skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prosecutors in US conspire to deprive defendants of their rights by creating a 'plea bargain' system where federal defendants almost always plead guilty in exchange for not being 'taxed' with often multiples of the bargained number of years in jail for daring to exercise their right to trial, where they will be crushed by an asymmetric system of the massiveness of the US government verse whatever meager amount they have to spend on an attorney and expert witnesses.
Perhaps a better way would be to use something along the lines of SSH’s randomart.

I’m sure there would be an even more interesting variant where the address could be used to generate a prompt for DALL-E.
That sounds like fun work! How did you get in that position?
interesting read. i was a bit confused at first, thinking that the malicious package names were being inserted into cut and pasted pip/apt/etc install strings. i see now that's not happening in this scenario, but curious if that behavior has ever been observed.
Are we sure that's the trigger? As I said, this is something HN has been asking for for months. And the fix is so obvious. It's natural that Elon would push for it in his first week or so
>> Ross Ulbricht built his empire, in large part, by profiting off people's suffering.

> He built Silk Road, which allowed people to sell drugs to one another.

Actually, that's the tiniest part. [1]

The Silk Road was an online black market where buyers and sellers of illegal or
unethical items could transact anonymously. Utilizing privacy techniques such
as the Tor network and cryptocurrency transactions, people were able to
transact in drugs, hacked passwords, illegal data, and other contraband.

Or, you could look at how he used Silk Road, to contract killers. [2]

MANY OF THE ideological supporters of the Silk Road have described its
sprawling online black market for drugs as an experiment in victimless crime
and a nonviolent alternative to the bloody turf wars of the streets. But
prosecutors in the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old accused of running
that anonymous bazaar, have pointed to one conversation they say shows the
contrary: That the Silk Road's boss was willing to resort to the drug trade's
most violent measures when it suited his needs.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silk-road.asp

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...
> If you want private/secure consider looking elsewhere.

Already on it.

Just such a shame that after years of trying to convince friends and family to use signal, I now have to convince them to use something else.

Oh well, that might just be the natural circle of life.
This is a great way how to keep my friends updated with my life in privacy respecting way. Thank you Signal team. I love you all.
That's my suspicion as well! I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of the change.
The author doesn't mention POSIX at all despite it being what most operating system interfaces are based on.

POSIX describes its interface (types and procedures) with Standard C and specifically requires that a compliant system has a C compiler available.

If you want to get rid of C, you will have to get rid of POSIX too or have POSIX use something else.

POSIX specification:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
He's said (more than once I think) the stock price was "too high". Although that was pre-split...
Should we abandon the multiverse theory?
which part seems unbelievable to you?
Easily done with Ix:

https://github.com/ReactiveX/IxJS/blob/master/docs/asynciter...
Histrionic nonsense.
That's what a good laptop costs (also what people are willing to pay). They're more than reasonable for the performance you get out of it.

I'm surprised the price hasn't increased frankly.
For one story like this which emerges because the engineer refused, how many stories we will never heard about because it was simply done?

As software engineers, we are just like medical experts talking about the toxicity of cigarettes while ourselves buying cigarettes and distributing them to our own children.
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Because it's not analysis, just generic sneering. Picking N boring things to complain about is not any better than picking one boring thing to complain about.
That's by design and your comment is high praise

https://www.figma.com/blog/did-snapchat-succeed-because-of-i...
Elon has never had a company that made money on ad revenue, despite every other tech CEO on earth trying to monetize in that direction.

So I agree, and feel like the default assumption is that he's going to try to get users to directly pay for content, which is what he's doing with Twitter Blue. We'll see if it works.
I would even go as far as to say that a good OS ABI only uses a safe subset of C. This excludes pass-by-value structs (and vector types), struct returns, and maybe even bitfields.

Even with these restrictions in place, modern register-based calling conventions can be still be rather complex, but these restrictions reduce it somewhat. They help to avoid areas in which implementations traditionally diverge, too.
I think that is backwards. State actors want insurance in order to price segment/discriminate.

That is why Medicaid pays less than Medicare, or federal government employee coverage. Or Tricare for military or Medicare for old. The insurance company becomes the fall guy even though the payer is directing them to require more extensive prior auths for certain populations, or reduced reimbursement such that fewer providers are available.

Government leaders can then give different populations different levels of healthcare, while simultaneously claiming they are giving everyone healthcare.

