skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a corporate lawyer, I knew IP litigators who would workshop documents with clients in a transitory medium so there would be nothing to preserve. It was not seen as being inappropriate, just savvy.
The point the parent seems to make is that Google makes communication a hassle within the company with this policy. It would seem that a lot of "this is how you do that thing" information would be lost etc.

It seems to be nearly at the point of "To avoid being held responsible for what we do, we make it a point to not actually know what we're doing"...
I'm curious if you need test subjects, or do lab demos.
Really want to know about the supply chain of Qualia (from Neurohacker Collective). How would I go about finding this out?
> In all seriousness, I feel like we need some different language or a color-coded system (ugh, kinda hate that after I just typed this) for the severity of information in hacks.

There already is language for this, but what we often have on HN are people posting random and old links to online newpaper articles that don't convey enough information about the vulnerability, its root cause, or its effect. In this case, there isn't a vulnerability score, because there isn't a disclosed vulnerability or exploit. However, there may be some risk that people outside Atlassian are unaware.

CVSS scoring is used in many places. There are calculators that score a vulnerability in the context of a base score, temporal score, or environmental score. [1] Here is NIST's NVD page. [2] At the bottom are some of the most recently scored vulnerabilities.

If we search for Atlassian tagged vulnerabilities at the NVD site[3], we see that the most recent vulnerability, CVE-2023-26256[4], actually is ranked high at 7.5 on the v3.1 CVSS scoring. There is an actual description. Plus there are references to advisories/solutions/tools, the CWE, a listing of affected software configurations, and a change history.

[1] https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1

[2] https://nvd.nist.gov/

[3] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...

[4] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26256
Kids strength-to-weight ratio is drastically improved. My youngest fell that far when he was nearly 3, and was merely annoyed about it. An 80kg adult who gets unlucky falling that distance is headed for the hospital.
It's not like it's hard to find out how to make bombs any more. The classic "Anarchist's Cookbook", from the 1960s, is on line as a Google scan. "Prepper" literature is full of that stuff. There are even old WWII training videos on the Internet Archive. ChatGPT isn't contributing to that problem.
https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount

The bot is open source, it crawls the list at https://instances.social and checks on each instance how many users they have and how many toots (statuses) they have.
> a central authority doesn’t control the size of the bitcoin supply

What is the minimum number of natural persons required to fork Bitcoin to a larger supply? I’d wager it’s a number smaller than half of the Congress plus the President.
since when is a movie supposed to be accurate?
There is no standard, should we have a standard? Who should design such a standard? Is a form of EBNF the best for representing computer language grammars for both humans and machines?

Recently I read a paper "A Translational BNF Grammar Notation (TBNF)" By Paul B Mann, Parsetec.

"EBNF is powerful, however, it describes only the recognition phase, which is only 1/3 of the
process of language translation. The second phase is the construction of an abstract-syntax tree
and the third phase is the creation of an instruction code sequence. Some parser generators
automate the construction of an AST, but none, that I know of, automate the output of
instruction codes."

I'm not entirley sold on the idea but it is interesting to think of what could be different in this space.
> We don’t need an international accord, we need the top 10 countries to stop pillaging the international waters for their consumption.

What do you think an international accord is?
On second thought, I don't like blogging
I'm not sure I understand your thinking, here. You will set a higher price than others and win bids relative to them, somehow?

In markets, generally, providers are not chosen randomly or round-robin; they are chosen based on the balance of cost and what is offered.
And yet you are writing it on an american website and no one is censoring you.
In China you have to be very careful of what you say and write, or you may just disappear from society, they don't need to kill anyone anymore, they even did it to former president, live. They remove you and that's it.
Edison used a clever adoption hack which is still worth learning from today.

The gas companies of course fought the adoption of electricity. They would send people to electricity demonstrations. These people would have metal bars sewn into their sleeves and they would lean them against the bus are causing frightening sparks, fires, etc.

In response, Edison suggested putting the wires in “conduits” — the gas lines already in the house! This both addressed the fear and kicked gas out.

(This anecdote is in Utterbach’s “Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation”)
The people who got on Google identified a company with a profitable idea and provided it funds to realize that idea.

I don’t love cryptocurrency stuff, I mean it is a bit environmentally wasteful and stupid, but lots of things are wasteful and stupid so it doesn’t give me some visceral negative reaction. I think the folks who really hate it here are just annoyed that there’s all this vaguely tech-flavored scammy behavior going on that, shows up on their favorite news sites (because it is vaguely techy), maybe gets promoted to them, etc etc.
> Bitcoin is not deflationary. It just has a fixed supply.

Theoretically, yes, albeit with spherical cows in a vacuum models of how economies actually function.

Practically, keys get lost, so it's deflationary even if it totally replaced existing currency and everything else became steady state.

