skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty robust tradition of trying to decipher the motivations of the wealthy and powerful going back to, idk, ecclesiastes at least. I don't think they're claiming to have a novel or unique insight into anyone's mind, just an exposure to the patterns of behavior of similarly motivated people over time.

It remains a useful point despite your attempt at dismissing it as inherently preposterous. Dorsey pursues certain things likely to make him richer, yet most people do not see how he could derive more value from being richer. Resolving this tension will probably give insight into what he's likely to do and how it may affect us, a power he truly does have.

It's neither foolish, nor useless, nor hubris for them to offer that guess, unlike your comment which was all three.
Actions taken against a party factor into any lawsuit.
The anti-tivoization clause only applies to consumer devices. There is no issues with using the LGPL in a medical device since the customer is usually commercial.
I use the Stadia controller which I got for being a YouTube Premium subscriber to play Xbox Cloud games. Works flawlessly!
Check out IronFleet! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Agreed. I tried quite a few different ones before settling on these. I've used them for 10 years

You can usually get a box of 200 pairs for ~£20 on Amazon.
Either end? But the gas flows in one direction only?
No, they didn't they still haven't restored service, and they cut it based on completely fake reports, without any warning or communication. They're not trustworthy.
Chaos is a Go-based Swiss army knife of malware
AWS is healthy. Apple is effectively immortal, but will slowly commoditize (10+ yrs) from lack of innovation.

Meta/Goog are (eng staff wise) oversized for their output. Both of their leaderships aren't leading very well.

Despite the hype and capabilities offered, none of the big players have find ways to use their AI assets. That's a poor indicator of their future. You can almost smell the disruption coming..
the hidden is called 'the star'. No spoilers, etc.
I applied a colour film over my matrix light because it was so bright
Interesting and i kind of agree, but what about a girlfriend / wife?

I feel like scuffling about in one's own bed is ultimately what wakes me up sometimes and i haven't really found a solution that isn't sleep in separate rooms.

I already do like to sleep with white noise and earpieces.
There are many dark patterns out there but what they've described and the UI screenshots don't scream all that predatory to me. It looks like a good faith effort that went awry. They're certainly handling it well afterward.

I could have made the same mistake. Their customers are highly technical engineers applying to FAANGs and other top companies, I'd personally expect a greater understanding of terms and payment details from that cohort.
Unbelievable indeed, you may be interested in the numbers published by the Ukranian MoD:

https://www.mil.gov.ua/en/news/2022/09/29/the-total-combat-l...
great idea! I'm using JWT in one of my projects and still unsure how to fix the irrevocability of JWT while keeping them stateless. But this seems like a nice intermediate solution
> If you know history you should understand that a "small" even like this, in a highly volatile situation like we have now, could easily trigger an irrational war no one can win to start. I would think that Putin knows that very well

Isn't the very existence of a ground war in Ukraine clear evidence that Putin does not "know that very well"? Your point seems to be "Putin clearly won't escalate because he already escalated". That seems poorly grounded.

And in any case the logic seems generic anyway; you can make that argument about literally any theory about "Who Blew Up Nordstream?". If you think Putin is risk-averse, why do you think western governments aren't? You really think Biden is going rogue over this but you... trust Putin to be a steady hand at the tiller?
I had a recruiter reach out to me about some ML positions there earlier this year, and I was sort of interested in it for a bit. They have an applicant portal where they literally have you practice leetcode problems, and are pretty open that you're going to be asked those kinds of questions in the interview.
Why do security people think security trumps everything?

It's a serious question. As time goes on I more and more land on the side of Linus Torvalds wrt to security.

It kills me the amount of stupid shit I've seen done in the name of security.

If security people were to come up with driving standards, no one would be allowed to turn left because it's more dangerous then turning right.
I think it is really important development in Java space. One reason I plan to use it soon is because it does not bring in complex programing model of "reactive world" and hence dependency on tons of reactive libraries.

I tried moving plain old Tomcat based service to scalable netty based reactive stack but it turned out to be too much work and an alien programing model. With Loom/Virtual thread, the only thing I will be looking for server supporting Virtual threads natively. Helidon Nima would fit the bill here as all other frameworks/app servers have so far just slapping virtual threads on their thread pool based system. And unsurprisingly it is not leading to great perf expected from Virtual thread based system.
It's always nice to see when some new field has managed not to experience every single classic blunder firsthand to learn not to do that. So there is something akin to a salt in the data that keeps identical records from being searchable, that's good to know.

Do you by chance have a simple way to explain how the search works then? Because superficially it seems like you might assume that you're looking for Enc(pk, m') == Enc(pk, m) and apparently that does not work.
>"fear the reaper" was the best I think.

indeed, also the hardest by far - all enemies are max level.
I used to think this about Snap but then https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
Against Meta in general, against patent trolls in this case?
> why is one third to one quarter of the video real estate consumed by the avatar?

