skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does it suddenly make it okay as long as they're suffering while they do it?

Yes. What a stupid question, of course people would rather pay money to punish criminals than to pay that money to have them play videogames.

You might argue that people shouldn't think that way, but not only do all apes have a sense of fairness, almost all other semi intelligent creatures do too.

Asking people to go go against a built-in drive is like asking teenagers to practice abstinence.
> "I am thinking of doing a startup or new business in the future"

The last option should be dropped completely.

I have to imagine the majority will never get around to actually starting a company.

Just day dreaming (nothing wrong with that though).
This is awesome and heavily resonates with me. Specifically this line:

> Sometimes when I get depressed I stop caring for myself, but I'm always good about showing up for others.

What stage of the project are you on? How can I track or contribute? I would love to see this come to fruition.
Doubt it, Activision does triple that in revenue. Even assuming only 33% of that is from Playstation (which I bet it undercounting) it wouldn't make any sense to suddenly cut off 3 billion in revenue to have an exclusive when gamers could just find alternatives. Call of Duty won't always be king of the roost, so it's a bad bet if you want to maintain entrenchment. "Second-class citizen" treatment is FAR more likely and FAR more profitable.
I meant the people in the crime ridden area will have that incentive.

Another thing worth pointing out is this gives money to the young and the male more than anyone else.

Actually, do we even need the AI? We could give every African American male between the ages of 14 and 30 who lives in a crime ridden area, has been arrested, has an absentee father and has at least one friend in prison the money...

I'm not sure the more general approach wouldn't work, but "funnel a ton of money into poor crime ridden area" sounds obvious enough as a solution that its probably been tried. Anyone know what the results were?

I have vague recollections that a lot of gang crime is more about subculture incentives rather than money directly.

Apologies for disjointed thoughts.
I wonder what would have happened if someone tried using antitrust laws to defeat this. Seems like there was a quite alive market for "third-party HDDs compatible with Xbox 360s" and Microsoft effectively tried to monopolize it. Plus, it seems to me like it could have passed the test of the modern Sherman Act interpretation. MS's actions directly reduced output and increased prices.
The pain setup is a long term play.

If you already have a GE Washing Machine, with an account when you go to replace your Fringe you will be more prone to buy a GE Fridge so you do not have to setup a Samsung or LG or Whirlpool account...
I'm guessing the worst case is they are forced to sell off the exchange side of the Ads business, which isn't that much revenue compared to the revenue they make selling ad space.

This is probably going to have a lot less effect than what people are assuming it will have.

Google and Facebook have never had more competition in the Ad space. Apple and Amazon are building big Ad businesses fast. That's not the problem. The problem is they play both sides of the market and they dominate both sides of the market. Therefore they have a lot of pricing power.

This isn't the reason they are making 100s of billions a year. The reason they are making that amount is because they are the best at what they do and you can't find the service they provide any where else except Facebook and Google.
Is pass able to decrypt ssh key files, or trick the user into decrypting them?

One of the files in the example is not a pass encrypted file but an ssh private key ("id_ed25519"). ssh private keys are either unencrypted or encrypted with a passphrase (but not via GPG in any case, and GPG of course is what pass uses).

The only way the outlined attack would be better than just uploading via curl is if pass could somehow enable the attacker to get a decrypted ssh private key. But I can't imagine why pass would be capable of doing that.
Yeah. 50% won't voluntarily connect. Maybe 25% will return for refund instead of connect. (And maybe 10% don't even have internet, and aren't going to get it for a washing machine...)
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This policy is a bit outside of the Overton window, but caning really does seem more humane and effective than the nightmare of American prisons (I would take 3 strokes from a cane (will scar and you can't sit down for a few weeks) over 6 months in prison). It's not just the crowded brutality that we subject people to in prison but the painful fact that once you are out you are ruined. Caning is quick and convincing. The punishment is administered and the convict can get on with their life and keep their job, their house and their family. From a conditioning standpoint I would also suspect that the severe bout of physical pain is a more effective tool than a few years of psychological torture.
I'm sure that's true but there's a difference between "poor customer service" and "scam".
Every time I returned to my Hugo project it felt like I had to learn everything all over again.

With Astro it is just components. I am used to those. The cognitive load is much lower.
Just wondering if you had any evidence at all for your claim. You've had two chances to post it.

> It is different

Oh, did you notify the Office on Trafficking in Persons?! That's the definition they give for sex trafficking

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/fact-sheet/resource/fshumantraf...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking

> My point is trafficking is bigger than prostitution

Agreed! I thought your point was "a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice" though? I guess not!
Which would be a good thing compared to mass layoffs, no?
You can add any other executable into Steam and run it on proton that way. I used it for non-game applications with great success. Proton can also be installed and used without Steam, although the process was so involved last time I checked it was easier to use Steam as a launcher even if you have no need for it otherwise.
It's pretty industry specific, but at least in mine, 2 pages is a more or less immediate disqualification.

