skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time working in bounty triage.

This behavior never rose above "mildly annoying". There are a lot of people out there who will check your website for the issues that they know how to find and fire off a form report letting you know.

They are really, really, easy to deal with. There are two major relevant strategies:

- Many programs put it explicitly in their bounty policy that they won't consider the output of an automated tool. This automatically blocks the lowest-effort submissions.

- All programs specify in their policy what they consider a vulnerability and what they don't. "SPF configuration" is a common exclusion.

So if you get a low-value report, it takes maybe one minute to respond with a pointer to the part of your policy that explains why you won't even bother considering the report. If flyby reports are a major issue for you - publish a policy!

(As a third consideration, for me personally, these reports were especially easy to handle because you'd see the same guy filing more or less identical reports to several programs, and after the first time, you'd already have a good understanding of exactly what the report was saying.)

The people filing these reports are doing valuable work. Some programs really do care about some of the issues they find. Most programs don't care about most of the issues - but you can hardly blame the researcher for finding out whether the issue they already have in their hand might be worth something.

When I saw the headline, I thought of a different phenomenon that bothered me more. Many researchers are very ...anxious... about the status of their reports. I saw one guy, apparently from Egypt, who regularly found real vulnerabilities in a major website and earned thousands of dollars a month in bounties. If a report came in from him, it got taken seriously.

But he was constantly asking for status updates and commitments on when a report might get paid out. This was unpleasant to deal with. On the other hand, I did also see a handful of reports fall through the cracks and go untouched for months at a time, so again it's hard to blame the guy too much.
Oh, this explains it. I saw these all over the place in Paris many years ago and wasn't sure what they were there for.
I know when I need economic advice, I turn to experts from Greece.
That's what I'm referencing with "monetary coercion". And anyways my comment's not exhaustive or particularly great, I'm just saying the whole family of related things we call capitalism has good and bad parts that we ought to be mixing together and open to criticizing specific parts without throwing away every part that makes sense compared to the alternative. Plenty of people DO do that, but it's not all that common in the public discourse.
>I think what has been lost is that instead of a slave (not my terminology, it's the one in TFA btw) at your service, the computer has become a master and you're the slave.

The gig economy apps like Uber and Doordash always seemed so dystopian to me because effectively your boss is an app.
I've held for several years now that any -ism term generally does more to obfuscate than it does to elucidate. And capitalism and feudalism are among the worst terms in that regard, as the former can mean anything from "money exists" to very specific ideas about how the government should regulate the economy (or more accurately, how it shouldn't), while the latter is generally a vague reference to Medieval Europe without recognizing that there was actually quite some diversity in political and socioeconomic conditions across time and space in that 1000-year period.
They're not really trying. 4% of a small market simply isn't worth the overhead.
Get a lab diamond. It will end up costing around a quarter of the price.
> Nobody else besides Amazon can get a random product to my door in under 12 hours. If I buy the product direct from the manufacturer I often get charged shipping. That situation could be easily argued to be a monopoly.

Why do Amazon have a monopoly on this? Is it because they are engaging in anti-competitive practices preventing competitors from offering the same thing or do they just have the best logistics expertise and setup in the industry?

That's a genuine question btw because it matters a lot for whether or not regulation/the state should attempt to resolve it.
> But I don’t see why we are also expected to pony up billions

You already are ponying up billions. What's more, what you're ponying up for is making things worse. Doing nothing at all is hardly likely to be an economically optimal strategy either, but at least we wouldn't be sinking billions in actually making it worse, as we are now.

The argument that we should take some or all of the enforcement money and spend it on services can be a utilitarian one. Think about why we educate children whose parents couldn't afford to pay for it otherwise, why we have social security programs. It benefits us all to have a functional, productive population.

> usually they just keep doing drugs because no incentive to stop

Firstly, no, oddly enough a most people don't want to spend their entire lives addicted to opioids. When given access to things like a stable supply and clean places to satisfy their addiction, many are able to hold down jobs, take steps to get clean and become productive members of society. The constant need for money and the insecurity of the supply seem to ensure that addicts are in a state of perpetual turmoil and instability, which makes their situation worse and their chances of recovery slimmer.

Second - you'd rather that addicts still commit petty crime to support their habits, when we know better and cheaper ways for both them and us?

> If we just decriminalize and let people reap the consequences of their actions, the problem also goes away.

No, it really doesn't. You'll end up with a different set of social problems. Not as bad without the legal consequences attached, but not simply "gone away" either.

> I can really admire countries like China...

That don't value human life? That dictate what people can do, how many kids they can have, that sort of thing? By all means, go live in an authoritarian paradise.

