skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that data isn't inherently useful to the CCP. I think what GP is getting at

> is that TikTok could easily start showing 80 million Americans whatever political agenda they deem appropriate.

How does TikTok determine which political agenda is appropriate?

Maybe there is a misconception to this? Foreign adversaries, such as Russia and CCP (or whoever your respective adversary is), are not so much trying to get people to vote/act a specific way as much as they are trying to 1) create chaos and 2) increase distrust in a population's trust in their government (note, this is not US centric). (some propaganda campaigns can be to get specific reactions, but chaos is much easier to create than specific actions)

If we look at Russian influence campaigns we actually see that in several cases they organized both a protest to something and a corresponding counter protest. The thing is that if you can create chaos in your adversaries' political environment then they are not effectively able to organize and pursue collective advancements. This is exacerbated by creating distrust in one's leadership. That creates more chaos and again lessens the ability to collectively organize.

It is also important to recognize that effective propaganda doesn't create issues out of thin air. Instead you are placing your thumb on the scale. Creating mountains out of mole hills is a long tested and successful form of propaganda. After all, the devil tells half truths. (see misinformation vs disinformation vs malinformation. Propaganda often uses malinformation)
Women in a high elected office? Up until the 1920s men were pretty much always governors in the United States. That held true for hundreds of years, over hundreds of different elections. But yeah, just a fluke I'm sure. Thank god women are here to knock some common sense into the world.

Transport on land? Yeah that's pretty much always done by horse. This has held true for millenia, over hundreds of different societies. But yeah, just a fluke I'm sure. Thank God mechanized vehicles are here to knock some sense into the world.

>Yeah that's pretty much always built by governments.

Yes definitely, that's why I can never find privately refined and delivered gasoline, have goods shipped internationally except through a nationalized shipping company, and can't find a private company to deliver my last-mile internet or cell-phone service.
Ideally they'd be self hosting a blog and make more money than whatever medium lets them have after their fee
My understanding from Wikipedia is that in 2019, OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to "capped" for-profit.

That said, also quickly found what appears to be 990s for a non-profit OpenAI here, but they end in 2020:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

Quick set of Google searches found nothing currently on their site — anyone have any additional information?
I do this too, and it’s great. I’d much rather rewrite a comment six times and then write a function once than rewrite the function and re-modify all affected code six times.

Also, difficulty writing a clear, concise comment is a strong code smell indicating that you don’t sufficiently understand the following block of code. Much better to realise this at the comment stage than at the debugging stage.
When spending an extra few hours a month saves me $400/month then yeah I have an abundance of time.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: the curious case of parasitic bat flies
> failures and biases that played into his conviction

People are playing this up both ways.

Had he not been convicted it would have been another example of police ignoring crimes against minorities.

Regardless of the outcomes, it seems like investigators did a pretty okay job of focusing on whodunit. The only mark against them was that due to fallout from the war on drugs, their primary witness was afraid to talk to them and two other key suspects weren't provided to the court because of pending drug investigations.
Very similar situation here. I have always approached my code, my codes documentation, and the actual user documentation with this attitude: I assume that someone in the future looking at it will be on their first day on the job, and may not be familiar with the context I am so familiar with.
If all it wanted was for me to chip in a dollar I wouldn't care. I pay for plenty of substacks.

Medium is just painful to use.
My definition for "native apps" are platform-specific binaries which run locally outside of a web browser.

Otherwise.. where is the line? you could claim that it must be handcrafted assembly in order to be native.
Those are three pretty big "if" statements to get past. Maybe it is OK that some items aren't easily repairable at home.

It would be awesome if Apple also offered a lower cost model with an easily replaceable battery (like an old Android), more easily repairable, and not necessarily water proof. But, if there really was a market for that, some Android manufacturer would have something for it. Maybe there is one and I haven't looked.
"IMO much more important is that the videos that are show to you while you mindlessly scroll for that next dopamine hist are controlled by the CCP."

To clarify, is the concern

(a) that the videos are chosen by a third party organisation not the user,

(b) that the third party in this case is TikTok under pressure from CCP, instead of, say, Google under pressure from US Government, or

(c) both.

IMO, the so-called user should be in control of choosing videos, not treated like a test subject^1 by third parties, i.e., "tech" companies, trying to profit from data collection and advertising services.

Consider that without the data collection, e.g., metadata, the "automatic video selection service" provided by the "tech" company would not work very effectively. It must be targeted. And for that, data collection is essential.

IMO, "data privacy", despite the name, is not simply a matter of whether a person desires to have "privacy", it is a matter of whether a person wants to voluntarily give data to a "tech" company at no cost to enable effective targeted manipulation for the benefit of the company's customers, i.e., commercial or political advertisers, and consequently the company.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woPg0-xyAA
It would be neat if your code editor could easily highlight the code newer than the comment(s) and tests based on your git history (without jumping out of your work, of course). Even something as simple as "highlight all code newer than the current line", for example, would be quite useful.
The time to switch was yesterday, really. Google controls Chromium (don't kid yourself that it doesn't) and Google's business is ads.

