skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to change the tax law to charge property tax on rented software and other media products.
It's covered in the article.
That is how I read it.

It also makes me wonder that if some cancers are rare enough to average to 0 months (rounded down) that could still work out to a 1/500 chance of living to 80 vs 40. Long odds it matters, but big difference if it does.
That’s where directives for enterprise contracts usually come from. I’m sure they won’t even talk to anyone not willing to pay $100k+ per year. Salesforce’s AI Cloud starts at $365k a year.
Or just use @.

julia> X = [1.,2.,3.]; f=sin;

julia> @. X = f(2 * X^2 + 6 * X^3 - sqrt(X))
> That's what they've found with PSA--it kills (via treating things ...)

I'm not sure what PSA you're referring to. The Prostate-Specific Antigen PSA is something secreted by the body, and not a treatment, so it can't be that one.

Are you referring to overdiagnosis (via PSA or any other screening), resulting in overtreatment?
This is true. On my defense, I hoped I could, somehow, settle some of the dust with it.
Endless A/B testing will climb up some peak in the landscape of human psychology; that you and I are on a different peak may help a bit, but there are ways to find other peaks and money to be made in the attempt.

(I'm apparently on peak "Idle Game", and thus benefited greatly from the end of Flash browser games freeing me from that pointless waste of time).
Points 3 and 4 aren't really about French or American food. Yes, there are more Mexicans in the US. Yes, service in the US is artificially "nice" compared to that in France, for obvious reasons.
Misinformation exists online.

Trolls are creating misinformation and using it for political gain. That's my point.

Because these trolls see political benefits in misleading people, they'll continue to do so, and continue to grow in power as they mislead large segments of the population.

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Truthful discussion is the only thing that can combat it. And *simple truths exist*. Despite your attempts at proving otherwise.

This is important because when we talk about our online discussion spaces, like Reddit, Wikipedia, or Twitter, I'm evaluating them on how easy it is for the misinformation-trolls to win and bully themselves into an advantageous position, and how easy it is for the Truth to be gleaned (or at least, a community of truth-seekers to be developed).
Not all 3M earplugs are created equal. These[1][2][3], for example, are steaming piles of hot garbage. I carry a pair of 3M compact 21 dB NRR earmuffs because they're superior to these earplugs that are way too common in our production environment. The skull screws and corded variant are particularly egregious because they have a plastic stem embedded in the foam that can make insertion really uncomfortable and potentially hazardous if you slip or get smacked on the ear.

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/v000153037/

[2] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/v000181515/

[3] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00037662/
I think you're misreading the comment. They were comparing the mechanism of addictive compulsion, not the magnitude or the consequences.
> by the way they are pushing development of so many products...

"They" are many different people (developers or contributors). As an open-source project, people focus on what they like or may need.

Furthermore, V has a native backend, in addition to others: C, JavaScript, WASM, etc... They've stated (on their website) that their plan is to eventually make the native backend the primary, as they close in on 1.0. The other backends can be seen, for those that have actually used or know of the language, by checking out the -b flag.
> this is subtle: you can easily rack up 5-6 figure damage numbers from unauthorized security research, but Fizz was so small and new that I'm assuming nobody even contemplating retaining a forensics firm or truing things up with their insurers, who probably did not exist

This seems like a problem with the existing law, if that's how it works.

It puts the amount of "damages" in the hands of the "victim" who can choose to spend arbitrary amounts of resources (trivial in the scope of a large bureaucracy but large in absolute amount), providing a perverse incentive to waste resources in order to vindictively trigger harsh penalties against an imperfect actor whose true transgression was to embarrass them.

And it improperly assigns the cost of such measures, even to the extent that they're legitimate, to the person who merely brought their attention to the need for them. If you've been operating a publicly available service with a serious vulnerability you still have to go through everything and evaluate the scope of the compromise regardless of whether or not this person did anything inappropriate, in case someone else did. The source of that cost was their own action in operating a vulnerable service -- they should still be incurring it even if they discovered the vulnerability themselves, but not before putting it in production.

The damages attributable to the accused should be limited to the damage they actually caused, for example by using access to obtain customer financial information and committing credit card fraud.
While what you say is true, I feel strongly that it shouldn't be. It is morally right to show if a product that is used by many fellow students is marketed as "100% secure"* is in fact very vulnerable.

If some less ethical hackers got a hold of that data, much worse things could have happened.

* that's the biggest red flag. A company saying 100% obviously has very little actual security expertise.

PS: I'm a big fan of Germany's https://www.ccc.de/en/ who have pulled many such hacks against some of the biggest tech companies.
Ask HN: What was the service life of your last phone/laptop Lithium battery?
Mostly interested in hearing if there were retail-brand differences, and if hardware suffered physical damage.

