skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you acknowledge Epictetron 3000?
That’s rubbish. Two people could go somewhere they wouldn’t be heard and have a private conversation. Encryption provides no more challenge to investigation than that option that has existed forever…
they are still not really readable without custom script, you would need to click each of them one by one, so they are essentially hidden and inaccessible since you have to jump through way too many hoops to see them
Did you miss where I said "in undisclosed locations in different jurisdictions"?

The other seven people would be known only by their public key, and you'd make contact with them through some onion-routed service. You'd never see their face, and all you'd know is that they were based in a different jurisdiction, where presumably the authorities that are after you don't have strong judicial connections.

If your threat model includes an adversary that is willing and able to kidnap and torture 5 innocent people from different countries around the world in order to get to you, then you're literally OBL or the leader of IS, in which case you have bigger problems than securing your passwords.
to piggyback on one of your points:
I see a lot of the same, regarding the rushing in and taking over from quitters. A surprising amount of companies have data platforms with a bus factor of 1.

On the data/analytics side it's a lot of documentation (though clients are often very hesitant to pay for that, which leads to more billing when I have to train replacements), trying to understand data flows, and rewriting band-aid solutions that have stacked up over the years. A fair bit of work goes into balancing what the client wants (new features/reports, new environments etc.) with what the client needs (stability/reliability work, documentation, scalable code).

Consulting freelance is more profitable than working for a firm, but also a lot harder. How will you find clients that have problems you can fix, how will you convince them to take you on, what kind of portfolio/experience can you sell them, etc. It dances this very interesting balance of being a salesperson, a technical expert, and a good communicator (I've often found that these are skills that are NOT positively correlated with one another). Unless you are confident that you will be able to sell yourself, it's easier to start with a firm to learn the role and build a network, but you know your own situation best
FSD is the closest thing on the market to a real self driving through marketing was misleading. Tik Tok sleeping people on the highways is a dystopic byproduct of its result. FSD seems safer than average human driver now[0], good enough one could say but the legislator and the media seems biased towards a zero accidents safe, wich could be years or decades away

[0]https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-autopil...
Maybe this was the case before, but it certainly feels less like this now. Auto OEM ads are the biggest offenders.

I can plug OEM 1 + Model1 and get two to three ads for OEM2/3/4 before I get the result I was looking for.
Most projects fail. Many that succeed are late.
Respect!

I've just recently migrated to a daily driver android phone without any Google services sitting in the background.

Stay strong, follow the path!
Personally, if I had to assign the web tracking industry to either cats or mice, I'd chose the rodents.
Octopoda is the Greek plural of octopus, it's not a Latin word that goes -i. But as an English word octopuses is fine too.
The filter is quite simple - brightening and smoothing the skin; apart from that - getting rid of that goddamn "tent" between nose and lips i.e. nasolabial folds. And the wrinkle between your eyebrows.

As I'm 30 and people tell me I look younger than I really am, guess this is my sign to take skincare more seriously while I can. I am already halfway there by not smoking and rarely drinking alcohol.
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/363/tips-for-go... Enjoy!
> Not bad for a supposedly backwards repressed regime

What do you mean by supposedly?

> It also exposes a wider problem the crypto community are not addressing.

What wider problem? That money (in any form) can be stolen by a malevolent state?
I don't have specific views on what they've written.. but 90% of donations to Firefox come from Google. The 3 year contract ends in 2023..

If Google decides to not fund it next year it's bad management on FFs part.

Putting all your eggs in one basket is very risky and puts you in a place where you may have an ugly compromises Vs face bad consequences..
All ads are scam.
Uhm... clicking on "Try me" opens some page on a Telegram website.

Does this work only if one has a Telegram account? If yes, why is it not mentioned on the website front and center.
TIL: Eliza lives in Emacs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
From what I read they have a limit of 5TB per user. What region are you in? Could you provide an archive link or something to prove it?
this is not league of legends my dude
Nothing special when people are already trusting scams and others.
This would be the worst time to spin it off. Tiktok is a threat but seems slightly subdued, things might take off for YouTube again.

On ads ATT has depressed revenue a lot but apples recent updates will mean better tracking soon and revenue will recover.

Everything is pointing up for YouTube (and meta), this is the worst time for a change in ownedhip structure. You should do that at the top not the bottom.
Confining socialism to government pension programs I would consider to be deceptive rebranding. I have no problem with government pension or insurance programs as long as governments don’t use monopoly power to ban private competition with such programs and the programs originate via democratic process. Socialism should be reserved as a label for direct government participation and control over economic activity. Of course there is a subtle nuance when redistribution programs are funded by unsustainable fiat money printing.