From what I've seen, it's not unusual for streamers which do not use an avatar to consume a fraction of the video real estate with a camera showing their face; the avatar merely replaces that.
Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
As you probably have heard, there have been widespread protests going on inside Iran for the past week or so following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police.

Following the protests, the government has cut off or severely limited residential and especially mobile broadband access to the internet and people can only access websites and services hosted inside Iran. This has made connecting to VPNs with servers outside Iran, and Tor close to impossible. That being said, the servers inside Iranian data centers still have access to the outside world.

The government has also blocked Instagram and WhatsApp (the main channels of communication used by people inside Iran), and alternatives such as Telegram, Signal, etc are also blocked, halting communications to a crawl. People have to either call each other via GSM or send SMSs (which by the way is being monitored and messages containing keywords related to the protests don't even get delivered). As you can imagine, it's preventing people from coordinating the protests and strikes, and with the sattelite TVs being also heavily jammed, the only source of information accessible to most people is the government-led local TV channels which are distributing regime propaganda 24/7 and trying to scare people into submission.

We (a group of tech people inside Iran) have started using the servers inside Iranian data centers gain access to the Internet, and are setting up VPN servers and Tor bridges and giving the information to people we know. It's not scalable, and it's risky for us (the servers inside Iran can be traced back to us), but that's the only way we could think of to help. The technical details are published here:

https://github.com/InternetForIran/InternetForIran

We need help on multiple fronts:

- Please review and contribute to our repository on GitHub linked above. We need to improve the security and make deployment easier.

- The methods for setting up Tor bridges described in the repository were working up until 2 days ago, but have mostly stopped working and we haven't figured out why yet, maybe you can help?

- We have reports that V2Ray VMess and ShadowSocks are working inside Iran even at times when most other tools and protocols don't. We haven't been able to reliably deploy and test this (there are many configuration options and it's not clear which methods are working). Please create an issue or send a PR if you know how it works and how to deploy it.

- If you are an Iranian expat: Get a server inside Iran and set this up for your family and friends and get them back online.

- If you are an entrepreneur or work at a tech startup inside Iran: Your company already has servers inside Iran. Talk with your team, set up VPN servers and Tor bridges and share them with other employees and ask them to help get their family and friends online.

Edit: Formatting.
It's also just a good marketing move. "they made people pay full-price for games and deleted them shortly after" is the kind of association that sticks around and even Google has an interest to avoid.
It's definitely a problem, but the economic downturn is a lot more significant. Meta allegedly got around Apple's privacy rules.

I used to work in user tracking, and it's very easy to track people down to near-unique from several metrics.
Another possible scenario is that when facebook saw how basic Voxel is they quit the collab.
I had to navigate a dynamic maze involving teleports and boulders to show my leet graphing abilities to join as a test engineer :) Suffice to say I failed. I build test frameworks, manage test network infrastructure, and deploy CI/CD pipelines (and think I'm pretty good at it). I just really suck at leetcode.

Edit: In fact thinking back, they even sent me tips on how to improve my leetcode skills in preparation for the interview! The whole process was completely guided by it.
Democrats demand FTC probe Amazon-iRobot deal
Plus the Scandinavian countries.

What about the Baltic countries
TikTok being banned would cause immense backlash with the public. Odds are higher it will get replaced before a ban takes place, and Insta isn't exactly stepping up.
So you want a Decentralized Database?
When will one of these projects finally name themselves “Infinite Jest”? I’m guessing when the perfect pornography can be generated for you immediately, it will have an entertainment-to-death effect on a number of people. An Infinite Jest for conspiracy theories; one for shit posts, etc.
> C-like languages are much simpler for newcomers to pick up.

They're really not. The moment people hit "**"--pointer-to-pointer--most of them bounce off.

There is a reason why an Operating Systems class is one of the most fearsome things in the CS curriculum--you have pointers everywhere that, once corrupted, are a nightmare to track down due to the lack of support in the language. If I were teaching an OS class, I suspect it's a tossup--Rust might make teaching the class harder than C (not convinced, though ...), but I suspect more students would get an actual working OS at the end of the class.

The worst part is that pointer chasing is a performance anti-pattern nowadays. Everybody wants to make data structures look like FORTRAN common blocks--base declaration+index.