You're expected to have a substantial publication history, but including that on a resume will get it thrown in the trash immediately.

Including your full work history will also get it thrown away quickly. Ditto with full education. Last degree only. A fair bit of detail from your most recent 2-ish jobs. Key certifications. Nothing else.
It's incredible that corporations can whine to the media about how few people are participating in their new revenue schemes.

Your company's need to make money is not my problem.

In the indie maker world, low traction just means it isn't meeting a need that hurts enough, so it's time to pack it up and move on. Telling customers they're wrong for not buying from you is quite a look.
Scaling product meetings while building a team
(with enterprise features that most people don't need)
So, let me get this straight, your nation should have zero influence/dependence on anything outside of its borders?
You identify an important point about Ginsburg, but the current court is mostly a creation of "the Federalist Society". Although these jokers claimed to be concerned about abortion when weaseling their way up the judiciary system, they are all far more concerned with Borkism. Compare the number of abortion cases that reach the Supreme Court with the number of cases focused on business, IP, monopoly, consumer rights, liability, etc.
Not really different. They even share bugs.

If Safari team messes up their rendering engine, then iOS update, and it is broken for every iOS browser...
100%. Start projects, bet small, grow
This is so awesome!!! Thank you!!!
No computer I have used since 1976 has failed to meet expectations or run code I wrote slower than seemed reasonable but I do admit I had to wait in a queue for my cards to be run.

No computer I owned has really ever had no idle time when not caught in a bug of my making, or running beta OS code.

Because of time sharing computers stopped being too slow to use when compiling their own kernel around the time a megabyte of memory was common. That's use, distinct from "play intense video rich games"

No computer i own has been fast enough for me to routinely make video immersion work.
1) hide your AirTag in some airplane

2) name the AirTag “Boeing 777”

3) you have your personal Boeing in Find My to show off
Just some anecdotal evidence to support what you're saying.

When I was in college and a freshman, I was told the urban legend about the "ether bunny". The story about a freshman who finds out his roommate has been drugging and having sex with him using ether.

I wasn't very knowledgeable about these stories or urban legends in general so when I was home for Christmas vacation, I told my Dad about it, and he started laughing and said it was an old college urban legend but when he was told it (in the 1960's) as a freshman they used chloroform instead of ether. He mentioned some other details about the story that were changed due to the times, but that was one point that was clearly changed over time, possibly for the same reason.
I think it has more to do with JSX being really good, rather than killing the utility of it.
Good question.
I have another one for you. Have you confirmed that they don’t know? Or are you just calling bullshit by reflex?
I tried connecting two appliances: our fridge and our dishwasher. Both are about three meters away from an access point.

I've struggled for hours to get these two appliances to connect to WiFi with the various mobile applications the manufacturers come up with. I gave up and just won't bother anymore.
I'm not sure I understand your comment here? Are you referring to the end of your MacBooks' life, or the beginning? It's somewhat ambiguous.

Assuming you are referring to end of life process:

Apple's kit sold as refurb is done from their incoming returns — faulty, or otherwise unwanted, systems.

Everything sent to them as a trade-in isn't handled by Apple at all: it's contracted out to third-party companies. (This likely applies to their recycling programme also, but I've not looked into it)

At least: these things certainly used to be the case — and there have been a whole bunch of articles online that support this, over the years. I would love to see evidence to the contrary if things have changed?

— But like I said: I'm not sure I understand your comment, so maybe my points here are irrelevant.
It’s not out of the question that additional `Index` impls for other integer types could be added to the standard library at some point; the issue is discussed often enough. But it’s not trivial to do because some currently valid code could become ambiguous if impls are added, so some sort of a transition would be required.
For the average user does it even matter what server/instance you join? From what I can tell, once you sign up you can search for, follow, find, post, re-post etc. anything from anyone regardless of which server you sign up with.
You are right, the statements are contradictory. It's strange to see how nobody questions marketing buzzwords from Microsoft.
I think the edit timer hasn't timed out. May want to go back and at least make it look like that's what your "post one" said.
I've found Twitter far more entertaining and often more informational than HN nowadays, which is the same old pessimistic tech worker crowd and content shrug
Interestingly enough I can't make out the Tsar Bomba crater https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7...
The Bitcoin base chain can handle about 7 transactions per second, lighting theoretical upper limit is up to 1,000,000 transactions per second. You can use lighting without managing a node yourself. There are even projects[0] in development that allows for community custody, so it stays trustless even when using a custodian.

