skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legislation passing before most Canadian citizens hear about it is the norm in Canada. Many Canadians think whatever the government is up to is ok because the Canadian government is not as "bad" as the American government. It has not been working out well for us the last few years.

As someone that watches a lot of Canadian Parliament and Senate videos, I think our systems are boring and ineffective.
Material threat to be identified within 96 hours?

How would receiving an encrypted email detailing a vulnerability of your flagship product fit with the 96 hours, given that 90 days are often needed to fix said vulnerability (s) before informing the public?

In short, wouldn't that company's vulnerability make for excellent zero-days while they are trying to repair and retest the problematic product?
I think it is hard to get much insight from these "just so" stories because so much is dependent on the circumstances and counterfactual.

I think is reasonable to think that low interest rates pulls consumer spending from the future into the present, when compared to higher interest on lending.

High inflation also spurs consumer spending because the return on savings is less.

back to housing, My experience is that personal spending is waaay down after buying a house, because I now need to service 1.2M of debt every year, which is about 80k.
The names of all the channels on youtube are starting to remind of all those stupid company names (LYRXXX, COOFANDY etc) you see on Amazon. The true destructive contribution of AI will simply be the exponential shitification of the Internet experience.
Alternatively, someone at Apple thought "we should add one of those pulse ox thingies like they've used in the doctor's office for the last 50 years into our next watch", saw that Masimo was a player in the space, met with them, and then decided they'd rather do it themselves.

This is not something Masimo invented themselves. The class of devices existed for decades before Masimo even existed. I'm not saying that Apple's in the right here -- I have no inside information giving me more perspective than anyone else reading this -- but it's far from clear that they did anything wrong.
In retrospect a lot of the customization you could do on MySpace was madness by todays standard.

Being able to set your own background, color, font, potentially animated, with auto-playing music of your choice was like letting the average person be a web developer.
Apple halts US sales of watch after losing patent case
Isn't this great? I can put myself "in the room" when they decided not to do a full transcript MAC. The SSL3 transcript hash is annoying! It was the first protocol I personally encountered that did that. And what are you trying to protect? A key exchange, right? Why not just create a mechanism that catches the inputs to the key exchange, authenticates them, and ignores everything else? Everything else is just a vehicle for communicating those inputs.

So like, you could imagine yourself looking at the SSL 3.0 "Finished" message and the SSH "Exchange Hash" and asking yourself, why do the complicated thing? The SSH thing seems to work!

And: if you asked yourself that, like, in 2013, you could go on believing for ten years that everything was fine, and SSH just found a clever way to do handshake integrity less cumbersomely than SSL 3.0.

There's like an obvious lesson here about PGP and the MDC, right?
Because the hackers know, they may also threaten to report their victim’s tort (arising from any failure of their victim to self-report the data breach):

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/18/why-extortion-is-the-new-r...
Your boss generate revenue. Revenue !== value

There's nothing wrong with being Person 1. But it's foolish, at best, to keep confusing Person 1 with Person 2. You're willing to commit to that insanity. I am not.

Aggressive? When did stating the obvious become aggressive?
Just more pearl-clutching about AI. The images are mimicking several original images of a person with some artwork they made. The 'stolen' images are of a very similar form, but with changes to the person and the artwork. Presumably, they make fake versions of the images to gain clout on FB or elsewhere without having to credit the original artist.

While it is ethically dubious, I don't really care. The pearl-clutching that we're inventing a fake reality can be viewed two different ways. Either it's overblown, as it clearly doesn't matter who is liking what on the internet, not in the grand scheme of things. Or if it is a problem, the ship sailed a decade ago when people started carrying a screen around in their pockets 24/7, and AI art is just another drop in the bucket.
The substantive claim against PFAS is that they're very persistent in the environment, can bioaccumulate, and end up in places we didn't anticipate (e.g., in the rain). This is a good argument for scaling back.

Separately from this, there's some science to suggest that PFAS are harmful to humans, but at doses very much higher than experienced by the general population. Many of the headlines about PFAS being detected in weird places involve parts per trillion, and at that level, no health impacts have been demonstrated. Even for lead and ethylmercury in water, the norms are in parts per billion.

Then, there's a cottage industry of anti-progress doomsayers who want to equate it to a handful of big environmental missteps of the past, so the lines get blurred. Same as with microplastics, where you're bombarded with headlines about them being found in random places and being vaguely bad for you.
10.7B Solar: Elevating Performance with Upstage Depth Up Scaling
The Hare systems programming language
I enjoy comparisons like this, but there's one small bit of math that's off,

>CGP Grey $7/mo 10m/mo $70/h

There isn't 100 minutes in an hour.
Yes, it is very common for there to be housing restrictions.