> They should be rewarded for the risk they're taking on, having invested significant amount of their net worth in the face of harsh criticism such as yours.

If "harsh criticism" was sufficient reason to deserve money, I'd still use my Twitter account to have angry conversations about things that don't matter.
Completely agree. There was even historical evidence that narrative was wrong and that an authoritarian government could co-exist with an industrial economy - pre-WWII Germany and Japan. Development, industrialization, and capitalism don’t automatically bring democracy, freedoms, and political liberalization. That was all just a BS fiction foisted on the US public and policy class by voracious banks, corps, and their media.

That was a decision that never should have been taken, due to the terrible risk of how things would turn out if it failed, as it did. This was possibly the most disastrous strategic blunder in America’s history. Like yanking defeat from the jaws of victory in the Cold War.
Realistically speaking, Nix will never become widespread. Instead, I foresee immutable OSes like Steam OS, Chrome OS and Fedora Silverblue combined with something like flatpak for installing applications.

The evolutionary strategy of reproducible snapshots of state has historically been far more successful than "pure" functional approaches; see Docker for example, or reproduction of DNA based lifeforms.
very funny, not decentralized.... yet!
After about 6 months hosting my own little private Mastodon instance, I can say the following things:

(1) Whoever cares about that but the atmosphere is nice, cozy, exciting and creative. Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world. This apparently comes from the kinds of people I could find and connect with.

(2) Hosting is relatively easy. I think all kinds of organizations (e.g. sports clubs, media companies, private companies, schools, political parties, gov't agencies, etc.) should give it a shot hosting their own instances to take control of their social media identity.
They don't necessarily need to open registrations for everyone and start moderating "the masses". I only let few hand-picked people on my instance that I happen to know IRL and still have a happy life.

(3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy. Surely, their audience was a good fit but I think it's a matter of critical mass when more less-nerdy people would join the Fediverse.

In summary, I deleted my Twitter account ~2 months ago and don't regret it. Some things are a bit annoying (mostly bugs, finding and connecting with other people, not much interaction with my posts [maybe it's because my posts are sh*t]) but all in all it's a great resource for inspiration and digital interaction with other people.
> How would that even work?

Hypothetically speaking, it could require at least retaining and backing up the text of every chat and e-mail produced.

For a FANG company, a year of chats or emails should trivially fit on a consumer-grade hard-drive. This isn't a technically difficult problem.

No, that doesn't capture every bit of communication in a company, but it's a very low bar that the government ought to require.

It also raises the difficulty bar for hiding bad behaviour. If keeping bad behaviour off the record requires in-person meetings, and synchronous phone calls, it makes the people engaging in it dramatically less efficient.
Just got a 980 pro 2TB, it came with the latest firmware.
Yellen really fumbled the answer and she should have had some slick thing prepared but at the end of the day it isn’t the answer that was the problem. It was that the apparently no one thought through the second order consequences of the SVB depositor bailout. This even though the explicit legal requirement was that the government actors determine it was necessary to prevent systemic risks to the financial system.
How would you wrap Singapore into your comment? I was recently there and took note of what looked like significant Chinese cultural influence almost everywhere.
this is still the ssr-first-but-will-do-it-all, I read the docs along with svletekit(which by the way, is the same tone, saying sveltekit does both SSR and CSR).

it is NOT, I do not need wade through all those unnecessary SSR code and doc and steps and some second-class-citizen configurations to figure out how to get a CSR out of it. CSR users are not that dumb.

It seems to me Vercel is the only one pushing for SSR-for-everything, I switched from svelte to React for exactly that reason, now React/Next.js is selling the same thing, I'm back to Vue. Please do not ever buy-or-influence Vuejs for SSR-first-and-does-everything-you-need, at least leave one untouched for us who cares nothing about SEOs.
Two members of my family have now called me on the phone a few times to ask me to ask GPT something, after I convinced them of its value and after I had them make their own account. They are absolutely smart enough to ask it but are very much non-tech people.

There is definitely a tendency of some people to avoid tech at all costs if they can and trust in "tech people." Fine with me, I ask them about my people questions often enough.
But how? Literally, everyone in the field knows her.

If you’re talking about the general public, then she is under appreciated but so is pretty much every other physicist too.
I don't know if we can extrapolate from Ukraine what will happen with Taiwan. China isn't Russia, and the US have much more at stake too.
This is so meta. You can't hate a conman for conning you.
The plaintiff is arguing that GOOG is guilty of intentional spoliation of evidence, and that execs deliberately moving conversations to ephemeral channels demonstrates mens rea; if the judge agrees, they can instruct the jury (or trier of fact) that any missing evidence should be construed through the lens of “adverse inference” — in other words, assume that the missing evidence is, in fact, prejudicial to the defense’s case. This is … not something you want in a litigation, needless to say.