0: https://fedimint.org/
- I have started a company that is no-longer operating?
I was editing my resume in latex for a long time, then for no particular reason decided to change the workflow such that I could just write it in markdown and use emacs org-mode to autogenerate an intermediate latex, associate the citations, and publish a pdf. I find markdown is a lot simpler and with a template can create as flexible a design as I could with latex.
Curious, based on actual evidence, is there any reason to believe the pilot didn’t exit the plane prior to it crashing?
Manufacturers have started adding RFID tags to those with unique IDs, so not only can they verify they're "genuine" water filters, but also stop you reusing the same RFID tag sticker for multiple filters.

GE started this trend, but aren't alone.
Oh, that's good to hear.
Question: Would I regret switching from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Debian Bullseye 11.X (and would I have to use Debian 10 to use an LTS version [0])? How many creature comforts does Ubuntu add onto the Debian base? Just based on the vibe I get from debian.org, I feel like my life would involve a lot more yak shaving (which I don't necessarily mind if it teaches me something that will negate future yak shaves).

Context: In 2019 I built a desktop (my personal workstation) and it was my first machine without a windows or Mac OS partition. That machine is still my personal daily driver (outside of work). Using it for ML/MLOps/misc engineering projects has taught me a ton about parts of how Linux works and is organized.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
> Access to medical services continues to be the same thing that Canadians have complained about for decades. Everyone bitches about it, but all-in-all, they are fine.

Ontario's health-care system is collapsing. In the past year several emergency rooms have been forced to close, and 9-11 calls have gone unanswered or faced severe delays.

People are not fine. It's a multi-faceted issue, sure, but ramping up immigration is pouring fuel on the fire.

> 'It's become a controversy among the fringe-right' is not a sufficient metric for telling me that there's a problem. All sorts of normal things have a tendency to turn into controversies for those folks.

It's disingenuous to write-off any concerns about immigration about immigration as right-wing histeria. I quite left-leaning, pro-immigration, and believe in having strong social programs; however, Canada's current immigration policy is a band-aid covering an ever-growing wound.

E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1049ykb/opinion_its...

> What are the actual issues? Money laundering through the Canadian real estate markets? That's not an immigration problem, that's a ML problem, and it could be fixed by not selling permanent residencies to 'investors' building sham self-dealing companies.

A major "actual issue" is that Canada's economy is largely predicated on real estate continously growing 20% year-over-year. Real estate is one of the, if not THE, largest sectors in several provinces. Millions of people don't have a retirement plan beyond "sell my house for 5-10x what I paid for it", and having massive levels of immigration definitely plays into that (far more than foreign home ownership does).
I had a solar inverter mfgr destroy ~$20k in batteries through a unannounced irregular remote update (that was defective) after I inadvertently left open the firewall rule that lets their monitoring platform talk to the inverter after temporarily using it. Had I known there was an update I could and likely would have caught the issue before it had a chance to over discharge the batteries, so the unauthorized remote upgrade was a causative factor-- and not just the fact that the upgrade was defective.

My cable modem, which I own, is installed in a difficult to access location due to my lack of desire to run coax between buildings. In the summer every couple months it has to be rebooted when it loses lock and can't regain it on its own. I used to have a cronjob that would automatically handle it, until comcast without my authorization reached inside my property and applied a change to completely remove the ability to remotely reboot it. The remote reboot stuff was XSS vulnerable, so customers whos client PCs could access the cable modem could have had websites randomly rebooting it on them. This wasn't a problem for me, and could have been fixed by eliminating the XSS vulnerability instead.

Screw giving remote access to third parties.

So I think I'm pretty much 2 for 2 in terms of devices allowed remote access ending up screwing me over because of it. I can only imagine how many additional problems I would have had if I wasn't diligent in preventing any kind of remote access and avoiding having internet connected devices in the first place.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You did that repeatedly in this thread. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd argue if a company has failed to plan a smooth transition from growth to profit, that's a failure of that companies leadership.
What would be those alternatives? There is no game like COD currently - and plenty have tried and failed.

Microsoft could endure a temporary reduction in revenue, for a long term marketshare gain/dominance and eventual increased revenue.

Xbox would become known as the console that you buy if you are into FPS titles. That is powerful.
Creating market dominance and sustaining market dominance are completely different beasts.

