skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's complicated. Yes, Apple is creating an advertising monopoly for themselves (obviously only for folks within their ecosystem). No I don't like that personally.

Are they replicating the no-rules surveillance systems of the existing ad market? I have no evidence for that. I've been looking but I haven't seen it.

Saying "the only reason" Apple is countering Google and Facebook here is ad revenue completely ignores what horribly dishonest and harmful stewards of the ads ecosystem these two companies have been. Both companies have knowingly broken the rules of every platform they exist on (not just Apple platform) to work around device permissions to scoop up personal data they have been EXPLICITLY told by the user not to take. Google just had to pay several hundred million dollars for lying to customers about data capture opt-in. Facebook has settled many times as well, and has repeatedly used private APIs and exploits to gather contact info and messaging data. They have also shown no principle whatsoever about who can use that data and for what purpose. Facebook goes so far as to claim in public hearings (and in court) they don't even know how much data they gather or where it is or who can access it.

As tracking grows its access to more devices and more personal data, and as ads appear on more and more surfaces (Google and FB stated goal is every surface btw), the negative effects of this abusive behavior have become visible after decades of relative invisibility to consumers. "Why is my music app giving me podcasts about pregnancy while I'm in the car?", "Amazon shopping (which my partner can see) is showing pregnancy test promotions", etc. And still invisible, down the rabbit hole, very harmful uses of this information for individuals, businesses, and entire geopolitical regimes. I used the pregnancy example for a very pointed reason if you have been following tech concerns in USA related to political rights.

When you push the idea that Apple's product moves are just as bad as our current status quo, I cannot agree. I think you will be proven wrong about Apple's endgame (for at least the next decade, all corporate cultures change). At the very least we can be happy for a time spiting the existing tracking monopoly - who have been hurting us for a long time with no challenge. They are losing a ton of money. May it continue.

I am hopeful seeing an existential threat to healthy society being trimmed down, even if the people doing the cutting (Apple) refuse to pull it out at the root.
If I’m paying for an app; and it’s not native, it usually annoys the hell out of me; I’ll gravitate towards a native option every time.
This is generally considered a bad thing.
I can remember playing this in the 80s as well. They had some classic names back then, all Zs and Xs. Got on a freighter ship in China as a teenager in 1991, and the lone arcade machine was Xevious.
I've seen rats... when I've visited NYC. (OK I also saw one in Chicago)
I had issues severe enough to visit a gastroenterologist, which turned out to be caused by a water filter that wasn't being changed. I stopped consuming water going through that filter, and all symptoms went away within a day or two. It was stunning.
This is a very fine piece of writing, communicating the excitement well! I could almost forget I didn't understand all the details. Which is the goal of popular science/maths writing, I guess - to communicate what something looks and feels like at the coal-face to people who don't know all the details, sufficiently that they can share and appreciate the excitement. And bewilderment - How the hell does that super-complicated epic construction come out of 15 gliders?!

I have read quite a bit about GoL before over the years, programmed and experimented with it and many variants etc But never tried to build a.. well, it's high level programming in GoL isn't it, or like building UNIX tools in GoL and doing cool things with complex combinations of them. I had my mouth open in amazement reading it. Bunch of maniacs. This is an extreme sport. Thank you!
I had a whole discussion with it yesyerday about category theory as applied to asynchronous streams, and it was great. I think if it was a person we'd both have come out better programmers, but I guess it was just me.
A diffusion model for protein design
What? NSO dealt arms to the Saudi government and similarly authoritarian regimes.
Inflation causes interest rates to rise which increases the cost of borrowing.

Arguably we should be running closer to 5% inflation which corresponding increases in interest rates, which would put a damper on our asset bubble economy.
Very few cities dump their trash bags directly on the side walk for pickup. I can't think of anywhere besides NYC that isn't capable of using a trash bin/dumpster. Pretty sure if the city provided containers people would use them.
IMO This is value that Apple customers choose pay the $999 for when they buy an iphone 14 pro...convenience, peace of mind, service.
I think that's about taste. It so happens that I find simple writing more elegant as well. It feels to me that if I can't do it simply it means I don't master the subject enough --- indeed that's a theorem taking literally the "I" in the conditional. I've noticed that the people I consider bad writers sometimes criticize my writing for precisely that --- too simple. But I actually think that they enjoyed what they read; in other words, they did not convince me. (Also, because I consider them bad writers or non-writers, it's hard to take seriously what they have to say.)

