skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are exposed to all kinds of things when they are kids and they grow up just fine. I've scarcely met anyone who felt that _they themselves_ were negatively affected by or unable to deal with something in a popular TV show they wanted to see as a child--but then they have kids and go into this weird neurotic state of hyper-vigilance.
https://archive.ph/l1iqx

Hovering in the sky above Ukraine are hundreds of small drones from U.S. startups, searching for survivors in war-pummeled cities and Russian hide-outs in the scarred landscape.

Those startups, including Seattle-based BRINC Drones Inc. and Silicon Valley’s Skydio Inc., are rushing to fill a gap in Ukraine after government officials called out products supplied by Chinese company SZ DJI Technology Co., the world’s largest commercial drone maker, as a security risk for Ukraine’s military and civilians.

Ukrainian officials have called for limiting the use of DJI drones, saying technical glitches in the company’s products may have been intentional by DJI to sabotage the country’s defense. They have also raised concerns about Russia’s successful use of DJI equipment.
uh, just go to a bar if you want human to human interaction?

don't make me talk to you. you've already said you hate introverts. i don't want to talk to someone like that
Urbit is digital feudalism masquerading as a privacy solution. The original founder is a neoreactionary authoriarian, and the system is designed with his ideal vision of the future in mind.
The fact that they silently shared names of people who donated to Navalny (opposition leader) is outrageous.
You're responding to a stuntperson who, unfortunately, has no control over the distribution of the product they worked on.
Thanks for sharing, nice to see SisCog still at it.
I shall remember the next time I drop a large dime to pick up something marketed as 'reliable', 'high-end', etc., that if it doesn't meet expectations I should just suck it up and limp along with whatever the vendor gave me. Good to know.
That's stealing because it deprives someone else of their property. The dealer cannot sell the car once you've stolen it.

"Intellectual property" doesn't really work like that.
Trying to flatten everything into synonyms is the same reason Google search has gone downhill. Now they’re bringing that same feature nobody asked for into Google docs. Language is too complex for any algorithm to “understand”
He has a substack now: "Give Russia a free hand on the continent"
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-new-foreign-policy-for-e...
>While that may or may not be true, it more specifically refers to a type of hivemind.

It sounds to me like you meant "colliqually" -as in "in informal or slang usage", not "specifically"?

In every conversation I've had on the subject where I've tried to nail down a definition of the term, the intended meaning is always different. Unless I'm very mistaken (please correct me if I am) there isn't an objective universally-agreed upon definition of what Woke means.

It's used the way "liberal" was in the 1990's or "SJW" was in the 2010's -an empty pejorative that ultimately only adds noise to any conversation it's unironically used in.
All these referenced movies are rated PG-13. No rating system is perfect, but I think there's at least a very reasonable case to be made that they're not age appropriate for 7 year olds
If you steal a physical object, you deprive someone else of having it. Nothing of the sort happens when you copy a media file.
> Two of the best bosses I've ever worked with

Well... two of the best bosses from whose perspective? Your perspective of a great boss might be way different than the perspective of a metrics-obsessed "data driven" CFO.
This is an article nearly entirely built around a viral Tweet regarding "landlord" cause Vice writers live in a strange world where that is essentially a slur they want to use, and then found two edge cases to make it an "article".
> the kitten "stole" their heart.

> the actor "stole" the show

> A team has... "stolen" the game

These examples are all obviously metaphorical and irrelevant, unless you want to talk about metaphorically stealing from people, which I don't understand to be the point of this thread.

> Mallory "stole" his fiancé

Bob has been deprived of his fiancé.

