skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If the Supreme Court sides with the 5th Circuit, thereby forcing social media sites to publish or not publish certain types of speech, in effect the government will ironically be trampling on the First Amendment rights of social media companies. "

Uh, the Bill of Rights does not apply to corporations. It applies to humans. I recognize no other entities with rights.
We seem to remember it differently. As far as I understood it, the health workers were pushing for general lockdown in order to stop the spread overwhelming the services for everyone. Everyone was at risk in the sense that what would have normally been minor issues would have become serious with no one or no facility to treat them.
It sounds like the author first says that the word "a11y" is not accessible because it's jargon, but then says that jargon is ok as long as it's defined somewhere. He then proceeds to compare the alternative word "accessibility" with "A11y" and finds they are slightly different in meaning. So it sounds like if we want to use the word "a11y", just make sure it's defined somewhere, and know that there are no exact alternatives. Is that accurate?

Personally a lot of this a11y stuff is complicated and confusing to me. I am trying my best to be a responsible dev, but it feels overwhelming sometimes.
There's no way to have E2E encryption that's strong against government overreach that doesn't also facilitate crime full stop. It's a moral conundrum that anyone interested in preserving privacy is going to have to grapple with in the end, your tools are going to be used by criminals to evade justice no matter how many exceptions or tools you try to include to differentiate between "good guys" and "bad guys".

Even things in the neighborhood of Apple's hash and device scans can only detect existing minimally altered images and also fall down to context if they try to detect more general issues like "nude children". We don't even have to get hypothetical about false positives of anti-CSAM measures [0] they're already out there happening. The devices are blind to context and the occurrence of actual CSAM are rare (blessedly) but there's a whole genre of "my kid did something cute in the tub" that look a lot like it without the context to a machine.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2022/08/22/google-locked-account-medi...
Remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from the Gov.uk Assets Domain
An acquaintance who is a California Highway Patrol officer said they are trained not to use the word "accident" and instead use "collision" as the generic term for the class of incidents for that reason: "accident" is a conclusion about the mental state of the people involved, "collision" is the observed fact.

It may turn out to be an accident, it may turn out to be an intentional act. It may turn out to be unclear or irrelevant which it is. But what is known initially (and often all that is ever resolved) is that it is a collision.
A lot ado about the M3.

Just another SOC that will no doubt be both faster and consume a little less electricity.

I’m happy with my MacBook Air with the M1, it still feels like “alien technology” sometimes.

But let’s be honest. It’s a CPU and a GPU. Apple doesn’t need the extra attention for its new chips.
I find that Taleb’s take on this phenomenon makes the most sense. He argues that due to the internet, everything is now connected and this causes massive power laws. It would be much better if things were decoupled a bit again because distributed systems are much more robust.
It works! Can't seem to find the option in GitHub README or the documentation though
It works well if the tasks are short and well-described. Long, complicated tasks descend into odysseys where one person zones out or gets completely lost as the other person just ends up treating them as a clumsy proxy for the IDE. Furthermore, it rarely works online.
Fucoidan is the best treatment. It handles the issues in the article directly. Mark my words that people will catch on to this more and more in the coming years.
People are anxious about different things. Most anxious people aren’t anxious about data privacy and security.
Exactly. There is a moral issue against eating cephalopods (as opposed to other mollusks like oysters or clams) based on their higher cognition (on par with many mammals by some standards), but this is a different issue than the fact that forced labor may be involved as well.
Generally I appreciate Elon Musk’s work a lot. He created two world-changing companies in SpaceX and Tesla. I wanted him to be good at running Twitter/X.

It seemed like a good match. Staid company meets indefatigable executive.

His early moves prompted a lot of pushback but were generally wise: Diversified away from ad revenue. Introduced breaking changes to accustom the user base to faster development. Cut costs they couldn’t afford by shuttering a data center. Shrunk a bloated team to die-hards via whaling-and-culling. Not least, open sourced some recommender system code, and largely solved the content moderation problem via Community Notes.

Individually, all good steps. Sure, there were many misfires along the way: the verification system, launch of Twitter Blue, and erratic public ideation of potential features.

But I am ready to declare the Musk&Twitter/X experiment a failure.

The crux of the matter is this: Twitter exists as part of an ecosystem. Elon has alienated a large part of that ecosystem, both in terms of creators and advertisers.

I don’t know whether the network effect will tip or the business will run out of cash first, but I am confident it will not grow enough to justify the investment.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe alternate revenue streams and the value of Twitter’s data for AI training will be enough to keep it viable.