And from your other comment -

> it would be better if they didn't do drugs

Yes, and it would be better if people didn't drink, or smoke, or hurt each other, or steal stuff, or crash cars, or rape each other, or...

But we don't live in that world, and we never will. We have to deal with the world we live in and the human race as it is, and try to figure out how to get the best outcomes.

And that includes messy things like addiction and the fallout of that. You know what really cuts down on the number of young people getting addicted to opioids? Seeing a load of middle-aged addicts queuing up for their morning hit at the local clinic. Knocks the glamour right out of it, and has worked very well in Switzerland.
> it's more that the expectation that husbands exist to serve their wives

We have no precedent for this in modern times. Instead, diamond coöpted the dowry’s role in assuring a bride’s family stability in a world that diminished women.

> do you really think a phrase meaning "keeping your husband happy and satisfied would make your life better" is not harmful?

No. Making my friends, colleagues, co-workers and life partner happy makes me happy. If it doesn’t, they shouldn’t be in my life, or I need to adjust my relationship to civilisation.

With complete honesty, the best money I have spent has been experiences with close friends.
Honestly, the Pixel line has always been meh (in my opinion, of course). They built a ton of respect on the Nexus line, which genuinely was a decent set of phones; now they've squandered it on a bunch of overpriced and underspeced options.

Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, etc all make great phones. You don't have to get a Google.
Brave browser running Intuit ads in new page windows
Wow, it's a new level of crappy advertising shilling for the scumbags at Intuit who purposely setback the availability of and simplification of US personal income tax preparation.
As if "Shopify, Instagram, TikTok" are any better.. They are also fiefdoms and unless you are platformed by any of these big lords, you kinda don't exist (digitally at least).. In a way, I am kinda glad much of humanity still prefer running on pen and paper and cash and refuses to sell itself to computers.
AIUI, this is a book review article.
Are you familiar with the concept of a book review or is it always this confounding when the release of a thoughtful cultural artefact is responded to with discourse?
If competition is what's supposed to protect us from rentier nobility, we ought to police anticompetitive practices with more vigor than a frozen snail.
I read a lot of closed source code and quite a bit of it embedded and some of the stuff you find is enough to make you question just about anything.

Here is a nice picture of a pre-digital ECU:

https://www.benzworld.org/attachments/75-djetecu_3-jpg.16183...

It's essentially a hardwired analog computer (note the lack of adjustment points other than 'idle RPM'), as long as the external contacts are clean, the components are good and within tolerance the unit should work. There is nothing to adjust.

Modern ECU's have many more sensors to deal with, so higher data rates and many, many more fault conditions that have to do with emissions and preventing engine damage, these old D-Jetronic units were very impressive for their time, plenty of them are still running today which given the parts count is a small miracle.

In a way they are so reliable because of what they can't do, as long as the input parameters are roughly where they should be and the crank position input is accurate the engine will run. But whether it will run efficiently or not is a different matter and accurately setting these up without the right gear and manuals is next to impossible. So most parties that repair these will do a 'so-so' job, good enough to get the car back on the road but far from optimal. But the old battle-axes that you'll find these units in never were models of fuel efficiency. In contrast to this a modern ECU has exactly zero analog processing beyond digitization, it's all software. And where at all possible that software is not engine (beyond type and pre-set config) or drivetrain specific (though they do tend to talk to the transmission to get more information about the driving conditions) because that would require a lot of extra work per engine.

The most that you'll find is that the ECU has some knowledge of the serial numbers of key components (for instance the drivetrain) to give some anti-theft protection. Other than that it's all auto-configuration until some parameter goes out of spec and then that expensive check engine light comes on.
> I’ve been waiting decades for a Linux distro that just buys a few commonly produced laptops that are likely to be produced for a few years, and then tests the crap out of them and applies this sort of polish.

So who is going to do all that work?

I bought a laptop that has RGB LEDs in the keyboard. I didn't particularly mind not having control over them on Linux but the problem was they defaulted to the brightest purest blue color imaginable. Booting Windows just to run the shitty manufacturer's software was unsustainable so I reverse engineered it and made a Linux user space driver with libusb.

That took a significant amount of time and effort. Just a bunch of LEDs, it seemed like a simple task. I actually had to record the USB messages with wireshark and then figure out what they meant, correlating the bits sent with my physical inputs. Hundreds of LEDs.

I simply can't fathom what it would take to apply polish like speaker safety to my own laptop. I honestly didn't even know there was a safety risk involved before I read this thread. Do these Linux distributions really have so much money in the bank that users can expect them to buy hardware to test stuff like this on? It's hard enough to ship software that works at all.
The point of this blog post was totally lost on me. I can’t even say it is a critique of the practice of medicine - or maybe therapeutic development (?) - because literally every example given by the author is a solution rather than a problem.

