skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Scrapbook” company provides neat service, for tiny posts, with resource costs of less than $1 or a (doubtful) maximum of $10, per user, per year.

Healthy new way to share with friends and family.

Genuinely a valuable service.

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BUT Scrapbook leaves some conflicts of interest open by:

1. Knowing user’s real identities

2. Reading users posts

3. Accessing their friendships

4. Recording user behavior

5. (The worst) Giving itself permission to game user’s exposure to other’s posts

By itself, not a conflict of interest. But a real conflict given the above:

6. Gives itself permission to insert posts of its own or for hire

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Conflicts of interest don’t logically imply actual corruption.

But scale up Scrapbook to a billion or two users and the potential for farming users grows to $100’s of billions to $ Trillions of potential future money.

Now add shareholders demanding compounding returns.

Result: Maximum use of all conflicts of interest is ensured, regardless of negative externalities.

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Aquire of third party information integrated with user omniscience to create detailed psychological, financial, social dossier’s.

Psychology and experiments are mined to create ever improving strategies to guide users to non-scrapbooking behavior.

Anything that makes Scrapbook addictive. No matter how coercive, deceptive or destructive.

Anything that creates impulse purchases. No matter how manufactured purchase result impulses in quality improvements to users lives.

Crowdsource addictive material, both high quality & corrosive, by sharing profit stream. So everyone becomes a coercion collaborator, no matter how healthy their content is.

NOW, use some of the $100’s of billions to stay at the front of AI, to maximize the monetization of said conflicts of interest.

Hilarity ensues

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TLDR, said simply:

Society’s legal and cultural systems have not yet adapted to the extreme self-funding self-protecting metastasizing threats and negative sum games, that simple conflicts of interest, scaled to billions of people, and leveraged with automation & AI, create.
Yeah it works amazingly well. And offers some great features like offline translation and container tabs.

I have absolutely no issues with it. Websites all show perfectly, if I ever have an issue it's down to my many adblocking plugins blocking a little too much.
It is really hard to fight the advertising and luring of The Google machine. I never mind being annoying to my friends and relatives and talk about how Firefox is a safer and better alternative. People are often surprised that a choice even exists. To many just outside my circle, browser == Chrome , mail == Gmail, phone == Android, maps == Google Maps, payment solution == Gpay, and instant communication == WhatsApp.

It is hard to beat free.

My own 74 year old dad says.. be practical, I don’t care if Google wants to profile me as a 74 year old man interested in watching my regional language news and religious videos. Nor do I care if Google knows that I spend the little retirement money of mine buying these medicines or paying for the taxis. They can try targeting ads to me all they want, but good luck to them, I’m not going to book an expensive holiday in the Himalayas, nor am I going to buy something I don’t want to buy. I just want something that works in a way I have gotten used to. I don’t want change at my age.

I can sympathize with his argument. I just wish young people don’t find an argument like his..

We have regulations preventing some rich dude flooding the market with free product to gain a monopoly and then charge exorbitant prices. Why not the same for digital services in this internet age?
I wish we regulated internet services the same way. No “free” email, chat, social services paid for by creepy ad companies. The real cost of these services at the scale of the number of users is minuscule anyway. The field Google, Amazon, Meta and Apple plays at should be leveled for new competition - that is a Government’s duty to enable.
Yeah, I'm sure "Sovinform" is a trustworthy source on Trotsky...

WTF is this doing on Hacker News?
Why not just roll some blackouts to these businesses obviously not essential services?
Why is that? In this case it seems to have both helped provide grid stability whilst providing utility as a store/transfer of value. Seems like a win/win to me.

If the crypto miners hadn't existed then Texas may not have had the flexibility required to avoid blackouts. If Texas didn't have this mechanism in place then mining would be less efficient. Isn't this a great solution to excess renewable energy? What is there to curse?
> Riot said on Wednesday that the state's power grid operator paid the company $31.7 million in energy credits in August [...] to cut its energy consumption during a record-breaking heatwave in the state.

