skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It could also be said that hotels are the ones being taxed(it lowers demand and how much they can charge customers) and they are profitable businesses just like car dealerships and (can) have a lot of lobbyists that influence local governments.

Funny, every time I've stayed at a hotel, they charged me those taxes. Trying to say the hotels are being taxed is semantics.

> Hotel guests profit a lot from good roads, police, regulations, fire departments etc. etc.

In my experience, not to the extent of the additional taxes. The additional taxes frequently add up to 10% above and beyond the base sales tax rate for every single guest, for every single room night.

> If your point is that out of state residents are taxed unreasonably, then the I-95 tolls in the small part of the highway that goes through Delaware is a better example.

I'm sure someone else could come up with an even more egregious example. I don't think that obviates my example, particularly when the source article specifically discussed fees at hotels.

> Junk fees are generally referring to fees that are only shown at the very last point of purchashing, right before payment after you have already invested a lot of time picking your choices based on the lower cost it showed earlier.

.... That's what these are ...

> There's no reason why initial advertised prices couldn't include taxes, except the hotel's greed to make it look more attractive and then claim 'look, the govt also charges fees, ignore the ones we have tacked on'.

Any of these fees can and should be disclosed ahead of time. I don't see why you think it is unreasonable to discuss whether or not these fees should even be charged in the first place, though, or point out that it isn't always big, bad businesses that are the source of all of these fees.
Ah yes, everyone knows that the solution for "I'm working too many jobs" is "have children" /s

I've read some dumbass reasons to oppose UBI, but this is a new frontier. It's like you got your "nobody wants to work anymore" and "there aren't enough white babies" moral panics tangled up.
That's incorrect.

Because you're missing the part that in certain circumstances, when you are performing both the sale and the purchase, you can choose whatever sale price you want.

E.g. most recent genuine market trades were at $0.50, but you offer for sale at $0.60 and buy your offer at $0.60. Then do the same at $0.65 and $0.70.

Then it looks to outsiders like the price really is going up, and that can be used for all sorts of things.

You can look it up in Wikipedia if you want, which explicitly gives one of the motivations for wash trading as:

"- Falsely driving up asset prices by fabricating trade history with increasing prices" [1]

I'm not redefining anything at all. ;)

(It is also used for increasing volume, but that's not the only motivation.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade
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> there is risk here. if this goes in front of the wrong judge, we could be in trouble

This is it.

I find it a compelling argument there is tremendous risk to AGPL if Google says so. They not only talk the talk but walk the walk: Google just indemnified AI (C) without limits putting 1.7 trillion dollars behind that statement. The same company said "nah, we are afraid of AGPL".
Oh yes, forgot to mention that.
> Against this model open source software is offering zero resistance.

Pushover licenses like MIT offer zero resistance to it, but that's just a reason to use better licenses like AGPLv3 instead, not to abandon open source entirely.
> "digital cloning" type tech that will allow for you and your likeness to talk to your quadruple great grandkids and leave some of your essence behind

yeah i'm with the luddites on this one, let the dead rest. talking to a simulation of your ancestors for $19.99/month after 30 free trial, get out of town.

A version of this I enjoyed? Visiting the living museum at plymouth, massachusets. A friend of mine got to meet and have her photo taken with an actor portraying her 7x-great-grandfather that came over on the mayflower. It was sweet for him to stay in character while they chatted about their different lives. It was an interaction between humans.

All that facebook wants to do for its mission of connecting the world is take up marketshare of time we could be using to interact with each other, and interact with their softwate instead. its gross.
> Unless your CPI is comprised of raw commodities like Iron Ore and Salt and Copper

In which case it won’t be a Consumer Price Index at all, as those things in their raw forms (well, salt is close, I guess) aren’t exactly consumer goods.

Of course, we already have industry-specific Producer Price Indexes which cover the raw materials and other inputs used in those industries.
Yes, institute policies that trash the state, and then flee the results and take it to other states.

What could go wrong?
> 80's or 90's open source? There was no effective internet. There were only BBSes and Compuserve. FOSS took off in the 00's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

Initial release: 1978

Just because there was no effective internet doesn't mean computers didn't exist and people weren't working on projects together.
on the flip side to this, I don't have Spotify because curating music is a hobby of mine. The research from various sources - forums, FB groups, Discogs, Bandcamp mailing lists, etc. is part of the journey.
Dual license? No! Everyone enjoys the freedoms of the AGPLv3 (or later). Customers can do whatever they want with the program -- that's a selling point!! Customers can use the software for whatever purpose they want. Most of them are everyday people who enjoy not having any bullshit mixed in, like product keys, seat counts, or other anti-competitive measures commonly employed by proprietary software companies.

It's a very simple business model: people pay me money, and in return they get a copy of the software and the complete corresponding source code, and all future updates to the software for 365 days.