They are fundamentally misaligned with your interests on the net.
NYC checking in! Surely there are enough of us to put together a meetup?
Which will happen first: Tether release a _real_ audit or Tesla releases a _real_ full self-driving capability? They’re both perpetually “coming next year”.
Show HN: TxtNet Browser – A Web Browser That Communicates over SMS
That just makes it faster. They still have to repair it either way.
True; It was right in the BlueLeaks archive.
The great thing for me about WSL (and why IMHO it was worth all the effort they put into it), is that because the kernel process tree is running as a native Windows process tree, I don’t have to pre-allocate memory ahead of time.

CoLinux did that years before WSL1 did. Sadly, the project is dead and AFAIK it never really worked on Windows 64-bit, only on 32-bit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux
Carlsen is seen as having drawn unwilling participants into his drama (he withdrew from a Swiss style tourney this forfeiting several games), he is seen as passive-aggressive for not making any direct allegations, and there is an arrogance around Magnus believing he knows better than the chess community and organizers about how to deal with former cheaters when they have quite obviously chosen to forgive and trust Hans.

I’m sure some people think Magnus is very brave and courageous for what he’s doing but my general impression is most people don’t approve of Magnus’s methods.
It's not so much opening it, it's holding the back while you use heat and force to excavate the battery from the backshell. Apple appears to have fixed that issue with the iPhone 14.
Possibly the only people who can help are GNU? (They're the usual suspects)

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Gnash only fully covers up to SWF v7 it seems. The project could use some love?
The constant pull to start using GitHub and LinkedIn are quite annoying.
And they probably do the same thing as 5 eyes[1] to 'stay honest' - have their allies do those things to their citizens and them do it to their allies, then share the intel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Five_Eyes#Domesti... (a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.)
This is actually discussed in the article. Basically, at least with older versions of elasticsearch, without X-pack elasticsearch didn't have granular permissions. Either you had access or you didn't.
Jqp – A TUI playground for exploring jq
It doesn't share the most important property: intrinisic worth.
haha fair question... i'm hoping to find someone who will donate their time as i am doing myself. its important that improvements to the current solution i have remain in the open and free to use. otherwise said help may be counterproductive and even destructive
I'd love a lo-fi util for using systemd-boot to launch isos.
If someone created an event "Hacker News Meetup" on meetup.com, I'd go.
Currently a big fan of https://clcalc.net/.

I went through calculator withdrawal after I left Windows XP and the great (for its time) Powertoy Calculator at https://www.rarst.net/software/powertoy-calculator/.

I wanted to like speedcrunch but I abandoned it, because I've found that it takes longer to load (4-5 seconds or more) than I need to have it open (1-2 seconds).
Did the US become more stable during Covid or during the financial crisis? No - quite the opposite.
Watching the world fall apart is like watching a slow motion car wreck
> If they were smart, they'd pick compelling organic content that aligns with their agenda, and amplify that for susceptible audiences

You're over thinking it. All you need to do is put your thumb on the scale. Creating chaos/division is far easier and often more effective than directed influence.

Honestly I think that's why propaganda is so effective. People think of it as "Uncle Sam needs you to join the war effort" (which is propaganda) but it is more commonly "all politicians are corrupt". Which may even be true or mostly true. But the effect of such a claim is a distrust in your entire society. That's pretty effective propaganda and gets people to fight instead of working collectively.
Depending on the country it can be varying levels of "illegal", in Australia, Police use encrypted radio devices, P{01-99} <- some number tagged with P, I can't remember. Whilst police use encrypted comms, other forms of emergency response (the primary one being Ambulance service) use POCSAG, which is entirely unencrypted and a paging protocol, it's also used in hospitals.

Listening is not illegal, but recording or redistributing "is illegal", however, it's not clear whether it's actually illegal or it just depends how and when you use it and what you do with it. There was a kid here that brought it up with the police and was harassed over it, I believe he made a website to broadcast it over a web page and was given a stern telling off. Which tbh is fairly valid as it has horrific amounts of PII in it.
Rust Supports the Linux Kernel
+1 Would be happy to come as well.
> offer surprisingly good customer service

many of today's tech giants seem to thrive with the opposite approach: offer no customer service at all.
People tend to gauge others by their own strengths. Your experience building a company from 0 to 5000 monthly users won't be valued as much by a tech lead who manages a product with 5 million daily users.

I ended up in jobs building things from scratch after that. Consulting for pre-investment companies. Consulting billion dollar companies who wanted a full rewrite of their flagship product. Building experimental products for startups.

