skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to continue making kerosene lamps on the eve of electricity - DHH
Those text messages were enlightening. I wonder how many people will see this and take it into consideration next time they view a segment on fox.
I think the experimentation is what we've lost and miss but can't explain.

Imagine an alternate world where people tinkered in HyperCard and eventually the code evolved to be network-aware, and we all wrote in HyperTalk and not HTML. And then that became the web. I think Atkinson even acknowledges that this was a huge missed opportunity.
It's a big deal for me. There's very little on Netflix streaming that interests me, but I've got a DVD queue of over 400 great films.
Thank you so much.

It looks like I may have to shut down my business before I even get started.

Good luck with your situation!
https://archive.is/lBFPZ
> I think I am getting an aneurysm.

Changes in temperature affect the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25350929/
> The illegality is Apple assigning sales where the goods were not in Cupertino at the time of the transaction to Cupertino for sales tax purposes, to take maximize advantage of sales tax kickbacks offered by Cupertino, despite state law which says the location for sales tax is the location where the goods
physically were at the time of the transaction.

This directly contradicts what the article states.
> with rhetoric leading to an actual attempted coup

In my understanding, if this is a grave concern, then it's the federal prosecutor that should press charges. I assume DVS were simply suing as a business for damages.

Edit: wording to clarify the point
And you have staffing contracts negotiated by relatively powerful unions that require some of these things.
The people who are qualified to have technical opinions on these machines are still qualified to have technical opinions on these machines. Academics and other security researchers are still pursuing these issues. All this will do is make it less likely random internet opinion-havers will be amplified by grifters, which is an outcome I have no problem with.
I also use NoScript. The cookie banner of ghacks didn't show either because I uBlocked it time ago or because it was displayed by a script that didn't run.
It depends. Both https://google.com and, say, https://www.medusa.priv.at/ are technically web sites, but the complexity of the tech that makes them work is pretty different.
Then read also this:
https://archive.ph/KueXO

PArt of Coinbase earn is defi yield(aka lending), part of it is crypto staking.

I also suggest you to read howey yest and make your own conclusions.
Fair enough. If you made a million dollars and bought land with it, sure you can tax it. But something as basic as employee salaries that are a cost to any business should definitely be deductible from the profits as cost of running the business. Especially when the company is supposed to pay payroll taxes and the employees themselves pay income tax on their salaries.
What happens when people stop caring about being arrested? Prison is just a room after all.
This is what autonomy and consent is all about.
I'm surprised Dominion settled. It had seemed as though Dominion wanted a public apology or a public victory to support their reputation.
For WiFi you'd buy an off-the-shelf AP, trying to use a desktop computer as an access point is usually a bad idea
That would be nice, sure, but not a big deal I think either.
The upstream Citizenlab article [0] has a screenshot of what these lockdown mode notifications looked like:

> Lockdown Mode Blocked: redacted@gmail.com attempted to access a Home.

[0] (ctrl+f for "Lockdown Mode Highlights Attack") https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/nso-groups-pegasus-spyware-ret...
Source? Timestamp?
Gee, I’m so glad that I “opted in” to have my private medical data used for corporate research!

How did I “opt in”? My healthcare provider migrated to Epic for all medical records. I had the “choice” of… not receiving healthcare, I guess? But even then, all my past records were imported to Epic anyway.

And before you “market choice” folks start squawking: your provider changing their records system is not a “qualifying event,” so you don’t get to shop for another provider until the next enrollment period. Also, ALL of the providers available to me use Epic.
I wonder how much tinkering you need to make an enterprise version that removes all the time sink and telemetry.

not everyone that deals with sensible data has IT education beyond windows and office, and you can't demand every bank clerk and hospital receptionist in the world use arch Linux for safety reasons.

On the other hand, these click bait articles in the main UI are timesinks that could reduce productivity in a company
Agreed. Back with netflix and redbox I would rent movies and watch them to the end because it is what i had. Now, I see the first 15 minutes of 100 movies a year and might complete 10.
https://www.claconnect.com/en/resources/articles/2023/a-cost...

> The amortization period is five years for domestic expenses and 15 years for foreign expenses. Additionally, for the first year of the amortization period, the expenses are “placed in service” at the midpoint of the tax year. Thus, the deduction in year one is only half the amount it will be in subsequent years.
Sorry, I couldn’t tell which side of the argument you were on, so I was curious if there were good reasons to defend the proposed change.
Does it? It seems to me like a milestone in the quest to eliminate scarcity (which is why we bother with having an economy in the first place, right?).