Thats the entire point and is what people are saying is the problem!

Therefore, in order to allow the building of higher density housing, those regulations, whether they be actual laws, or deed restrictions, need to be removed.
Why wasn't NATS[1] used ?

Written in Go, single-binary deployment... there's a lot to love about NATS !

[1]https://nats.io/
You're really big on putting words in my mouth on this.

> I see you strongly believe that losing tens of millions is good management.

Costs are relative to size. There are a lot of people involved, it's going to cost a lot of money. Microsoft's operating expenses are estimated to be just shy of $350 million per day. At that scale, 10s of millions is not as impactful.

Could it have been done better? Of course.

Could it have been much worse? Yep. Significantly.
Wam3 maintainers house blown up
As always --- it depends.

Developer tools are supported well enough by open source.

Business software is less so.

How important is support and continuity and longevity? Source code is the only support Open Source really offers. If you get something more --- good for you but typically there is no obligation or commitment made in this regard. Even if you get one, it's longevity is suspect. It's really easy to walk away from a software product when it's not paying it's own way.

Most people looking to invest and build a business expect somewhat more than Open Source offers for "business critical" software. And many of these people are not in the software business and don't want to be.
Selective Attention and Arousal (1997)
> How in the world did it take fifteen months for regulators to reject this?

I agree with your overall point that the current regulatory process related to anti-trust M&A very much needs to be improved. While the delay may be the proximate cause, focusing on that risks failing to address the fundamental root cause of the problem, which is A) lack of clarity in regulatory policies and the underlying laws authorizing them, and B) their inconsistent application across different industry contexts and between different international jurisdictions.

The lack of clarity can be improved by regulators adopting clearer public guidelines about how they will interpret and apply the rules (and then establish credibility by actually sticking with those guidelines over time). Improving consistency across jurisdictions is more challenging but still possible if regulators in the largest domains (US and EU) collaborate to harmonize their policies (as is done in many other regulatory contexts).

Recently, Lina Khan in the US has made this problem far worse by aggressively pursuing quite extreme interpretations of anti-trust law, and worse, doing so without establishing any corresponding framework or justification. As a result, this bungling has caused her agency to lose several high-profile cases. So far, much of this bungling seems to be "just for show" (ie political posturing) since it's not working.

Unfortunately, it also has the effect of nerfing the market for entrepreneurial exits via acquisition. While it's true that acquisitions large enough to attract anti-trust scrutiny are outliers, much of the money invested in earlier stage startups (which drives most new job creation in the US), is justified by average returns substantially propped up by a few such >100x acquisitions. Half the extreme high-end outliers being lopped off by regulatory uncertainty around large acquisitions is one reason capital for new business creation and growth is getting scarcer and more expensive. The point being, this matters to our industry and jobs.
>>It has never been realistic for people to find the truth,

Rather strained definition of truth there. The truth that matters is a basic not-very-wrong version of what is happening.

Examples: 1) The earth is roughly spheroidal. 2) NASA is a real space agency and landed people on the moon in 1969-1973. 3) The trails behind airplanes are condensation particles, not sprayed chemicals. 4) Vaccines are safe and effective, and the ratio of issues to prevented disease is on the order of millions-to-one, a vast benefit to society, especially those who medically cannot get vaccines. 5) Hijacked airlines and not pre-set explosives brought town the WTC towers in NYC on 9/11/2001. Etc. Etc. Etc....

We do NOT need a doctorate in Geology, selection into NASA Astronaut Corps, graduate astronomic physics course, PhD-level immunology, or a structural engineer's license to understand any of the above to a useful level.

Yet, there is sufficient human-generated noise to convince millions that none of these are true.

And you are claiming that adding industrial-scale AI agents to the public 'conversation' at a scale never seen in history will have zero effect?

Sure, it might completely fizzle. But the normal and prudent expectation when something comes in and "floods the zone with shit" [0], especially when that shit has the potential to be at a volume that is far beyond anything experienced, is to expect that it will have some effect.

What evidence do you have that it will have no effect? In answering, consider another top HN story at the moment "Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real". [1]

[0] Steve Bananon's description of a disinformation tactic

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684309
Matrix is not lightweight or simple.
On the internet, nobody knows that you're a dog.
This is a great distinction! With typescript getting wider use, I've found myself frustrated by the limitations of bolt on type systems. Knowing how deep the divide is from languages with fully inferrable types gives me more appreciation for how much work went into the current state of inferencing tools.
We redeemed our $10K AWS credits. It was a mistake
Yes believe it or not ocaml is a systems language.
I've been in a similar situation. A healthcare executive i did some personal consulting leaked a fairly generous amount of information on me after i cut him and his son off. I've been followed by ex-police and have had more than a few specific events trigger some paranoia/fear but after several uneventful run-ins I saw it for what it was. Intimidation without teeth. It's a two party problem. Both want to protect their own interests more than they want to cause me harm. One of the thing that kept me motivated was the knowledge that the continued secrecy around the tools being employed on me as being more valuable/important than any contract/hit placed on me. My appearance of coolness or calmness in day-to-day life threatens the man that tried to undo me and there is nothing more he can do without further risking his situation. He knows less than the people he set on me and nothing of what I have collected on him/them since. Learn to find joy/peace antagonizing your real or imagined enemies.
You don't need JS for basic autocomplete in 2023, you can use "datalist" in HTML: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...

