skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the secondary risk factor is that access to the legal system is expensive and time-consuming, especially for an individual.

A counterclaim process, even if as streamlined and fully supported as possible, is still a legal operation which involves time and money that many people are not going to have, especially for small-scale and legitimate fair-use scenarios. If you copyright claim some video from Sony or IBM, they've got a legal team on retainer to get it back up. A top-tier "content creator" who's earned six or seven figures and his career depends on the video staying up might hire a lawyer and fight for it. But the guy who's using a video clip as a fair-use part of a non-commercial discussion is probably going to fold instead of going out of pocket to defend himself.

So we'd see the system falling back to "no response/takedown" for many important real-world use cases anyway.

If DMCA spam had a cost to it-- perhaps a deposit that had to be filed with the court, refundable if there is no counterclaim, or actual prosecution of bad-faith actors for perjury, that might help make it a tradeoff rather than a wholesale giveaway to the copyright industry.
This comment is strange. Sperm whale from Moby dick's era routinely flight back when harpooned.

Today's killer whale behavior is clearly new, and nearly the only violent behavior seen in any whale in a hundred years. .. and with multiple recent reports, it is a new trend.
Yes. I know some people are jealous types, or try to control what their partners do, but that’s not me. If she finds somebody else that she likes enough to have sex with I’m totally happy for her. More love is better.
Um, no. You could could remove the register/__asm__("reg") qualifiers entirely and just specify "D" (rfd) as an input parameter and the code would work fine. There is absolutely no need for register there.

The only good use of register these days is for project-wide globals in embedded contexts. IIRC one example of this is the decompilation of Mario 64, where a certain register ALWAYS contains the floating point value 1.0.
It is not cheap. It costs many lives.
Good one I heard:

Marriage is not a capstone, it's a cornerstone

Meaning that you build a life together. You don't 'have it all figured out' and then cap that off with a wedding to someone from central casting, riding off into the sunset. You struggle together and make something with someone else. That's a vulnerable place to be, at the whims of another, and that's why marriage is not just a 'super-duper-friendship'.
NATO could simply have promised that Ukraine would never be a NATO member or shadow NATO member, but instead they entertained it and organized a coup in 2014. Just backing off any time over the previous decade would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of fewer dead young men.

This isn't to say that Ukraine can't defend itself from Russia, or that the invasion was good, but a simple recognition that there were things that led to this situation that were unforced.

The point of NATO has been said to "Keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Soviets out" [of Europe]. Post-1991, there is no need for it and it has mainly been used to provoke and bomb other countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, and now Ukraine/Russia. Arms manufacturers are kissing their freshly printed dollar bills and thanking our economic system for their great fortune.
Not just fewer, a couple of orders of magnitude fewer guns (maybe more). Also a populous with more mental care for those who are in dangerous mental states.
Anything you can do to waste the time and annoy telemarketers the better. Even if it's just letting it ring instead of sending the unwanted call to voicemail, those seconds of letting it ring are seconds not being spent to scam someone else.

Telemarketers and spam are a problem with an easy solution, but the money to the phone company and everyone in between apparently is just too good to give up.
> Orcas are orcanizing!

You might even say they’re orcastrating these attacks. It’s delphinidaely something worth paying attention to.
So what happened to USSR MIC talent pool? We poached them too?
Motivated Reasoning Abound: Deconstructing Marc Andreessen's Essay About AI
This is a common attitude that I think overlooks a big part of the benefits of secure transport.

If all your traffic is TLS then you have a number of benefits, including principally

1) Noone can MITM the traffic. They can't insert anything in stream or do anything else funky that they absolutely can with clear traffic if they own your route somehow.

2) The amount of information leakage is less due to chaffing. Consider a situation where all your sensitive traffic is HTTPS and all your other traffic is HTTP. In that world a bad person monitoring your traffic may not know the details of your sensitive traffic, but they know that the metadata of any HTTPS indicates sensitive traffic. If everything is HTTPS on the other hand literally any of the metadata could be sensitive or non-sensitive and they have no way of telling. The more non-sensitive traffic is encrypted the greater the benefit of this protection.

So given those are pretty significant benefits for visitors to your site it's nice to provide the option of HTTPS. On a seperate note, the amount of CPU cycles consumed by serving HTTPS these days is really trivial especially if you use a EC cert or similar.
if you turn it into an app, you wouldn't need to worry about manufacturing :)

would be a great way to use those old smartphones everyone has in their drawers... less e-waste!