But I’m just not seeing the path.
Oops, this was meant to be a comment on another thread.
I completely agree that self-driving and electric cars aren't the answer but investing in public transport is. You won't get an argument out of me about that.
.sharp is a brand TLD like .apple or .ford

One cool trick is to learn about a TDL is to visit nic.TLD to get info about the domain, for example https://nic.sharp/
The problem with passion is that most people are passionate about 3 things: food, fashion and entertainment. This makes these areas extremely saturated and further still the distribution curve of success in these fields is brutal
The companies are all hostile towards customers finding out how to privately contact them in order to cut their customer support.

That trend started before the trend of smartphones/texting/mobile.
Problem is then company is going to only act if they are HN front page or enough people tweet and put pressure then it is not a viable solution for most of us without the social media connections to make that happen.

Also forcing people to use a social media platform to raise a support ticket for something completely unrelated to media or even tech is not a good thing. Not every user of a product (say a kitchen appliance) is going to even know how to use social media
We’ve had liquor for nearly as long as we’ve had alcohol. How has the potency of alcohol products increased? Yes there are stronger IPAs but they’re a small minority of alcohol products who are still well below the alcohol percentages of liquor or wine.

Also I don’t see how nicotine product potency has increased either. There’s just salt nicotine vapes now and they often still pale in comparison to strong tobacco in terms of nicotine concentration. And trust me the tobacco are ancestors had was just as strong if not stronger as what we have. We figured out selective breeding of plants a long time ago and tobacco has been openly grown for centuries.
Let me point to the sea elephant in the room... Because Fukushima leaks killed the larvae?

The crabs that we fish today are a snapshot of the past. Very bad reproductive season this year?, you will not notice it until a few years in the future when the crabs that you expect to fish aren't there.

The year of interest is not 2018 or 2019, is (2019 - x) where x is "age of crabs reaching commercial size"
Having just spent the past few months dealing with the utter carnage caused by updating an old Node project to use modern dependencies, I predict doing this will cause a bloodbath as some libraries update but don't correctly specify semver for the breaking changes, or other libraries that depend on the Buffer usage not bothering to limit their dependencies to a major version unexpectedly breaking when `npm update` is run.

I wonder what unmaintaned libraries will have to be dropped this time as the ecosystem grinds on and causes them to break?

(How did we get to a place where everything is this bad?)
Yes, it is on them, and they do so subject themselves to our laws because markets like the European market are massive.
The mistake we are making here is to draw the problem along the boundary of age.

The problem is not exclusive to children!

Even if you could successfully bar all children from participating on Facebook, the problem would still exist, and Facebook would continue to harm people.
Herzogians
Beat me to it. If Slovenia is Eurasia, wouldn’t Greece also be?
I've had good experience with Porkbun. I like it more than Hover, which I had previously. But both of these have been far better than most of the "big" alternatives.
California suspends Cruise's autonomous driverless vehicle permits
They do, yes. It's certainly a requirement if channel binding is to work at all.

Additionally there is this proposal to also detect attempted downgrade of the channel binding and SASL mechanism lists themselves: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0474.html - which we're currently looking for expert eyes on, if you know any... :)
Ah, but uBlock Origin will cease to work with (or will be severely limited by) the next Manifest upgrade of your "googles". ;-)
Buffer is a utility. It combines several abstractions that are common in nature into one highly useful class. I quite prefer using it as well.

This is what I feel the node people get right over the ES people, the ES ideology is so abstracted and pushes everything out into small utility classes so you have to create a handful of different objects with odd combinations of methods to get one useful conversion done.

The ES people also seem to have no love of the CLI or for type types of debugging and testing done there. As a result, I almost always choose the node created abstractions over the ES specified ones.
Those cars have 80,000 miles on them and they're 10 years old (or more). I'm sure a Honda is good for 100 - 150 miles. But C'mon- if you pay 8K for a Honda with 80,000 miles in 2 years you're going to be paying 2 or 3 grand every 6 mos. to keep it running. And that's assuming the original owner actually took care of them.
There's some selection bias in here too. People who have had excellent customer service experiences on Twitter aren't taking into account the number of people who did call or email customer service versus the substantially fewer people who used Twitter for the purposes of contacting companies for customer service.

Of course a company should have used Twitter for customer support - fewer requests, and the requests that you do handle often convert to free advertising. Win win.
Can someone help me understand the premise of this article? I think the goal here is to map the internal books of a business to their bank account, but I have never seen the kind of "grouping" the article seems to assume as given. In which scenarios do these groupings happen? If there are several customers, there will be different invoices and therefore separate payments. Why would the bank just throw them together, thereby creating the problem this article is trying to solve? I'm asking from Germany, in case this is one of these Europe-US kinds of differences.
It is exactly that - the same kind of abbreviation as i18n and l10n. As this article points out though, WCAG guideline 3.1.3 advises against weird acronyms like this one.
Yeah when I set up a repo, I set up two or three builds per PR:

- the code exactly as it is in that branch

- that branch merged into current main

- that branch merged into what is currently running in production (in the case that it's not what is in main e.g. tagged or branched)

This really helps to see whether it's an issue in "your" code, or whether it's a merge issue conflict causing failures.
That’s a fun little web game. But isn’t brilliant supposed to be educational? This is not at all.
> That isn't a mark of authenticity, per se.