Good software, when licensed freely, is more competitively advantageous than an equal proprietary counterpart because it does more for the customer.
It also could be a purely financial decision. Bandcamp claimed $51m in revenue (I assume gross?) in 2016 [1] and, per reporting, had about $20m in net revenue in 2022 [2]. With the reported 210 employees, that's $95k in net revenue (not profit -- wages / costs are not yet accounted for) per employee. That is very low. You could easily see an acquirer wanting to be more profitable and cutting things like editorial.

[1] https://blog.bandcamp.com/2016/05/19/bandcamp-downloads-stre...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...
Only works if the project did copyright reassignment, so that there's an entity that's feasible to negotiate with.
They raised and went public in a different era.

Public Investors have significantly higher expectations for rates of return, and plenty of OSS-core companies raised significantly larger late stage rounds. That said, try IPOing a tech company with $15-70M a year in revenue in the 2020s.

Those numbers were the norms in the late 90s/early 2000s, which allowed companies like RedHat or Sun Microsystems to IPO, while still being able to ramp up their own vision and product lines.

Until almost a year ago you could raise IPO-sized valuations in the private market, while dealing with less regulatory scrutiny and overhead.
Ask HN: YC Rejection Email
Does YC send out rejection email (without interview) to all the co-founders or just the one who submitted the application?
> From that perspective, mirroring the microcode->kernel downcall mechanism (interrupts) at the kernel->user boundary makes plenty of sense.

Also called the "inner platform effect."
This talk by Tricia Wang along the same lines is worth a watch! The idea that we learn things by tracking or even with surveys leaves out the insights we get from actual human experience that's not purely quantifiable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaOUJa9fjXU
This is not accurate.

NTLM provides signing and sealing using a session key. It is the responsibility of the protocol using NTLM for auth to use that key to sign or seal. The problem is that this feature is frequently turned off.

So it's actually not accurate to say "NTLM is vulnerable to relay attacks". If someone turns off signing in SMB to improve performance, that is not a problem with NTLM, that is a problem with the operator turning off signing. If a door has a lock but it's left unlocked, is that a problem with the security of the door?

NTLM also calculates a MIC over all of the NTLMSSP tokens which provides integrity protection independent of the protocol using NTLM. That MIC includes the target SPN so even if signing is turned off, it cannot be hacked.

Regarding hashes, there are two types of NTLM hashes. There are the password equivalent hashes which are only accessible through hacking system memory of a compromised machine that has access to them. It suffices to say, this is not the path of least resistance for an attacker. This is also known as "pass the hash".

Then you have what are called NetNTLMv2 hashes within the NTLMSSP tokens exchanged during authentication. These are muxed from the password and challenge using MD4 and MD5 but also RC4 if key exchange is used (session key mentioned above). This is not trivial to break. It could easily take a room full of GPUs months and maybe never depending on the generator and complexity of the password.

The problem with NTLM is not so much with the NTLM protocol itself but with the various implementations that either don't implement the necessary security features or they simply get turned off. Last I checked Windows Server domain members do not require clients to negotiate signing by default. If an acceptor required an SPN and a MIC, that would stop a relay attack even if signing wasn't used (because they would not be able to forge the MIC without the password and the MIC factors in the SPN).

Another issue is that the security community needs to find issues to justify their existence. NTLM being oldest and relatively weak crytographically naturally draws a lot of critisizm. But the facts are obscured and hyperbolized regularly. People largely regurgitate what they hear without really knowing what they're talking about. They need to to make it at least sound like they know what they're talking about. The only way anyone REALLY knows how this stuff works is to studying the documentation ([MS-NLMP].pdf), looking at captures and step through computations in code.
There's something much worse than "I'm not a lawyer" and that is "I'm not YOUR lawyer" -- you can practically assume that if you are reading a document produced by a lawyer you're not paying for, it is because it's trying to influence/scare you to act against your best interests (and into the lawyer's employers'). And FUD is a technique which is well defined in the handbook.
> but only I may use it commercially

Even that is not true. Of course you can use APGL'd software commercially, you just have to make your own modifications accessible.
Can we just tax carbon and stop with all the bozo virtue signaling? Pretty please?
Yeah, there has been some real burning over here. I can see the plusses of the new model, but there are also costs.
Hardware video acceleration in a browser is somehow still a mess on Linux.

I've spent hours trying every unholy combination of browser/version/Wayland/x11/flags/command line arguments and still can't hardware decode a YouTube video on a pretty standard Intel igpu laptop. Something that should really just work out of the box.
If much of your development is spent on implementing business logic in a language you are familiar with, and you have a decent IDE, I don't know what you use stackoverflow for at that frequency. Occasionally you may need to consult stackoverflow for a specific issue in string manipulation or API usage, but that's not something you run into a lot.
This paints a rosy picture. In 2010, those 6 figures would buy you a decent house. Today a 100k salary buys as much as maybe 50k ten years ago: a decent car, an ok rent and some food.
That only works if the total capacity to produce products for that market is greater than the total demand for products in that market.