(i'm making an app that turns your old phone into a mini entertainment center ;) )
200K WordPress Sites Exposed Attacks Exploiting Flaw in ‘Ultimate Member’ Plugin
There were a lot of people, companies, agencies, and policies that failed in the 737 Max debacle. It was a systemic failure and not some random, individual, isolated event.
Ya the article seems to imply that the ONLY reason a parent would be doing this is to get a dopamine hit from "likes". That's just out of touch and asinine. It's perfectly fine to share photos of your children for friends and family to see on Facebook. Of course, using your children as content for your own public facing Instagram or TikTok is totally different. But everyone already knows that, and it wouldn't make for a great article that you could get reposted to the front page of Hacker News or whatever other site.
>Why would...?

Because they trust the trained intelligence to behave predictably, which is a typical reason for promotion.
Some Haskell pacmans:

- https://github.com/EgorDm/fp-pacman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlifcJ4cexw)

- https://github.com/Jcklly/PacMan

- https://github.com/ajkavanagh/pacman

and other games:

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Applications_and_libraries/Games

See also the #haskell-game chat on Matrix and Libera IRC.
I'm skeptical it is new. An orca ran into a boat causing no injuries or real damage. If this had happened 10 years ago would it have been reported in any way - either on the news or by a database?

I think an easier explanation is someone started tracking this and now boat owners know to report it, because they have heard that someone is tracking it.

There is now an Orca Reporting form: https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas/interaction-report-form

I believe it is only running since 2020. I realize the argument you are making is that it was created/publicized AFTER a couple orca attacks. I'm suggesting that if this online portal had existed for anytime in history you would have gotten reports consistently. I would wager this is mostly, if not all, an observation bias.
I feel this is true. I think one effect is that when merchandise and fossil fuels are super cheap for long enough, people stop perceiving them as being super cheap, and any return to a healthy state of more domestic production and conservation is seen as things becoming super expensive. And then they’re bigmad and someone else ought to pay.
If they wanted to eat humans they had plenty of chances. Incidents where an orca attacked a human are rare, with the notable exception of orcas in captivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_attacks
mtr (Matt's traceroute) is another great utility for this.

It doesn't graph output, but does show connectivity , latency, packet loss, and variance on a set of hosts between your IP and the destination.

<https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/>

(Previously noted in this thread by westurner: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36549005>)
it's HN, second order effects are not important to the product
For a feeling of the scene at the time, this blog post by the extremely mild mannered Tim Bray may be instructive:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie
> A while back they had a fad where they'd kill a salmon and wear it as a hat.

It was the 80s, dude. Big hair was radical!

https://www.gearrice.com/update/in-the-80s-an-orca-made-it-f...
Hopefully no one tries to find out. There's only 50k orcas in the world, they're more valuable than us.
Samsung Phone Flaws Added to CISA ‘Must Patch’ List
While it could get worse, authority over reach isn't new. People ignore the historical and current events now, ie the MOVE bombings or the execution of a protestor at the Atlanta Cop City site.

Hell this just happened: https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

All this isn't to write off the use of tech by bad state actors, but more a frustrated sigh, as law enforcement doesn't need AI to do all this, its happening already and no one cares.
Ambition is a pretty ambiguous term for what I think—here—means “A strong yearning for a type of success characterised by western capitalist-individualistic schema of wealth and status.” Cool if you want that I guess. But it’s narrow af.
It's not blazingly fast. I'm out.
There have been quite a few cases where content creators who have made their entire niche their children disabled downloading and follower counts dropped drastically. It may not harm my child directly, but I’d rather avoid making my kids someone else’s spankbank material.

I don’t really see a case that it would be good for them to mass distribute videos of their formative years, even if it isn’t directly harmful.
Develop a habit of having a lot of dollars. Don't let life be something you do without at least a billion of them.

You're totally welcome for the sage advice. Have a nice day.

haha.
Do You Cite What You Tweet? Relationship Between Tweeting and Citing Research
Which are all somewhat nebulous and open to interpretation.
This blog post is GREAT and INSPIRING!! Thank you so much!
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What came in mind is: To attentively make use of the concepts of static and dynamic quality (introduced in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila:_An_Inquiry_into_Morals).
We have caused the Halocene extinction. Our wasteful lifestyles are the virus of the planet. The overconsumed. The technologists who think our devices and social media and VR are a substitute to blind us from the truth. We are destroying our planet. That’s reality. Our devices and travel are our escape.

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.“

It’s humbling to see nature trying somehow to fight back against us. Their goal. For us to chill more and be more content. What if mankind just lives in peace and balance with nature? No plastic. Carbon balance. Nothing added annually that wouldn’t be taken back and fixed anew by nature. Greenhouse gases back at 350 ppm. What if?
I used to use the comma operator to return a status code in the same line as an operation, but for some reason nobody liked my style.

if (error_condition)
return *result=0, ERR_CODE;

So, back to writing lots of statements.
Anti-oxidants prevent cell damage caused by reactive oxygen. People thought that's a good thing. But it turns out that can actually promote cancer, because cells expect to be damaged in time, and kill themselves when that happens, and anti-oxidants mess with this mechanism.