Also the author clearly does not know what they are talking about. For example, them calling for the use of surrogate endpoints - they clearly did not know the term of the art - when a whole regulatory framework around this concept has already been developed, formalized, and implemented!

To me the piece has a mix of smugness, hubris, and gross ignorance that would make for truly masterful work trolling if I did not believe the author were sincere.
Agree 100% I keep going back and starting again. Learning new things all the time. My #1 best game ever.
> capitalism is private ownership of property

Not only is that not my personal definition of the term, but that isn't how it's defined in the linked article; nor is Yannis Varoufakis even remotely advocating eliminating the notion of private property ownership.

> capitalism is not just "free market economy," where the natural opposite as you supoose being "centrally planned economies"

That depends entirely on who you ask. You'll get very different, but equally sincere and well-justified, definitions from your local college's student socialist societ compared to the parents of the members of the lacrosse team.

Once anyone conversation starts using either C-word it inevitably turns into "Capitalism is anything I don't like" vs. "Communism is anything I don't like" and it's all downhill from there.
Nothing preclude from Amazon being good at shipping products while still engaging in anticompetitive behaviors.
Keep in mind they had no ability to have any of the cast promote this film. That must have had some impact on the opening weekend.
All will be well, so long as you buy his book of course.
Happy paying 3x more?
He'll be lucky to hit a billion.

The million was media money, book returns, and he declared nearly half a million paid back in taxes. Near as I can tell the ire was generated due becoming rich from books describing the Greek plumment into very not rich, leading to calls of Yanis being a champagne socialist profiting from the misfortune of many.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greeks-sneer-as-yanis-var...

The full wiki on this Greek - Australian (became a citizen of Oz in 1991) is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
and...? is it better/cheaper?
It’s not a popular opinion because I got down voted into oblivion
But the site remains unnamed. To prove, why not let others test the theory. Tell us the Wordpress site.

IME, Wordpress sites do not require a user agent header. Contrast, for example, with Squarespace sites which do require a user agent header.

IME, if send a user agent header with a particular value, then some sites will block, depending on the value. Whereas if _do not send_ a user agent header, then almost all sites will accept.

The so-called "developers" who publish code and commentary about "scraping" almost always include a user agent header. Usually they use fake values. They try to guess the "correct" values to send.

Im not referring to sending fake values. Im referring to not sending the header at all. No "spoofing" is involved. This works for me, for decades, across thousands of websites.
Why would it be? Say you film your kid's birthday party and put it up on youtube. You just leaked voice recordings of a lot of other children. What's the harm supposed to be?
And on top of that, CPI is not just some politicians deciding what they want. It is long term employees at the Fed and they take their work very seriously. They choose thousands of specific products from randomly selected retailers and they literally call on a regular basis to check the price changes over time. They keep these specifics top secret to reduce the chance of meddling. The kind of people that do this are the real "deep state" and they are the kind of people that actually keep our government working.
You both figuratively said the same thing...
How would wasm/rust be more performant over c++? I’m not sure the wasm version can take advantage of avx/metal.

Edit: the wasm installer does take advantage by installing plugins.

Unless you’re talking about performance on devices where those two weren’t a thing anyways.
Did they buy K8s, TPU, Jax or TF?
> It also doesn't say not soldered on RAM and SSD which means it probably is.

> Just like the CPU, the LPDDR RAM is also soldered onto the motherboard [...]

> Another advantage of LPDDR RAM is its space-saving design, which creates room in the ultra compact chassis not only for the performant and quiet cooling system but also for 2x upgradeable M.2 SSDs [...]
It seems the goal of today's corporations is to avoid competition and a free market.
> It works only if you ignore the fact of categorical choice (Android in the case of Apple)

This is a good point because feudalism is when there is just one big fief. If another fief appears both cease to have the quality of feudalism, that’s what capitalism is.
Here's the thing I've come to realize; there's literally no point at all in mentioning Capitalism because it means SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS to people.

Step 1. Let's define "commerce." You know, people buying and selling things, making favorable trades and such. Let's agree that we recognize that this is a thing that has happened for a long time and is likely to happen for a long time. You might say it's "good," or you might just sort of accept it -- and perhaps if you're not willing to accept it, you at least understand that you have a ton of work ahead of you if you're going to get rid of it.

Now, how is "capitalism" different from the above? And again, note that even if you have an elegant and clear answer, others don't. I'm literally asking this question because I don't think we've come remotely close to STARTING a good definition here, collectively.
JavaScript will eventually bring about the rise of ALGOL
Yeah, that's a very reasonable improvement I should make. My homepage is modeled after https://daringfireball.net/ and has been for the past 20-ish years, but it's time I redesigned that to better reflect my content I think.
If you go through the list of all the awardees of the World Fantasy Awards and subject them to the same criticisms, then I'm pretty sure they'd have to retroactively remove many of those awards because of the objectional content in some of those author's works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94No...