Miners help to stabilize the Texan power grid by providing a steady demand for power and get paid in ERNERGY CREDITS during an emergency when power is needed elsewhere. This is a win-win-win no matter how uninformed people are trying to spin this.
you should be ashamed.
You can audit binary code with tools like Ghidra and IDA Pro.

It takes a different mindset to find these type of bugs than it takes to develop software. I won't quite say they're orthogonal skill sets, but pretty close.

If the people finding these bugs don't want to work for Apple, Google Project Zero, etc. there's not really much Apple can do about it.
This is exactly the type of policies you need to address a drug epidemic.
It's because Go is a much better game.

Shogi is inferior though to Chess because it takes too long to play with the pieces being returnable.
Corsair Card, Built for Generative AI (256GB RAM and Claims 27x H100)
This looks great, it's a shame that you have to go all the way through the payment process to see "Not available in your country (Australia)" though..
Drawing circles point by point from sine and cosine seems pretty first principles to me.
You're right, and I thought of that about an hour after I'd posted that comment. D'oh!
I heard from a friend in a wine shop that even offline sales weren’t processing.
The problem with your argument and the point of the article is #6

Selling excess energy to bitcoin miners is fine. Having to pay them off when the grid is overloaded because they can’t turn their damn servers off for a week is what smells like the rest of the crypto bullshit.
No swag for me unless it disappears soon after I get it without throwing it away.

I used to love to get the stuff then I noticed it was piling up. I felt bad about throwing it out yet I had no need for it. I had to work to find people that could use it so I could give it away.

It's just a waste for everyone involved. Don't give it and don't accept it.
https://www.e-junkie.com/
This is the second comment I've seen in this thread comparing "Gitflow" to what was typical in SVN. Having been there when SVN was in vogue, I can assure you that our process looked nothing like Gitflow. SVN encourages what we now refer to as "trunk based development". The default branch was even called "trunk".
Yes, "work" VPNs, site-to-site and many other topologies don't change the default route, but "privacy" VPNs like Mullvad usually do – there is no group of hosts to route traffic for other than simply "the entire internet".

That said, I'm aware of at least one that tries to support an "exempt/excluded hosts" feature, but it does this via some hack using its local DNS resolver and modifying the routing table on the fly, which does not work reliably.
Yeah that’s what I’m referring to. IIRC it requires clicking/confirming a dialog to actually run the “update”, although I didn’t look that carefully before it got taken down.
I think the parent poster is advocating for proof-of-stake as an alternative since it’s generally less power hungry (though not entirely so). Just speculating.
Apple doesn't want it's users to have an interior experience. It might be subtle so it makes sense that they don't want fully uninformed users from enabling it for no real reason. Currently it's not clear anyone who's not under risk of state sponsored monitoring should bother enabling it. Thus it's not clear why they should message it any other way.
It would be interesting if it could make balanced cards. I wonder what kind of crazy op decks these generated cards allows for
That's confusing and if I understand correctly misleading. Here's an alternate summary that I think is more meaningful. tl;dr the state is in the userspace client, and passed to every operation:

> A stateless decoder is a decoder that works without retaining any kind of state between processed frames. This means that each frame is decoded independently of any previous and future frames, and that the client is responsible for maintaining the decoding state and providing it to the decoder with each decoding request.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/v...
I think sending SMS to emails and receiving SMS from emails is a functionality of the mobile network. You should be able to do that in any app that can send/receive SMS.

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/
For thousands of years human existence, society made adjustments based on effects of observed harmful activities and habits, and codified them in the form of taboos and myths to pass them down to future generations. This happened without embarking on formal studies.

My argument is that collective human intuition is good enough in many cases to avoid harming society, we are the evidence, because our ancestors survived
For me, the most important missing part is the sandboxing.
Dumb question - how does consuming energy help stabilize the grid? I thought if you used more than capacity, then the grid breaks down - kind of like the circuit breaker at home.
For a new iPhone user are there alternatives to using iMessage for texts to avoid this?
A. Test for window.fetch.