It was cool to read that Paul Graham edits a lot over the days. I do the same. I reserve enough days to put the text off so I can forget it. My observation is that if I still remember the text, when my eyes see the paragraphs, they don't quite read them --- they remember what's there, recovering an illusory version of the paragraphs. When I'm able to forget them, I see them again for what's really there, and then I notice the problems.
Not neceessarily. Right now AIs like this take lots of compute and resources to train. But as we've seen with Stable Diffusion, it's likely in coming years we will scale them down and create more open-source ones so that indie devs can train them and players can run them on their own gaming GPU.
Install a whole home water filter so you're not washing your dishes in crap water anyways. I don't use rinse aids at all and my dishes come out spotless.
I've seen disturbing stuff too... I can see the artistic value in the proper context... and 100% it's the context that matters. What's the message here?

When you go to an art show like the one you describe, you're prepared ahead of time for this stuff. You have some idea of what you're getting into. COUM Transmissions in the 70's comes to mind, shock was a part of the point of it all. Or if you're into death metal, a disturbing album cover is sort of par for the course. Its part of the overall artistic message.

To have this stuff mixed in with commercial fashion, or whatever you want to call that nonsense, is much stranger. And the kiddie bondage stuff... in a commercial space? It's just too far for something targeting mass awareness and consumption. We're not all open minded people with an artistic bent who want to contemplate these kinds of things. This is stuff that belongs in the fringes, and I don't see how any normalization of this stuff has a net upside to society at large.

If they tried to show this stuff to schoolkids I'd be in the long line of people asking what the heck the administration was thinking. Anyone who has had kids knows what I'm talking about.

Also, to be clear I'm talking about the Lotta Volkova pictures, not so much the BDSM bear stuff which is in poor taste but not nearly as outrageous. The relationship between Volkova and Balenciaga isn't clear, but that's what I found first when I went down this particular rabbit hole. Examples here [1]. The kid taped to a chair and the bedroom full of blood stand out as particularly disturbing, the message of child abuse is clear.

[1] https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/who-lotta-volkova-ba...
Out of context, a q and a 9 might be hard to distinguish; but all you need (in context) to tell them apart is where they appear vertically in the line that they're on.
Prescription poop is here: FDA approves fecal slurry for unshakeable diarrhea
Agreed - Coinbase should just launch a browser to start and finish the whole transaction.

Apple covers a lot of scenarios https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus... so launching a browser MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be covered by their policies. But worth exploring.
It’s not just you; at all - in fact; if I don’t see the price immediately; online, in person; anywhere - I’m uninterested and assume either you don’t think you’ve priced your product fairly; or you feel the need to psychologically manipulate people to stay on your website longer to seek more information, rather than being immediately upfront.
I'd like to think that this means countries will have to start taking care of their own waste too.

In reality, some other developing country will import it at a slightly higher processing/shipping cost.
The title of the post is super scary but I have no idea what it means. There is no description about it in the linked page. Reading through the comments doesn’t help either. I would just wait for a proper write up.
Do you guys post any details about the storage format?

Like if I had the encryption key and any salt etc, can I decrypt it without your product?

Also how much has the encrypted format been vetted?

I saw your example and the last name seemed to be massive even compared to using something like KMS.
> It's dangerous to push the idea that minorities are caused by chemicals.

But if it is true it could be dangerous to them for us not to discuss the possibility. If they are people with a medical problem rather than a perfectly naturally occurring identity then we may not be giving them the treatments that will help them most while causing them the least harm. What if there were treatments that would mitigate or reverse the effects of environmental exposure and allow them to feel normal with the gender expression typical of their sex?
LastPass security breach did allow access to customer data after all
borderline incoherent
Oh, this is really exciting!
> there's some politics at work in who is remembered

politics, or do people have natural a bias towards giving attribution to a lone genius?
> Oops!
> OpenAI's services are not available in your country. (error=unsupported_country)

I'm glad I forgot about them and opted out of Copilot. Fwiw, I'm currently in Cambodia.
This is so funny. This is the one case where I cheer for Apple in the scenario.
Also depends if we're talking about the initial "epidemic" spread of the meme, rather than when it became "endemic".

The term "gaslighting" has never been more popular than now, so it still hasn't reached any kind of peak but it is definitely "endemic" at this point so it feels like "yesterday's news" if you caught it back in 2016.
Instead of funding our service with your own money, let some big companies fund it in exchange for your attention.