So, yeah, you can delete evidence that you know could be relevant to any future litigation, it’s just that if a judge finds out about it you’re going to get hit hard over it.
No; these are central bank currency swaps designed to improve dollar liquidity overseas. This has essentially nothing to do with QE or anything like that.
Perhaps.

Anecdotally, I was 5 times as active on twitter as I am on Mastodon.

Now I am not on twitter at all.

So I'm more active on Mastodon than on twitter right now, but not super active.

If you think that's a victory for twitter, fair enough. It got so much critical mass that it's hard to replicate off of Twitter. But as weeks keep passing by without me going back to twitter, I think that's a win for Mastodon.
Where are you getting the non-unique visits data?
Makes me very curious what the judge had to say about that opinion because this all makes sense, and I can't imagine that "a billion dollars in fines" was not fought over in court regardless of what they thought the odds of winning were (almost a no-brainer to blow ¼ million on lawyers for a chance of reducing or striking a 1000 million fine).
You don't understand what you are talking about, yet you keep making more comments.

Chats in their messenger program are written records that need to be retained. Even in their magic "off the record mode", Google retained those messages for 24h.
> text-based system which defaults to not recording

I believe the default is to record, though, no? Presumably disabling recording in that case could be seen as an attempt to circumvent a legal retention hold.
I wonder how Deutsche is now feeling.

For all its past mishaps I never would have imagined CS actually going down, or being allowed to go down in such a manner. The same discourse was being applied to Deutsche as recently as last year, if I'm not mistaken, hence my curiosity.
His whole schtick is that he engages with ideas, even terrible ones, on their own turf rather than just dismissing them. He was never "for" neoreaction, he started out against it and wrote lengthy essays from that perspective (it's kind of disingenuous to mention the anti-neoreactionary faq without the "anti" part, by the way), and concluded to his own satisfaction that a lot of it was wrong or dumb.

The problem is, he seems to believe that if he can't show something to be false then it must be true. That's what those emails are saying, I think: he didn't go in believing the race/iq stuff, but once he researched it and failed to prove it wrong, he had no choice but to accept it. He's too smart/stubborn to consider the obvious third possibility, that he can fail to disprove something despite it being wrong.
To nitpick, Bitcoin doesn’t currently have a fixed supply. It has a supply cap that takes effect sometime in 2140. Bitcoin currently inflates by 6.25 BTC every
~10 minutes.

For the record, I agree that early Bitcoiners took an incredible risk on a highly volatile asset and they should be rewarded for such.

As I see it, this latest banking crisis is showing the world that there is more than one type of risk. Bitcoin has market risk but not counter-party risk.

As for bank deposits, while they have minimal market risk, they have significant counter-party risk.

The world is waking up to the fact that bank deposits are an unsecured loan to a risky counter-party that uses those deposits for highly leveraged speculative bets.
I was hoping this would be an article about keyboards.

(Worked briefly on brain-computer interfaces at MIT in the early 80s)
Ah okay. I'm currently working on a few projects using the WebCodecs API. What's your use case for headless rendering? Mostly curious
I had a first year’s physics class where we convinced our professor to walk through how to create a nuclear bomb of the two main types.

He was a young physicist at the Manhattan Project and told us stories of that as well… like the worry of igniting the oxygen of the planet’s atmosphere, how he didn’t worry being at blast site but grew concerned the farther he got (but inside dangerous radius), how the guards lost their shit and dropped their guns and ran when it went off (and the physicists cheer and looked at the panels instead of the slit window).

Good times.
We’d effectively be replacing a shit system with an even worse one.

We really need to crack down on amassing wealth.
Show HN: Quiz Whiz a site that generates quizzes using GPT
Yeah, I think you have it.

Folks, especially humans for some reason, want to pin things on single individuals rather than groups. Even though our society and it's grand accomplishments are things that typically only groups can accomplish.

Even a person building "alone" is building something on the backs of those who came before them.

But that desire to name a single person as the "creator" leads to a lot of strife.
It'd be like a microburst. Not so much the way the airmass moving fast is somehow different than the plane moving fast in a still airmass… more that it's a sudden change IN the state of the plane in the airmass. If the air suddenly stopped moving past the plane, that doesn't mean the plane suddenly starts moving past the airmass (ignoring its own inertia relative to its position in the world) to make the same airspeed.

Instead, if the airmass suddenly changes velocity, the plane stays in position, stalls, and drops like a rock. It's the rate of change that'd get ya: if it changed velocity very very slowly, you'd end up just zipping forward and not stalling at all. But the airmass suddenly reversing, that'd stall you immediately.
Certain aspects of modernity do seem to support that conclusion but it also seems to have very far reaching implications.
I once replaced a 10 machine Hadoop cluster job with a python script and parallel on my laptop because I didn't want to wait for hours for it to finish.

The i7 on my laptop with quite a few CPUS/threads and a few optimisations got the job finished in 10 minutes.

