their definition of happiness?

I know what its like to not know where my next meal is com8ng from, and I wouldnt be offended by anothers' journey for improvement.
Thanks, we actually use Ceph as a straight up filesystem, that gets mounted on linux machines and then exposed to our windows based processing nodes (they are human operated) over SMB. I think that explains why HDFS is not a good fit for us.
I think what they mean is a standardized end-user interface with some drag-drop/easy configuration on the dev side. Every site on earth doesn't need to develop their own modals/UI to gather consent.
Also from the page I linked to:

Updated 04-18-2019 07:10:55 AM

This Article Applies to: TL-WR841N (and a couple dozen others).

You can buy a TL-WR841N today for $20. It was released in 2015, so it may be an "old" router, but old routers never die, they just get cheaper.
My usage was "setup a basic single node for testing, upload a file with mc client, delete a file with mc client". They failed that test. It was responding with 200s but the file was never deleted.

There are loads of issues like this on their github: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/8873
More important than inbox zero is to unsubscribe from every mailing list. Its all just manipulation at the end of the day. Worst offender I had was facebook. Took way too many unsubscribes because of the countless categories of emails to unsubscribe from.
I dunno man.

I think I can see the issue pretty clearly here.

- Real harm is enabled with encryption. I get it.

- Back doors break encryption for everyone and don't stop encryption for bad guys.

Am I missing something?
The USA, I mean, they left abandoning bases and equipment, instead of officially delivering to gov forces. Leaving everything to be looted by locals, Taliban, and gov, whomever gets there first
It's fascinating to see Facebook threatened by a company they can't just acquire to put down their competition. Their response in the form of Reels is consistently much worse at recommending quality content than Tiktok is and generally just comprises re-uploads from Tiktok, which is a bad look (people aren't making their content for Reels first). Tiktok is also addictive in a way that no competing app has managed to capture.

I'm still optimistic Facebook can recover based on the quality and abundance of talent they have working on the product, but it's been a year and Tiktok only continues to strengthen their position while Reels doesn't appear to have improved, at least from the customer-facing side. We may be witnessing the early stages of a shift in social media apps that Facebook cannot stop.
> For one thing, the initial wave of smallpox wasn't an attack, it was just an ordinary infection. Incredibly deadly but it wasn't deliberately introduced.

Irrelevant.
Lots in here, taking me time to unpack.

Kind of blue-sky - 30kG is heavy, so maybe its all moot - who's going to dedicate that much mass to this project.

Any geology it does, will be contaminated by rotor wash scrubbing the surface material when it lands. Is that an issue? Maybe its a benefit.

Can it really react to sample inaccessible places? What is the response time between capturing an image of a face, and getting a response from Earth saying "take a sample!"? Is it even within the battery life/flight time?

Can it range outside the rover line of sight? What about radio relay to the orbiter? Surely it can't track that itself, especially in flight. That level of independence may be a pipe dream.

I'm in favor of a drone element to the next mission, as long as it doesn't instantly get lost or broken.
Show me that these non-pharmaceutical interventions actually worked at all? They were untested and completely unproven going into this mess and so far I've yet to see any evidence they have done anything more harm society for a year and a half. We've been running an uncontrolled experiment against unconsenting people--pretty damn unethical and immoral if you ask me.

Again... all these health "experts" did is take something bad and make it 100x worse. Pretending these interventions didn't have any costs and gaslighting the hell out of anybody who brought up objections was one of the more evil things society has done over the last 1.5 years. Perhaps only topped by forcing people to die alone in the hospital because of "covid policy" or keeping kids out of school for more than a year and then forcing them to wear masks all day when they return all for a disease they aren't at all affected by...

This last 1.5 years has been an absolutely shameful display of humanity at its worst.
Best practice for remote management of network devices is over a VPN or a remote access application designed for remote management, and it has been that way for decades. Web UIs on routers are designed for use on trusted networks, are notoriously full of vulnerabilities, and aren't typically hardened for exposure to the open internet. They often do not support any security features beyond a password. No fail2ban, no 2FA, no SSO, etc. Most router manufacturers will warn you against doing this for these exact reasons, even if they don't elaborate on why, and let you do otherwise.

The businesses and universities you see in the list are likely:

* a result of people hooking up rouge devices

* organizations operating without competent IT management

* honeypots
> because it is bleached and enriched with micronutrients in a way that almost no consumer can do in the kitchen?

What gave you that idea?

Bleached flour and various additives (such as ascorbic acid) are routinely used in home kitchens:

https://thebreadguide.com/using-ascorbic-acid-when-baking/

What, exactly, do you think goes into making a loaf of mass-produced bread?
It won't work at high altitude until we start polluting there. What is air density in one of those nice big craters though?
I think his article is pretty poor and just has a bone to pick, even if I agree with the overall thesis. Yes, Uber is losing a lot of money. But no, it's not broke, and it's not going to be broke for probably a number of years still.