We suck at collaborating. If an AI can mediate collaboration across time and space so that its as if every problem has precisely the right expertise at hand for its solving--even though the actual experts are on vacation--that's a win.

If its a win that's incompatible with our habit of letting markets handle everything, then so much the worse for markets.
Personally I really love SQLiteStudio which I use pretty much daily:
https://sqlitestudio.pl/
You should not open a door and see someone pooping
The couple profiled in the article is not beating the "extremely goofy" allegations.

> https://twitter.com/SimoneHCollins/status/164002825079661772...
Update iOS and macOS right now – again
CVE-2023-28205 & CVE-2023-28206:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28205
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28206
While I appreciate it as an irreplaceable tool for countering DDoS, its premise is antithetical to a reliable and open web IMO, and it suffers from the same lack of accessible, customer-facing support as other big tech players. Lazy examples from HN algolia search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32912075
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750801
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22109969
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30764757
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839960
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406277
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212

(Hypocrisy disclaimer: I have sites behind CloudFlare.)
I get so frustrated when I have to do _anything_ with my Microsoft account that never needed it before.

Installing and running docker on windows was a nightmare lol
You might be able to make a drinking game on when it forgets to phrase the response as a question.
not sure how much face recognition was disabled by this but I rolled my eyes all the way up and it did not unlock, kind of strained my eyeballs though.
Netflix to Shutter Legacy DVD-by-Mail Business
When blockbuster was going out of business they offered a free trial of their similar service for video games. I had soft modded my wii to rip play games from a hard drive, so I got about 20 or so games ripped to my hard drive this way. Good times. Till my roommate in college formatted my hard drive and I lost all my games (not just the blockbuster ones). This guy spat on me, and I forgave him for that, but never for this. God damn it Paul :(
> Just surprising that it took them this long—the start of the trial—to settle.

I was a juror on a civil case once. They said many of them go right up until the trial date before settling out of court, as things finally become "real". Both sides want the other to flinch first.
Except they have good reason to apply less skepticism because they know Mr. Gates has a lot more to lose if he's caught making things up or lying or messing with folks on the record.

Whereas random bloggers are fly-by-night operations in comparison.
So I have no idea what the current state of the research on this is, or how depression manifests in contemporary (culturally Westernised) China, but historically there was quite a bit of research indicating it was more somaticised. People suffering from a depression like disorder were more likely to feel physically exhausted and weak than sad or hopeless. Something more like what we'd today refer to as chronic fatigue in the West.

This study (from the 80s) looks like one of the origins of that idea - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00051427

Bear in mind my degree is quite old at this point, but a reference point for me during my undergrad was Malcolm MacLachlan's brilliant book Culture and Health
A Critical Perspective Towards Global Health.

https://brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/MacLachlan-M/Culture-and-hea...

Here's a quote from the book (which I was lucky enough to receive as a PDF preprint in college)

"The experience of depression within an individual can vary over time – commonly referred to as the disease course – and, as already noted, it can vary between individuals of the same culture – commonly referred to as a disease syndrome. Kleinman’s suggestion that depression can also vary across cultures and across different historical epochs is quite consistent with a biologi- cal view of depression. He has also studied a condition known as neurasthenia. This condition, commonly reported in China, is characterised by a lack of energy and physical complaints such as a sore stomach. Klein- man has suggested that, although depression and neurasthenia are different illness experiences, they are both products of the same underlying disease processes – depression. In other words, neurasthenia is the Chinese version of western depression."

It's obscenely expensive, but you may hypothetically be able to find other ways of reading the book online.
This is the biggest jump of whattaboutism I've seen in five years.

Jeez, I if I had one wish from a genie some day, it would be to absolutely get rid of the curse that is whattaboutism.
Can confirm, artifacts are what ruin the picture, once you're at 1080p resolution or higher. I've got a really big screen (100+") and my two seating rows are at only about 5' and 8' distance (measured to roughly where the viewer's head is), and even under those conditions, a high-quality 1080p source looks a ton better on it than a middling-quality 4K source (let alone low-quality 4k), all due to compression artifacts. You'd have to drop the alternative to high-quality 720p resolution before I'd take a middling-quality 4k over it, in how-distracting-is-the-picture-quality terms.
I thought this would have gone away years ago!
This is already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617763
https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic - this has worked well for me. It'll be nice when similar functionality is built in.
I completely disagree with almost all of this assertion, based on my experience.

There is an entire spectrum of political views, a good example would be stories about incarceration and homelessness which result in fairly left swinging opinions and very little blaming of the people involved.
Smolin isn't viewed as a crackpot, but anyone who brings up foundational issues, or who tries to moderate the conclusions drawn from research gets labeled a certain way, especially if the criticism is directed "outside."

