skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started doing this yesterday, and with chatgpt 4’s help it hasn’t been as bad as I feared - I’ve been able to dump Ansible playbooks into it and ask for Debian package names/alternatives - obviously it depends on what you have, and my needs are definitely not nearly as demanding as they will be for a lot of companies, but I have around 100 servers that I will be switching over, and what I feared would be a mammoth task is now looking like something I can knock out in a couple weeks
A friend of a co-worker works for a contracting agency with services including incident response for data ransoms. He says their go-to tactic is to haggle with the ransomers to bring the ransom down to some fraction of what the customer paid them and then implying to the customer that they cracked the key.
meanwhile Debian users are continuing on with their blissful utopian lives.

stay away from rhel ecosystem for your mental health =)
I've found that when websites start their decline what happens is that the barrier to getting good results from them goes up. It can still happen! It just takes more and more work, like a computer that is a bit underpowered and a bit overly bloated.

I have my well curated youtube subscriptions.. but there is less content every day. Twitch died for me a while ago. Reddit was pretty fine for at least consuming stuff until this latest debacle (it stopped being a good place for discussion long ago).

Lemmy seems promising. I have yet to have luck with mastodon. As the older apps die off slowly, new ones will appear.
Not all research is fund through grants. Additionally, not all grants are optimising for real world impact.
Not saying that this is bad.
I just wonder if those post docs were put in a business context with the same runway of money, but a more strict business outcome as success criteria, would focus their work on the same things in the academia.

I'm also realising, as I'm writing that this is a very well know objection to industry vs academia, and possibly my knowledge is limited enough that I'm most likely wrong :)
I don't have a Youtube/Google account and I don't use any of their apps, so how are they going to block me, go for my IP address? I don't see a reason to have an account, RSS works just fine for subscriptions.
>If you buy with an agent you put yourself at a disadvantage because the selling agent will need to split the commission

I can’t speak to California law, but this isn’t explicitly true in either market where I work. Non-agency is a thing in some places, and depending on the terms of the listing contract the listing agent might pocket both sides regardless if there isn’t a buyer’s agent.

I’d also argue that there are a lot of properties where a buyer benefits from expertise on the part of an agent - either negotiating strategies or local market concerns. In my market for example understanding environmental and construction issues and value add that a buyer won’t know without doing meaningful research on their own.
A couple decades ago the employee at my local headshop raised the pipe I was looking at to shoulder level, and dropped it onto the wood floor. When it emerged entirely unscathed it felt like a magic trick and he said "it's pyrex" and ever since then I truly believe the material is magic.

That pipe lasted 20+ years until I lost it, meanwhile I broke at least 10 pipes of thicker normal glass. I dropped it in the sink and on the floor countless numbers of times when I braced myself for the sad cleanup, but it always survived.
This is very bad: If you have ADHD ad-blockers are essential to use platforms like YouTube as they let you block comment sections and suggested content, which are highly distracting.
That's why we have this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Ransomware groups play a game of attacking the most valuable targets they can, without attracting so much attention that three letter friends start having meetings about them.

Crypto is a necessary component. And then many ransomware implants will also refuse to run on systems with RUS locale, for instance. The understanding seems to be that groups can avoid attention of local law enforcement as long as they do not make any waves locally.
they themselves never created an account in red hat site, that would require then to accept either the ToS or the EULA..

They spined up an VM in some service that started an red hat image with the required license already in place for that image..

it is the vm provider that is bound by the EULA, not RockyLinux..

They are bound by the ToS for the VM provider they are using, that does not prevent them to get the sources from Red Hat..
/lit/ is the only place I can still find a book discussion that's more than surface read. But it's hard to recommend for "normal" people because, you know, chan culture.
Or don't ban the accounts, but secretly build a detector of posts which receive bought upvotes.

Then, don't show such posts on the frontpage.
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I think the blunt answer is that it's irresponsible to outsource your social life to for-profit companies.

It's easy, and it's addictive, and it's not all bad. But it's irresponsible.

They will change your social activities in ways that you may or may not be ok with. They will treat you like a good to be sold in the most efficient way possible.

Basically - These companies treat the social lives of people as though they are cattle, herded around so they see the right ads and sold off or butchered when it's profitable. They care about the cattle only in the sense that they are a means to an end, and that end is profit.

There's a place for that kind of efficiency. Human relationships are not that place.
> Can't wait to see some competition eating them.

We let them get too big. Nowadays they just buy the competition in the cradle, even if just to drive nascent products into the ground.
Now I’m curious about the wet-strength resins in paper towels. Are they safe?
I felt the same way when I took a tour of Allerton House [0]. From the outside, it's quite imposing, yet the interior didn't seem spacious at all.