I thought this linked source was a bit better: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
TikTok is a social media platform that makes money from other people creating content for others to consume. Individuals get money for either sponsoring a product or getting many views. How is this the same as someone paying for a clay pot in Ancient Egypt that we admire at today in a museum? The act of getting money is not devoid of the context of which it was acquired.
This is horrific, and so is the "journalism" on display in this article.

How did this tire fire start? Zero information written.

What are the 4 companies? Zero information written.

How realistic is the "plan to recycle 95% of the tires" and "replace them with sustainable housing". Zero.

What efforts are being undertaken to put the fire out? Zero info.

I could be forgiving if it didn't come off as so aggressively lazy and unprofessional.
reddit and twitter are the most depressing places on the Internet. So much doomerism and political outrage.

It's on TikTok too but the TikTok algorithm quickly learns I'm not interested in political outrage and actually directs me toward content I'm interested in.
Ive seen several attempts at master planned neighborhoods with little town center type things with the idea that youd rarely have to leave, around South Florida growing up, and even lived in one for a few years. They all failed miserably. I feel like ones that succeed are just lucky. These communities can have basic predetermined guidelines to how growth can happen but the actual growth needs to happen organically. You cant just plot and build every house in town at the start, and you cant expect that things wont change as things pan out. Otherwise youre forcing residents to live in this deterministic Truman Show world lacking real freedom, echoing the major failures of a lot of mid 20th century heavy-handed big-ego design that we still suffer the effects of today
GitHub Actions is currently degraded
To this point, do you actively measure code size and compile times for regressions? And if so, how?
But very good for the user, no?
These are not high end enterprise grade kit, folks. Expecting things like MFA, secondary VPN endpoints, etc is just absurd for the target audience of this device.

Again, just because you wouldn't configure it this way doesn't make it wrong. It's as secure as it can be, short of throwing a bunch of other kit in front of it, and then why would you be using a $100 consumer router anyway?

The only vulnerability here is the possibility of a 0-Day. Everything else is either misguided or screaming for the sake of it.
> Will Apple back out of them or give in?

They will give in, at least in China. They currently host all of their iCloud content in China on Chinese servers (and turn over encryption keys), they have banned all VPN apps from the Chinese app store, and they removed the Hong Kong protest app at the behest of the CCP. They will do whatever China tells them to, because, at least from their perspective, they have to. All their manufacturing is in China.

I can't even imagine an outcome where Apple doesn't start looking for pictures of tank man or anti-government images on Chinese citizen's phones. The Chinese government will hand them a list of hashes and say "these photos are illegal here, tell us whenever you find one". Maybe Apple will hold the line of "only photos uploaded to iCloud", but even then they just built the capability to scan everything on someone's phone, and the iCloud part is simply a switch that we have to hope they don't flip.

I'm trying not to be too hopelessly negative here but I can't believe Apple decided that encrypting iCloud backups is worth trading for a file scanner on your phone. What the fuck.
They were in Manhattan. They weren't in SF, and they certainly weren't in, say, Urbana, IL.
This has been my experience as well. There are countless amazing, small communities on Reddit, and being able to kick the popular subreddits out of my feed makes it feel like one of the last places that embodies the spirit of the early internet. Namely -- small quasi-anonymous communities where people can sincerely discuss niche interests and discover new ones through the serendipity of interaction.

Once old.reddit.com gets turned off, I worry about how long this can persist. The iOS app has tons of clickbait hooks, useless notifications, invitations to join "similar" large, emotional subreddits full of toxicity and extremism.
I Am Legend screenwriter forced to tell anti-vaxxers his zombie movie is fake
because the time taken to setup the DB is the smallest amount of effort you'll put into it over the lifetime of the application.

plus, its like 30 seconds to setup: install, add a role, and maybe adjust hba.conf for access control settings for the local machine.

the fact you were able to 'remove it and never use it on your servers' means you don't really need a DB like postgresql (or mariadb/mysql). you clearly don't have any data gravity problems if it was that easy and you were allowed to make that decision unilaterally.
But how many options do you have within 10 minutes? Are there more options if you need them than just one store and restaurant? I think that's what confuses me as to why they didn't create this concept closer to an area that's also walkable to other services.
In response to Uber we now have local taxi apps as well. Not sure how good they function, and of course, it’s a different app per place instead of one global app. But apparently, building the app for calling a taxi ride can be done quite cheaply.

Heck, there might even be a business for creating a white label taxi calling app.
Oh, just stop it right there. GDPR is already quite clear, the companies just keep pretending it’s more complicated than it actually is because they want to continue to look out for number one, is all.
The article says:

"By standing behind customers and the products in our store, regardless of who sells them, Amazon is going far beyond our legal obligations and what any other marketplace service provider is doing today to protect customers."

That's not quite true:

https://www.businessinsider.com/court-rules-amazon-liable-de...