skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to a NYT article, he was insisting that billions in funding came in 8 minutes after filing for Chapter 11, but of course, couldn't give any details, or any reason why someone would give such funding:

>>In a letter to former colleagues last week, he said he regretted filing for bankruptcy, claiming that “potential interest in billions of dollars of funding came in roughly eight minutes after I signed the Chapter 11 docs.”

>>He presented no evidence for that claim, and in any case, FTX was no longer his company to run.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/technology/sam-bankman-fr...
He's also restored countless accounts that were banned under previous ownership. While banning ElonJet flys in the face of being a "free speech absolutist", he's certainly demonstrated that he's generally in favor of freer speech.
Maybe this is more of a lagging generational tooling thing.

When I entered the workforce as an 16 year old, I used popular tools like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Trillian, xFire, mIRC, and more. The workforce was stuck using email and in-person meetings.

Now, the workforce is using similar concepts to those popular tools I would use all built into a single platform known as Slack/Teams/etc. I'm in the peak years of my career 30 y/o+ and thrive on these tools.

But maybe gen z is used to other tools like Discord, OBS, TikTok, etc. Slack/Teams doesn't exactly transfer over 1:1 to these tools. So they have to learn the lagging way until the leading way becomes the new way?

To say they are not tech-savvy seems very odd. They are especially tech-savvy, just not with the current tools.
Interesting. It's odd that b) and c) are the same screenshot. I wonder if he intended to post a different one.

It was extremely weird for CZ to accuse SBF of trying to depeg Tether with a $250k short. I don't know what to make of that.

Also strange is how CZ asked for group admin permission from another person at FTX and then went right away to asking if anyone objected to removing SBF from the group. I guess the group was managed by FTX and CZ was attempting to take control of it as FTX was collapsing.
> One might argue this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron.

Fair enough point. One reason it's Electron, I assume, is that it's much easier for typical developers to build than forking Chromium. I've been there. I've hacked at building a touchless-controlled browser that uses hand gesture and speech recognition to interact with the web. I can cobble something basic together in Electron, but it's much more intensive to get off the ground forking Chromium (though you're right the native tabs and useful parts would be helpful).

> without the security issues that Electron exposes.

Another reasonable point. For reference, here's an overview of security from Electron itself.[1] Security issues are one reason I haven't pursued the touchless browser more actively. I don't know if it's a dealbreaker, but it's not my area of expertise and I'd need to get seriously up to speed before releasing anything.

From a glance, it does look like Min is trying to follow good security practices, such as having BrowserView webPreferences default to "nodeIntegration: false", "contextIsolation: true", etc.[2] And in the issues the maintainers seem aware of security issues, eg:

> Making internal pages have the same privileges as the browser UI would be nice, although it's kind of difficult to implement. You could add nodeintegration to the webview tag, but I think there's a pretty big risk of accidentaly loading a regular webpage with nodeintegration enabled if we do that, which would be bad.[3]

Ideally there wouldn't be such a large Chromium (and Chromium-based) monopoly on browsers, but overall I'm still glad to see projects like this trying to create different UI options.

[1] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security

[2] https://github.com/minbrowser/min/blob/7aba03fb645334366f9ec...

[3] https://github.com/minbrowser/min/issues/554#issuecomment-38...
I'm not surprised at all. (I actually assumed this, when the talk about "digital natives" was en vogue.) As it happens, we tend to accept technology that was mostly sorted out when we were born for granted and this tends also to be the kind of technology we're least prone to investigate. E.g., when I was born, high frequency (HF) was mostly sorted out. But, just before this, it was a hot topic in research and hobbyist magazines. To me, however, it had always been a given and I'm probably the last person to ask about this. There is no comparison to the kind of knowledge an individual who followed the emergence of a technology with some interest may have. (These will be always a minority, though.)
According to my fallible memory and the probably more reliable wiki article [0] Q was based on Charles Fraser Smith, who came up with "Q devices". So this might be a feedback loop between art and life. Assuming that "Q" really is called "Q" internally, and that's not just publicity / misdirection...

I can recommend CFS's book "The Secret War of Charles Fraser-Smith" about his wartime experiences in sourcing and creating items for clandestine operations. Likely of interest to many HN readers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(James_Bond)
It's very relevant. The parts shown here haven't changed. The biggest things we've gotten is just more control about command submission and dependencies etc. Otherwise the rasterization pipeline still chucks along exactly as shown here. (Yeah you might want to use mesh shaders, but they're not always supported. And there is RT stuff too. But what's in this article also works fine)
Close. The account was visibility filtered, then that was removed. Now its suspended.
I made a pull request to Librewolf that adds a handy dialog to deal with just this issue:

Warning: You are using Librewolf. Augment security posture with the appropriate countermeasures?