> Some of the largest clinical trials, in fact, had to be aborted because the patients receiving antioxidants had a higher incidence of cancer than patients who did not receive them.

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2015...

Preventing cellular senescence sounds like the same kind of thing, messing with an existing mechanism put in place to prevent cancer.
Paul the creator of Ycombinator?

hmm… depends what you consider great. last time i checked companies you helped, one of them was Rappi.
they came to Brazil and basically destroyed the bicycle courier scene with anti-competitive practices on other companies just because they were rolling on money.
after them, it is pretty rare to see someone working with deliveries and bicycles… and they are more silent and ecological than any motor-cycle or car. and actually smart considering the amount of damage noise and pollution from motor does.

anyway, considering something great is a sensible topic. specially if you taking the amount of money made as a important factor.
maybe that is why the world is full of people digging CEOs status on top of zombie-like consumers that can not think for themselves
It’s quite amazing to find a post with close to zero substance (not my intention to offend its creator who submitted it) from some blog on some hosting platform with total of 2 entries (the other one is extended “Hello, Word”) to get meaningful time on top of the site, and generate some extended discussion.
How it works?
Stingers are just a symptom of the bigger problem like I mentioned, US also has shortages in artillery, Javelins, rockets, and many other things

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168725028/manufacturing-pric...

https://www.ausa.org/news/csis-warns-ammunition-shortages

this whole situation shows deep issues in how the US military does procurement and also basic forecasting/planning
American Myths: Benjamin Franklin’s Turkey and the Presidential Seal(2013)
The way that you were treated -- the gay-bashing, homelessness, poverty, trauma, etc -- was absolutely awful. Nobody should ever be treated like that. I agree you've been hurt much worse than either me or Aaronson.

You're right that when people say "men suck", that's not as bad as homelessness, poverty, trauma, gay-bashing, etc. But, compare: when people say "women suck" or "gay people suck", that's not as bad as homelessness, poverty, trauma, gay-bashing, etc. either! That doesn't make it OK to say "women suck" or "gay people suck". Hateful words like "men suck" and "women suck" and "gay people suck" are still bad even though they're not as bad as the problems you experienced.

Also, I don't think your experience is typical for someone in my generation (born in the 90s). Women and gay man in my generation certainly faces disadvantages, but nowhere near what you did on average.

And social awkwardness is a real disadvantage too. Historically, nerds were even the target of physical violence. You were unfortunate enough to be both gay and socially awkward, which must have been doubly difficult. But straight socially awkward people are still disadvantaged even though they're straight; just like gay people with normal social skills are still disadvantaged even though they have normal social skills.

The net effect is that even though I'm a straight man, I've still been significantly hurt, to the point of developing depression. I certainly haven't been hurt as badly as you were, but my pain is still real. (Imagine a gay man who never experiences gay-bashing, homelessness, or poverty. But suppose they're regularly exposed to homophobia, causing them to develop depression. They haven't been hurt as badly as you were, but their pain is still real!)

Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity: man, woman, straight, gay, nerdy or not. Your pain is worse than mine or Aaronson's, but that doesn't invalidate our pain, nor does it excuse the people who are causing our pain. It's not OK to use the existence of misogyny or homophobia as an excuse for misandry or nerdphobia.
If I ever get the chance to try it I will attempt to tell you the results, but don't hold your breath. I don't know anyone with smart TVs who would also be okay with me spending an hour messing up their settings to log in with my account.

> Good A/B testing only works if you're measuring for the right things. When you get into the realms of "engagement is down but revenue generated is at $X" and X meets a goal, you're doing it in bad faith.

Sure, and that doesn't stop people from doing it anyway. Pointless mass-gaslighting, but it makes you look busy.
I wasn't too concerned about secondary effects. Maybe I should have been, but I believe the way you consider it is incomplete as well, failing to account for the reduction in the company's liquid assets (and thus shareholder equity or ability to reinvest assets to grow) due to the buyback.

Suppose a company has 1T market cap, 10 billion shares at $100/share, and wants to buy back 1% or 100 million shares for $10 billion. They have a cash hoard of 100 billion, and another 100 billion in other assets. What happens, ignoring stock market changes from the buy back or reaction (i.e. hypothetically, this couldn't happen, but to isolate the effects assume OTC buyback at current market price, and no public announcement)?

Before: shareholders get a share of future potential profits. To avoid adding more hypothetical numbers for dividends, I'll simply index this notional dividend stream to 1, or 100%. In parallel they have a claim on the company's assets: $20/share worth.