The big companies are not magically getting their money out of thin air, you are still paying with your money, just indirectly through the share of the ad budget included in the price of everything you buy. Some of the money gets lost on the way to pay the marketing people, some of the money goes to the web sites. But it is not enough that they now have your money, no, you also have to look at the stuff the marketing people made with your money in order to see the content you payed for. And this is still not enough, they also want every last bit of information about you, so that they can annoy you in a more targeted way. And last but not least, there are no real incentives that the ads represent the product objectively but there are incentives to overpromise and manipulate you.
Presumably the Play Store will reject any app signed with these keys. I'd appreciate them making a statement to this affect. And someone double checking.
Biden says can 'tweak' inflation act to include European countries
LOVE this book. its one of those books that "blew my mind" when I read it.

Incidentally, The good Author himself reads and posts here :-)
Here's a great example of the pitfalls of forgoing real security in favor of centralized "security" that exists to secure platform owners' bottom lines and to allow them to decide what can and can't run on devices.
makes sense, considering that the current economic climate in the tech industry will impact bootcamp grads the most.
FDA Analysis of Shedding Studies for Virus Based Gene Therapy Products(2015)
What matter density has to do with resources required for people?

Stop spreading this shitty nonsense about limited resources please.
Wow, that is sinister. I feel like there is a commentary in here about modern human life, but I'm not smart enough to find it.
Conversely, do you want Coinbase to have less responsibility to actually fulfill the $$ transaction? Free services to Coinbase + THEIR customers, fulfilled by Apple?

Because that's what paying Apple 30% should get you, as an Apple customer .. some protection in case Coinbase doesn't actually fulfill the gas computation service, with what this supposed issue is talking about.
So, pragmatically, we can’t not use our dishwasher - time is just not available given some other constraints. Given that, do you have any suggestions from your reading about less harmful detergent replacements?
It's almost like us security professionals are just better developers too :O
The headline doesn’t really match the article; where do you get internet toxicity from? The author just sounds burned out.
A common variation of the game is to let the aggressor win battles where both pieces have the same value. The default is a draw. This promotes aggression.
I'm sorry but I don't trust the legal system to be so ideal as you do. From my point of view money first, and power and influence second, can bend anything to the favor of those who have them in our current society.
Each niche in YouTube is a bit different, the RPM is the most important thing. For tech you get maybe $2-4 per thousand views. For finance like $10. For gaming and lifestyle maybe $1-4, depending on what you talk about.
Twitter offers advertisers incentives after many marketers left platform
Sounds more like "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge (iirc it was initially published online - I used to have a printout of the book, but I've since given it away):

https://archive.org/details/rainbowsend00ving

http://vrinimi.org/

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/07/07/1623227/sn...
ChatGPT explains bubble sort algorithm in style of a 40s gangster movie wise guy
now you're incentivizing crime vigilantism without specific people involved. These have long histories of fraud and people abusing them for personal grievances along with all the issues related to human trafficking. That's why bounties are for specific people or relating to specific crimes as opposed to some thing where you can just, say, capture supposed prostitutes and turn them in for rewards.

Not that this isn't tried constantly. Heck, we did it in the war on terror and it basically just resulted in kidnapping and human smuggling.

It's not that these market approaches for social problems are impossible - they just usually need markets on top of markets on top of markets to fix incentives and distribute money around in a complicated way with a bunch of administrative overhead. At the end you get at best mediocre results at exorbitantly high cost and enormous complexity. For example, the american health care system...

The real problem is, especially in the USA, some people just totally lose their marbles and become frothing lunatics if anything even looks like it has a remote resemblance to anything socialisty so cost effective reasonable proven solutions that have worked many other places for decades are off the table and we get these 7-layer wedding cake Rube Goldberg machines because we want to show how ideologically pure we are in our demonstration of market efficiency
It's worth looking into the Filmation engine they invented, which went through 2 iterations before the company was acquired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation_(game_engine)

As others pointed out Zaxxon and Marble Madness came first, but neither allowed the same sort of interaction with the environment (changing depth and moving other blocks around).
...Have I missed something, or are you mad at them for rounding 1/.9 = 1.111... to "110%" in an article about estimating revenue? Unless you're able to guess the number of subscribers you'll have with 3 significant figures of precision, that seems entirely appropriate.
But if you had kept the cash for that same amount of time it would have lost the same amount of value to inflation. You don't lose any more value from switching between levels.
It’s still not clear whether he can stay while the application is pending.
In 2019, Ledger investigated their HSMs, and got it to the point where they achieved a persistent backdoor. On the HSM. Because the HSM they targeted didn’t actually have working Secure Boot(!). It was also FIPS-certified if that comforts you.

https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Thursday/us-19-Campana-Everybo...