Thanks for participating, =)
Putting undernourished and sick children on a multiple days long bus ride to Chicago, causing their death, is "an inconvenience"? Maybe to you. Sounds like you just found your kind of people...
I've not found much so far.

I think I'd also like to expand beyond just UAs and also curate IP ranges, docs..etc.

Starting a repo at https://github.com/JoshuaGoode/ai-user-agents
That shows they lost money that year only because of of a one-time settlement for a 2016 lawsuit. Without that they’d have had a profitable year as in 2019 and 2021, as per your own link.

The problem they have now is that Musk’s instability cost them a lot of revenue but his poor management saddled them with significantly more debt. Now they need to make multiple times more profit than their best year just to pay his loan servicing.
As a PR gamer, I'm concerned the biggest graphics card maker makes most of its money selling to data centers bulking up AI capabilities.

Like, if there's a shortage of GPUs in 2026 and Nvidia has to choose between selling limited inventory to AWS or individual gamers, it's obvious who wins (AWS and scalpers).
Yeah, it’s unwise, but also a fair warning. If you threaten someone who has leverage over you, you might find your own problems escalated. Not everyone behaves perfectly rationally under pressure.
Great to hear that. I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz - if you have any queries as you implement , do ask in our slack - https://signoz.io/slack
Makes little sense when Bonds are securities.
This isn't the first time someone has opened an old time capsule to discover that it is empty.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753014767/time-capsule-in-der...

This one is more of a mystery though since it was clearly soldered shut. Maybe someone was going to do a time capsule and then decided against it? Or got drunk and forgot to put anything inside before sealing it up? We will probably never know.
this is one of the interesting problems of assessing damages in cases like this.

putting the company out of business serves no particular purpose: lost jobs, higher prices and shortages for important products.

letting it get off without a penalty establishes a clear moral hazard and makes it hard to compensate victims.

evidently, the line is in the middle. and of course, the military tested these earplugs and said they met spec - so should 3m really bear full liability?

and, even with all this: if 85% of the victims still have normal hearing, don't you think ambulance chasing plays a role here?
I had the same thought. BTW, the movie is titled "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!" in the UK (same as the book it's based on). The studio changed the title for Americans [1], perhaps assuming we'd be less interested in a movie with scientists, shudder...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates!_In_an_Adventure_w...
I wish I knew. I'm sure I'm not alone.

My current belief is that it just comes down to lack of investment.

Compare the current outlooks of biofuels, "next generation" nuclear, and now green H2.

The IRA is building a H2 economy, from scratch. Soon, the govt will pay anyone anywhere a stupid amount of money to make "green" H2 (details are still being hashed out). It's stupid to not get in on the action. So that govt investment begat a torrent of private investment. And now we're off to the races.

Just like how the Obama administration bootstrapped PV solar and lithium ion batteries, in 20 years we'll look back at the passing of the IRA as the genesis of our H2 economy.

In their times, both biofuels and nuclear were supposed to be the next big thing.

But instead of forging industrial policy and committing to moonshot level investments, our neoliberals predecessors had faith these nascent industries would magically emerge from the "free market".
Very timely.

I'm in the middle of trying to work out how to do this for an Electron app built using Electron.Net and it's a bit of a nightmare.

Different steps, but looking for the same outcome.

Thanks.
It's quite amazing how the panel and everyone is bending over backwards to justify the importance of this. Even after it had been clear that the box was empty they double down. Even after finding only dirt try triple down concluding something must have been in there previously and it just was lost. It only makes this prank funnier, showing the lunacy of people who want to believe. I'm fucking dying.
http://images.google.com/search?q=Waynes+World+Fishing+GIF
Ordinarily when prices are high, the market makes more of the high-priced thing. But the problem here is that 80% of the population doesn’t want to live in a city. So by majority vote, they can shut down development of more urban areas (i.e. supply).

If cities fixed their problems, they might become more desirable across the population. That might drive up prices in the short term, but ultimately would drive down prices if that creates a critical mass of voters who want to live in an urban area.
Continually looking for, and finding, new ways to be a terrible human being. This man has no bottom.
How would you interpret the following:

if electronically stored information that should have been preserved in the anticipation or conduct of litigation is lost because a party fails to take reasonable steps to preserve it, and it cannot be restored or replaced through additional discovery, the court only upon finding that the party acted with the intent to deprive another party of the information to use in the litigation may presume that the lost information was unfavorable to the party.
Supercharging ML Workflows
That's really cool, I'm going to hack around with one too. Thanks for sharing.
This whole thing has soured my opinion of 3m ppe products as a whole to the point that I look at my respirator questionably. Does anyone know other companies that produce reliable respirators?
Western writers (usually) aren't taking direct orders from the government, but that doesn't mean they're impartial weather vanes that reveal currents in society but never try to manipulate (or fabricate) those social currents as they see fit.
Not a lawyer ofc, but I would not expect that line of reasoning to hold up in court as I wouldn't expect "the door was unlocked, your honor" to excuse trespassing.
This thread is really not about heroin, though. Take food as an example. A person can be addicted to food (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_addiction) but eating isn't otherwise necessarily unhealthy. A person may be "compelled" to take a certain action for many reasons; I fail to see how the use of that word in this title is wrong.
In my opinion, they went too far and exposed themselves by telling the company.