A lot of basic high value interactions are more directly encoded in HTML today than a lot of developers expect to need JS for. Some other tags to pay attention to: summary/details, progress, meter, input type="color|date|time|datetime|range".

It's an interesting relearning project, sometimes, how much the high level interactivity bits of HTML have changed since, for instance, the jQuery era.
The regulators moved fast. I had detailed conversations with regulators about this merger weeks after it was filed. They moved extremely quickly to signal that they were going to block it.
I remember asking about this about half a year ago. Back then I was told since Fly can route these IPs to wherever they want in their infrastructure by making simple configuration changes, the line is blurred anyway but GeoIP providers just take the shortcut and resolve to where the company is registered.

I'll try again if the situation is different now.
Proving Too Much
It is!

On the other hand, that table heavily clashes with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights at a first glance, e.g. for Greece ("no consent required for taking a photo" vs. "Taking a picture of a person in a public space: Requires consent."), so I'd take it with a large grain of salt and not consider it legal advice.
LinkedIn is pretty bad too. From people with fancy sounding job titles.
"One journey, one ticket", key learnings from Swiss public transport (2022)
Part 2: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2022/2/21/a-seamless-cu...

Part 3: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2022/3/17/t9qwyb2xlez9z...

(To the mods: I changed the second part of the title to make it clearer what we’re talking about, I don’t think the swisscal conference received widespread attention)
Except we can't, as evident by the fact that this isn't happening.

So what now, a ban on "mass communication for everyone at scale"? How exactly will that be defined and enforced?
Unless I misunderstood the article, the UNC researchers developed a way to detect more PFAS in the water. They didn’t develop new PFAS.
Speaking for myself and not for Figma and I wouldn’t want to muddy that fact or imply that I have meaningful non-public information. I don’t think anything I’ve said is either vociferous or disingenuous.

I actually haven’t even said whether or not I agree with the decision or whether or not I think the timeline is reasonable (in the sense of whether the benefits and needs of the timeline justify the cost of it), so that doesn’t seem vociferous to me.

If I was being disingenuous I’d post on a throwaway, not an account that you can trivially connect to my identity.
Did you consider using/adopting the seemingly defunct nomad virtual kubelet?
PXE is one of those things that used to be dead simple to set up. Just add an entry to the DHCP record and set up a TFTP server for the kernel and NFS root drive and you were golden.

UEFI threw a huge moneywrench in the process, and SystemD doesn't help. Last time I made it work I had to track down a mailing list entry where someone discussed an otherwise undocumented kernel option that needed to be set to make it work. One of the key glue techs that made it work last time (rom-o-matic) went out of development and is gone.
If both companies are able to afford tier A law firms then the relative size difference is meaningless. An extra trillion in market cap doesn't go any further in helping Apple's case.
It seems you have simply redefined it within a different framework of understanding you are more agreeable to, but I do not see how it is useful. This is in fact one of the rare diagnoses which respond unreasonably well to medication alone, at least (as the author noted) while you are under its effects. Its not clear what treatment your understanding might offer that differs significantly from that of mainstream psychiatry. I have only heard of "the Big Five" mentioned in association with Jordan Peterson and personality tests, neither of which do much to recommend this.
There are already many examples of AI generated books spamming Amazon -- how do we separate the wheat from the chaff?
Pinboard and similar bookmarking sites could play that role.
Who said anything about the latest Java. Since Java has versioned specs, platform X can support one version, and you can target it based on that information even if other versions come out and get supported by other platforms.

For example C89 and C99 are pretty old, and modern C has a lot that is different from them. But they still get targeted and deployed, and enjoy a decent following. Because even in 2024, you can write a new C89 compiler and people's existing and new C89 code will compile on it if you implement it right.
> above prices at say Walmart or Target for similar SKUs?

"The consumers' lawsuit filed in July 2022 challenged Amazon's "minimum margin agreements" with its merchandise suppliers. The plaintiffs alleged those deals have prohibited non-Amazon retailers from selling the same product elsewhere for a lower price." <https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-loses-bid-di...>

In short, the prices were the same at other retailers because Amazon was price-fixing.