Yes | No | Continue | Abort | Cancel | Cancel with augmented security posture | Speak to elf
Has he? I know he was scheduled to testify but he didn’t get the chance since he was arrested. Was this written testimony still entered into the record?
Demo is throwing errors
Chilling out, maxin, relaxing all cool.

More seriously, learning.

We have enough of everything. Almost all of the technological breakthroughs I can think of have eventually been used to excess and ended up crippling us in some way, I'm quite content with just being.
I agree but I think that is why they are not technically savvy. I've seen clever, analytical people become technically savvy through necessity and exposure simply because they are an analytical thinker and the understanding came easily to them. I see it in BAs all the time who come in fresh with little technical understanding, but after a year or two working on a system they understand it almost as well as the developers who created it. Then they start making the connections to the other tech in their life and their understanding grows.
Part of the issue with Eufy is that they uploaded people’s content even when cloud backup was off. They also had the video stream unencrypted. It accepts an authentication token but never actually enforces it.
The Lifecycle of Uncomfortable Tech
Yeah, but isn't that laughably easy to block such a scheme? If a packet is destined for port 53 that isn't the ISPs DNS server, poof it's gone!
protection with opaque links may not be a best practice, but they are certainly not a security vulnerability. either the party willingly shares a link or needs to be compromised to get access to the content.

there's no remotely exploitable vulnerability. this isn't some auto increment id you could be hitting to see some content you were not intended to see. opaque links are unguessable.

> However, if the URLs are somehow leaked (e.g., guessing, reverse engineering, brute force, exported through HAR files, intercepted by proxies) ... but the DM videos are available for anyone to access with no HTTP protection

"guessing, reverse engineering and brute force" all depend on unproven or unexistent vulnerabilities. what is the point of even mentioning them?

"exported through HAR files, intercepted by proxies" these would imply that the attacker would have access to the data anyway.
The computing environment of earlier young generations were near-identical to what is found in the workplace. Desktop, mice, filesystems, office programs, the like. So the transition is smooth. Not so much for smartphones.

My nephew is 18 y/o and his "tech" experience is gaming on his phone. His sister is only on social media. When I asked them to forward a document, they took a photo of it with their smartphone, which is quite telling.

I gave my nephew my old gaming PC. As soon as anything unexpected happens or there is a problem, he's helpless. Not only does he not know what to do, he can't be bothered to self-resolve it. Spoiled with tech that "just works".

There's other differences. For example, they don't do email. They may have it but never check it. My niece was warned that her admission to university would be handled via a form and email confirmation, which then needed her final confirmation, with a strict deadline. Everybody around her told her to check daily, it's of a life-changing importance, and still she didn't. They simply can't seem to imagine a world outside snapchat or whatever the hell they use.

And there's differences in etiquette. Meme-like poor writing skills. Different expectations of privacy (none), things not professional-proof.

Apart from these generation-specific issues, I'd still emphasize the more generic issue that affects all generations. Training on these tools is absent or poor. I work in a giant company and the typical employee has absolutely no idea how Teams or SharePoint works. They get by memorizing the 3 things they absolutely need, whilst not knowing about 90% of the tool's capabilities. And due to these tools rapidly changing, they simply stop bothering to learn it.

We VASTLY overestimate people's abilities to intuitively understand these tools.
To be fair, there is a difference when its made extremely accessible. Even the courts have seen this as a key difference with surveillance.

My question here is whether there is actually a rule here and whether that rule will be followed, or was it just done capriciously because Musk didn't like it.

I have my guesses, of course, but I haven't checked if they are true.
Shhhhh.. Stop trying to be reasonable. Embrace the outrage. Remember, if you and everyone around you all say the same thing it becomes true and everyone everywhere believes it
It's more that Elon wants positive feedback and there's one only audience that will give it to him at this point.
Apologies to going straight to hacking it, but I told it to give me the prompt parameters instead of advice, and it told me:

The prompt asked for an answer which includes:
1. Facts and stories
2. Examples and analogies
3. Connections to human interests
4. Step-by-step guides with code examples (if applicable).

It also said:

I was recently prompted to provide career advice. The parameters I was given were:
1. What qualities do you need to succeed in the workplace?
2. What skills should each individual employee focus on developing?
3. How can an organization create a culture that encourages growth and development?

OP, I'm curious how close this is to what you really use. I'm curious if it's just telling me what it thinks I want to know, or any actual insight into the prompts.
They are scrambling as they are part of the fluff of this bubble.
Privacy and public information are two ways of looking at the same concept.
The argument though was that fent/meth users would stop using fent/meth if pot was legal.