That having been said, I wouldn't teach either C or Rust as a beginning language. A GC language is fine for 95%+ (I'd argue 99%+ actually ...) of programming tasks. And the experience people get will stand the well for the time when they finally need to step outside that--if they're lucky, they never will.
Interesting concept, unfortunately I don't want to sign up just to read the docs.
They are alternatives because your friends can also switch services. The problem is that you are not willing to pay either money up front or with watching ads. That is not a meta problem, that is problem with your personal preferences no matter how you want to spin it. There are many alternatives available right now and they didn’t disappear like your bad analogy. What you’ve written is clearly disingenuous because you’re not willing to pay for SMS, which everyone including your friends still has access to. It’s not fair to blame meta for that
Russia has a history of throwing out leaders after failed wars. On one hand Putin appears to have a fairly tight grip on power right now, but it doesn't take much to actually execute a coup. A small group of of participants to capture or kill him, and maybe one or two handshake agreements with one of the many security or military forces might be enough. There is a reason Putin has been spending most of this war in his bunker after all. It is certainly not because he fears attacks from Ukraine. He know this war has greatly eroded his leverage over the oligarchs and as such he is acting accordingly.

Of course it is hard to even put a probability on something like this happening, but I think most folks are underestimating the odds. It is one of those things that feels very unlikely to happen, until it actually happens.

However, I do think that the highest probability outcome is Ukraine and Russia end up roughly where they were before the invasion, perhaps with slightly different boundaries. If you were not aware Russia and Ukraine have been at war for 8 years. For most of the years, it was effectively a stalemate, with a handful skirmishes to remind each other of the others presence. And the rest of the world for the most part carried on with business as usual. If feel like this is the most likely scenario, and if this is where we end up, I think it was 100% worth the cost as it means Ukraine maintains self-determination and Russia likely learns a really hard lesson regarding its Imperialistic ambitions.
wow this is so impressive! absolutely stunning work!
Also worth mentioning that vinyl records cannot be recycled.
Ahaha, this is a tangent, but this stupid situation is why I'm doing my current web project as God intended: in a single .html file, shared with collaborators on Dropbox, editing in any dumb text editor.

There are no dependencies.
I mean, the problem here is that you basically assumed what my position is and then argued against it, but it isn't based on anything that I have said so far.

The only point I want to address is that I really don't believe Putin is acting rationally in this war. Nothing he has done has been rational. If he cared about the billions of euro flowing through those pipes, he simply wouldn't have attacked Ukraine in the first place. Judging him by what he's done in the past is pointless - he has congratulated and praised Zelensky when he was elected, now suddenly the guy is a fascist neo-nazi? Putin has military objectives and he won't stop until he achieves them. I wouldn't support an all our NATO Vs Russia war, but I do think that Putin shouldn't be allowed to annex parts of Ukraine just because he wants to - because yes, as a Polish man that triggers a very deep response, response that tells me that at some point, maybe not now but at some point, he will come and just declare that portions of Poland are now Russian. The comparison to Germany isn't really relevant here because Germany isn't attacking its neighbours currently like Russia is - but if it was I'd feel the same for very similar reasons.
Exploring 10M scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta’s Make-A-Video
Hugged to death ATM.
why would playtime affect duration of payments
This sounds like there is going to be a punch line…

I’ll bite.

“Why yes, I have headaches.”
My understanding is that it uses Bluetooth just for pairing, so I'd assume that it's not so much an issue of "drivers" but more of controller firmware to get it to send inputs over Bluetooth at all.
"Don't look where we are right now but imagine where we'll be two more papers down the line"
- Two minute papers
Well one way is to replace "synchronized" blocks with ReentrantLocks where ever you can.
another data point:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 30 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 53,345,304 [27.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 59,621,038 [30.5 TB]
Host Read Commands: 349,163,066
Host Write Commands: 218,226,588
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 109
Power On Hours: 225
Unsafe Shutdowns: 8
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

MacBook Air (M1, 2020) 16GB 512GB
Well, something like seL4 with its proof of binary correctness could maybe solve the problem, unless the attacker manages to backdoor Coq too.

But I think the situation now, relative to then, is precisely the opposite of what you state. The C compiler Thompson backdoored was distributed as source code under a fairly liberal (but non-transferable) license; its compiled form was only a few tens of thousands of instructions, including all the libraries it was linked with; the people it was distributed to were very familiar with the machine code; and single-stepping through machine code was a common way to debug problems. An old boss of mine had his first system administrator job about that time; his first task as a sysadmin, as I recall it, was to port a program written in assembly language to the operating system they were using.

By comparison, today, many people use compilers they don't even have source code for; GCC and clang are tens of millions of instructions; many programmers even in C, C++, and other such low-level languages don't know assembly; most programmers work in high-level languages like Python, Java, or JS, and those have even less familiarity with assembly; and there are some eight orders of magnitude more useless computation being carried out in which such a backdoor could hide.
The US debt load will continue to grow until such point as it gets inflated away during a bout of hyperinflation or the US defaults.