Algorithmic Pricing: <https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/october/algor...>
Many people find interest and meaning in learning about all the ways that people have lived, and the things they did and made. Great museums are a source of pride for many of the world's largest cities, and widely regarded as culturally important and valuable.
Friendly reminder that your company probably pays significant money to dropbox for something you dont use.

At my last company I proposed an audit of our cloud storage services. IT emailed everyone to close their corporate account if they absolutely didn't have to use Dropbox (or move files to personal account if they were storing personal files).

It turned out that most paid a accounts existed because someone had shared something with an employer who then used his corporate email to create a dropbox account. We ended up saving A LOT of money by closing those.
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Yup. Something is only worth what someone else (i.e., The Market) is willing to pay for it. You can stack up a ton of customers and revenue but if no one else wants it...sorry...no value.

At the extreme, imagine all these social media "creators". In some cases, tons of revenue. But their revenue-producing-hobby is such that no one could take the torch and carry on. If that person is abducted by aliens, the company also disappears. No one else can buy it and carry on. That is, no value created.

I'll keep repeating this:

Revenue !== value

Entrepreneurs create value. Not revenue. Value.

The problem with this thread seems to be that people are confusing revenue with value. If it was about revenue, then the definition would say that. It specifically says value.
Bear in mind that it's still a perfectly valid word in Spanish. Such as "babuchas" to say sneakers/trainers in Andalusia.
How do you reconcile that with the rapidly increasing cost of electricity as more solar and wind are deployed? I would expect prices to go down.

Similarly, I can opt into paying a premium for green energy from my supplier. shouldn't that be a discount?
As a primarily FF user on windows - I don't recall any of the complaints here being an issue. Odd.
Oof, that’s a really good point. That would be utterly demotivating.
Sorry for the late reply.

> We are saying the same thing. Yes, you can use the tools, but then you require consent from the user as the very first thing they see on your website.
No, you only require to get consent from the user before you start using the tools. That this is as soon as they enter your website, and thus you need to ask consent as the very first thing they see, is your own choice.

> As a non-EU national, I don't derive the benefits of Do Not Delete etc. I do not ever care that a site is using 3P cookies to do e.g. on-page analytics. The cookie banners are a net negative for me.
I'm sorry that you're not getting any benefits from it. That said, blame the site owners for incorrectly identifying your IP as a European one.
Good video on the topic here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qGtEVh7oQ
Say what now? Adobe gives up on $20B acquisition of Figma
I thought this was already a done deal.
To be somewhat contrarian, I'm not sure I see the problem here.

From the platform perspective, this is just a faster way to generate the same crap that's been on these sites for years, with less risk of copyright claims and associated take-down notices.

From the perspective of artists, I think whether or not there's a problem has a lot to do with how much artists have decided to centre their efforts around social media, as opposed to something more intrinsically bad or damaging.

Let's consider the first work that appears in the article, the image of the carving of the dog. The article states:

> The real German Shepherd carving was made by a UK-based professional chainsaw sculptor named Michael Jones, who detailed his work in a series of videos and photos posted over the course of the summer. Jones’ work has since been stolen and turned into endless variations.

First of all, Jones's work has not actually been "stolen". The output of his artistic process in this instance is a wooden carving of a German Shepherd. That carving has not been stolen. What has had actually happened is that a photograph of him posing next to his art has been used to generate other, similar images.

The impact of this image generation and subsequent garbage posting on social media is, according to Jones, that he and his fellow carvers are "missing out on the rightful credit exposure to their work" and that this is "setting unrealistic expectations when it comes to creating chainsaw carving art or any art".

Personally, I am skeptical that exposure to people on Facebook whose appreciation for artistry consists of "your a fantastic artist" is worth very much. And what's the counterfactual here? If these posters were not making these fake image memes, would that traffic be going to his posts instead? That seems far from certain.

The second part of his complaint, that this sets "unrealistic expectations", is closer to the heart of the matter, I think. I don't think qualified buyers of genuine art will pay less for real works of art because they've seen so many AI-generated artworks that they no longer have a realistic understanding of what real art looks like. I think they are, and will continue to be, educated and discerning enough to understand the difference, to appreciate process, and so on.

I do think that people on Facebook who have seen increasingly fantastic "wood carvings" on Facebook may appreciate his genuine wood carving photographs less in the future. This might be a real problem for him, given that it seems like posting on Facebook is something important to him, and might also be important to his business model. In other words, his real problem might boil down to, "Some people are better at making viral posts on Facebook than I am". But how much this qualifies as a genuine problem for the platforms, their users, or society at large, is not all that clear to me.
But was it regarded as virtuous?
Or our social relationships cease to be predicated by social media platforms altogether