skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that why we pay gov agents to hang out in the seedy parts of the web? If CP consumers are able to find each other with relative ease, I'm sure agents impersonating them can find them too. Then it's up to them to locate them, likely by exploiting an opsec failure along the way.

I see no reason the give the gov eyes on everything when they have a perfectly valid route to investigations.
Do you have a citation for regulation causing the low prices as opposed to competition? What's the distribution between commercial payers and government ones? In a perfectly competitive market the margin you can squeeze from a generic drug will shrink and shrink, and that can also cause reduced investment in new supply if you have more profitable alternatives and you don't have an infinite supply of investment in production capabilities.

This argument looks pretty unappealing either way, though: "the problem with vital drugs is that they're too affordable to too many people who need them". Good luck with that political platform.
Currently this works between banks only. Banks have reserves at the Fed, and those reserves are what gets adjusted when a FedNow transaction happens. The banks then adjust their own records on their customers' behalf.
Thanks for the kind words! It's a very long journey ahead of us, that's for sure!
Cause random kids and other people have an easier and more fun time hosting Minecraft servers. Makes it go viral more easily and also adds one more way to access it.
Mr Narwhal Tusk disagrees https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-security-idUKKBN1...
Where did I say any of that? I simply stated that many of the people who would like to restrict private citizens' access to firearms are the same people who complain about the brutalization of vulnerable groups by police. I never said it was a rule nor that exceptions did not exist.

Without defining sensible gun control and pragmatic measures, I'm not sure that statement is agreeable.
Thrust equivalent to three quarters sounds like a LOT actually. Compounded.
I don't think that Product Manager is exclusively a trophy job, if at all. It takes quite some skill to manage a product properly, maintain healthy product boundaries, create a sensible roadmap, combat feature creep, etc.

A product manager's skill set can make or break a product.
Ask HN: What pivot strategies should I consider after an underwhelming payout?
I have been working for a small company as their only software developer for about 6 years. The first 4 years it was a great side gig from my full-time role. It was low stress, I had full autonomy of the dev stack & made all tech decisions, and it increased my household income about 25%. It was a great situation and it had been my goal to grow this into a full-time role.

A few years ago I was able to go full-time. I came on board as the CTO and was paid a salary similar to a Senior Developer. The compensation included a bonus structure that would grow with the company, and was projected to 2.5x my salary in 2-3 years. Unfortunately those revenue projections were off and the bonuses have been minimal.

After giving up my side gig to pursue this opportunity with high future upside my total household income was reduced enough to make it tight on my family. So I took on a second remote full time job that has doubled my income. My intention was to work this for a year or two until the bonuses started paying out, then quit. Now I am seeing that the path to those bonuses is much slower than I was originally told, and I don't see an end in sight.

I can handle the technical demands of these jobs because my skill level & experience is enough that it isn't actually too demanding. But ethically I do not want to continue working two full time jobs. This situation also presents challenges when needing to explain to lenders.

I want to be clear that I am not unhappy with my long term employer despite the lack of bonuses. I understand the circumstances around their current revenue, and believe they otherwise run a good operation. The company is financially conservative, stable, and in the black. If the bonuses were paying out as I had hoped I would consider this a great long-term indefinite situation.

So I am asking the HN community what would you do to pivot here?
You’re absolutely correct; my apologies.
70M is small, but not that small. Larger than any US state, larger than most countries in the EU.

It's also anglophone, which to anglophone companies (Apple still is, to a significant degree), means that its 70M are worth a bit more than the absolute number suggests.
Journalists have explicit protection in the first amendment. Many people (including some police) believe you have to have credentials to be a journalist, but that's not so. Of course if the government can determine if someone is a journalist or not, it's not a freedom; so anyone can be a journalist. The whole credentials thing is for accessing secure areas like the White House, etc. Freedom of speech also protects filming police as does the right to petition government for redress of grievances.

Also, let me just say our first amendment gives us very strong protections from tyranny, as it is with our current state of rogue police departments and officers. If it weren't for the first amendment protections, we would be making very little progress here and probably regress. For people who want to chip away at first amendment protections for political points, you do so at your own and all our peril.

Make no mistake, Derek Chauvin is in prison and that is progress. Progress partially made possible by the right of the people who filmed his murder of George Floyd.
Awesome! Thanks for this. Trying this out now.
This is so ridiculous that I wonder if the idea isn't to ban possible employee distractions, or that they can't find enough good security people to secure their networks (I wouldn't think that would be a problem for Google).