Sabine is getting too famous to not ultimately get resentment.

Apparently, something in my comment there really made a lot of people mad (or one person with several accounts), and I'm unsure why. I would love someone to explain to me how they think science should function without skeptics.

Especially in the clickbait era.
I'm pretty sure this is against GDPR, it requires explicit choice from the user

Users should decide themselves what to filter, so the bad actors with aggressive cookie policy gets automatically filtered out over time

I was looking for a recipe last time, I googled what I wanted, clicked the 1st link, bunch of popups for cookie/ad, I immediately hit "previous page" then I checked the next link, I bookmarked the one without fuss
This is exactly the one I was using. Basically you’re piggy-backing on mobile phones and other devices using their free VPN software, and it’s incredibly hard to block for large websites. Combine this with some other clever tricks, and you’re basically able to do huge scrapes for not-that-much money with incredible convenience.
God if this is the future, I dont want it...

Despite so much technology we still have so much precarity and poverty with new massive destabilizations happening every day. What a nightmare
Pour one out for a real one. I haven't rented a disc from Netflix in at least a decade but as someone who joined in 1999 (I got my first DVD player for Christmas in 1998) and used to lovingly curate my queue, I have such fond memories of the service in high school and college.

As a movie lover, Netflix was a great way to get stuff that was either out of print or sometimes prohibitively expensive (certain Criterion discs, box sets of TV shows) that I couldn't find anywhere else. I was/am an avid movie collector, so I often bought when I could, but Netflix was such a great way to rent stuff I didn't know if I wanted to buy or not and an early way to binge-watch TV seasons I even paid for the 4 or 5 discs out at one time option at one point. I probably still have some DVDs from Netflix that I forgot to return (and then reported as "lost") in boxes somewhere.

I still buy a lot of physical media, even though I then almost immediately rip it to my Plex server, because I prefer the bitrate and extra features -- I buy digital movies/TV shows too because iTunes always has sales -- but the era of renting a physical disc ended a long time ago for me.

Still, seeing this makes me a bit sad, just because of the memories I have of a simpler time and because the selection was just so fantastic (still better than what you can get on streaming for some stuff).
Up until 10 years ago, the largest city I had lived in had 50-60k people. It wasn't really worth it to count a metro area: That was the hub for the small towns of the area, and honestly pretty normal where I was in the Midwest. Some had no taxis (and pre-uber) and in others, you couldn't count on a taxi to get you to work on time. Only 1 had busses outside of school busses (but all had school busses).

Now, "big city" is 180-200k. I wouldn't know about where it ranks in the US, as the reason I went to a "big city" was because I moved out of the US.
As it happens, GHacks cookie popup is defeated by NoScript. You might give it a try.
Redbox probably had a specific agreement with the DVD creator to buy in bulk at a discount. You are free as a business to have special terms that restrict your rights when you buy from a vendor
Intrigued by your comment, I've just tried it. Man, it's really working. It's really effective, I'll try to adapt to the colours and see if I keep it!
The Zerodium payout structure has not changed in the 3 years since that article's publication[3].

And that is the way news works. It was news 3 years ago when iOS exploits became cheaper, now it's just how the market is.

> Moreover, the reasons given in [1] don't include "Android being open-source make it easier to audit".

From Wired[4]:

> Shwartz credits Android's increased security partly to its open-source strategy finally paying off. While Apple has kept its operating system so locked down that even benevolent security researchers have difficulty sussing out its bugs—a problem it's tried to solve with a recent expansion and opening up of its bug bounty program—Android's open-source approach has meant more eyes on its code. While that broadness initially led to more bugs, those vulnerabilities have been patched over time, slowly hardening the operating system. "So many vulnerabilities have been patched that the attack surface is decreased dramatically," says Shwartz.

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20201108190905/https://zerodium.....

[4] https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...
> we will ... we will ... we will

Not much more substantiated than what people believe will be the return of Christ, it's all sci-fi

Not much fundamentally changed in the last 100 years, even a nuclear reactor is just a fancy steam engine. We're closer to horse carriages than a solar system wide civilization
People that only read Fox News will never hear about this.
Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
And todays students will shape the future. If something not relevant with student’s now, it will not relevant with student’s future.
Finally that thing will be forgotten.
I live in San Francisco, CA, USA. Ballots here are also serialized and many (most?) people vote by mail which means that serialized ballots are mailed to you specifically at your registered address.

After the vote, you can check the status of the ballot's serial number at the appropriate city/county website. It won't tell you who voted or the votes cast, but that it was received.