B. Check if a link is visited.

Whether these two even remotely fall into the same category is left as an exercise for readers.
Here is link to product spec sheet PDF

https://www.d-matrix.ai/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/d-Matrix-...

(not affiliated, just waiting for llm christmas)
I've usually clicked on the links that Phind provides as a source. Don't you find them useful?
Recent and related:

Yggdrasil: The grand unification of programming languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37322122 - Aug 2023 (3 comments)
I know there's been a lot of gripes against git-flow but I think one of the reasons it had such an impact is that project maintainers/leaders are looking for some sort of "workflow" or process around git.

As a project grows, you want some process around how to name branches, when to use tags, how to handle merges, from which branch to base your work on, etc.

Git flow gave all the answers in an authoritative way. You could just say to junior team members/contributors that the project uses git-flow and send them the link to the doc.

I applied git-flow to my projects but simplified the process, eventually abandoning almost all its principles. It did give me a starting point to think about what we really needed, what is important and how to communicate it with a team.

One particular process I am quite fond of is to use the develop branch as a free for all integration/testing branch with automated deployment to a test (dev) environment with absolutely no guarantee of working whatsoever to any stake holder. This allows devs to demo their work, collaborate and spot conflicts early, without being slowed down by fear of breaking something or waiting for a code review.

Unlike git-flow, that develop branch is a dead end. It does not get merged to master or any other branch ever and gets force-push (reset) when things go wrong.

Feature branches eventually get proper code review, their history can be cleaned up and eventually merged (or dropped) via a proper pull request.
I've taken a crack at coherently putting Shen up there but if someone has a better idea, let me know.
For those interested in playing and learning Shogi, take a look over at the great site https://lishogi.org -- a fork of LiChess for Shogi that includes real-time and correspondence play, AI opponents, analysis, puzzles and more. One of my favorite variants, Kyoto Shogi, is also available. The website https://pychess.org also has a ton of interesting and unique variants both traditional (Makruk) and modern (Chennis!).
Point of note that most of the ADHD drugs (stimulants, the ones that work) are Schedule II, which makes them a PITA to obtain, even with lawful prescriptions. Most opiates are in this category as well.

Schedule IV is basically the benzos(Xanax)/z-drugs(Ambien), which is ludicrous considering drugs in that category aren't supposed to have much addiction potential.

S3 drugs are mostly weak opiates in formulations that help prevent abuse and steroids.

For purposes of studies, S1 is the only real deal breaker, because by definition, there are no medical uses for these drugs. The rest of the schedules are roughly equivalent in terms of PITA for studies and research, only nuance with dispensing to patients varies significantly.
WTH is sovinform? This seems ~weird~.
Given how much social filtering is implicit in much of life, self-assorting, it should be seen as "opposites [in a mere few attributes] attract".

Narcissism of small differences provides an informative context for opposites. People from deeply similar niches, of social habits, education, work and other attributes, pair well with other people, highly similar, who maintain a few essential differences.

I feel quite baited into replying.
> stuff they brand as “privacy respecting” that actually collects data for their own use

The kool-aid is in their definition of the word "privacy." You and I might think "privacy" means "other entities aren't observing you" but Google in their benevolence knows that it really means "Google will keep your data safe from third parties." Their newspeak doesn't even allow the concept of "data that Google does not collect."

(A friend of mine was involved in the launch of Google Allo. I asked them if it would be possible to use the virtual assistant features offline without sending everything to Google. They never spoke to me again.)
Dog whistles are terrible as is antisemitism. I'm so ignorant I don't know that is definitely a racist dog-whistle or not and I'm not sure I can bring myself to get down into that sewer.