> the rival company "stole" your secret formula

> crackers gain access... the data was "stolen"

These are the only two relevant examples, and they're sufficiently debatable that it's unlikely you'd be able to prosecute either for theft or larceny. In the case of the crackers breaching an email list, many laws are broken, but I doubt "theft," or anything like it, would be one of them. In the case of the corporate espionage, if this is theft, it's theft of intellectual property. And that makes it the most direct comparison to content piracy, but it doesn't advance the conversation because it's the same debate.
I think some of those 90% people might pay for major pirated Plex server operations.
I think just the idea of a company that does not directly produce things, and instead spends its efforts turning its money into more money via investment, is something that... doesn't entirely sit well with me.

There is, of course, something to be said about the by-products of their work. Jane Street is far from an evil company, and I would not be entirely morally opposed to working for or with them. They do a lot of good in academic research in areas I care about. I just wish that that was their primary purpose instead of direct money-making, if that makes sense.
Pretty sure Moultano's Tour was made with a hosted version of the original VQGAN+CLIP method https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15UwYDsnNeldJFHJ9Ndg... Though that method and implementation is quite old.

If you want an up-to-date list of open implementations, it's here https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html Whatever is the newest Disco Diffusion has been the best around for the past few iterations.
I don’t buy Snapchat’s numbers.

Their metrics all suggest an inflated user count.
So I'm a minor contributor to the posted project. And my personal opinion is that phone AR and headset AR will be completely different use cases.

Phones are everywhere because they fit in your pocket. Headsets never will, so will be specialty hardware. Maybe I'm wrong and it'll be normal to walk around with headsets everywhere, but I just can't see it happening.

Phone AR is technologically worse, and the version we released today is performance-wise not as good as the version with extra hardware we released 3 years ago. But it's slowly improving, and convenient form factors often beat more cumbersome devices over the long term, e.g. phones vs desktops. So I they can exist side-by-side, but headsets will be only used in some scenarios, while phones will be used by everyone.
I'm going to say it. Urbit is stupid.
Hard to use, confusing to operate, and literally designed to be difficult to gatekeep.

It was a neat idea 10 years ago or whatever.
Maybe it's not about you avoiding death. You don't avoid death. It has always been about death avoiding you, if you allow some mythicism in this thing called existence. So this has always been a journey about learning to accept and embrace death with compassion and love for the world. Maybe that's what life is.

And so long existential time comes and goes at the whim of itself. Technology is never the cause, but merely an enabler.
This attempt at "de-offensive-izing" all language has the effect of turning clear, evocative phrases to mush.

George Carlin's skit couldn't be more timely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMm2vF4uFs
Impressive list of movies! And a very good point you make.
NB: Your website loads pretty slow for me (I'm in Europe), and the video on the homepage is unavailable, it says.
I dislike this proposed feature as much as the next person, but it's worth noting that the main complaint of this article is fairly unique: they work on a channel called Motherboard, and this feature is going to cause the name of their channel to be considered a problem. Most people won't experience that specific error case. It's valid, and points to the kinds of unforeseen consequences you run into when trying to manage speech in this way, but it's not by itself a smoking gun for most people.
As mention in a comment above, it is not the consumer's responsibility to provide income to employees of a company providing goods or services. Please stop with this fallacy.
Even if CNN+ had an incredibly effective advertising campaign, I just don't think the product they are trying to sell is that compelling for most people.
Video's title is clickbait... skimming it, the guy figured out how to enrich Uranium, invented the use of lead additive in fuel and Ozone-destroying flourocarbons.
It doesn't work in Firefox for me, but other browsers work.
You don't take it, you make a new, identical copy of it, leaving any previously existing copy intact.
And gmail would have less users if it was called ClownFartMail. Not sure what you’re getting at.
> It's design makes no sense unless you understand this; the bespoke languages it's written in are designed to be too simple to have any unexpected behaviors (as opposed to being designed for ease of use or performance)

I don’t buy this. Why does “no unexpected behavior” require the amount of obfuscation which they have in Urbit? I’ve been trying to pick it up a few times and I’m constantly struggling to understand how it behaves.
I think managers are usually in it just for the money. Like most other people. It might be not fruitful to read much into it.