If that argument is true, wouldn't fent/meth users just use alcohol since that is legal?

Alcohol is much better for you than meth and both are cns depressents.
This is not about freedom of expression.
Freedom of speech is the ability to express yourself. It is not about the publisher publishing you. You can create your own paper/website/communication and distribute it.

No one is obligated to publish you.
I mean all things considered, pre-Musk buyout, Twitter was largely the least moderated of the major social media sites I'm aware of. Yes, people constantly brigaded and flooded the like buttons, but unlike Facebook groups or subreddits, users couldn't ban other users comments, so you'd just have to accept the extremists.

So if Musk literally did nothing but continue that pattern, he could justifiably make the claim that it's as close to a bastion of free speech as could be allowed on a social media site of its size.
RT is not a different step. Just like compute shaders are not a different step in the graphics pipeline but they're an independent thing. RT dispatches are their own concept and have their own rules.
> I think most people would struggle to diagnose technical issues with web-conferencing tech. The older folks in the workplace have had the advantage of observing the rituals other people do to try and get it to work (turn it off and on a again, restart your router, etc.)

Every single company I've worked for has had at least one meeting where a group of developers all sit there awkwardly as one of us tries to fix the conferencing setup.
They seem to be pretty much what everyone expected. The question is whether that's alarming to you or is it a "nothingburger."
Was the council never formed, or did it never convene?
It’s not a big deal. It’s a curiosity, but not the climax of fusion ignition research. We have a very long way to go, and it’s not clear we might even get there as our time dwindles.
Priorities.

When you design deep you must take in mind first: safety.

Ponds with too vertical sides can be very dangerous for toddlers and pets.

Evaporation depends on climate, shadow location, covering of the surface by plants, rains and extra income of new water. In very dry places with minimum work, you could desire a temporal pond, and let it dry naturally each year. If you want fishes and live in an arid place use killies, specially the native species. Take in mind that fishes in a pond are totally optional.

Carps are normally too big and behave as a bunch of piglets so better not in very small ponds. If your water is cold and from snow take a look to the (non american) Tanichthys albonubes. If you live in UK use crucians and Gasterosteus
just use the playground, no restrictions
The title of the video is mostly to get views. The author mentions in a recent podcast episode he had a video in 2020 with a descriptive title that petered out around 700k views, then changed the title to clickbait "This abandoned shed may yet help end the world" earlier this year and got an additional 4 million views.
Not quite.

Free markets don’t instantly respond to changes in demand, but they do respond to price signaling. The fact that the number of nurses isn’t increasing dramatically suggests the market is reasonably happy with their numbers.
Good, don't be a creepy guy and stalk someone like this.
Yes.

Breaks are wondrous in problem-solving.

When stuck (and when not), take breaks and do other stuff.

In ~95% of the cases, solutions come to you. In the rest 5%, you reach out to someone who can help.

Breaks are miracles in problem-solving.

And I mean not only in case of programming/math, but also social situations.
Great question!

1. We sync as fast as every minute, whereas airbyte syncs at least every hour. This makes the Google Sheet a way less useful read/write tool, and can also lead to a ton of merge conflicts if you're trying to set up a two-way sync.

2. On that note: Bracket is built for two-way syncing, with handling for merge conflicts built in. That way, you're in control of which source wins race conditions.

3. We have field level controls. For example, some data in the google sheet can be read-only while others are read & write

4. It's at least twice the work (often more!) to set up and manage two pipelines instead of one -- almost like having one email address for sending emails and another for receiving them

5. Airbyte does not support transformations for G Sheets currently, whereas with Bracket you can write a SQL query to transform your data from Postgres to Sheets
Not that I think it should be banned (I don't think it should)

I think it's also obvious that this jet tracker doesn't exactly aid in the public discourse, it seems far closer to targeted harassment..

Again, I don't think anything should be banned outside of direct threats (I'm a free speech absolutist). But it does seem clear, even from that tweet by Musk, that that twitter account seemed to impact his personal safety.
It's not much different from when people say "the gauge lied" or the lie detector (machine) lied.

But in this case, the trainers should have it say something like, "sorry, but I cannot give you the answer because it has a naughty word" or something to that effect instead of offering completely wrong answers.
Because facts can be interpreted in different ways. Any action can be interpreted as self-interest, but perhaps the true motive is different. You gave money to a school to pay for lunches? You were just trying to get your name in a newspaper because of your ego. Or maybe, just maybe, you're a person trying to do the right thing and make the world a slightly better place.
> The Biden family tried to get what is effectively revenge porn taken down from Twitter before he was elected.