You asked if I identify with the label anarchocapitalist I don’t personally however I can seen why the need to label might result in that being applied to me when I try to explain my primary thesis. I will attempt it briefly.

However, first let me explain that local and small scale governments that advocate democratic socialism can be excellent healthy communities. The issue is with scale and comes to the fundamental issue of money. Money is a social construction is an often touted liberal arts viewpoint. I will counter that money is actually organic and natural and not purely a human social construct. There are many examples in animal world where organisms use a medium of exchange to collaborate. Experiments in primates show they will intrinsically create a currency framework if provided with an appropriate medium. Females of numerous animals regularly will exchange sexual behavior for food, often in desperation like humans, in situations of abundance they will stop this pattern.

Money and it’s characteristics have a profound impact on human social activity. Our current form of money, sovereign fiat, has only existed since 1000 AD in the east and not until early 1700s in the west. This money form enables war. Period. It was invented in all cases to enable states to wage war without actually having the resources to do so. Much like financial commentators discuss leverage, fiat currency, is the original leverage. Kings borrowing from the future, from their own population, using threat of force and sovereign power.

This fundamental dynamic has driven the last 300+ years of human history and conflict. Private currencies when previously flourished have promoted peace and rapid economic development, of course those period can also have manias and crashes but in comparison to world war are insignificant on the scale of human suffering.

Bitcoin represents the first viable attempt to challenge fiat currency as a form on money. It’s a very exciting development in human progress. Local and state governments promoting what you call socialism can potentially benefit as the enormous tax on human productivity extracted by large federal governments using fiat to fund their militaries and other forms of oppression and violence will be freed up.
The 3.5% Threshold
Tell me more about Godaddy, please. Why shouldn’t we use them?
Sounds to me like the author had a painful introduction to the vintage platform tools of Unix. The crux of his rant is:

> I prefer spreadsheet software though.

Maybe the newer zips of XML are not exactly obfuscated blobs, but I’d wager he’s happy with Excel where he sees coworkers using text interchange formats. I guess he solves different problems than I do.

> Have you noticed that most developers use IDEs that “understand” the code and not Notepad?

So, in a setting where Microsoft platform tools are available, he’s confronted with scripting that relies on the vintage Unix tools. I’ve seen many people succeed blithely where the author feels pained and challenged.
I dont know who Cory Doctorow is but his credibility went way down in my eyes.
It sounds like you think it's unwise, but that's not quite the same thing as irrational. People make different decisions using different sets of information.

I have a significant portion of my savings as Bitcoin (much more than 1%). That decision was made through lots of close observation of the ecosystem, careful reading and thought. I'm very confident in the long-term growth of it, but I don't keep any month to month expense money as Bitcoin because of short-term volatility.

You may disagree, but you can't characterize that as irrational.
Watching Paint Dry
You can see here how we are handling streaming:

https://supabase.com/blog/openai-embeddings-postgres-vector#...

If you want to build this yourself, we just released a video guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29p8kIqyU_Y

The Clippy post has some more details of how it all works together:

https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-supabase-docs
Interest rates are still going up. It needs to get worse better they will go down so we are still probably not close to the bottom.

All these layoffs need to play out and have an effect on the economy, most importantly house prices, before things can turn around.

Soft landings are very rare.
How is the headline not an accurate summary of the quote?

How is the quote obviously rhetorical and in jest? After Russia talked about invading Ukraine, and then actually did so, I tend to take them at least somewhat seriously when they talk about invading places...
I like your "about" - So what got you hell banned for 8 years?
The progress of AI/ML/ChatGPT will squash any notion of VR for Enterprise. If I was running a 500 person call center for a health insurance company, I'd be looking more into research around AI/ML/ChatGPT to reduce costs vs. VR/AR. Getting a private hosted ChatGPT instance/network, train it on medical claims/insurance use cases and facts, feed it statistics about cases and see if it can handle use cases for processing simpler claims. Give it the same oversight you would a call center employee where people are inspecting the results. That has a ROI of possibly increasing claim processing/reducing claim processors by letting humans handle more complex cases that require actual intelligence. The same process could be applied to any industry that has a lot of text data and doesn't change very quickly.

VR in the Enterprise just isn't good business sense. The ROI isn't going to be there for an enterprise use case with typical office workers/professionals. As ruthless as it sounds, eliminating the need for people with AI handling easier/simpler tasks is a much better investment that scales than purchasing, supporting and training people on VR hardware for some "productivity" benefit that really can't be defined right now.
What are these recent ATT updates ? Does Meta also benefit ?
> 90% of donations to Firefox come from Google.

Why? What does Google get from it? How do they justify this expense internally?
It is the same situation with Apple's App Store privacy labels.
30% of child sexual abuse is done by family members. 60% of child sexual abuse is done by acquaintances. 10% is done by strangers, and I am willing to bet that a good fraction is of that is done offline.