Separately I'm not as familiar with this as maybe you are. How was communism actually funded in those days? Small donors from the working class?
If there is more demand for power energy producers have an incentive to create the capacity to provide more power. Which comes in handy when you need more power, e.g. during a heat wave.
Interesting! Is that actually the letter of the specification, or a common/industry-standard interpretation? I hate VPN setups like that; it often makes videoconferencing, browsing of non-corp sites etc. unnecessarily slow.
I recently discovered this combination and my mind was blown a bit.

The key part to me is ChatGPT --> Code --> Execute in real world (not sandboxed) --> achieve whatever you want out there via APIs.

I am eager to learn about how this works and maybe look to replicate or push for similar connectivity with other code execution / notebook environments (say Amazon Sagemaker)

If anyone can link me to disccussion groups, active communities or github projects that are toying with these ideas -- I would love to dive in.
Unless proven by leaked testimonials I would not fully trust GrapheneOS to be fully safe either. Maybe they have zero days as well and we just didn't discover them because of obscurity but NSO bought them and uses them.

My dad used to say "Known devil is better than unknown angel."
I'm consistently surprised on certain tech communities including this one's mostly negative view on crypto energy consumption. The positions are typically framed as cryptos transaction cost is wasteful compared to legacy solutions. With crypto though, that cost encompasses the infrastructure AND transaction cost. It's often compared to just the pure transaction cost of say, VISA. What is the HVAC cost to cool and heat every VISA commercial property? What is the energy cost of all their employees commuting to those offices? How efficient is VISA generally as a company, is every manager and IC being cooled and heated and driving to the office actively keeping their transaction cost at a global minimum? Given all that multiplied by every company that is needed to maintain the legacy finance global infrastructure, I'm skeptical that crypto is even worse even if it incorporates wasting energy by design, would like to see any projections/numbers around this if anyone has looked into it with infrastructure energy cost considered in this way.
I don't understand this analogy. The miner is being compensated for lost production in exchange for grid stability. If mining didn't exist, the same process would occur for the next easiest consumer to shutdown. The only way your analogy works is if you consider industry bad (playing loud music).

This situation is ideal for both parties.
As someone who has played Magic off and on since 1997, most of these are actually quite terrible. None of them really make sense from a cost / utility standpoint. The images for the names of the cards and the flavor texts are all pretty good. But this model clearly didn't pick up enough details around the cost and mechanics.
> I don't really get why there isn't just one obvious reliable and centralized way to install software on this thing.

To be fair — there isn’t that on any desktop OS.
It's a land mine ridden topic, but Elon has the finesse of a monster truck.

The ADL, like many non-profits these days, seems to be rotting from the inside.

If I were ADL leadership, renewal and a return to the original mission would be my main focus, but it would have been for a while now. Musk is just the latest critic, but we cannot forget the Drop the ADL campaign from 2020. That was a left-wing campaign and very influential Leftist organisations like the DSA were willing to sign it [1].

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[1] https://droptheadl.org/signatories/
Make and release lots of small games before making a big one
The even more interesting thing is that all functionality increases the attack surface and therefore makes all devices more vulnerable. The most secure state is not to have the device at all or, failing that, to have it permanently turned off. This is true of every device, not just apple.

The reason people possess devices is to use functionality and therefore they have to make some tradeoffs in terms of security. The default state is what apple currently think is the best tradeoff in terms of risk vs functionality for most people. For people with an extremely unusual threat profile it stands to reason a different tradeoff might be appropriate.
You don't have to lower the taxes, you just have to make the property taxes equal regardless of when you bought the property. While extremely unpopular, this would solve so many problems for California.
Yeah I've had a mixed history with psychedelics. Imitation LSD(probably DOx on blotter) left me with panic attacks and HPPD around 16 years old. Later on I had great experiences with LSD, psilocybin and mescaline over a couple decades. Recently, a strong mushroom trip left me with months of spasmodic torticollis(violet head jerks to the side), migraines where I would lose half my vision, and seriously diminished my cognitive abilities.