I bet UK’s leaders are jealous now of the US’s leaders, since they have to answer questions about NHS that they cannot deflect onto third parties.
Healthy dose of mistrust is warranted. Still, would it really shock if it were true? In my eyes, it would only confirm what I already know.
I don't know, but I'd guess that the majority of hotel room-reservations (not necessarily guests) are for individual travelers.
I already want an add-on that allows me to disable certain CSS features just like I block JS by default. It's becoming a problem for sure.
Uk has 4.1 million children in poverty, or 30%.
It now more food banks than macdonalds.

Poorer counties often have large families, government programs for food distribution and many people growing their own food.

You might have empty bank account but you will have something to eat and some roof over your head, even if you are crashing at family place or it's illegal construction on a land thats not technically yours.

If you are poor in London you will just starve and freese to death
Telegram is an interesting comparison, because it isn't focused on security at all: it's a social network delivered through an app that looks like a messaging app.
Exactly because that's 'without any meaningful difference' is why I don't like that either. I'm not obsessing over purely the 'assert' keyword as you perhaps think I am, it's the structure I don't like.
In this case wasn't it was a cell network provider wanting the info from twitter? why'd they want it if they already have it?
Is it losses, or is it cuts? Losses make it seem like they were the victim.
I used generator to iterate over AWS objects with automatic paging. Code was very compact and easy to read and write. Other approaches would be worse.

I don't think I ever used it again.
You have absolutely baked my noodle.

/golf clap/
> Curiously, this doesn't really answer if the new model can be seen as just a scaled up version of that?

It does though! It talks about how women are shorter & lighter (which the scaled model addresses) as well as how their muscles and general body shape are different from men:

> Females are shorter and lighter than males, on average, and they have different muscle strengths

> "We have differences in the shape of the torso and the centre of gravity and the outline of our hips and pelvis," she explained.

Anyway, I'm certainly not an expert on this stuff. I imagine that extra testing is super expensive, especially if each test ends up destroying a car. I think it'd be great to have more tests for different groups. But starting to test for 50% of the human population is a massive low-hanging fruit here.
Great movie. RIP Tony Scott.
That's literally not what cultural appropriation is.

The fact that you try and use that term when you clearly don't even know the definition, shows you to be nothing more than ignorant and bigoted. Good job.
Either way, when a judge demands a physical "principal place of business", we can't answer "the cloud". When that's the actual answer.

"mailing address because a process server or government employee must be able to physically walk into the premises"

Yea, that would be the CEO's house if their spouse is home, maybe.
FWIW many front loading washers offer a pause option which allows for quick add/removal of items without having to drain the entire tub. Usually it drains the tub to just below the doorline, which for most washers should only result in 30 seconds or so of refilling.
This is where I learned some of the fundamentals of Typography. I'm a design engineer by trade.

Highly recommend.
> Lots of people have silly names like this

Problem is Kathy didn't change her name to something that clearly indicated parody. She just changed it to "Elon Musk" a clear violation of Twitter policy that existed way before Elon got involved.
It's quite easy to see, the early growth is hard carried by export of manufacturing from China and services from India. Yes, you can say, this wouldn't be possible without Chinese government infrastructure and incentives push and Indian government early push for premiere education, but that would have been useless without customers that are global markets.
> Wouldn’t the performance costs of bounds checking on arrays be the same if the computer was doing it or if your code was doing it?

It depends. The C programmer can choose to do the bounds checking in a for loop by just checking once before the loop begins, or once per iteration even if an array is accessed multiple times in the loop, or the safe language might have more overhead than a simple if statement in the C code. This can, of course, go the opposite direction (the safe language has verified the loop bounds, but the C programmer is checking before every array access). It's a battle between the C programmer and the designer and/or implementer of the safe language.

One of the reasons I like C is it gives you more control. This can be a good or a bad thing. This can lead to some really performant code you couldn't do in most languages or it can lead to some gnarly security problems. Maybe both in the same spot of code.

I use C to write mostly pet projects at home. I use it at work without having a choice in the matter.
That message passing comes with a lot of overhead while it might be more generic. Making the already bloated software we use these days even slower does not sound like a better alternative.

That would make interacting with OS slower, and probably even more important are things like .DLLs/.SOs. If the dynamic library or heck even a static library your linking against used message passing imagine all the cases where that would be a bad idea. All that overhead just so you can call a function not written in whatever language you happen to be using. ABI's like we have now are a much better for this reason. Also just because one uses message passing does not mean there are no compatibility issues.