In all honesty, nothing good usually comes from that. If you wanted the truth to be exposed, they would have been better off exposing it anonymously to the company and/or public if needed.

It's one thing to happen upon a vulnerability in normal use and report it. It's a different beast to gain access to servers you don't own and start touching things.
Should you hire a Chief of Staff, an EA, or something else?
As a fractional COO and Exec Coach, I often meet with founders who are unsure of if they should bring on someone like me or a Chief of Staff. A few months ago, I created a functional framework to guide founders, and today I am opening it up to the world for free. Enjoy!
I would never use a cloud-syncing cloud-connected terminal for simple security and privacy reasons alone, not to mention the fact that if it goes down I become basically disabled as a developer or admin.

Several companies have tried to SaaSify the terminal and failed, so I suspect I am not alone here.

"We've noticed that there's a component of the computing infrastructure that isn't sending everything you do to the cloud and charging monthly rent..."
It's unclear whether you mean that it's simpler to make a query and iterate over the rows to massage the result in your application or to make a query and then iterate over the returned rows to make more single-row queries. (Or perhaps some secret third thing I'm not considering.)

I'll admit I'm a little curious about what exactly you mean here.
That's my understanding of the law. Even the "merge this PR without review using your administrator privileges" is potentially a crime if the company policy doesn't allow you to take that action. Basically, what the code does or intends is not a factor at all, only the potentially-implicit authorization policy controls.

If I tell you "the password on the postgres account at postgres.jrock.us is blahblah42" and you read the database, it could be argued that you're exceeding your authorized access. The reason people don't tell you their database password on Hacker News is because of countries that don't have that law, I assume.
Don‘t expect to get gaming GPUs on the latest node for the next years
Best advice I can give someone is never do security research for a company without expressed written consent to do so and document everything as agreed to.

Payouts for finding bugs when there isn't an already established process are either not going to be worth your time or will be seen as malicious activity.
What happened in 1992?
It sounds like nearly 25% of people have a reference point to start with to prove that their new normal is sufficiently worse than what they started with:

"Nearly a quarter of the plaintiffs ... reported their condition in hearing tests before they ever used the Combat Arms earplugs."

That would seem to mean they have a "before" measurement, and can now test to get an "after" measurement.
US has been lowering total CO2 emissions since 2007.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb....

China, on the other hand, has been increasing emissions. It's currently more than double what the US emissions are.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/carbon-co2-e....

Not sure how we plan on lowering China's emissions.
There's one thing having them on a roadmap and another claiming can do it and using it as a selling point. First is acceptable, second is a scam.
Ascii convention to emphasize text, similar to doing the same thing with asterisks. Markdown later used this syntax for italics and bold, which popularized it further.
I'm getting "connection reset by peer" for the Immix link. Wayback link instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182036/https://users.cec...
Laughably one-sided
Ours are doing that this year... White oak and burr oak. And this helped us learn our new dog likes the taste of acorns. <sigh> Which means acorn-y poop and us having to constantly try to stop him from eating everything on the ground.

I'm really looking forward to a not-mast year. And looking into how I might be able to vacuum these up.
China’s Summer of Climate Destruction
Those are not the rules of your game.

If you thought logins didn't matter, you'd create one and stick with it. You're going to extra effort because you know they do.

And still, you dodge the question. You claim to be incisively dissecting other people's motivations via various negative assumptions and broad-stroke insults. But you can't even glance at your own motivations, even as you work to hide them under a series of new accounts. Which tells us a lot about your game.
That lottery extends to every other car maker/dealer. Lemon laws existed before Tesla for a reason. Dealerships put a bitter taste in peoples mouths for a reason.
Did your for loop solution include concurrent access by multiple clients?
I highly doubt "engineers can not operate with SQL as efficiently as code"
can implement anything even remotely as robust as what SQL DBMS offer even for basic use cases. Are you mutating data? What will happen if the system crashes in the middle of the mutation? How are you handling concurrent writes and reads?
Just a thought. I am diagnosed with ADHD as well and struggle at times.

actively spend nontrivial brain energy to even brush your teeth

I doubt you'll see this but this statement has really stuck in my mind. Do you think that neurotypicals aren't spending non-trivial brain energy to build and maintain habits?

I agree that this kind of thing is harder for those of us with ADHD. It is not just a discipline issue.