If people want 100 units of something, and 5 competing manufacturers can only produce 90 units total (and can only expand to, say, 110 units in a "short" timeframe), offering subsidies doesn't reduce the price.

If the government creates a demand shock, it doesn't matter how much competition exists in the market. They don't need to collude for prices to go up.

Look at what happened to toilet paper during Covid. Were Walmart, Amazon, McMaster and Grainger all colluding on toilet paper prices? Or was there a demand shock?

> In any case, EV prices have been dropping over recent years, and I haven't seen a $7500 bump in prices, just in more people being willing to go for a nicer vehicle instead.

All car prices have been dropping because we're getting past the Covid supply shocks. And if you go back farther, EV price drops are mostly the result of introducing new less-luxurious models (the current base Model 3 still costs more than the first RWD Model 3, and it has been decontented--missing features like parking sensors).
I see a lot of comments focusing only on the ad-free part of Freetube, however there are really good reasons to use it apart from that. I was a ad-blocker Youtube website user and I switched to only using Freetube (even before the "adpocalypse") because of changes Youtube has been making/removing. Here are some things that made me switch:

- mega fast compared to youtube website (especially for firefox users)

- separates videos/shorts/live on your subscription feed into custom tabs (can also hide any)

- search results are actually usable and shown in a grid (No "People also watched|For you|Previously watched|Latest" every 1/2 results taking your whole screen)

- can customize scroll over video player action (skip, volume, playback rate)

- set custom forward/rewind and playback rate intervals

- set default video quality

- >2x playback rate (up to 10x)

- distraction free settings (you can hide almost anything you want on each page, examples: trending/recommended videos, the likes/dislikes, the live chat, live streams, premieres, profile pictures in comments and much more)

- hide videos from specific channels

- display video titles without excessive capitalisation option

- easily export/import your subscriptions to any format

- multiple local accounts each with its own subscriptions

The "still needs some work" things:

- playlist support is not in yet (you can save videos but they all go to one place and you can't order them)

- some parts of the UI, although very usable/fast, need some love (looking at you settings page)

- tab support would be great instead of having to open new windows
(zk-)SNARKs are essentially succinct (sub-linear / O(log)) arguments of knowledge. Essentially the arguments (proofs) boils down to the Schwartz-Zippel Lemma which states that two non-identical polynomials disagree on a random x-value w.h.p.

Its a rabbit hole but it is an interesting niche if you like this kind of stuff.

To get you started, you can read about the KZG scheme which is even O(1):

https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-...

and if you want more, I suggest you start with the zk-MOOC.
This pattern already works and would work with this change, you'd just need to define `/foo/bar` first.
While I agree with him in substance, I think it's also worth pointing out that the "negative nancy" has been a rhetorical device he's been using throughout his career. So instead of "What I see today horrifies me", it should more accurately be "What I've been seeing has consistently horrified me, to this day". No real newsflash here.
Take a vacation
> you did not find anything worthy of reporting. You were fooled by an AI into believing that.

The author's right. Reading the report I was stunned; the person disclosing the so-called vulnerability said:

> To replicate the issue, I have searched in the Bard about this vulnerability.

Does Bard clearly warn to never rely on it for facts? I know OpenAI says "ChatGPT may give you inaccurate information" at the start of each session.
Well, yeah, with the "implicit registration" model you can either split it up or do it in a central place, whereas if they would require you to do it in a central place, you wouldn't have that choice. It probably boils down to "library" vs. "framework" - Go's standard library doesn't want (as much as possible) to be a framework that forces you to do things its way, and as far as I'm concerned that's ok...
There are plenty of alternatives like the Business Source License that are perfectly acceptable for majority of the use cases.
Assuming you’re not being sarcastic, what would be your next move on Monday after you’ve created your working prototype?
It doesn't matter what the code actually is, or that you can see it, you still have to trust people because there is simply too much of it, even if you happen to be a coder, which 99% of people should not be required to be. This is a FUCKING MORONIC thing to have to spell out, but I guess here we are.
The future of cloud services and BYOC
Even if correct (doubtful), you also get to experience actual disease caused by the virus. Which, sure, for many folks, was mild.