Do you mean that it became a mark of endorsement?
What makes you think the government would be qualified to issue tests? 40k+ human-caused automobile deaths per year would suggest they are pretty awful at judging human driving ability. Not to mention these companies have more rigorous internal safety tests than the government would ever be able to come up with.
Arduino for the Rest of Us
Funny side note, a mobile accessibility promoting website which doesn't listen to the dark/light mode preference specified by my web browser...
I don't like Olaf Scholz either; what's your point?

> I said you were trying to suppress dissent ...

No, you did not.
Billions of dollars on war material goes to the war industry, war is profitable (for some).
It’s easier to backdoor a known key.
Tell people they have encryption, and they will trust you. Very few will be able to verify, even if they care too.
When they do, the algorithm checks out, but it doesn’t try matter if you already have the answer.
Did Yud ever publish the chat logs of this AI box experiment? EDIT: No, and while I agree with his general point here, I still find it really funny.
I'd say the Posters in the display actually look very very close to it. I did a bit of hunting around on YouTube because I never trust marketing shots and I was actually impressed. First time I've seen a colour E-Ink display that doesn't look like someone had left it out in the sun for 15 years.
Fucoidan is the one. It is anti clot but also immunomodulating and gut immunomodulating.
What is your source? If you search Hacker News, for example, you can find much more incidents at Azure than AWS even though AWS is bigger.
That's a fun anecdote. I referee high school and youth wrestling and there are several coaches who are paraplegic or quadriplegic because of neck or spinal injuries they got wrestling. I assume there are other injured people who didn't want to have anything to do with the sport after their injury.
> Yeah, isurgents, partisans and whatever you wanna call them are not regular combatants. You what that means? That the rule of land warefare don't apply to them

??? I don't think that follows. What is your basis for this.
I've heard this from people I know and trust. Idk why you got downvoted.
Follow up to this is that I will probably write something about the general confusion around algorithms (special mathematical structures) and how these terms are used to make nonsensical arguments about intelligence, consciousness, and free will.
Fucoidan solves all of this. Amazing for post-covid issues.
The Great Train Robbery: Everything We Know So Far
This is why city council member Dan Strauss, when going door to door campaigning, gives out his personal Gmail address rather than his city of Seattle address.

Is this legal? It sure doesn't seem ethical
This said, don't be surprised if there is some government looking guy sitting at your property line with a Giger counter for a few days.
> A warrant is required for all government search

This is not at all true.

For example, if you enter into an agreement with your state to be a foster parent, you also have to agree for the state to inspect your home regularly. It's part of the agreement - no warrant required.

The state is free to make search a condition of an agreement. So if the state wants to say "Agree to a search or we will pursue criminal proceedings", you are free to accept or deny their agreement.
UK meat consumption at lowest level since records began
A 13 day old account that tries to fork off the HN audience to their own website? Flagged regardless of merit, if HN isn't for you then that's fine but don't try to hijack the forum.
To be clear, I’m not criticizing, I think this is wonderful and good leadership. I’m just painting the larger picture for other readers. Sentry’s initiative is a good example that other companies can follow, I just want to make sure we don’t give the impression accidentally that this is a whole solution.

Super glad to hear that there are business relationships being established where needed. That helps strengthen the ecosystem.

So, yes absolutely, good luck!!
> Your vault password was never sent to to dropbox. It was just a dumb store for an encrypted vault. The calculus changes now that the vault is online and stored by the same party you're sending the password to.

You never send your password or account key to 1Password. Each side authenticates the other via cryptographic challenges and you receive the same encrypted database that 1P stores, as a dumb file host. They have a whole whitepaper on the security design of 1Password accounts: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p...

Technically, the earlier OPVault format stored on Dropbox/iCloud/locally was less secure due to generating a key just from your password.
> Profitability will be needed for companies to succeed but it's not the point.

Yes, it is.

> Do you think Google's main motivation behind starting AV work 14 years ago and incinerating billions on it over the years was really rooted in speculative profit years down the road?

Yes, along with a pile of other moonshots. That's what moonshots are for.

There's a lot of profit potential in AVs, and even if you fail at it there is a lot of potential for profitable spinoffs of the research.