> but that would risk Google losing its lustre for talented programmers

Already has. Google is not "hot" anymore. Probably hasn't been for a while now.
No, the number of fingers is absolutely critical, you simply fail to understand what understanding a concept means. ChatGPT is, in this sense (and I know it’s probably a gross simplification, sorry OpenAI), a fancy markov chain. It can sample data that, by sheer correlation in the training data, reflects many features a typical drawing that matches the prompt would have. But it doesn’t understand what a human hand is, it lacks the ability to abstract, so it cannot deduce that there are (almost) always exactly 5 fingers. The probabilities reflected in the model kinda caught the aspect of a human hand being a collecion of these geometric shapes with those shades and whatnot, but they didn’t catch the hand as a coherent concept with a rather strict definition.

This is like the joke about training a neural net on arithmetic where you get the wrong answer repeatedly until it remembers to answer 5+5=10. but then, until there are more data, 10+5 is also 10, because it didn’t actually understand arithmetic (to be fair, a human wouldn’t understand it by a single example either).

And you can see this in action by making ChatGPT believe 5+3=7.

ChatGPT manipulates symbols, and it captured the rules to do that very well. That is one of the abilities of general intelligence, but it’s not the only criterion for intelligence. You can do more than just manipulating symbols, you can also abstract over them, form your own thoughts and questions about them, be curious, reflect on your reasoning and explain it, deduct patterns from very few data because you have all the context from your previous knowledge and the abstractions built on top of it. Besides of the abstractions and functions programmed into it ChatGPT only has probabilities of symbols being related to other symbols (and the rules implied by that), but it cannot reason about these symbols and cannot form creative thought. Its „intelligence“ is limited to a finite order/level of abstraction (the features and parameters that define the model and allow it, for example, to capture shading and geometry, but not the concept of a human hand) while yours is basically limitless. You can always put another abstraction on top of what you just thought or experienced. The magic of deep learning was basically increasing the order of abstraction a neural net can capture, but it’s still limited.

On the other hand, I have my pet theory that the weirdness of dreams or psychedelics arises from the brain basically sampling the connections in the brain / piping random noise through its neural net (as a side effect of all the reorganization it’s doing).
If I was forced to admit that sometimes markets were bad, then I'd have to re-evaluate our entire economic system - what if healthcare markets, gun markets, even employment markets were up for debate? Under what criteria would one even evaluate those? Moreover, how could we even tell if they were genuinely bad or good, or if the particular cultural context and social indoctrination predisposed me to think they were good through social conditioning?

Why, for example, would a market for health care be good, but a market for child-imprisonment be bad? If a market for child-imprisonment were susceptible to bad actors, perverse incentives, and bad outcomes, then it stands to reason the same could be said of all markets. That's a rather large implication, I'm sure we agree on.

If humane child imprisonment is valued by the market participants, then that's what the market will provide. If a market doesn't signal that it's important, then it's definitionally not important. That's what price signalling is all about.
I made a tool that generates Typescript types out of a live Postgres database. I've had a request for Kysely support (https://github.com/kristiandupont/kanel/issues/273), but I more or less forgot about it. I would love to hear if that would be helpful.
Faraday Cage
> just give everybody a UBI

I assumed that UBI meant Universal Basic Income; so I supposed that everybody got it. A UBI that only some people get is just some other benefit.

Anyway, thanks; there were some remarks upthread about UBI that I didn't understand. Now I do.
The Audit of Git Is Complete
Git Security Assessment Full Report is here: https://ostif.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/X41-OSTIF-Gitla...
Which Twittery features are you missing in Mastodon?
I think it works better to be on a well-run regional server if one exists, so that the Local feed actually mostly means "local". For folks in the SF Bay Area I recommend sfba.social .
You mean it misses the UX of instantly interrupting you with random flashes of spinners and skeleton elements.
Yeah that sounds safe, I did end up even more paranoid than I intended.
Extreme attitudes towards science and unjustified confidence in understanding
Yeah or at least something like, "I have received at least $1 of revenue from a business I've started"
Many are dismissing it because it is just neural network. Which were basically at academic works since 80’s or earlier. It is only that now we have enough hardware and material for training neural nets that they start to be useful.
Anti-ageing gene injections could rewind your heart age by 10 years
Rumors of Google Lobbying to Shut Down AI Competitors with Safety Concerns
Boost Mobile did this recently when my wife and I switched cell carriers. They advertised a $30/month/line plan (after a 3-month introductory period at an even lower price), but we are now paying closer to $45. This has pissed me off enough that I want to look for another carrier, but this seems to be SOP for this industry. Telcos behave like nothing less than a criminal cartel, so I was hardly surprised by this play. Nice to know it has a name.

Another comment here pointed out that the FTC is aware of this practice and has solicited comments from the public. Quoting from their linked article on `ftc.gov`:

> FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz asked consumers to share their drip pricing stories with the FTC. Consumers can call us at 1-877-FTC-HELP.

I gave them a call, and the first thing the automated system informed me is that one can file a complaint online: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/