(I later put the Hadoop use on my resume, not the GNU parallel. That's the joke of modern job hunting. There is no interested in what you did, just buzzwords and leetcode. Luckily there are still a few places that value real work or I'd be too old to get a job. :) )
I’m not sure about what precisely you’re referring to. There is an entire school of mathematics that dismisses the law of excluded of middle and I’m not sure why that would not be “real work”.
> The Laboratory hired three physicists—Dave Dobson, David Pipkorn, and Rob Selden— who recently received their Ph.Ds in physics but had little to no experience with nuclear physics.

They went out of their way not to hire people with knowledge of nuclear physics.
Why did anyone make an album after the Beatles Rubber Soul ?
In the West, if there is a risk of collapse, it will be illegal to take your money out.
Unfortunately, I hate to pull the adage "it takes one to know one", but in this case I think it's apropos. I think people with sociopathic tendencies have a higher sensitivity for being able to detect textbook narcissism, reality distortion field, and the overall faint wafting of bullshit that conmen tend to exude.

For the record I've always thought that Richard Feynman, while being an exceptional physicist, in his autobiographies it always feels like he is crafting narrative tales of how he wished he was.
Upon further reading I found that the Viability Event (which is also a Write-down Event) is probably the applicable one in this case:

> (b) customary measures to improve CSG’s capital adequacy being at the time inadequate or unfeasible, CSG has received an irrevocable commitment of extraordinary support from the Public Sector (beyond customary transactions and arrangements in the ordinary course) that has, or imminently will have, the effect of improving CSG’s capital adequacy and without which, in the determination of the Regulator, CSG would have become insolvent, bankrupt, unable to pay a material part of its debts as they fall due or unable to carry on its business.

Clearly this deal required non-customary, extraordinary support from the Public Sector, so if the regulator determines that without such a transaction CSG would have liquidity issues, then this event would occur.

However I think my point stands that the terms of these CS AT1 notes should be understood as materially different from similar securities. For example, this note from ING (https://www.ing.com/MediaEditPage/XS2122174415-ING-Groep-N.V...) has a single Trigger Event that will cause mandatory conversion into ordinary shares, and a more general provision for Statutory Loss Absorption which may be a conversion or a write-down. The terms of CS AT1 notes do not seem to provide for any automatic or discretionary conversion, only automatic write-down.

I completely agree that in situations like this, the regulators have a lot of discretion on these bail-in securities, but I consider this "automatic permanent write-down" feature to be of a materially higher risk than "automatic mandatory conversion" variant because it could be a difference between getting back something (or everything) vs nothing. What the regulators do are, by definition, not "automatic", and an automatic write-down should be a much lower hurdle than an explicit regulatory action.
I have used chat GPT to read articles and summarize them for me just to see how well it understood the information it was "reading". It takes me forever to read dry articles to do research on. The AI helps me get a good grasp on an article but its not preventing me from having to go back and find important details to cite. I have also experimented with asking it to write me responses. They're extremely well written, but it still doesn't save me time since I still have to edit, grammar and bump it against the original articles. At first it felt like cheating, but after playing with it for a few days it's helping me get better at formatting my own responses. Instead of searching "how to write a 5 paragraph essay" I can ask chat GPT to do it so I can see how my should look. I'm sure people are asking it to do this and that, then copy and pasting the responses without proofreading or rewriting. But for me, its been a learning tool. It's like having my own tutor for free
> there is a gut microbiome component to couples living longer than singles.

Fascinating hypothesis. I wouldn't be surprised that shared diet, living space and activity leads to a converging of gut bacteria. But how would this lead to health and happiness?
Because type before name is simply worse in every metrics, hard to parse, hard to omit when infer (change to auto, var, etc), hard to grep for definition (hence the hack <type>\n<name>).

Why do you care about the return type before the name?
Llvm has a lot of tutorial style docs. I’d recommend starting with the official llvm website
> isn't that true to people who held Google stock very early on? what was their value?

In theory, early investors allow Google to actually have the cash needed to make the products and services that brought in the real revenue.

An ex of mine would totally agree with you though.
Food for thought for you: Mastodon doesn't have to care about growth rate. It's really weird to compare its growth rate to Twitter since it doesn't care at all about pushing interaction KPIs up to sell ads and emotions.

What I can see, it grew a lot in the last 6 months and if a user's timeline is all empty then it's because the user missed to actively grow their network which is a bit annoying (search and hand-pick) but all in all is absolutely worth the time.
> Zero toxicity

ymmv. The mastodon.lol (which was a safe space instance) drama over Hogwarts Legacy [0] was a very good reminder that the platform doesn’t matter, its the people.

0, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34748195
Mastodon isn't designed to incentivize the addiction loops that drive traffic on Twitter and other social media sites. Quality over quantity isn't a bad thing.