And if you fail at both, well, moonshots are high-risk, high-reward.
> But claiming Linux somehow has a better code review standard than most other projects is disingenuous and a poor excuse for toxic behavior.

This kind of writing really keeps me from wanting to engage.
If anyone was wondering about how exploitable OpenBSD was as of July 2005, a quick search suggests it took about 2 years for a remote total exploit (sendable in a single IPV6 packet) to show up for OpenBSD: https://lwn.net/Articles/225947/ (Vindicating what is surely one of the easiest security predictions ever: "There are still undiscovered remote roots in all major OSes.") Anyone know of any ones in between?
You seem dramatically misinformed about CBT. I can understand if you had a bad experience with it. I think the psychologist you work with matters a great deal as do their tools/approaches. But your description of it is inaccurate and I thought worth noting lest you scare anyone away from something which could help them.
Python, Rust, Chumsky, Tree-sitter, and EdgeDB walk into a bar
EdgeDB needs support for Language Server Protocol, but we couldn't even start down the path of building it with our existing parser. We explored four fixes and ended up with all the pieces in place… and 26% faster query compilation.
This is a terrible idea. Today's "fairly strong encryption" is tomorrow's broken encryption.
One option is vision recognition systems for automated GUI testing.
No one will take action.

Outside Europe privacy isn’t a priority for politicians.
This makes me laugh out loud because a buddy of mine, while I was visiting family in Europe, mentioned there's a song, "how big is the heart in that bumble bee, that he can steer an ox clear out of the shade."
Oky Great
I, personally, would be annoyed if governments were bureauc-walling me from information that I'm legally entitled to.
Society needs a better mechanism to eliminate unnecessary laws and regulations, and legislation needs version control.
40mg nectar might have to be a new band name
Why? And what are "all the problems with self-driving cars"?
It would be interesting to know if non binary people were paid more like their actual sex or more like their opposite sex.
>Will a CSAM scanner implementation eventually be repurposed to block politically sensitive material?

Of course it will. This is a certainty.
> What corrupts people in any position

Incentives rule the world. The question to ask is what the incentive structure of a politician's world looks like.
Google falsely flags Samsung apps as "harmful," tells users to remove them
I’m trying to think about what kind of tools would benefit from such an option…

An obvious first tool would be “ls” to produce an easier to parse output. From there, maybe a “grep” to search fields and “sort” to sort by fields.

I guess I can think of many consumers or YAML-like data, but what would some of the producers be?
There’s nothing wrong with this. People are always coming up with HN for this or that.
I really liked my windows phone. The colourful live tiles and the physical design were great. What it lacked was 3rd party apps.
Here is the oral history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_(financial_services)#...
You may not, but the courts have protected the First Amendments rights of 'the press' to have said 'freedom of the press', including publishers and media companies. If that weren't true, the government could freely mandate what publishers could and couldn't print.
What makes you think random companies should be qualified to determine whether or not their product is good enough for the public space?

The FAA does a pretty good job for aircraft some errors notwithstanding, I don't see why there couldn't be a similar institution for road vehicles. Oh, wait: https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/home.aspx
94% accurate with 4 perfect cuts. Biggest screwup was the last one, the rest were very close.

Fun game. Could easily see a more robust version of this with 50-100 levels doing pretty well.
This was definitely not my first rodeo and I like to think I've done a good job in acting in good faith in future similar instances [1] for example. Every time I've reported something, the other side acts differently every single time. Sometimes they're friendly, sometimes they put out obvious traps ("prove it that you found HIPAA sensitive info"), and sometimes they're just thankful it didn't go worse.

You gotta realize that we live in a world where people have been prosecuted for using nmap. So we have to ride a fine line between careful and aggressive.

I don't expect this to be a thing that stops happening as I continue sending FOIAs. Recently a police agency released to me thousands of social security numbers from ALPR scans (of all things). When I reported it, they shrugged us off and asked us to redact the documents ourselves. When we refused (why would I accept that liability) to, they redacted more, but left in about 800 more SSNs.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqagy/contractor-exposed-th...
So much is discussed about self-driving car safety because the implications are really big but also uncomfortable. However, I always get stuck on how little enforcement there is for human drivers who habitually break driving laws and cause dangerous situations. DUIs are one thing sure but honestly most drivers who are bad and dangerous are sober and face no consequences for reckless behavior.

Is there something specific that caused this halt on Cruise's testing permits?
Don't be so cynical. All these problems are 100% the fault of the political party you don't like. We definitely don't need to question the system, just blame the bad guys and keep paying your taxes!
95pct, 4 perfect splits, did better than I thought I would
And suddenly ...*poof* Hacker News ... disappears
No, even in Europe they don't care, it's just for pr and the image.
As a homeowner, protecting your most valuable asset is of utmost importance.