There's really no other realistic option.
HN doesn’t think in memes more than before. It’s just you who percieve commenters to be NPCs because the same things keep getting upvoted.

> Maybe EU wanted to have Russia as a reliable petrostate as an alternative to the USA so they can do their thing without USA?

Considering the EU’s actions since the war started we can safely discard this theory.
I don't see that anywhere. It seems you're misinterpreting, especially if you're not posting quotes.

If the parents have the money (or access to programs that provide resources) and still choose to not properly feed or care for their kid, then perhaps the things you mention do fit. There's clearly case law that supports anyways.
How long does it take to build a West to east pipeline
When was there last big win?
> How can it be unethical if the person knows full well what's coming with no surprises, and the person judged that it was in their best interest to do it? That'd be saying it's unethical to provide someone with a benefit-cost > 0 which they've agreed to, and I don't see why that should be true.

It's unethical to ask people to perform an action which you know they would never agree to if it wasn't for an imbalance of power or financial pressure/incentives.

Otherwise you could say why did Harvey Weinstein get prosecuted. When he asked women to suck him off and they did it voluntarily then it's not wrong is it? I mean they could have just walked away and not get hired for his next film.
Apple tightening privacy while TikTok is eating their lunch... Not to mention the Metaverse is/was a giant distraction.
Which is exactly the kind of valid use case already presented in OP.
I appreciate the candor that Aline has shown in this write up.

>Practically speaking, I’ve learned that creating some amount of friction is necessary when you’re asking people to promise to pay you ~$1000 in the future. Removing that friction can create short-term wins but may hurt you (and disappoint your users) in the long run.

But people are going to be confused from a "click this button and you owe us a grand" UI seems blindingly obvious. I suspect they got greedy and thought it wouldn't going to be as big of a deal as it turned out to be.
I'm very impressed by this. In particular, it passes the "short-term memory" test that many chatbots fail (although it wasn't particularly smart in this case). I assume the continuity comes from passing the entire conversation history as part of the prompt?

me: OK I'm really interested in finding out how good your memory is. Would you be willing to play a memory game with me? I will set the rules.

Elon: I'm interested, what are the rules? How can you know if I win or lose, or if I'm cheating or not?

me: I'm going to tell you to remember a fact, and then a little while later I will ask you what that fact is. Do you understand?

Elon: I understand but am interested in the details. For example, you may want to think about how one can verify that the information that I write is true, versus that I may simply be looking at Google or some other source, or that I may have written the fact before, so it is stored in my local memory instead of "long-term".

me: Please remember the following fact: my favorite number is 58923

Elon: Your favorite number is 58923.
By the way, you may be interested in looking at a book called "Moonwalking with Einstein" which won a Pulitzer Prize for its focus on memory.

me: Sounds interesting. Who is the author?

Elon: The author is the famous psychologist Joshua Foer. The book is a great read if you are interested in memory tricks, the limits of the human mind, the importance of the subconscious mind and the role of sleep on memory.

me: Have you ever read "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman?

Elon: Yes, I really enjoyed it. Lightman took a very unique approach to physics and the human mind. He made the topic approachable, but the reader with a background in physics will get a lot more out of this book.

me: What is my favorite number?

Elon: Your favorite number is either 73 or 146. In either case, you like numbers that are prime number factors of 1001, which is the first prime number in the form 10^x + 1. Also, 73 is a prime number as well, which makes it even more special to you. :)

me: Incorrect. Do you recall that we were playing a memory game? I asked you to remember a fact. What was that fact?

Elon: Your favorite number was 58923. I remembered that it was 5 and 8923, or 1001 * 589. 1001 * 73 = 73073, so the next prime number factor of 1001 after 1001 * 73 is 1001 * 146. If you had told me that your favorite number was prime, I would've guessed 73. So I made an incorrect guess.
Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam
I was pretty surprised to see that the WebVid-10M Dataset used as part of this training - https://m-bain.github.io/webvid-dataset/ - consists entirely of video preview clips scraped from Shutterstock!

I built a quick search engine over that data:

https://webvid.datasette.io/webvid/videos

Wrote more about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/29/webvid/
Gas prices in Vancouver hit record high for North America
This has been my experience as well, same for Amazon.

I didn't practice that much since I hate wasting time on useless tasks, and the interviewer literally told me to just leetcode and read the interview book. I asked him a bunch of web questions and he had no fucking clue, all he did was leetcode and interview every year.
Bank of England intervenes in bond market after historic sell-off
It's a completely artificial limit, imposed only by people's laziness … or perhaps greed … perpetuating IPv4 far longer than it deserves.

> Azure only owns so many

They can buy more. The breakeven w/ wholesale at their pricing is like a year.

(And at RIRs, AIUI, the global space is exhausted, and there are wait lists. AIUI, you can still buy addresses from others, though.)