[0] https://allerton.illinois.edu/
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Specifically one use case always bothers me. I don’t understand why someone who seems like a low performer who is clearly doing his best is a big deal. You’re all part of a corporation which prioritises profit. Loyalty and many other factors are far more important to maintain than simply a performance metric. Also how do you know it’s not just others forcing him to have the hardest issues to resolve issues or that his performance is not being hampered by problems elsewhere in the chain?

If I were ever to manage again performance metrics would be the least of my concerns when trying to deliver a product. A focus on removing a candidate I think is just a failure of a system. Either in the hiring or in the fixing. I disagree with your attitude but I admit you are more experienced in the matter and I may missing things.
A much more accurate description of what's actually happened is that all the profits of the news media industry were captured by an oligarchy that was able to successfully (and illegally) take over and dominate the market for digital advertising.

There's quite a bit of money in online media and quite a bit of demand for it, including the type of reported media described here. Not all of it, and not every model works in the internet era, but enough to matter and make the story look very different than it does today absent actual illegal conduct.

Due to anti-competitive behavior, various forms of advertising fraud, and obvious violations of various antitrust laws, basically all the money was siphoned off to make people at Google and Facebook rich.

Worth noting that the point of view I'm outlining here is not some old man screaming conspiracy theories, it's the official point of view of the United State Department of Justice:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

Decent explainer:

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/google-is-stealing-from-...

As a general life heuristic, every time you see someone saying "well yeah that's just like the natural way the market works nothingcouldabeendoneaboutit" you should be highly, highly suspicious.
The same reason every other political union that can't physically/militarily defend itself collapses. It would be made to collapse by external forces.
Emoticons predate emoji for more than a decade. I used them in MSN/Gaim. Go figure.
I already have backed off of youtube so much because of how awful they have made the experience, this will be it for me entirely if they implement this.
The greedy bastards won't even pay taxes. If there was a good alternative I would switch in a heartbeat.
I am happy to pay content creators, but paying $12 or $18 per month just so they disable some anti-patterns really rubs me the wrong way.
Alan Arkin has died
AVX and AVX2 are pretty awful because of lane-crossing limitations, but AVX512 is actually really nice and feels like a real programmer designed it rather than an electrical engineer.
>definitely helped that they didn’t have an agent and leveraged the listing agent.

Ooof. Gotta be careful with this one and understand agency law in your respective state. That listing agent may not actually be working for you the buyer, even if they help you fill out the paperwork.
Time to stop using my Google account when using YouTube. Too bad for all those subscriptions YouTube channel owners lose.
Yeah, unfortunately, it looks like this summer is going to be a bad one for wildfires in Canada. My family lived in British Columbia for a few years, and they had to evacuate their home once due to a wildfire. It was terrifying, and they saw the devastation that fires can cause firsthand. My heart goes out to all those affected by these fires.
> The only realistic way to get long term software support on Android is from Open Source.

Or by laws and regulations.

I hope the EU will do something practical in this area, since it seems to be the only entity capable of pushing some useful changes.

Example: the digital markets act, which will force companies like apple to allow for side loading of apps. No us entity even attempted at anything similar as far as i know.
Yes. You would be hard pressed to find any company in the entire world that could prevent attackers with a mere $1M budget. Banks, power plants, car companys, cybersecurity companys, factorys, you name it, almost certainly less than $1M. In fact, probably under $100K, but $1M is a safe upper bound. At a $10M budget there are zero. In fact, no CISO I have ever heard from has ever said that is even possible for a perfect implementation (i.e. they have free reign to implement everything they want as long as it does not make the company non-functional, but they get to be judge, jury, and executioner in that analysis). So yeah, given “perfectly implemented” security a $70M ransom has a guaranteed 700% ROI, but in practice closer to a over 7000% ROI.
I don't really understand either side of the equation here.

So, on the one hand you have people who use ad blockers. The first retort that comes to mind here is: Well, we'll take our business elsewhere. Which is odd because without ads they aren't paying and them leaving is the goal.

Of course on the other hand ... when I read the title my thoughts weren't that I would be okay because I don't ad block youtube. My thought wasn't that I should buy youtube premium to avoid ads. My thought WAS that if I ever get falsely flagged, then I'll just buy a nebula subscription (or whatever) and never use youtube again.

In fact I went over to nebula to check it out.