After: shareholders get an increased share of future potential profits: 100/99, or roughly 1% more than without the buyback. In parallel they have a claim on the company's assets, but those assets have dropped the $20/share equity by 5% to $19/share, evaporating $1/share in equity (conveniently in this example, outstanding shares and buyback dollar amount are equal). Furthermore, the company has lost 5% of its assets, and even more than that percentage of its liquid assets, that it could've used to grow the company.

What effects dominate? That depends on how investors see future investment by the company as a driver of future profits, doesn't it?
> orcas are sort of like rowdy teenagers participating in a fad

That sounds more amazing to me than the theory of the traumatic event, an Ocra equivalent to a TikTok trend.
I disagree with the framing of the back of the envelop calculation.

First of all, that’s revenue, not profit. Looking at revenue is meaningless since it’s easy to take in lots of money and still be in the red.

Secondly, a competitor to Facebook does not need to have facebook’s profitability in order for it to be a viable business model.

By your analysis we can look Twitter and gry get the amount of money that people would have to pay to Mastadon in order for Mastadon to be a competitor. Except that the analogy breaks down because because the underlying technology is different. I won’t be paying server fees to “Mastadon” I’d be paying to an instance.

Likewise, wow google drive for sending large files to people needs a lot of servers. Or, we set something up torrent style and then there is no separate server.
It was DrScheme in the 00s. They changed the name to Racket and DrRacket in 2010.

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2010/06/racket.html

https://www.racket-lang.org/new-name.html
For many people, it’s deeply dissatisfying to mechanically apply magical incantations that you don’t understand and could never arrive at yourself. Once you intuitively understand something, it also makes it trivial to remember it, and also helps connect it to other information in your brain.
My brother tried the whole 'don't share pictures of my kids online'. Lasted 2 weeks.

They started by sending private snapchat messages to our family. My wife screenshotted the cute baby picture, google uploaded it automatically to their backup/photo storage.

Game over.

Heck, walk into walmart, your face and your family are all scanned and added into their security database.

Its a fools errand.

I can think of few uses for privacy, overthrowing a government, embarrassing fetish, a medical illness that would cause people to treat you differently, yet none of those are showing your kids being kids online.
GP wants not to self host yet wants to have the control.

Though what you described is just a regular federated identity workflow, except autodiscovery through DNS (though that is already a thing for some)
Seconding! You can find the specific segment (only 7 min!) here! https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-ear...
> The only exceptions where a teacher is essential are areas where you learn by doing and being critiqued, not by reading/watching. E.g. instrument/voice lessons…

I don’t think this is an exception. Record yourself doing these things and critique yourself. It’s not as valuable as having multiple people critique you, but it’s not less valuable than having one other stranger critique you. Until you gain a certain level of competence you’ll know where and how you suck.

I’m currently learning bass guitar and recording myself has been incredibly valuable for seeing and hearing things I don’t notice when I’m playing. I think it’s also sort of closed the gap between what I think I sound like and how I actually sound when I play. (I’d recommend it even if you get a teacher.)

my only teachers have been online videos and web pages. I can’t see how a teacher can add value here. If I got one, I’d most likely be learning the teacher’s way. I’m finding a lot of value in hearing multiple POVs, trying it all out, finding what works for me and whose opinions I should value.

The article says teachers are faster, but I can evaluate online video sources much faster and more easily than I can evaluate teachers.

I might not learn faster but I certainly learn more and at a deeper level, because my mind is engaged in every part of the process.

As an aside, I think teachers often gloss over things that they think don’t matter right now. You’re getting a short cut, but you either miss out on something or later have to learn how that thing connects to what you know. Often, I find taking a moment to learn a little bit about that thing can aid you on your overall goal.
Genuinely not sure what you mean — it seems like the standard definition of ambition.

How would you define it?
I found it much better to work “overtime” at my day job to learn new to me technologies and do POCs if the company is not using the technology or to volunteer for assignments based on something I don’t know well and put in extra time to meet the deadline.

One reason is that I can seek feedback from coworkers and polish the POC. I also can take advantage of infrastructure that may be cost prohibitive to test something at scale based on real world usage.

The other reason is that for my next job, it’s much more impressive to say I spearheaded work for a company than a hobbyist side project.

Yes I know one advantage of your own side project is that you can show your code. But most of the time the hiring manager isn’t going to take time to look at your work anyway.

I have personally been fortunate enough to have unfettered Admin access to an AWS account on someone else’s dime between two jobs for the past five years where I could experiment and learn on the job.
Exactly right. The real problem here is a deficiency in the GPL, which GRSecurity pioneered and IBM is now using. Any company in the same situation would do the same thing.
Telemarketing basically isn't a thing in my country. The only reason it's so widespread in the US is a failure to regulate it.
Because what happened to it afterwards is NOT irrelevant.

Just like CORBA sounded great in the press releases, but went nowhere in practice. Which is what this article is about.
Everyone knows that BookmarkDB is a more durable solution.