Better hope Apple didn’t use that one - and that they regularly apply updates… odds of Apple trucking along with a several-year-old HSM don’t seem that low…
$ ./scripts/_subfind.sh example.com | subzuf example.com
As someone who lives in NYC, we have a serious trash problem.

Like, being young and naive once I thought "that's just how cities are!" but having traveled the world, most cities are NOT like New York.

In my neighborhood there is trash pick up 3 days a week. Some houses on my block (2-3 family buildings) will throw out something like 6-20 bags of trash a week. YES seriously.
Interesting stuff.

In classic xerography, yes, the toner is moved around electrostatically. But it also needs to have magnetic properties (either intrinsically or by means of developer) to form a magnetic “brush” which is presented to the drum. Think of iron filings mixed with toner on a piece of paper and a magnet on the other side. The right static charge will be able to pull the toner out while leaving the iron filings behind.
I don't think there's any physical argument which prevents them from existing. However what is well known is that all existing schemes require exponential energy input to scale (for example because dilution refrigeration becomes exponentially difficult)
"In Search of Lost Time" feels like such a rubbish translation, goddamnit. Where'd the "re" go? C'mon man. And surely "temps perdu" has a connotation of this being some actual period of subjectively experienced time, now past, however brief - something that "lost time" absolutely fails to capture. "Lost time"? Insofar as the phrase actually makes any sense, it's the sort of thing you might see on the letter you receive when you get fired from your retail job for spending too much time on the toilet.

Wikipedia says: "first translated into English as `Remembrance of Things Past'". Much better.
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Glad to see this, Lambda School is extremely scummy. Can’t be bothered to operate legally, and lied about it: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1211717254712135680?lan...

I really think that the law should be changed so that doing stuff like that would have been a prison term for the CEO (Allred).
I doubt there is a fundamental limit which says the reporting needs to be that slow. I suspect that some metrics are slower to query than others, but it would go a long way if you could get near instantaneous billing wherever possible. Even better if you could have a hard shut off if cpu/disk/network spend goes over x limit.
I choose to believe: it is easy money if people cannot easily avoid accidental mega bills.
He has actually started to drown them lately. You can do a lot at once, and there is little cleanup necessary. Most importantly, you won't hear their screams.

Good luck getting him to leave Philly, though.
Yeah, because they definitely didn't delay it multiple times.
I mostly dislike how this is adding nothing new to Discord syncing subscriber status from Twitch or Patreon; doing that assigned the subscriber who connected their accounts a role, which could then be used for permissions to access content. This is all that a Discord Subscriber gets (role access to exclusive channels), besides "Premium Emotes", which is nebulous in value.

Discord are streamlining the process that wasn't particularly complicated to begin with. I'm imagining someone went "wait, why aren't we getting a piece of that pie?", and this is what they arrived at: make fans and communities need to choose where they put their subscription money to, and hope that enough people decide that Discord is the central venue they experience a community.

For Twitch streamers, this might not be as successful as they'd like it to be, if there's more value associated with being a Twitch sub than a Discord sub. Streamers really need to be leaning hard on a Discord-specific product in order to justify a second (or well, primary) subscription, and I don't see a ton of people doing that.
I guess that makes me one of those complaining Americans. If I ever get back into the game, I'll have to get used to the new numbers.
I think I've seen NYC rats bigger than most cats.
I read this again, a couple years ago. The assumption that increasing MIPS alone would drive societal change felt quaint, like it was an idea from the 1990s preserved in a time capsule.

But things have gotten strange since then, and tech is changing fast again. I can no longer dismiss this book’s conceits as pure fantasy.
Wow, that looks so cool! 1987 game version of The Name of the Rose. Never released outside Spain, how unfortunate.
I'd rather learn how to play Strategema.
Biden says he is prepared to speak to Putin about ending Ukraine war
Lessons from Russia’s cyber-war in Ukraine
This is crap. Countries not supported? KYC? Registration? How is this supporting decentralization? This seems like an overly complex payment flow just to get us to where we started from.

This is just Stripe trying to get on the NFT bandwagon (too late by the way). They'll probably close this service in 2 years.
We still need to add the format to our docs, but it's essentially:

prefix + base64(len_encode(metadata) + len_encode(key_tag) + aes_encrypt(data))

So definitely possible to decrypt it without JumpWire, if you have the keys. There are some pieces of metadata we add in that we could make optional if you want to reduce the resulting ciphertext size. That metadata adds a few extra bytes, but it doesn't grow with the data size.
I like how NYC is cleaning up its act lately. It’s like it got over Covid and suddenly realized it’s the greatest city in the world and better start acting like it.