Many teams find it easier to work sitting close to each other. Is this superior? Is WFH superior? Is hybrid superior? I don’t think there’s a fixed answer because such things work both individually and collectively.

WFH can be better for you but not for 2 of your coworkers. Now who’s supposed to adapt to what?

For example: for me meetings and discussions are too many times better in person.

And hybrid is worse imho. You are stuck to living close to office so you can’t live wherever you wish. And then you’re working from office but also working from home so for many teams and folks that expectation of some sort of “always availability” (work/life blurred line) will continue.
This entire comment is a lie. Terms like "motherboard" are readily findable on Google's internal search. I could not find anything referencing a banned non-inclusive words policy in the employee policy guide. I have never heard of anything remotely resembling someone catching heat for saying "motherboard" or whatever.

Source: I also work at Google.
I thought it could get hashed client side
Which is exactly what they're doing. The set of people they have making videos for this is like the Who's Who of synth youtube, and arguably the most important avenue for advertising this kind of product nowadays.
> "Call it digital trespass then."

The legal term you're looking for is probably "theft of services", e.g. https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/theft-of-services/).

And, to the people trying to play semantic games with "steal" and "theft", theft of services does have laws defining it as a criminal offense, e.g. https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_164.125 .
I've been privy to people trying to ban words like "whitelabel" at my company. Thankfully, management & executives at my company never stood for that BS so I still get to use whitelist & blacklist in documentation, and don't worry about those non-issues get in the way of me actually doing work.

Google might be too far gone, and working with those people would be so exhausting that it's actually stopped me from applying (James Damore)

There are companies that don't stand for that sort of stuff. And top paying ones too (pay better than Goog). Coinbase is one of them, and I don't want to mention mine to avoid dox. And go check blind, you'll find the vast majority of people don't stand for this BS either, and that they're just silenced.

My advice? Hit them where it hurts & vote with your feet. Google's not the top payer anymore, so just leave.
"but supports OAuth" should be qualified. Neither FairMail nor Thunderbird support custom oauth configurations. Both only come with preconfigured oauth setups for a small number of providers including gmail and outlook. It might actually be just these two. Perhaps one of them supports gmx or yahoo as well. That's it.

If you have your own SMTP/IMAP with oauth support you cannot use either tool to log into it. The only actual software that I know which supports custom oauth configuration is Roundcube webmail. It also happens to work beautifully with postfix + xoauth.

By the way, the last time I was searching for an email client with oauth support I got the distinct impression that oauth was on its way out anyway.
I am incredulous at the "mother" to "birthing person" requirement. I have seen one or two people with such prescriptive views on language but the vast majority of people I know consider it ridiculous. And I am in an incredibly "woke" social bubble.
How much time does one need to spend on distant news to know enough of it for that purpose, though? If you've got a whole lot of refugees heading to your city, local news will cover it. Otherwise, knowing the basics seems like plenty to me, unless you're just interested in it for entertainment's sake.
In this example, the banking provides the service of a safe place to keep my money until I spend it. That's what I pay for, in the form account fees and the banks ability to leverage my saved money for their financial gain.
> They might say that the kitten "stole" their heart.

A great moral crime, no doubt...

The problem is once you expand the definition of 'steal' well beyond what is legally considered theft, the immorality of "stealing" is no longer a given. People who accusatorily use the word in reference to copyright violation are leaning on the 'illegal acts of theft' meaning of the term to add apparent moral weight to their argument. But when challenged on that, they retreat into these more diverse meanings of the word and pretend they never meant it that specific way. It's a Motte-and-Bailey tactic.
Distancing himself from the project does jack squat when it's quite literally modelled after his feudalist beliefs:

> The source code and design sketches for the project alluded to some of Yarvin's views, including initially classifying users as "lords," "dukes," and "earls".