But in the past, the demand for engineers is extremely high and it's not hard to find a job anyway.
I used to think this, but then all the Android phone-makers that used to tout user-removable batteries started gluing them in like Apple does, which sounded like the market speaking.

Maybe it's not all that hard to replace the glued-in batteries anyway. Seems every mall has two tiny mid-hallway shops that can do it.
This kind of reads more as a guide to make professional acquaintances by talking to people on twitter.

I find the graph of “most people’s friends vs my friends” wherein the author proudly implies that his social situation is optimized due to his discovery of life hacks like “talk to people at night” and “play video games with people.” to be kind of silly.
Apple didn't help deliver my ebook or podcast. They don't deserve 30% of that.
What were some good ones?
If inflation kills plant based meat then it was already dead.
How many such apps have you noticed this with? And have you done any benchmarking or collection of data? Or is this all anecdotal?
If the NES game in question ran at 18 hours per frame on real hardware, then I think people would give it a pass. This project is beyond awesome, we can spare it the usual HN nitpicks.
That looks expected to me. The zoom setting controls web page zoom.
Walking is good.

Walking doesn't raise the heart rate enough.

https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/personal-activity-intelligence#Bet...
> I use a different name and email address on every site.

Must be a lot of emails. How are you generating them?
There are characters in unicode with 0 usages that we dont even know where they came from. E.g. 彁
Why NASA Patents and Licenses Technology
In my experience, some people perform better when operating feels performative. I don't think it's something anyone comes by naturally, though.
It’s easier to run your own binaries on an Xbox than it is an iPhone.
It seems rude to derail an entire thread because of author's choice of CMS.
Flying cars!
If the core issue is the cut, why don’t they target Google/Android instead since there are so many more people with Android phones?

Why pick on Apple?
Still the funniest "3 people just having a chat and being funny" podcast in existence. Cumtown doesn't hold a candle to it imo
I agree it's a matter of statistical analysis, as well as being an IM Dr. Ragan is a professor at University of Buffalo, has published numerous papers on his methodology, and a former member of the Anti-Cheating Committee of the World Chess Federation. You say you want an analysis but you also say you are already convinced he's guilty and are just looking for something to confirm that.
Only procedural, no exoneration at all.
The problem is barely anyone with any authority will ever want to investigate anything because they don't want to stop their own personal profits of sales commissions, legal/accounting fees, and the never-ending "equity mate" debt capital redraw from the magic pudding of upwardly inflating property valuations for 20+ years with hardly a pause.

It it open slather anything goes.

Meth money buys a lot of houses.

Global embezzlers flee their defrauded victims and find safe havens in Australia.

Lots of people clip the ticket and the govt makes more tax money, so why rock the boat and ask why a 22 year old has $2 million in cash?

Let me set you up with a few shell companies for blind asset holdings then we will visit my friend the real-estate agent...
Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked
Uber says Lapsus$-linked hacker responsible for breach
Hello HN,
I've been working on this project for a little under a year now as a college student. I was inspired by the user coldsauce who also created a similar project back in 2014. It turns out this was harder than I anticipated because of the many facets of dealing with SMS - for example, sending over most Greek characters completely garbles the message over Twilio!
The final product (although still in early beta stage) allows most websites (except many sites using Cloudflare) to be viewed in their HTML form without any internet data being transmitted to or from your phone!
I have a couple hundred dollars of Twilio credits in my server right now, so hopefully that will last :)

Here are a couple relevant threads to this project:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30685223
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304409
Cases like that make me wonder why there's no wider adoption in out industry of some trivial ideas such as (my first inspiration would be the aviation industry):

* checklists/runbooks with sample commands so that you copy/paste instead of manually typing or relying on your shell's history

* explicit scripts, named in a verbose and clear way, to be executed for dangerous steps (e.g. to delete something or deploy to prod) instead of allowing typing random commands

* for really critical operations, a mandatory code review/a second pair of eyes in some way (the blog seems to mention something of this nature)
Couple of hundred years?[2] Many models look sustainable[1] in the short term - few decades is short for any economic model to show its weaknesses. The soviet model did survive for 5-6 decades years quite well after all.

[1] Sustainable does not mean good or that I (or any else) condone it, just that it can work and survive .

[2] That is the number to make it comparable to modern American Econo-political system that has survived largely intact in pretty much same form from the early years of the revolution. Historically feudal monarchies or other systems like the Tokugawa Shogunate had survived much longer for variety of reasons however that are difficult to compare in the modern techno Geo-political era .
I am happy to see professors engaging with the public, especially if it helps to make the underappreciated half of their job that is teaching more glamorous. I am very unhappy that some of them would debase themselves by using Twitter to do so.
"Processes are to blame, not people"

It's called Disaster Recovery and it has a best mate called Business Continuity. If you don't actually have a process for something then it will fail unconditionally, without you even knowing it is going to happen, until it does.