I think the main issue here is if we reference the article linked. "You Can’t Actually Parse A C Header". To know the size of types and therefore figure out memory layout you need to be able to read a C header. With that information you can construct a lot the ABI for a C function. Aside from some OS specific things like stack layout requirements and hardware/OS specific things like what registers are used for certain parameters of a function ect...
I think Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use, but whether the terminal is the right place to put ads is a different question.
Voters: Thank you for your sensibility and refreshing lack of hyperbole.
Yes, “though contacts are encrypted, users are not prevented from using a weak PIN” would have been a better way to word this criticism from the start, rather than implying that they are stored completely unencrypted.
When we see any indication whatsoever of abuse/lost weapons/etc, then we can discuss audits. So far there has been not one single photo anywhere of any US-provided weapons leaking from Ukraine.
“Selling ads” is not the appropriate analogue here. It’s selling precise location data. Tesla apparently does not currently sell location data from its vehicles, but it’s not inconceivable that they will one day, whether or not you perceive it in the form of in-car ads.
> But keep up the advertising crap to the point that I'm loading a non-Apple OS on Apple hardware, and that unravelling thread might take the rest with it.

Not everyone can do this or will do this.

Apple captured way too much power, and now they're free to boil us all. They basically own American consumer computing and mobile business computing. 51+% of it all, anyway.

By taking moves like this, I think it shows the platform is too powerful a market entity and that the government needs to put restrictions on what Apple can and cannot do, and lift Apple's own restrictions against app developers and competing businesses.
Maybe I should have listed Milton’s books. Just because professor is part of Ayn Rand institute, you're not arguing about the points presented in the lecture, but instead discarding his credibility by association. There is a massive amount of 200+ years of history of Capitalism that's difficult to succintly address here.

Here is Alex Epstein's Google talk about climate alarmicism that aligns with Shellenberger's post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6b7K1hjZk4

Shellenberger's book review (first one that shows up on google search) is just following the same tropes of Climate catastrophization. The article doesn't steelman Shellenberger, but instead reduces it down to "… yet bad science, strawman arguments, cherry-picking facts, and ad hominem attacks on scientists, media, others"; ofcourse written by folks at Yale "Climate Connections" blog.

Here are a couple of alternative reviews: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/apocalypse-never-the-...

https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=...

Climate arguments have no counter balance. The media routinely ignores the otherside of the equation and never provides a balanced view of how we can tackle it. Instead, the zeitgeist created by progressives for last 50 years is that we should depopulate, regress, and reduce quality of life and ultimately become state dependent. The same group of scientists and environmentalists that also ran the campaign against nuclear energy.
Not just for parsers, you can walk any tree structure with a generator. For example turning a binary tree into a sorted iterable.
Have you been through the process of emigration before, especially as a person in poverty? You make it out to be like just packing up a suitcase and setting up in a cushy new place, the reality is so far away from that.
They redeemed.
> The fact that Apple itself relies on Linux for most of its servers is a pretty powerful heuristic that Linux is relatively safe [paraphrased by me]

Many world-class companies depend on Windows, so does that mean you think Windows is safe?

An individual does not have the same access to custom tools, and teams of competent people, that ensure their usage of the Linux ecology is secure.

A recent example: I was investigating using CloudFlare Functions, because I think CloudFlare has world-class security and that “serverless” product avoids many security issues I might have with other solutions. Yet one setup step suggested piping in a script from curl to shell (commonly suggested for install steps!). Even worse, https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler2 is their CLI tool to help development, and Wrangler is based on the node ecology, which is completely insecurable as an individual developer IMHO (trillion dollar companies can probably secure the dev environment). I use a VM to provide some sandboxing, but it still leaves me feeling icky.
May have more to do with only two CSS renderers left (counting blink and webkit as one).
The Tim Hortons mobile app in Canada did this very thing: monitoring your GPS location 24/7, and logging special events when you entered a competitor's store, like Starbucks.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/investigation-finds-tim-h...
A very cool topic. Similar to that, mimikatz has a minesweeper functionality. You can use it to dump passwords and kerberos tickets, or just cheat at minesweeper https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz/blob/c78b1cf37c517ae9...
> he sure does do a lot of censoring of free speech, especially when it's critical of him.

I must have missed this. What free speech has he been censoring?
> Amazing that simply changing a name and picture is considered impersonation.

This was Twitter's policy long before Musk got involved.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220108193314/https://help.twit...
Why would anyone be asking for this several months ago when the $8 blue checkmark wasn’t even a thing then or not even suggested by Musk at that point.

And besides, at the time Twitter had already solved its impersonation of public figures problem for many years now with the introduction of the…blue checkmark…

Elon took a successful solution, trashed it, personally faced the consequences of doing so and came up with a completely ad hoc solution which negates one of the two things he promised he bought Twitter to do.
If you trick somebody into giving you something, and they consider that thing valuable, you're on the hook for fraud. Doesn't have to be about official coins. Of course, if you're playing a game where thieves are part of the game, you have to accept that. Or not play the game.
Product success without followers/audience?
The prevailing advice for solopreneurs seems to be:

First: build an audience
Then: build a product

Surely this isn't the rule?