If we want to protect children, why are we completely ignoring those 90%? Where are the bills mandating installation of cameras in all households with children?

If you want to protect children from strangers on the internet, perhaps fund schools so they can properly teach children that the internet can be a dangerous place. Bills like this aren't going to do shit to protect children.
I almost never use instagram, mostly follow military-related fitness[1] and car stuff....and I still get an endless feed of curvaceous women thrust in my face.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/sofletehq/
Not combatting the merits of those break-ups, of which I agree, just wanted to point out that WhatsApp is a social media product at this point, because all the relevant social group interactions have moved there from Facebook the website/the app.
Are there any health concerns with stainless steel (e.g. nickel content)?
ah now this...this is a brilliant man in the middle attack.
Did you read that article by the girl who filled in holes for a chatbot for a year?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-...

imagine if you hijacked, idk, some military general's ChatGPT session

[edit] Please tell the story about the guy who lost his mind over GPT coincidences, if you have the time to share it..?
By my experience it's used same as downvote, people just flag comments with different opinion they disagree with, while they are on topic/civil etc. Today I learned there is also Vouch button I didn't notice before, not sure how exactly it works, but it seems it allows you to respond to flagged/dead comment at least, not sure if it somnehow helps original poster.
People only want their technology to do three things
The talk is about new rounds of layoffs, not hiring right now.
Video games have also moved away from AAA, the bulk of interesting stuff in indie games, where modding is still normal.
I mean, that's what they always say right? OSS replaced Alsa replaced arts replaced pulseaudio replaced pipewire or did I get that backwards?
The few times I played Mario Kart or Splatoon online recently seemed very fair to me.

I have little interest in "serious" competitive video games. Most of them are not very fun to me. Plus, to put it bluntly, everytime I tried, they were shockful of abusive idiots regardless of the proefficiency level. Still, I don't remember finding the matchmaking particularly painful.
Google is the default search engine for official FF binaries.
Nobody is “permanently remote” — and you should take anyone who says they are with a huge grain of salt. They’re remote until there’s a compelling reason (good or bad, reasonable or unreasonable) for them to not be remote. An exception would be companies that were started as remote-only pre-pandemic (Zapier comes to mind).

I do a lot of interviewing and always say, “We’re remote until we have a problem that would be best solved by not being remote. However, it’s hard to imagine a problem like that. It’s much more likely that a single person can’t handle working remotely effectively. But I don’t talk in absolutes and would never say never, always, or forever when it comes to something this important.”
How many children accidentally kill themselves by playing around with their dad's encryption?
If Linux starts attracting commercial development and we see an influx of new apps, wouldn't you feel safe knowing that the ones you install as flatpaks aren't allowed to capture packets on your system?

Wireshark is a tool more in the realm of development/sysadminry, whereas flatpaks are designed for more traditional apps, like Discord or Firefox.

I wouldn't want my development tools to come from flatpaks even if they had full access to the system, because I wouldn't have control over dependencies. Traditional system package managers are a better fit for that, and on Silverblue you have Toolbox for that.
Many of those features are in other apps. It's surely a difference of degree rather than kind?

(I can't reel off a list as I don't do design day to day any more but I used to and I was a fan of apps that had exactly this approach.
Inflation jumps in early 2023, PCE shows, and stays stubbornly high
The problem is real but this guys response is a bit over the top. In one tweet [1] he claims Google should know which one is the real restaurant. Does he think there is a person at Google reviewing all search results? Does he not understand that it's possible for two restaurants to exist with the same name? Does he not get that there are billions of searches with billions of search permutations done every minute.

1 - And why the actual FUCK is @GoogleAds accepting these scam artists' ads for a business that they already have a knowledge box for?! Google KNOWS what the real KIIN restaurant is, and yet they are accepting payment to put a fake KIIN listing two slots ABOVE the real one.
Family member works for USAA and really likes it there. I can attest they truly do care for their employees and customers.
I always assumed YouTube’s technical foundations were significantly subsidized by the mothership, but I have no data to base that on other than looking at the $29bn/year revenue figure and wondering whether that amount of money would be enough to provision the amount of compute, storage and bandwidth that YouTube needs, plus all other expenses (including revenue sharing with uploaders). Yes, $29bn is a lot of money, but there is a lot of YouTube.
I have one more theory which is that quality has actually improved and therefore is not much of a differentiator. Everyone can get close to (but not really reach) a Stripe level of quality with their apps due to the amazing frontend libraries that are available.