Somebody has to pay something for youtube to be viable. But youtube got big via offering a free service and now if feels like they're trying to pull up the ladder behind themselves.
I have YouTube Red so I'm not affected, but I really hate how it's implemented for Google accounts with your own domain. Bringing your own domain and paying Google for the privilege makes you a second-class citizen with Google services. I oppose this because paying Google is not enough, and often makes for a worse customer experience.
They’re still ads which I don’t want to see
Until a competitor devices a revenue stream that is just as profitable as advertising and data capture (obviously it won't be a subscription model) then we're stuck in the perpetual cycle of "enshittification" as companies move to protect their revenue.
I know right. Thats why UK and swiss provide safe heaven for dirty money in order to keep it away from criminals.
Or how about the head of the military

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/americas/mexico-sal...
> Facebook is still the best social network for certain age groups

It's a great place to hang out for 65+ retirees posting crackpot conspiracy theories, that was the main reason I left.

While I'm yelling at clouds, Facebook was better when it was more profile and people focused instead of turning the newsfeed into a twitter copy and optimizing for engagement bait content.
Have you never heard of affirmative action based on gender?
RedHat is unlikely to do that.

After all, why would anyone still use RedHat if their competetive advantage (i.e. open source) is lost?

As a RedHat customer i want to be able to take their packages (which include the open source software and their changes to it) and rebuild them from source with both their and my patches whenever i feel like doing so.
This has definitely spooked us as well. We have numerous images based on our rocky base image, so we're looking at what moving away from all things RHEL, Rocky, etc. as well.
Hm... if it's open, then by definition others can put out versions of the same thing under a changed name trademark or no. All your doing is stopping others using the same name. Is that worth anything if you own the canonical site name?
This is the cost of the infinite growth model. You can't just keep things good because you have to change something and a lot (the majority?) of that change turns out to be for the worse.
More ads, more blockers.

Use of blocker has been on the rise because YT has been failing in modulating amount of ads vs annoyance.

Rooster coming home to roost. And not for users, but for YT. They should tread carefully.
I think this is the architects idea of McMansion hell.

My idea of McMansion hell is how closely they build them together AND the placement of them.

For example, many of the big communities built here in Central Florida have your living room facing the ACs of your neighbors unit, and your living room windows facing into their bed room windows.

If your homes are less than 8ft apart, JUST BUILD TOWN HOMES...
Telescope in Antarctica detects the first galactic neutrinos
The problem is that the company is worth $20 billion only to Adobe.

And that explains why antitrust authorities around the world are interested in this deal: that kind of discrepancy suggests a market distortion in progress.
In the last few years, GitHub reached a point where it seems like it's partly down every week. Even Facebook is down from time to time. WhatsApp too.

One outage in 10 years sounds like a good reason to not move away, if you ask me.
Added to my RSS feed, thanks.
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Wow, so it really is just "suck it up". Do you really not understand how problematic this line of thought is for those who are being discriminated against? Or do you just think that the only racism in this world is affirmative action, and minorities aren't being discriminated against?
I'll agree with this. I'll generally downvote if I disagree, and hope someone with a better argument will say what I don't have time/verbage for.
> can't say I've ever run into a real estate agent that seemed like a "high pressure" salesman

High-pressure job, not high-pressure sales. Real estate sales is not a business that's kind to underperformers (in the long run).
You might be joking but it is already offered by YC.

YC-funded companies get special hiring threads which appear on front page of HN.

In terms of backlinks and traffic to website, those should function similarly to buying upvotes.
This doesn't really affect me since I subscribe to premium, but something that a lot of ad-based services don't seem to grasp is why people block ads.

It's because they've become increasingly obnoxious. Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames. No, adblockers became popular because ads kept getting more loud (both visually and audibly), in your face, and resource hungry (remember those flash ads that'd keep your CPU pegged?). The web became unusable if you didn't have a blocker installed.

Web advertisers seem like a classic case of taking miles when given an inch.
Maybe tech was just a fad.
"Approximately the same lag as you used to get with CentOS" would seem pretty fair to me - I'm aware people grumbled about it and understandably so, but it was still a relatively stable and relatively co-operative situation.

I feel like returning to that apparent Schelling Point could quite easily be an improvement over the Red Queen's Race that I worry is developing here.
> but upvoting and downvoting being equivalent to "I agree" and "I disagree" leads to users gaming the system to hide things they disagree with.