(from the wiki page on urbit.)
Thanks for sharing your project as a counter example. To be clear I'm not damning Borges here, just suggesting that naming the company after that particular story gives some weight to the idea that we should consider the author's values and goals when evaluating it.
> Journalist Rebecca Baird-Remba tweeted an “inclusive warning” she received on the word “landlord,” which Google suggested she change to “property owner” or “proprietor.”

> A transcribed interview of neo-Nazi and former Klan leader David Duke—in which he uses the N-word and talks about hunting Black people—gets no notes.

I think unfortunately a lot of folks think this is a feature, not a bug.
This is why we need an Airport Hub model for media consumption hubs, like Plex. (Which is what Cable TV started out to be: We provide the infrastructure to get the signal into the home. You, the media-company, pays to land your content at our hub so that our subscribers to our infrastructure can see your content.

There are lists of how much it would cost to have all the streaming services, and for a LONG time, it was illegal for cable companies to prevent you from selecting the channels you would like a-la-carte... but it did NOT prevent them from charging too much for each channel to make that an unworkable...

"You want JUST HBO? Sure, no problem, if you don't buy it in the bundle, the individual channel cost is $29 per month!"

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That is THE failure of "regulation" ; THE GOVERNMENT WILL MANDATE THROUGH LOBBIED REGULATION THAT ONE MUST HAVE THIS [SERVICE] - HOWEVER, WE WILL NOT REGULATE HOW MUCH YU CAN BE CHARGED FOR THE SERVICE, BUT WE WILL FINE AND PUNISH YOU IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THIS SERVICE.
> you're also not allowed to say it privately in chats or emails

In this context, what does it mean? For the other stuff, it is easily envisioned that it means official documents need to be scanned for prohibited terms. Ultimately, the term "motherboard" has to at least appear in an official document of banned words. In private chats, do they rely on the other party to turn you in? Is it automatically detected? Are you prevented from actually typing it? Can you post this link [1]?

[1] - https://www.newegg.com/Motherboards/Category/ID-20
LAN Sync
You mean the kids who don't buy all those streaming services? Or the grandparents who don't buy all those streaming services? We agree, not having to deal with all these streaming services is easier than having to deal with all these streaming services.

But if we're talking about the people who are buying all the streaming services, it's currently easier to pirate. I get that you haven't taken two seconds to do any amount of research on the matter and that complete lack of any experience whatsoever gives you a sense of expertise to call other people blind and absurd, but consider that maybe you just don't know what you're talking about?
Hey, LLVM to C is what Rellic does! https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic
Related, this is a great example of why I’m skeptical when an analyst tells me they’ve done a “5 Whys” exercise to identify the root of an issue / optimization problem. The process follows a path to a solution with horse blinders intentionally on. If, in this case, the issue was the high use of steel, an analyst might drill down to the time it takes to retool or switch over a production line as the root cause of needing to use more than the ideal ratio. Clearly, however, the reality is much more complex.
Then the hashed password is effectively the plaintext password
Millennials, the first generation to grow up with social media, loved broadcasting their lives. Gen Y was more ambivalent. Gen Z kind of hates it.

Wait, what? I thought Gen Y was the placeholder name until Millennial stuck.

greatest, lost, boomer, gen X, millennial, gen Z
Oh I agree, I was mainly commenting that the size of that “budget” is smaller than it should be, because of the malign influence of C.
There are many lifetimes of content out there already. What if I'm fine with there being no money for future shows?

I really fail to see how a world without high-budget Marvel films will be so bad. I'd be fine watching old movies and art-house productions for the rest of my life.
What are those opinions, please; if there is no variation then that ought to be easy enough for you to detail.

>It turns rational people into zombies, so mind virus describes it very well.

If you believe in literal zombies, I'd gently suggest to you that your own grip on rationality may not be as firm as you believe.
As someone fairly familiar with the SJWs in a variety of FANGs, motherboard/mainboard doesn't even offend me any more. I kind of get it, even though it is lame logic.