But, for many other folks, it was decidedly not mild at all. The funny thing is you don't hear as much from the latter group of folks - because, extrovert or not, lots of them stopped talking altogether.
So does the power point that 95% of laptops are plugged into and they don't charge $200 for 8gb of memory either.
Yes. If you aren't exercising, try it. It can make a surprising difference.
Maybe it’s a hot take (I didn’t think so until the violent reaction) but I felt the label was accurate. I like NPR a lot , but certainly the fact that liberal policymakers vote in favor of its funding affects their content. Do we really consider ourselves that much better than other nations that their state media is labeled as such but ours has a high moral calling that is unaffected by dollars?
Sad to see what has happened to BandCamp. My only gripe with BandCamp is the 128kbps streaming of full songs without purchase. If you are hell-bent on allowing full songs to be streamed before someone buys, just go all-in and allow full quality.
Can you elaborate on that? Sounds interesting.

I’m exactly 35 and in the same situation as the OP.
Take a vacation or pick up a new hobby or organized sporting activity.
> Why have children if you can live on UBI and not have to work?

Why have children if you have to work?
It sounds like we’re either measuring the wrong thing or putting too much weight behind a measurement that sums up an inherently complex system. This measurement matters enough to be able to petition days to be excluded, why can’t we just codify the exclusion of clearly out-of-normal datapoints? Ignoring everything else, a random spike caused by anything transient is not useful information to us, our goals need to be aligned to the trend over time.
Risk Associated with Reentry Disposal of Satellites from Proposed Constellations
Meta's unique approach to developing AI puzzles Wall Street, but techies love it
It's hardly brilliant. People started storing CSAM on blockchains more than five years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/child-abu...
The only thing that will die is the open source rug pull model where companies dominate their space by having an open ecosystem and a large community of volunteers and then unilaterally switch the license terms from under everyone so that the founding team and VCs can make billions. Efforts like OpenTofu have thankfully shown us that the community can organize and take back control of their projects, and I really hope we see more such forks.

Going forward as a contributor your best bet is to direct your efforts towards a project sponsored by a reputable open source foundation, not a VC-funded startup.
Make a change. Something significant enough to be noticeable.

Change your job. Change your relationship. Change the city where you live. Change your primary hobby. Change your friends. Go back to school or start a business. Go somewhere you've never been before, the further away the better.

You don't have to (and probably shouldn't) do all of these, but you should probably do at least one of them. And changing your job seems to be one of the more effective and easiest ones, in my experience, and may naturally facilitate a few other changes as well.

Also take a break before the change happens, if you can. Like tell a new job you'll be available to start two weeks after you quit the other job (don't word it like that, just say you'll be available to start like 4 weeks after accepting a job offer). You probably could use at least a couple of weeks, if not more, to not have to think about code.
I worked on this at Facebook very briefly. I believe the project was called Aquila internally.

I worked with a famous engineer who joined Facebook from a well known british aircraft manufacturer. He was an aerodynamics expert and was trying to solve the problems of flutter and other dynamic instability in the extremely large, high aspect ratio, lightweight composite wing.

I wasn't officially told this, but I believe the reason the project failed was two fold:

1. Traditional satellites became cheap enough that high altitude pseudo satellites weren't worth it anymore.
2. Facebook free basics (internet.org) achieved enough success partnering with traditional mobile network operators that it wasn't needed.

I have some pretty crazy anecdotes to share about the project if anyone is interested?
Interestingly if you needed an antenna for 1080 MHz but ordered one for 1080 kHz it'd probably show up on the back of a tractor trailer rig with a crane to offload it.
A Brave New World springs to mind.
How about zip-bombs?
This is pure propaganda article. AGPL is a great license. You just need to provide a separate commercial license for your customers. It looks fishy when someone advocates for open source but with option to make it proprietary. You can have it proprietary for a price.
A seaweedFS volume store sounds like a good candidate to split some of the performance volumes across the nvme queues. You're supposed to give it a whole disk to use anyway.
ChatGPT: A Faux Scientist or a Promising Tool for Science?
I genuinely have no idea what you're referring to by "stringly-typing all over stdlib". I've written Go every day for the better part of a decade and used the standard library the whole time. What standard library functions require passing in the string of a type?
> “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

Funny thing is that it seems to apply to intersubjective phenomena too. For example, a "limited liability corporation" is made entirely out of shared delusions of people, but is a real thing under this quote, in the sense that it remains even if you or I stop believing in it. However, if sufficiently many people stop believing at once, it will go away.

(And so will things like money, rule of law, or civilization.)
AGPL is very clearly a nonfree license, despite what the FSF says.
> Then there’s the aesthetic problem. When products are developed for the elderly, they tend to be ugly and an unwanted signal of fragility.

Just an observation: My main takeaway from The Design of Everyday Things was that design should make it obvious what the thing is for, and how to use it. Affordance is the big keyword. I think these mobility tools succeed in that respect. Maybe his point here is that an ugly cane makes it look like it's a tool for dying slowly, but a more likely explanation is that it is what he's saying on the surface: that aesthetics matter too. I wonder whether this is a change of heart, of just a change of emphasis for this particular article.