I've elsewhere said that useful/not useful and agree/disagree should be two different buttons, similar to how LessWrong does it. However, it is a community with even higher SNR and a very different look and feel compared to HN, so I don't know if the same thing would work here.
Good times for NixOS
How a 20 ton steel piece of Titanic was raised from the sea floor (2022) [video]
"The only reason US hasn't ended this earlier is because it's in their interest to drag this out and cause not only a military default for Russia but also end Putins' reign. "

I don;'t think this is a at all the 'only' reason, but it certainly stands to reason, and it is exactly what they should continue to do.

pushing for a ukraine victory while putin is still in place might well trigger a 'cornered rat' response. Exhaust them, to the point that they are unable to fight on, and the regime will perhaps collapse on it's own.
I think it's worth noting that the seasoning, while still a plastic and an oxidized oil and not necessarily good for you (probably bad or neutral), is not necessarily the same levels of bad for you that PFAS like teflon are when ingested. PFAS are called "forever chemicals" because they've been observed in our blood stream and don't naturally break down.
Exactly how I describe it to my wife.
I’m pretty sure my clumsiness just came with my ASD.
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My BJJ coach says "Success is a terrible teacher"
Yes, I understand his stance. I think that stance is, at best, misguided. But given how the worldcoin thing shook out, it seems to me that he doesn't have a great deal of concern over how his actions impact others, and I question his ability to judge who are the "good guys" and "bad guys". I am trying to view him in the most positive possible light here.
I'm convinced that wealth and taste are perfectly orthogonal.
Oh wow, this is so cool. Based on the layout and the sounds, it HAS to be heavily inspired by the Tenori-on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Tenori-on, and I for one am very here for that.
I envy staring into my neighbors AC units from my living room, since McMansions are built 8 ft apart...
FWIW: NWMLS will fine agents if the photos have been “too” doctored… adding some blue sky is generally considered ok, but anything that hides a material defect or camouflages the actual attributes of the house is a no no.
Hah, first twitter, then reddit and now youtube... let big tech kill itself!
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They're completely within their rights to try to enforce their policies. On the other hand there's an approximately 0% chance I'll go back to watching Youtube with ads. People seem to like Youtube Max or whatever they call their subscription fee. On the other hand it's hard to get me to pay for something I already had by taking it away and making me pay to get it back. I bet I'll end up paying them someday, but I think I'll try just not going to Youtube anymore first and see if that sticks.
McMansions don’t appeal badly to everyone: millions of Americans happily live in them.

The more accurate observation isn’t that they’re the product of a Keynesian contest, but they’re the product of distorted real estate and home ownership incentives: homeowners conflate size and apparent luxury with investment safety, and our housing and development policies encourage that conflation.
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Good. It was a dumb and regressive proposal anyway. And no, we shouldn’t be bailing out rich folks either.
Anyone else remember when Colonial Pipeline was attacked? The "ransomware as a service" platform[0] stepped in to say "oops, sorry, never mind" when they realized they'd attracted more attention than they were prepared for[1]:

> We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives.

> Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society.

> From today, we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.

This one isn't causing immediate disruptions to regular people in the US, but it's still geopolitical-level meddling. If you want to run around mugging people, it's best to avoid robbing the police chief's best friend.

[0] https://www.state.gov/darkside-ransomware-as-a-service-raas/

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/10/22428996/colonial-pipelin...
The brief period I spent with a non Moto phone got me missing the gestures so much as well. It's actually kind of insane how useful the flashlight gesture is. I realized that I actually don't really have a concept of not being to see anymore: anytime I entered a room that was too dark for whatever reason, the muscle memory kicked in immediately. Crazy.

On the non Moto phone I tried replicating it with Tasker. It worked... Sometimes. But it was a really cheap random Redmi model so that might have been the issue, more than the app itself.
HN is extremely harsh about synthetic upvoting, to the point where, if you have a social circle that looks at your writing before it goes up, you generally have to warn them not to upvote, lest the ring detector bury the story, and to date this notion of competitors burying stories with false flag ring votes just hasn't been a thing.
TSMC had 70+ billion USD in revenue last year. There’s plenty of data worth 70 million dollars to them
Calling a spade a hammer is not helpful.
They are tapped into SSL certificates, those that are generated in China. Plus wherever the Chinese intelligence managed to install their "plugins".
Surprisingly, it's a frontend for Tumblr, with the "fuseblue.com" theme.
Just find one who has been working through a few downturns. Hot markets spawn real estate agents like locust, but downturns burn out all but the best.
It's possible that his connections and encounters from his work as an agent formed the foundation of his 'book' - and being a real estate agent is like 99% about building that book and 1% about doing things the rest of us might refer to as "work". Many if not most of the successful agents I know are moonlighters for this very reason.

Not ragging on real estate agents, it's not an easy thing to pull off; convincing someone to hand you 3-6% of the biggest financial transaction they've ever made just for you to negotiate for what's probably a grand total of a few hours and do some online shopping. And they do provide value insofar as knowing the landscape can really help a client avoid getting bent over a barrel.

Source: did it myself (poorly, which is why I'm in tech).