The magic saas of today is architecturally harder, like Webflow or Figma, and takes way more engineering. But this is the minority and there are still so many business applications that have not transitioned to the saas model in certain industries.
> In a reclaimed farm I volunteered at, the heavy machinery compacted the soil so thoroughly that "regular" plants couldn't grow there until after years of dedicated soil-rejuvenation projects

The effect you may be referring to here is the "plough pan," and it's not just a result of heavy machinery, but also specifically of plough design which features a mouldboard, which drags along the ground creating a layer of heavily compacted soil. Heavy machinery can cause this, too, but ploughing is much more effective at ruining land!

This is being somewhat mitigated recently by the increasing use of chisel ploughs, fortunately!
Here's what I think can be more important than co-op (although I think co-ops seem like a good idea and I'd like to see more):

(a) Open governance model: the companies decisions has input from employees and users, even the general public (with care taken not to suffer attacks e.g. sybil attacks from false users)

(b) Ethical goal model: have a non-modifiable set of goals and ethical standards (improve the lives of everyone). Not maximizing revenue, but genuinely improving wellbeing of everyone. (this should have the benefit of attracting ESG investors)

(c) Cross-industry cooperation: open sourcing as much as feasible, and asking users and other collaborators for donations to maintain the project. Likewise, contribute financially to projects that are useful for the company. Basically, establish cooperation networks among open source, open governance and ethical companies.
This life advice is almost as poorly given as my dads
My prediction: it will never scale properly.
Love it, results are legit.

> How should we deal with the inevitable threat of death?

Friend, death is an inevitable part of life that we must accept. We should
strive to live our lives in a way that honors the gift of life and prepares us
for death. As Seneca wrote, “We must get rid of this craving for life, and learn
that it makes no matter when your suffering comes, because at some time you are
bound to suffer” (1). We should focus on living a noble life, not just living a
long one (2). We should strive to practice kindness, seek out joy, and live
without fear (3). We should also practice empathy and understanding towards
those around us, so that we build relationships and make a positive impact on
the world (4). And finally, we should strive to live a life free from deceit and
harm towards others (5). In this way, we can approach death with peace and
acceptance.

Takes me right back to studying philosophy in college.
In the same way you reconcile "Don't Be Evil" with Google.

In the same way you reconcile Mozilla's privacy concerns with the fact that every Firefox install gets tagged with a unique digital fingerprint and keeps a persistent websocket connection open in the background.
https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis

Stretching the GitHub rules a bit...
heh. yeah, I didn't realize it because sometimes I'd still get responses from one or two people who could still see my posts. Definitely slowed me down after a few years of shouting into the void. Paul Graham did me a favor, really.

[edit] sorry, slightly dyslexic.
so what got you was the question? Insulting Paul Graham.
Ask HN: How do I buy AI?
I am bullish on the future of AI and want to buy stock of companies which expect to benefit from its growth in the coming years.

Who should I buy, and why?
BASF to cut 2,600 jobs as energy crisis hits German industry
> Two people could go somewhere they wouldn’t be heard and have a private conversation

This is still the case. That's not a good example of privacy being eroded.
Now I want to use a language model as a therapist.
Why not just break the ships up in Western countries then? For Western countries to impose their safety and environmental regulations on other countries is denying them their sovereignty. The whole system of growth of nations and their economies is built on the fact that developing countries don't have to play by the same rules until they want to, or they have something to lose (in a reciprocal fashion, like with IP rights). In a trade regime, they're supposed to be punished when they engage in mercantilism, not self-sacrifice.
> Today most people do not realize that the first page on google.com is mostly ads.

Ugh this. Trying to search for almost any generic phrase or term just floods the results with links to shops and "TOP 10 BEST thingYouSearched"

Google Search feels almost useless now for anything other than shortcuts [in]to websites you already know about.
Ah the ~weekly don’t trust google reminder.

Hopefully the hn Helpdesk can assist
Same on desktop web in Chrome
Appreciate these insights. I'm just getting into setting this up for my company.
Oh, but that wouldn't be just a "donation" then..
Are you suggesting fighting fraud with fraud?
Yes, you were complaining that mathematicians weren't providing you with practical examples. I explained why that complaint is stupid. Does that clear it up for you?
I came here to leave this exact comment. A possible counter argument might be that people think computers are much more infallible than people (even if that's not objective reality).
Show HN: Get the gist of anyone's Twitter feed
Hey,

I want to show you my demo AI-powered app that helps summarise someone's recent tweets to help you decide whether to follow them. It'll give you an idea of the tone and languages they use too,

If you don't want to spend time scrolling through Tweets, let AI tell you what someone's been Tweeting about recently!

Built with Haystack: https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack

It uses text-davinci-003 from OpenAI (for now) with a custom Haystack PromptTemplate.

You can check out the source code here too: https://github.com/TuanaCelik/should-i-follow