Does anyone have examples of solopreneurs that have built successful products/SaaS without a following?

Thanks.
> ...I'll just load Linux on my Macs.

Not really an option with M1, no? I know various groups have managed to get something running on Apple silicon, but my impression is that largely this isn't going to be a viable option. I could definitely be wrong.
I mean, sure they used to do that. Not so much nowadays: https://www.aclu.org/court-cases
Interestingly, all it takes to turn it into a telephone modem is a hybrid network from an old phone and a couple of LM386-grade audio amps.

Not exactly Bellcore-202 spec, but it was good enough to send Strip Poker pics to a friend across town.
I seem to recall Patrick Walton and Andrew Kelley having a discussion about that on Twitter.
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>Parody accounts that are labeled as parody accounts aren't banned.

That isn't true[1].

>I just can't understand anyone that lists that as the first gripe or example regarding how he is running things poorly. Elon also lined up at billions of dollars from institutional investors to take Twitter private, and I'm fairly sure they had an understanding of Elon before a week ago. And yet they still gave him billions of dollars.

It was listed as the first gripe because it is objective. Musk said one thing then did another. There are levels of debate you can have about most of his other management issues. There is no debate here. This is a situation in which Musk said Twitter would handle a situation in a certain way then they immediately handled it a different way.

>May I guess that you were an Elon negativist, or a mastodon positivist before there was any mention of Elon buying Twitter?

No. You can look into my post history if you need proof. I am a fan of Tesla, I think they make great cars. However, Musk in the last couple of years has seemingly become more and more detached and destructive.

I think Mastodon is doomed to fail (or at least never succeed) because centralization was not Twitter's main problem and the federated nature of Mastodon can actually exacerbate those real issues.

>Most CEOs of social media companies that reach a billion plus dollar valuation don't have any experience running social media companies either. But somehow they do it.

But they at least usually have worked in media or social media before. Dorsey's and Zuckerberg's qualifications to run their billion-dollar companies was that they grew those companies into a billion dollar entities. Agrawal's qualification was that he worked at Twitter for years before becoming CEO of the company. Musk's qualification is that he has billions of dollars.

>I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the likelihood of Twitter failing. Would you like to place a friendly wager on it ? I'd happily bet $1 on whether Twitter is dead on basically anytime frame that you would provide less than 5 years.

Nothing I said here is a prediction that Twitter will fail, what failure even means for a company like Twitter, or the timeline that failure might play out over. My point is that failure wasn't a real concern a year ago, now it is, and the only reason for that is Musk's management.

[1] - https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/kathy-griffin-twitter-banned...
I assume most free weather app companies make money nearly exclusively by selling user location data.
Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser
Probably to correlate Twitter user names with telco customers.
> no general user should ever see a command line.

Gack! Why not?

If the computer is supposed to be a "bicycle for the mind", then shouldn't it be designed to enhance our thinking, and also to force us to "think differently"?

You have to learn how to ride a bike. It involves some scraped knees.
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This is why (unmentioned company) runs on timeseries.
I know, I was also a fan and had to go to friends and family and advise against using Signal after I'd told them years ago how great it was. You're right though, every great application seems the grow until it turns to trash and needs to replaced with something else. Very few apps escape that cycle. VLC is one of the good ones holding out.
Because to some, myself included, Elon has not shown to have any ethical guidance other than self enrichment.

Anyone who has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" ideology doesn't seem like they'd have too much problem selling people out.
Looks great as an experimental platform. Unlike big social networks, it's a niche where things can still be tried, different choices made, both on the technology and organisation side. Technology - having the server instance moved to the user's side, throws some decisions - for better and or worse - back in the user's court. Interesting consequence - user can move that data and the social graph from one server to another. Like porting a mobile telephone number from one mobile network to the other. Number porting was not possible on the mobile networks to start with - now we all have it, don't think it strange. Fediverse with group(s) of servers decididing whether to federate other server(s) or not - also has interesting consequences Re: organisation of large social network(s). And so on. I find the experience refreshing. One gets to see and interact with the people making decisions - unlike TW or FB, they are not faceless. The root on my instance already mentioned "I'm not comfortable moderating all these new people's social".
Just because you said this is what HN has been asking for months doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s not even clear why HN would be asking this for months because there was no concern about this issue until a few weeks ago thanks to the blue check marks.

Any links to a thread where a substantial number of HN commenters were asking for this policy?