skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume this comment is a reference to Purdue Pharma preemptively filing for bankrupcy after losing a bunch of lawsuits due to the (surely!) criminal way in which they--and the Sackler family that owns it--sold opiods.

However, as much as I hate the Sacklers, I have to pipe in here out of a respect for the truth (Gell-Mann Amnesia style).

The Purdue bankruptcy was not some sort of Machiavellian "get out of jail free" card. Rather, it is what is normally done when there are so many lawsuits on a company that it is likely they exceed the value of the company itself.

Everyone who sues and wins against Purdue will become a creditor of the company. But they will be owed much more than the company is worth. So who should get paid? The first person to sue? The last? The one worst off?

Parceling out the assets of a company among its creditors is the job of a bankruptcy court, and that is why Purdue declared bankruptcy preemptively. Not to screw over the creditors, but rather to protect them so that a judge can decide who gets what.

This is standard operating procedure when a company believes there are more creditors than it can pay, even if the creditors have not filed suit yet.

There are certainly horrible things about the way Purdue has been handled—chiefly among them that the members of the Purdue family are not being criminally prosecuted—but the whole bankruptcy thing is not one of them.

I would suggest reading Matt Levine's analyis of the whole debacle, both "The purdue bankruptcy didn't work (2021)" [0] and the follow up "Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy works now (2023)" [1]

[0]: https://archive.is/BNzqi
[1]: https://archive.is/lScV9
Can we have it in the shoes, instead of the floor? Or, some combination of the two, working together?

(which may well, in some ways, be akin to the question "would you prefer to stand on a conveyor belt, or roller skates?" - but the errant thought occurs regardless..)
I don't drive to work so when I do drive I want to enjoy it. I've always wished Google Maps would give you the option to get a scenic drive instead of the default fastest drive. Looks like this app would do it!
Can you show examples of such bug in these two languages? (I'm in particular interested in how it could manifest with EF Core)
I have a friend who doesn’t work for the CIA (wink wink) he takes normal everyday jobs. But he never worked for the CIA (wink)
Depends on whether you consider someone relaying lies that they believe to be the truth a liar. In plain English usage most people use both senses of that pretty freely.
The EU may or may not be bumbling, but they have had a real beneficial effect in the past. The USB phone charger mandate really transformed a dismal situation.

In any case, the EU are an elected, accountable body. Apple are not, whatever they say about representing their users. As such, Apple must comply with the DMA, and ideally, in spirit, not in the mean, abusive way they propose.
I disagree. I think that, in the next two years, most young people won't believe any random nude photo they see to be real. It's already happening with art.
But do you think that means that aphanastic people are less likely to enjoy the books written by this author?
(If ad revenue is so important, maybe don't tell your advertisers to "GFY" live on stage.)
The dev/production boundary in large companies is much more porous than people like to think. Consider a typical day: you log in to your pc, check email, then use the same creds to log in to your azure portal (after all, all backed by the same tenant). Your account is linked to github and your cloud account.

Groups and teams get created all over the place, with mysterious permissions, just so that you can play in Teams, or OneDrive, and these persist in the company directory almost indistinguishable from security groups.

Sometimes you get automated emails asking you if you still need something, but the messages are opaque, and in a really big company there's no-one you can really ask (helpdesk takes 2 days to get back to you, and what are you gonna do, hit up John Savill on Twitter?), so you hit ok and try to carry on.

Inevitably, the fabric starts to rend, and an attacker gets lucky at a weak spot and can jump sideways through the tenant to get what they want.

As a wise CISO once said, hackers dont break in, they log in.
Isn't this just creste di gallo pasta?
I am not sure that “wait, wait… don’t tell me” (a 50s radio show) had more impact than Hanna Arendt because of show’s popularity.

In 200 BC leaflets with Alexander the Great gossip stories were heavily requested and consumed. I don’t believe they affected western civilization as much as Euclidean geometry.

Broadly speaking pop culture has a short lifespan. Does not seem to be that interesting or impactful in the long run.

For example we have many articles complaining that we live in an era of incredible artistic ugliness where most works of art produced will hardly endure 50 years. They might be wrong (although I see where they are coming from, contemporary arts currency is shock not awe or beauty, it is a byproduct of the post modernist, high-tech society).

On the other hand, po culture surely helps to explain many aspects of the current civilization and problems of the day. Are these problems interesting? Maybe, to the extend that is interesting to know how they made tea in China 1200 years ago or who would be the Emperor’s wife.
Some interesting reading also with respect to the AI/LLM/robotics/etc. era.
I do not think that people without account are minority.
IANAL but punitive damages are meant to punish defendants to force them to reform and deter future misconduct. They're supposed to be outrageously large, otherwise they're toothless. It's kind of the grand bargain in liability law in the US - fewer regulators and regulations but courts can hand down punishing rulings.