So while the website won't link you to your votes, the city/county could absolutely make that connection since they control the serialization and the mailing. One hopes that they don't do this, and I'm sure they're not suppose to, but trust and wishes are the best surety we have for vote by mail ballots... there are ways to defeat the loss of anonymity in this case, but they involve not voting by mail or providing false signals (i.e. swapping ballots with someone else in your district).
For a company that's worth less than $17.5B, a $787.5M settlement means giving away 4.5% of your company's value. Unlike big tech companies or whatnot, Fox Corporation isn't that big. Even after its huge fall, Meta is still 32x larger. Apple is 150x larger, Microsoft 123x larger, Alphabet 77x larger. A $787.5M settlement would only be 0.03% of Apple's value rather than 4.5% so I could see it being a meaningless penalty on Apple, but it's a large enough penalty that Fox is going to think twice before allowing their talent to do similar things in the future. A few more of these and they could be signing away a quarter of their company's value.

> just buy their way out of legal humiliation

Except they basically didn't buy their way out of the humiliation. Most of the damming stuff has already been made public. Most of the embarrassing laundry has been aired. At this point, the only real question is whether Dominion would get the $1.6B they had asked for. Instead, they settled for a guaranteed half.

Plus, Fox is still facing a lawsuit from Smartmatic, another voting system. Smartmatic issued a statement, "Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest." It also likely means Fox losing more money.

> Settlements and plea bargains are a cancer on the judicial process

I definitely understand the sentiment and plea bargains can be really bad pushing low-income people to plead guilty to lesser crimes even if they're innocent and letting rich people off easy when they're definitely guilty. Likewise, a company might reach a settlement with someone they've wronged who doesn't know their rights and who isn't on equal footing with such a giant corporation.

In a civil case between two companies with basically unlimited legal funds, it seems quite reasonable. It's important to note that this case isn't about Fox doing you harm. It's about Fox doing Dominion harm. Between Fox and Dominion, this seems like quite a reasonable outcome. Dominion won big against Fox and it will likely encourage other litigants to continue pursuing Fox.

What is bad about this settlement other than things like you wanting to know potentially more details that might be exposed? If your answer is that Fox has caused more harm than just the harm to Dominion, that's a different trial. I would agree that Fox has created incredible harm to our society. I don't know how we could pursue that in a legal sense which is a shame. Still, this isn't a plea bargain or settlement that seems bad. It seems like a reasonable outcome where the complainant received half of what they were hoping to get without the uncertainty of the trial outcome. Even if Dominion won the case, they might have been awarded less damages than they asked for (or less than the settlement).
My hope is that large players sealing off their content will motivate individuals to protect theirs. It brings awareness that their data is harvested and sold in ways never seen before, and is then used against them. Ideally those who make free software are the first to understand the implications.

Basically what I want is that all models trained on open source data or user created content without proper licensing are also open source and free.
Redbox had a similar setup, but some companies like Disney would not sell them disks in bulk. So instead they bulk purchased Disney movies, which also included a digital code to redeem the movie online. Redbox sold those as well. Disney sued and they went back and forth until Redbox stopped selling codes [0].

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/15/20967268/redbox-disney-m...
I hate to say it but yeah, like smartphones are maybe the only thing I feel I've really experienced in my life that made a big impact. And even those came with way more downsides than I would've hoped.
I agree full stop. Would like to know background of parent poster just to understand his motivation for criticizing.

Was he writing with negative approach just because he can or he just failed to get the meaning between the lines because he is not the target audience?
With a purely client-side solution how do you stop a company using the same identifying token for basic session management and invasive tracking/data gathering?
This is stupid, but if I recall correctly, if you click the close box “x” in the upper left corner of the notification, it will stop asking, but if you say “remind me later” it continues to ask you. It is utterly infuriating that they use this dark pattern.
If the software makes money for the business, it is an asset.
Isn't the simple solution to just not give away all of your revenue before you pay your taxes?

The two constants are death and taxes, if you don't have the revenue to pay them at your current burn rate, you either find a way to burn less or your company just isn't viable.
I had a few binders full of movies on CDs that I had... obtained. When I ripped the movies onto them, the quality seemed acceptable. Damn good actually when you played them back on a CRT TV. Now when I try to watch them, I see how terrible they look. At that time, we didn't have DVD burners (or they were super expensive), so I would have to transcode the DVD into that weird DivX codec so it would fit on the 700MB CD.

I was going to go through the CDs one day and copy the movies back onto a hard drive, but the quality was so bad of the rips. I had also found that despite being stored in a binder in a closet, many of the discs had also deteriorated to where I couldn't copy the file back off of it.