If you have enough good security people then there should never be a need to ban the entire internet. Instead, controls are put in place at network borders to minimize the risk of malicious content getting through, and controls placed on nodes to maximize the detection and isolation of malicious content that does get through. Some sites could go into an enforced black list, such as TikTok. As well as gatech.edu (/jk bc of Phrack).

I have worked in dev sites with no internet (we had to exit and go across the hall), and it is draining as well as counter-productive to not have SO, Reddit, YouTube as references when you hit something you don't know how to solve; or not have HN, Reddit, Quora for periodic mental breaks to read up on latest tech news.
> I think these claims that Google is useless are coming from people who aren't even trying to use it.

Maybe. But I stopped using Google because while it didn't become useless, it did become one of the worse search engines.
> his own commercial linux security patches

grsecurity?[1]

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200201055409/https://en.wikipe...
It's just a matter of time before YouTube introduces ads to Premium, which is why I won't be paying for it. It would be one thing if YouTube had a history of respecting their users/customers and continually delivered more value, but they've failed on both fronts. I don't trust them to not make the deal worse all the time.

YouTube, while still a valuable resource, is way less valuable to me than it was even a few years ago. Broken/distracting search, real thumbs-down removed, videos defaulting to 480p on a high speed connection, ads everywhere, their algorithm being hyper selective of videos with MrBeast-face thumbnails... and they want me to pay for that shit?
"Useless" isn't accurate, but "not nearly as good as it used to be" sure is. At least in my experience.

PageRank was brilliant, and worked as expected. It's now been superceded by... whatever is going on over in Googleland. Some of which isn't Google's fault, per se; the Internet is a lot bigger now than it was two decades ago. Some of it is. Their entire profit model depends on people using Google in a way orthogonal to "search and find and move on," as it was back in the 00s. People pay Google to game Google results. No corporation is going to overlook that.
Nope. Plenty of people use iMessage in the UK, facetime as well.
are you aware that the GH org parsing is apparently case sensitive? https://devboard.gitsense.com/jetbrains = blank https://devboard.gitsense.com/JetBrains = works (although it does whine about the number of repos)
Totally agree with everything you are saying here. I just don't have a great deal of faith that college actually moves the needle that much on what gets learned, for at least a significant portion of the people who attend.
I've read this book and many others like it. I completely agree with your assessment. I felt really good when I read this book and others. But afterwards I go back to feeling bad about myself as always
ddg.gg still works.
thanks, i think that's an interesting space to explore. there were many comments regarding the 'consistency' of the data/documents so solving this 'trust' issue especially when selfhosting it is really important
That happened not because web3 failed but because mainstream redefined what "web3" is. It went from IPFS to blockchain to NFT. NFTs make exciting headlines, IPFS does not.
Address book and search can help with that. Worked in NZ anyway.
1. The grandparent comment asked for “Any citations on every trans person in the South being singled out for denial of services by the government.” The great grandparent comment only mentions asking the opinion of a transgender person if the government has the power to deny services to them. By banning gender affirming care, even just for children, wouldn’t that be an example of government discrimination against transgender people?

2. The example of racial segregation was to point out an additional time that a minority group was discriminated against. Black people getting less than adequate medical treatment is not them needing specific affirmative care and being denied it but an example of discrimination that was government sanctioned. Beyond pointing to the two sets of laws and their discriminatory natures the link is superficial, just another example of legal discrimination.

I cannot speak for you but denying the government the power to discriminate or oppress minorities and empowering the rights of individuals to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is worthwhile to me. Which is why seeing all these states pass these discriminatory laws is disheartening.
Not to mention horrible grammar. I was over here trying to figure out which drugs are "hundreds of decades old" only thing I could think of was aspirin.
The same Brave that is selling data for AI companies, which may or may not include personal data ?

I'd say it's probably not a good day for Brave advocacy. Neither is any other day.
While funny, I think parent meant more like alt text.
Oh, it's absolutely not the library's fault; nobody could reasonably have expected that "random privileged code is going to dlopen your library at random times" was part of the threat model.
Creating an API with Express.js Using OpenAPI
that's all moderation
Tsutomu Shimomura Interview [video]
Physicist and security expert talks to Charlie Rose about his technical joust with Kevin Mitnick.
Please don’t tell me you’re unironically arguing “learned helplessness” doesn’t exist because you “learned” you’re born “helpless” and the only path to actualizing change as an individual is through the official government sanctioned mechanisms… because if that is your honest argument… wow.

For reference, in my experience, the public works projects that get front page news coverage with tons of anecdotes from locals about how incredibly helpful and long-needed the installation was, are those that were completely unsanctioned.