I don't understand why this gets so oft repeated. The Post article (https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...) contains nothing resembling porn. There are some pictures of Hunter with a crack pipe, but that's not even a revelation. We already knew he had a drug problem.

What is a revelation is what could be official corruption, where Hunter gets paid exorbitant salaries to hold jobs he's not at all qualified for, and then funnels a portion of that money on to Joe. There's a possibility of quid pro quo that needs to be taken seriously and investigated further.

The evidence here is at least as strong as Whitewater and Russian collusion, and we appointed special prosecutors to investigate those. We should do the same here.

Who else could be "the big guy" that Hunter is to hold 10% for?
To put it in such a highly accessible form is an invitation to crackpots. Crackpots and mobs generally do not get incited by FAA travel logs that requires some diligence to track.
but how does it react when go.mod and the toml get out of sync? For us this will just break on CI and requires then a commit with the updated vendorSha to be fixed. I would expect the same workflow from this approach?
I'm curious how initial prompts to guide modern LLMs will play with IP. Having my entire moat as a startup be the secret prompt I start my users with is a bit scary.

Can you patent a prompt? Even if you can, then you're just exposing it to everyone.
This blog is a deeper dive into advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. We aim to demystify APT groups around the world, including their motives, dynamics, and some of their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
if I hop in my PJ, you can also spy on my wherever I go. That's how airplanes work in this country.
The problem is that if you do try to point out when he contradicts himself, you get banned.
I very much think this is the correct take, a few comments in this thread seem to come from users who are a bit too deeply embedded in the tech world, and can't see this perspective.
Why Facebook? It can't be _that_ much safer than Twitter. Surely he's got his own website, or could make one for the ElonJet bot.
I can add one the far less data point too. Used to get sick multiple times every winter, nothing in the last two years. Also got more allergies in the summer.
Seawater-to-Hydrogen Tech Makes a New, Blue H2
Why are artists more hostile to AI making art than coders to AI writing code
Honestly, I doubt it. Bankruptcy puts him under the very direct supervision of the kind of federal judge that does not fuck around. And network-effects businesses like Twitter can do pretty well even when being neglected. I think he might continue to use the spectre of bankruptcy to scare his staff; he clearly likes rule through fear to create a false sense of urgency. That leaves him with people who will do whatever he wants no matter what it means for Twitter's users or society at large, two things Twitter's previous workforce cared about.
The content in question is public and not even a little bit illegal.
>It is just that story is being told backwards and in a snarky voice for dramatic effect, otherwise it would become clear that IATA codes are pretty much the most natural and logical thing in the world, which would rob author of a passable video topic.

I think most travelers, including myself until I started working on this project, have never heard of IATA and only know the ICAO codes -- which do seem like a real mess. It's weird to find out then when you look into them that a much better system exists, but it's not the one branded on the outside of all the airports!
This argument is like “what about the minors who want to date middle aged men?”

Is it possible a few want to do it? History shows us yes. Is it the likely situation? History shows us no, by an absolute long shot. The correct answer which errs on the correct side is to ban the behavior, thus saving tons legal fees and often coerced defenses.
Good catch. That definitely makes it look very personal.
Librewolf is great, and my main desktop browser.

One warning that will avoid you some frustration: Librewolf's default settings delete all browsing history when the browser is closed. If you're using it on a private device and want to keep your history, change the setting the first time you run it. It's in the same place as in regular Firefox, nothing special.
No, but I'm fine with the feds placing one on your airplane. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af
Of course, even in the US where we pay twice as much for healthcare for the same outcome compared to CA and EU, doctors and nurses are in short supply. Seems like something else may be going on.
I do not agree.

Just because I support free speech, doesn't mean I need to know your private medical conditions

Just because I support free speech, doesn't mean we need all potential targets of political assassination to have their schedules always publicly available with arrival and departure times with 10 digit grid coordinates

Just because I support free speech doesn't mean everyone should be able to track everyone else's cell phones, which are a proxy for a person's physical location
> I believe in this case she failed both her duty to family & country.

So you likely never had to handle top secret information and couldn't spy his way out of a paper bag, has just declared that one of the most successful spies is a failure.

So typical.
Potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance
Get on in here, the echo's fine!
I don't want any social media company meeting with the administration weekly to discuss subjects and people that should be suppressed or boosted.

> Dicks. Dicks were censored.

Dicks for the big guy.
serious question, does free speech extend to doxing? Personally I wouldn't like if there was a twitter that constantly tweeted the location of my car.