OK, it's easy for me to snipe but nowhere did I see terms like those. Backups are mentioned almost casually and there is this: "but no process was implemented for ElasticSearch databases".

So, not only were critical parts of the system not actually backed up but there seems to have been no attempt to even discuss how to put Humpty Dumpty (1) back together again if the silly sod falls off the wall.

Then we get the meat of the "Processes are to blame, not people" section. It discusses avoiding fucking up by making some small changes to working practices and so on but completely misses the real point. The blogger lacks a process for recovery. It's all very well worrying about avoiding a fuck up involving a DB deletion but how do you recover? That should be only one entry in your DR plan. BC also needs some work ...

I own a small company and I spend quite a lot of time worrying about an awful lot of things. This "contrite" article that implies that the writer has actually learned a lesson worth divulging is extremely concerning to me. I suppose it's a good start but I feel it falls rather short of identifying the real problem, learning from it and implementing a proper ... process.

(1) Humpty Dumpty: UK nursery rhyme nominally about an egg. Bit more to it than than but good enough for this discussion.
Personally I find it embarrassing that we use a device with gigabytes of RAM and millions of pixels to emulate a 19-button device from half a century ago.
OK. I understand, and I think I agree.
The Ricky Gervais Podcast, on the original iPod. The kids will never know how magical that was. Monkey news, Karl's inventions, "None of this now needed, baby dead".
Like what? I can't imagine firefox has done anything worse then MV3.
I feel an unintended fallout of an eventual mandate to allow 3rd party stores on iOS would be Apple charging a license for the frameworks and tooling they provide. Something like, "Want to use CoreML? Well, each API call will cost you. Or would you rather take our 30% flat rate?"
I don't really get flybys, but I'm jaded as the founder of Ayvri.com

here's the run in 3D. It's a flat loop, so not very exciting. https://ayvri.com/scene/z15yoqwqjx/cl89ecl3b0001356i6w6jf6t1
I have a copy of the book… I would be happy to sell it for US$1 million. That's like 95% off!
This isnt even late capitalism. This is mid-capitalism, in full swing, the invisible hand of supply doing what it does. To the detriment of jobs (which are lost to the improved "efficiency"/redunancy cuts), and to the great misfortune of consumer pricing.

This is the untold other part of inflation. Microchips for example underwent a vast series of considations in the 201X's. Part of the reason the chip crisis hit so bad was because everyone was trying to get chips from two or three companies (STm, NXP...). Having some supplier diversity might have offered significantly more adaptability & resillience, would perhaps have let some suppliers respond more freely. Market fragility by their only being one or two big companies left seems to be endemic across the markets.
> If the CCP uses the data against your government and its people in order to pursue its interests, isn't it possible that your well-being could suffer? Even if that is not the direct intention? Further, isn't it possible that, while your government indeed has more power over you, a side effect of your government successfully satisfying their interests could be an improvement in your well being? How can you be so sure the biggest threat is your government? I'm not so sure one way or the other, I'm just curious how you are.

The same way we figure out anything else - learning and experience. Ultimately, there have been a bunch of cases of people like us having their lives ruined by the USG, and not so many cases of the CCP doing the same (and none for people who didn't go to China or have family ties there, AFAIK).

> There is evidence of foreign governments meddling with US civilian affairs. It seems like this is exactly the attitude they would try to cultivate.

There is also evidence of the US government meddling with US civilian affairs, and I suspect they deploy a lot more and a lot more effective propaganda to cultivate the attitudes that they want to see.
Ironically, a real authenticity test is whether or not any of these developers read HN.
The U.S. doesn't need to engage in those things when the media apparatus is such that it is in this country. You should read Manufacturing Consent if you want to learn about how the U.S. extremely effectively serves propaganda to its citizens using the apparatus of the mass media. Even just reading about the decisionmaking going on out of public eyes during the Vietnam war would be enough. Gulf of Tonkin incident that kick started the war, for example, we know now was a false flag (1).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#NSA_re...
You are expecting delivery of your dream. Where some companies get quite close, close enough for a lot of people and they are dismissed.

This vastly improves process of generating artworks. Like it or not there is still human. But given a job of delivering artwork somebody with those ai tools is going to appear like a superhuman - if time is important (usually in business it is).

Now, funnily you bring AI cars into this, afaik George Hotz is running a very successful product(comma ai) that kinda gets you there, almost. Yet people are ok with it, if they have to hold the wheel every time they need to shift direction. It still helps them 60-95% of the time.

If I can get a tool that is helpful 20% of time, if its accessible I would rather have it. Especially if I can determine this 20% easily. Big money I think would think similarly.