I'm waiting until they start marking "Latino" as non-inclusive, and start forcing "Latinx".
@ryandrake I believe the poster's comment about "political agenda" was really referring to more of a "social agenda".
As someone who also works at Google, I agree that there is a vocal minority who want Google to be a promoter of progressive values, but: I think you nay be exaggerating things here.

I've never even heard of any controversy over the word "motherboard". I just did some internal searches. It seems to be a well-used word, both in code and in documentation. (I did a code search for both "motherboard" and "mainboard" and they seem to be used by similar amounts, fwiw.)

In fairness, I will say that I do watch my language more closely than I think is really needed:

The terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" are built into my thought-vocabulary. I do find myself switching to "allowlist" and "denylist" as I translate my thoughts in discussions. Not that anyone has ever "called me out" if I slipped up with "whitelist".
You're welcome to ping me internally. It's in the banned words list (happy to share a link internally) and I double checked policy before posting this comment to make sure I was accurately representing the rules that are applied to me as an employee.
Musk explores potential tender offer for Twitter has $46.5B in financing
The browser can do it too, Keybase handled passwords like that.
No, the server doesn't "know" the plaintext password, the server knows the hashed password and the salt. The plaintext password is in memory during your login request's lifetime, once it is hashed and compared against the stored hashed password, the plaintext version no longer exists on the server.

Very different case from storing them in plain text in the database or elsewhere.
Insteon predates internet connected devices. Their protocol is not cloud based. It isn't even hub based, you can pair switches to outlets directly. The hubs try to connect to the cloud but work locally and have a locally accessible API, credentials printed on the bottom.

Their Apps relay through the cloud however to avoid the hassle of local network discovery. So the Apps are completely useless now.

Most/all devices and the hub have a pairing button. You can pair devices to each other or the hub still. It's complicated but works, the App also coordinated pairing and was easier but still kinda janky compared to competitors.

Home Assistant can talk to the hub via it's local API and still manage and paired devices. 3rd party hubs like Isy still work just fine.

Because Insteon is no longer making devices, they are now selling for a premium on eBay because people invested in the ecosystem don't need to change.

People like my mom, who only has a hub is 3 devices, are better off selling for profit now and jumping to a new platform. Those using Isy can just keep going as Insteon devices are well made and will continue to function for years or decades.
I had been a Netflix for customer for 10 years. For me personally, it's a combination of several of the reasons you cast doubt on. While I may not be in the majority, I am real and those reasons (which I shall not list, to avoid HN wrath) were attributed to my cancellation.
I spent many years in the bluest corner of a very blue state. But still I can't imagine any objection to the word "landlord" outside of (1) a right wing attempt to satirize the left, (2) a Google product brainstorming meeting, or (3) a rare sincere outlier or concern troll. In any of those cases I don't think this is necessary.

That said, if the word "landlord" organically fell out of favor and out of usage to be replaced by something else I wouldn't care. Language is always evolving, and usually we don't make a big deal out of it. It's mundane and can often be helpful. It doesn't have to become a proxy for culture war arguments if we don't make it one.

But to have Google (or any AI) in charge of this... just... no. Admittedly that's a common stance for me but I think it's well justified here anyway.
It isn’t bad for people who like to do that but the scarcity of those people and their preferences for open solutions means it’s tough to make a lot of money there.
Its a total shit show at TMO and AT&T, both getting hacked still today. The forums are filled with people getting their accounts hacked, charges ran up, caller ID changed, still today. The legacy systems built for certain features are no longer maintained, and get backdoored into the core systems. The article says they did this thru test labs.

Legacy Tech Debt is a major security risk, unsupported, people who know how the systems leave, contractors move on.

And TMO 2FA is a joke, with 2FA enabled, and they still allow the option to email/sms you. That should be a rep only bypass, in store, verify by ID.

Security holes from top to bottom at these carriers, and we suffer for it. They really are not taking it seriously.