I don't think psychedelics should be illegal, but I don't think we should be encouraging folks to do them until we understand them more completely.
"the state of california is known to the state of california to cause cancer" - placard on jetway on way into california from origins unknown.

You can't know every risk. You can be paralyzed by fear and never grow. Life is a calculated risk. Do dirty things in a seperate space from your living. Wear PPE. As others have said the risks for hobbies and work are different. Hell we may all be having mesothelioma from the atmosphere in 30 years.

And sitting at indoor hobbies will also kill you from heart disease etc.

You are not getting out of here alive.
Mama and papa are used in Japan too. See constructions like “mama-tomo” (“mom friends”) and “papa-katsu” (“sugar daddy”).
In Hindi we only call the crystallized version chini possibly due to Chinese figuring out the crystallization process. The crude version is called Shakar in Hindi.
The headline initially sounds really positive then you realize the current count is 50% of what it was just in 2011.
The Amiga used to do this, I think it was Amiga Key + arrows.
Um, sweety, Chrome is the user-tracking ad platform.
In what sense is this Apple having a monopoly on your data? If it's "locked on your device" then they don't have it. This is literally what we're asking for, or at least half of it. I agree it'd be nice if we could retrieve everything from the device ourselves, but I'll settle for this (and ensure I never give my iPhone the last copy of anything I care about) over carrying a hostile observer everywhere I go.
No, Evolution is GNOME’s email client. ;)
> *Not actual customers. Company logos are for illustrative purposes only.

fake it until you make it i guess
> The only way your analogy works is if you consider industry bad (playing loud music).

It's very obvious that the person you replied to consider crypto mining inherently bad.

I don't necessarily agree with them, but I believe the absolute majority of HN users hold this view.
This is like saying burning gasoline in a pit is a good use of gasoline.
Yep! I don’t actually know how to pronounce that but I would figure it out when I went there. I feel like if people from Germany want me to call it Doytschlond when I am there that is their prerogative and I should respect that ;)

Oftentimes though locals are like “just call it Sweden, we know you will butcher Sverige” or “just call it Finland, we know you will mess up Suomi”

It actually often confuses people when you are speaking in English and use the appropriate pronunciation for that language. Like it would throw someone off if I was in Sweden speaking English and said the Swedish way of saying Gothenburg instead (which, depending on where you are from in Sweden, can sound something like “YOT eh boy” with a silent or very soft G at the end)
A. Provides bits of identifying information.

B. Provides bits of identifying information.

To me it seems they're in the exact same category.
I used to do the same, but these days, getting TLS certificates for local services is actually not that hard anymore.

If you have local DNS, you can e.g. request a wildcard subdomain Letsencrypt certificate and then distribute the corresponding key and certificate to your LAN hosts.
Troupo is citing facts, you're citing incentives/habits. While incentives are powerful and those habits have been borne out repeatedly by Apple, one of you has the clearly more documented argument. To be convincing, you need to demonstrate that Apple chose to deprecate Flash to help establish a walled garden. You've shown that they'd probably _want_ to, but that's still one step away.
Isn't that just a Bolt?
The "I can't communicate anything without a full video chat" types are the worst for sure.
Because arbitrarily penalizing businesses during an emergency incentivizes businesses to move to locations which don't do this. Texas tries to be friendly to business and it seems to be working.
That "inside the ice cave" picture is unreal.
Transcripts:

https://podtext.ai/lex-fridman-podcast/381-chris-lattner-fut...

https://www.transcriptforest.com/en/lex-fridman-podcast/1727...
That's debatable. Maybe shogi is superior to chess because it's a longer game and pieces can change side. Or maybe Chinese chess are better because they are a faster game with less pieces and more movement.

Go is definitely better than all of them though, at least for me, and yet it's less popular than any game of chess in any country.
The article incorrectly states orange is derived from the Sanskrit word Narang नारङ्ग, but this word itself is a loan word from proto Dravidian (ancestor of Tamil) நாரம் (nāram)