And the only path to substantial policy change in all of history has always been violent revolution.
The only reason I was brought in to do the exercise as a consultant, was because the guy supposed to be doing it was too frightened, delayed for almost a year, went on long term sick leave and was eventually fired/quit. The docs and ops procedures actually looked good, so I took on the challenge. In the end, just 1 flexvol that had been configured manually years before, and was missed by the DR automation. Not a bad result.
Again, not the same.

Google did not cripple their products to work only on Chrome. It did not force customers to install Chrome on their computers, nor had partnerships with OEMs to preinstall its browser.

> Google pushed ads against Firefox and for Chrome on the front page of Google search

I highly doubt that Google, one of Mozilla main sponsors, had ads against Firefox in their Search homepage. They do promote Chrome in Search and Gmail, but not in YouTube as far as I know.

But that is beyond the point. Google uses its own real estate to promote their products, exactly like Mozilla does with Firefox and their VPN and Relay services. Mozilla also bundles Pocket within Firefox, by the way.

It's not great, but I think that a company should be allowed to promote a product in their own spaces, always respecting the autonomy of the user, and without aggressively pushing it.

Which is exactly why Microsoft is and should be in trouble. They not only bundled Teams in Office 365, but also defaulted to or pointed at Teams for every single operation coming from any other Office application.
> Then they should read the leaked government documents from around the world that contradict what Apple says themselves.

On what specifically?

> they should at least be able to read the actual code to corroborate its security, but that's not an option either.

Why does that matter? You're already trusting Apple hardware. Public access to source code doesn't make security systems safer. I'm not sure what a journalist or even 99% of webshits on this forum would do with trying to audit crypto.
By default the `llama2` model is the 7B model, and it's recommended you have at least 16GB of memory to run it.

Regarding the disk space, the model itself is 3.8GB.
Blockchain at the bottom, AI at the top. Makes sense to me. Both have heavy hype cycles but AI is actually interesting and generally useful. Blockchain... arguably can be useful, but it's more of a stretch and it almost comes hand-in-hand with revolutionaries.

Coupang being in the top for Senior Engineer is unexpected. Aren't they entirely in South Korea? Do they pay those salaries in Seoul? Seems way out of whack versus the market there. If they hire outside Korea, why? Aren't all their operations in Korea? Why do they need to hire outside talent?
I actually don't have a strong opinion about the digital dollar. I learned about it as a concrete idea in this very article. My opinion is: sounds reasonable, probably pretty complicated to pull off. I am opinionated when it comes to bad, weasely non-answers to questions though, if that's what you mean.
If you're not just running it all on one db, why do you have to have all of your different DBs be on the same DB software?

I used to work at Yelp, and at least at that time, a big use case of Cassandra was basically for what were essentially materialized views created from log data. At that point in time, MySQL or logs were the "sources of truth", but there were enough transactions going on that it made sense to have things like Cassandra around too for some of the other use cases.
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803982
>They’ll stab people in the back or work to damage people’s careers

Why didn't you stop them?

I think your comment was well intended, but it actually comes from the same place that causes a lot of the hurt: a lack of reflection. Even right there, you are trying to qualify harm without recognizing it. "Actual harm" as somehow being far greater and more deserving of consequences than regular harm, but there isn't. This is another narrative we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better.

So I hope you do take your own advice seriously. Most of the time, it's not the "worst people that I've ever met" - it's our own image.
At least on my corporate Windows laptop, the Bitlocker password is restricted to numeric digits only. Coupled with natural human laziness, and brute forcing looks fairly feasible.
>I feel we've been collectively losing the battle to keep our conversations private.

A big part of the issue is that the nature of the conversations has changed. Mail and Telephones were never at any point perfectly private. The idea of having complete privacy in such conversations is actually rather new.

The difference is that those communication mediums now represent nearly all communication, rather than a small fraction of it, and that the effort to meaningfully break that privacy has dropped significantly over what it would have required to surveil millions of people in the 1950s. It doesn't require an East-German-esque security state anymore.
Shameless plug, but Moov offers a single API for payments. The clearing house's RTP system will be supported shortly, and FedNow is coming soon after. Check out out here: https://moov.io/
The Federal reserve banks are only one operator of ACH, with there also being a second private operator. The fed denies that Fednow will replace ACH.

Not sure if that denial makes much sense, although it certainly could take a long time to replace ACH even if it eventually does, simply due to how many systems interact over ACH, and that many of them will not be high priority to change.