But, I don't know. I think people who aren't good at _____ often see people who are good at _____ and think it's just some kind of magical innate thing they didn't put any work into.
My hypothesis is that monetization on the web is harder so there are not as many resources spent on games in browsers. If anyone is willing to spend a lot of time on the game they are probably willing to install it, people arent conditioned to pay up front for websites, the UX around microtransactions isn't at all smooth.
Another post demonstrating my point. 35K people in the US alone die in traffic every year. We have normalized this figure (see your response) as we will normalize climate deaths.

What I would do about traffic deaths is irrelevant to my point.
Baserunner [1] does exactly this. I described using it for Firebase security research in my blog post [2].

[1] https://github.com/iosiro/baserunner

[2] https://saligrama.io/blog/post/firebase-insecure-by-default/
This is such a horrible standard. Imagine I put up a web server and only intend myself to access it. I put no security on the pages. Is Google guilty of a CFAA violation for visiting the site?
Numba is quite restrictive... to someone comfortable in C++, coercing my code into a form Numba likes sometimes feels no easier than writing an extension using Eigen types and pybind11.
Except we (new users) can't use it regardless, since signups are closed.
You trade flexibility for that promise of efficiency.

Since AWS prints money, Amazon-Retail could afford to experiment with stuff. For example, I'd argue that Prime Video hit the market a few years ahead of viability, when we were still in the "I have Netflix and it has All The Things" era of the market. Now they've got a ready-to-go platform and content while other players scramble.
Cool idea! How did you decide how to limit the colors for flags with many colors? For instance: https://flagpalette.com/kansas-flag-colors Kansas lists 5 colors but there are likely quite a few more.
What do you charge per kilometer, and what does the competition charge?
> At the end of the day, documents like this are written by lawyers in legalese that's not designed for ordinary people.

Does it have to be this way?
Ask HN: Was France's Web Browser censorship proposal inspired by anti-phishing?
Recently, France has been proposing that their government produce a list of websites that are banned, and have web browsers enforce the list and not just the ISP (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/22/liberte-egalite-fraternite-france-loses-its-marbles-on-internet-censorship/).

This is a crazy proposal and destined to be an unmitigated disaster. However, I recently had a realization: Did the politicians behind this proposal come up with it, because they were inspired by the bright-red "dangerous website ahead" pop-ups in Chrome and similar?

It's dumb from a technical standpoint, but arguably, web browsers set a precedent already for being capable of censoring by URL. In which case, did the "we'll just censor phishing websites" turn into a "slippery slope" in the minds of politicians that led to this?
If that fact pattern holds, then unless there's a California law governing this that I'm not aware of --- and even then, federal supremacy moots it, right? --- I think they did straightforwardly violate the CFAA, contra the claim in their response.

I am extremely not a lawyer but the pattern of legal posturing I've observed is that some lawyer makes grand over-reaching statements, the opposing lawyer responds with their own grand over-reaching statements.

"My clients did not violate the CFAA" should logically be interpreted as "good fucking luck arguing that my good faith student security researcher clients violated the CFAA in court".
Exclusive access? Source?
I wonder what the "Network" part of that referred to? The C64 didn't have much networking capability built in.
If only there was a way to measure mindless sharing…
But at what rate? The study doesn't say.
> does not support dates in URLs feature-rich.

If I’m getting what you mean correctly, Zola does support that, look for index transparency, add “transparent = true” to your _index.md, this post explains it for adding “blog” prefix [1] but you can do it with year prefix, then month prefix inside, your folders structure will be years, inside it months, inside it your posts, and your URL will be like this “site.com/year/month/title” (I did the same concept as you can see in these URLs [2]), that, or just write the date in your .md file as in “2023-May-some_title.md” like I did in my blog (empty blog, didn’t yet migrate but it explains it)[3]

[1] https://peterbabic.dev/blog/setting-url-prefix-in-zola

[2]

https://tamim.io/professional_projects/nerds-heavy-lift-dron...

https://tamim.io/resume/tech-stack/

[3] https://blog.tamim.io/2023-april-tbd-migrations
Billionaires building robot armies famously only works out well in fiction. I think Marvel used that as a major plot point.
Recently, an attempt has been made to perform a similar feat for the character Lara Croft of Tomb Raider. The conversational ability comes in addition to the ability to autonomously play the game. A detailed video on how it was done is here: https://youtu.be/0wTf_bbkW2U?si=EwB-NRvkj1zgEjVW

Additionally, an infinite conversation between AI generated Slavoj Zizek and Werner Herzog was posted here on HN ~10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437296

Using this CLI tool to simulate conversations between different historical philosophers might be insightful in addition to a amusing.
My only disappointment was watching them use a cutting implement as a pry bar, in the process deforming the only interesting detail on the box.
Interesting links, thanks.

Yes, we agree, but those pretending they can when they are backed by governmental powers can go pretty far in term of influence.