Also, in today's political climate, I'd guess Lovecraft's stance on religion is more controversial than the above issue.
I mean, if you were in that situation would you trust the legal system not to turn on you?
This is dumb- they’re testing against google’s v5e chip, which isn’t the H100 equivalent (the V5P is). Of course Google came out worse here.
The good parts like open markets and the bad parts like monopolies
Less expensive. Big discounts exist.
They told me that they had issued a refund for an order that UPS had failed to deliver when they had not. I called four times 7 days apart and was told each time that the refund was processing and would show up within 3-5 business days.

When they did finally issue a refund it was for only half the order. I requested a chargeback from my bank and at this point they are siding with Apple. Not really sure why I keep money in a bank or use credit cards.
I’ve personally found the opposite. It absolutely blows me away how good it is, even on crazy graphical fonts or other languages etc. I use it pretty much every single day now.
Better advice: upgrade to a fiance that isn't distracted by pointless bling.
Actually, you can use cryptography to prove who you are without giving anyone else the ability to simply "copy" your ID and impersonate you later. It's how message signing works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature#Authenticati...

Some countries already have national ID systems that use cryptography like this to secure identify oneself online, such as Estonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card#Electro...
> nor is Yannis Varoufakis even remotely advocating eliminating the notion of private property ownership.

uh, yes, he does.

> I try to create a vision of a liberal, socialist society that is not based on private property but does use money as a vehicle for exchange and markets as coordinating devices. I preserve money and markets because the alternative would be to fall to some fearsome hierarchical control, which, for me, is a nightmare scenario.

https://greattransition.org/publication/another-europe-is-po...

whether you agree with Marx or not, his description of capitalism is at the very least, complete. and it's his definition I used.
Or even, you know, the entire Google suite?

There's plenty to criticize Alphabet/GOOG on. But pretending they don't develop things in house is just naive.
You can run it on a variety of Linux, Mac and Windows based devices, including the Raspberry Pi and most laptops / servers you might have. But you still need a few GBs of memory in order to fit the model itself.
I know about dfdx in rust that has type checked tensors for rank and shape. Don't know if it ticks all your boxes
I imagine it will go through a period of reasonably subtle product placement text before switching over to outright ads mid-sentence.
"Search Image with Google" is now available on right-click in the chrome browser.

You could screenshot -> open JPG in chrome --> and OCR the text.

Takes more clicks than needed but serves me in a pinch currently.

If I am attending a webex/zoom or watching a youtube video that merely "shows" a URL or other text content without offering that to me as copyable text -- this method helps.

Ideally this OCR ability should be a native OS functionality available universally on right-click. Maybe soon.
Powertoys offer a text extractor tool (among other amazing little utilities)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
You can already get very close to this style of writing html/js using Lit.dev
first time i've heard of this merch thing... sources?
Forums are perfectly fine and has been around forever.
This is unfortunate, but expected. I used a Fitbit Charge for the past seven-plus years. I built an app, SyncFit, to sync to Apple Health. I switched to Apple Watch last year because it was clear Google had removed features in the latest Fitbit devices to sell more Android Watch devices.
“Most” harmful? That’s an incredibly high bar for a pithy phrase where it’s easy to tell if someone is saying it to dismiss their partner’s feelings rather than be mindful of them.
Just in case you want to read more, his book - Technofeudalism - published by PenguinHouse - is available for pre-order on Amazon as a paperback for $17.99 and $30.99 for the hardcover. It is also available as an E-book on the Kindle via Apple Books and also as an audiobook on Audible.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there will be any open e-book PDF versions available - perhaps as a testament about how the means of electronic distribution of information are too tightly held by the capitalists.

Sorry couldn't resist!
The term capitalism was invented as a prejorative, and in its original meaning had nothing to do with free markets. Instead it referred to a system of oppression where industrialists partnered with the state to create an underclass of cheap labor. Various policies were used to impoverish peasants, force them off their traditional lands, and legally require them to get a job in a factory or face prison.

Something similar happening now is where only big tech companies are able to afford compliance with censorship, money laundering, and other state regulations. This allows big tech to abuse their relationships with their customers, who are a wide group of industrialists, consumers, and labor.

Criticism of capitalism is fundamentally criticism of the state.
Much as I'm a fan of the AGC, I need to point out that Whirlwind (1951) and SAGE (1958) were interactive way before the AGC.