I'm also a little surprised that FedNow went with real-time gross settlement, simply because that means posting every transaction to a Federal reserve account (which would be a large increase in transaction volume for those accounts, relative to say daily or even hourly net settlement). Reading Operating Circular No. 8 tells me that is exactly what they are doing, which is honestly a little impressive.
> My mind was always a rascal and doing things that were self destructive in nature (...)

> he commits to about 100 protocols each day to reverse his biological age, including taking 61 pills each day, eating 70 pounds of vegetables every month, and adhering to 8:30 p.m. bedtimes. It’s costing him $2 million a year.

hmmmm...
I believe DHH of Basecamp(?) fame calls this scarring on the first cut.
but now its like the number of licks to the center of tootsie pop the world may never know!
Surprised to see no Linux support, considering that it's a project that manages... docker.
I have neighbor who was a police officer until last month. She was fired because she was trying to push back against an aggressive, corrupt culture in her small town police department. She and another officer had arrested a non-violent, mentally disturbed individual, who had been perfectly compliant in custody. (The guy shoplifted a beer occasionally to quiet the voices in his head.) Another officer walked in and immediately grabbed the arrestee (already in handcuffs) and threw him on the ground, fracturing his skull and causing seizures.

Our neighbor pushed for an investigation repeatedly (which would have taken her off the job until complete, since she was the commanding officer on the scene), but it was denied. She was fired shortly after. She is filing a lawsuit to get her job back and the family of the police brutality victim is also suing. I hope they both win, but I do worry about our neighbor's life expectancy if she gets her job back.

The tech industry has strong incentives to invade privacy, push inflammatory content, and for otherwise good people to look the other way. Nevertheless, I am opposed to broad brush denigration of employees in the sector, many of which do push back in quiet ways against dark patterns, even if not enough. I feel the same way about law enforcement. The biggest difference between tech and law enforcement is that police work involves stakes that are higher in the short-term and more visible, but tech is far more dangerous in the long-term through, e.g., inflammatory social media, persistent surveillance, etc.
love Meta. they fell face first into the "Metaverse" and now are just releasing all their AI related work to juice their stock and be "innovative".
This is really impressive, especially being able to start with an AI generated template is super practical imho. I also like the form builder itself. Good luck with the project!
Discussed at the time:

The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451797 - Feb 2018 (128 comments)
An armed citizenry has acted as a deterrent to tyrannical governments and nation states for as long as the two have co-existed. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here.

And no, "we" don't get to consider who has lawful or rightful access to firearms - unless you got to vote for the last class of police cadets at your local precinct.
For disk size, you can see how big models are locally by running "ollama list"

NAME SIZE MODIFIED
llama2:latest 3.8 GB 3 hours ago

Now, if you make new models that are "FROM llama2" for example, Ollama will re-use this "base model" so you don't store it twice.
Most don't use the naive way to scan for images, NCMEC distributes hashes as PhotoDNA which is a perceptual, not a cryptographic, hash, which is tolerant to some level of changes.
Tired of so many web technologies that are very rarely used by most users being potential giant gaping security holes.
great way to spook the normies at the coffee shop
Pibb used to be cherry-forward, smoother-drinking Dr Pepper (nb I preferred Dr Pepper).

Pibb Xtra is mostly just SUGAR punching you in the taste buds.
Linux support is coming, you can build it right now by running:

`CGO_ENABLED=1 go build . `
My favorite "accidentally load bearing" artifact that I've found was a misconfigured sudo that would easily allow arbitrary code execution as root (it allowed passwordless sudo for a find command, which could be used with -exec), which a number of important support scripts for the product had been written to use. Load bearing privilege escalation!
Yes, https://grsecurity.net/

Why did you use archive.org to get to wikipedia??
Yes, I agree that in individual instances it's possible to rise up (and already has been as you point out), it's just that I think that if you are talking about who mostly ends up as Presidents, Senators, CEOs and boards of major companies, etc. I don't see the percentage of that set derived from rich, elite families dipping dramatically just because of things like ending legacy admissions, nor by affirmative action.
It feels like a missed opportunity to not show each pixel's worksheet: It would be cool if you could click on each pixel, and it opens a PDF scan of that persons calculations.
Who do you do business with?
Yes if it was just about compression ratio nobody would bother, but that's not it's only feature.
by eliminating the pixels where the proof-of-work is incorrect
Well you said newsroom, which is about news.

How is the LLM getting the latest news? It doesn't (yet) really have eyes and ears etc.

And news travels fast, or at least people would like it to.

Also opinion pieces. I have 0 interest in the "opinion" of an LLM, but I am interested in the opinion of at least some human beings.
Sounds super interesting, I would love you to expand on this.