In a car or gun based wrongful death lawsuit, usually the defendant is the user not the manufacturer so punishing them with a $100 million ruling doesn't do anything - a $1.5 million ruling is already life changing unless they've got bulletproof liability insurance. They usually don't have anywhere near that kind of money and a ruling against them won't prevent future users from shooting or hitting someone with a car, whereas corporations are (ostensibly) able to make proper long term risk calculations.
I didn't notice there was a paywall upon submission. If you use bypass paywall clean[0], you won't see it either. But thanks for the link.

0. https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
It is definitely a thing that happens: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/former-twitter-employe...

Hard to say how often / what fraction of occurrences are never caught, or caught but never publicized.
> Ad revenue depends on tracking

No it doesn't. Surveillance revenue depends on tracking, but people have profitably sold ad space for hundreds of years without any tracking.
Yes.

Finally, some scientists with clue. Except that part about qubits, they are a dead end. Quantum holography and analog sieves will explain more!

Thank you Penrose, I've always been a fan (Road to Reality is good shit!)
My system does not have battery storage. A storage battery would be considerably better in the event of a power outage, but also would have doubled the cost of the system. My plan is to have another look at batteries when it is time to replace the inverter, and hopefully the cost per kWh will have dropped by then to the point where batteries make more financial sense.
I really meant to say "owner of the Nitter project", but you are nonetheless correct about ownership of Nitter instances. I have edited my post.
I went "ah, that explains it" when I saw "Broadcom" in the description of the chipset.
Most likely they won’t be discussing either 20 years from now.
Carmack is skeptical

https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1750557236798148613?s=46
Or you could start questioning why you feel the need to have a side hustle and desperately monetize all aspects of life.

Everybody got a story to sell. Make a podcast, or YouTube channel, get an OnlyFans account. We desperately need more content for the sake of content. Hugs as a service, attention as a service, why not? Do your friends pay for advice or smiles yet?! We desperately need more stuff. Let's sell some PLA decorations on etsy to pay for your bills. You gonna have a great run, at least till someone on AliExpress undercuts you on your own designs. Now, let's be honest your design wasn't actually original, either, was it?

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You won't be able to buy hard securities, of course, but hey, they say you will own nothing and be very, very happy! Trickle down wisdom, already included in your life subscription. Let's get rich-ish!
You were eligible..to apply. Spectrum or any ISP doesn’t determine your eligibility. Only Affordableconnectivity.gov (federal government website determines that)
Right now I'll just say that from 2005-2015, Java and C# applications were literally the bread and butter of every application security shop (house accounts for web appsec firms were Fortune 100 companies that built all their line of business apps in those two languages), and password reset bugs wereo one of the first place you'd look. I think I even included password reset in a "Seven Deadly Features" blog post I wrote at Matasano.

None of that is a reason to avoid C#! I'm not trying to say that using the two most fertile sources of web application security vulnerabilities over the last 20 years is per se a bad decision!
They just aren't the ones posting on the platform.
I've been looking for a detailed explanation on this, because I would like to know how they read the PC.

The New Advanced User's Manual describes the flag at &FE34 on the Master and B+ and I've read this thing about using the PC from a few places but I haven't found any specifics.

Could you clarify? How do you know from the outside what's in the PC?
When you say they were not active combatants, what do you mean by that? If they were retired (which seems unlikely) that's one thing, but if they were just not on the frontlines, that wouldn't make them them illegitimate targets under the Geneva Conventions.

Thanks for getting to the bottom of those photos which admittedly lacked context. I didn't meant to suggest that he was in the list of journalists killed by the IDF; I didn't even know he was deceased. I think the point stands that both freelance photojournalism and guerilla fighting can be done in a part-time and/or non-professional capacity.
Has there been any guides about self-hosting Nitter and using your own personal account, rather than trying to generate a bunch of guest accounts?

I ask because while I no longer use Twitter, I have been using the RSS feature from Nitter to follow a few accounts that aren't available elsewhere. So if there's any way to keep doing that, I'd appreciate it if anyone has a solution. And I really don't want to login to Twitter anymore.
BBS scene
Dislike is not priority or let say common denominator. Problem is that X/Twitter cannot be viewed without login. This was not the case before.
it’s the price users will pay for the phone, not the price developers pay for utilising apple APIs and services?
The world is in business now, almost everyone outside of conflict zone have a good standard of living that they wouldn’t want to be compromised.
Yep, it will be easier to cut the X habit off. I'll miss Nitter, but I'll be happier in the long run.

I was a Reddit Apollo user, and it was easier to wean off of Reddit when I had to use their horrible app or their website. Even using old.reddit has been painful.
You could, but you'd have to make your own personal twitter account. At that point you're using Twitter with extra steps.
As a volunteer Greyshirt with Team Rubicon, I cannot relate.

One of our cultural principles is, literally, “Get shit done”.

Another is, “Your mom’s a donor”.

In your position, I might recommend associating with other volunteer based non-profits and gather some good, concrete concepts around how they plan, their guiding values, how they organize and conduct activities, how they source supplies and execute logistics to support their volunteers, etc.

These relationships and ideas may give you some concrete feedback and examples to share; and offer a conduit for your leadership to engage other leaders and learn from them the lessons & challenges ahead.

Good luck
Game storytelling is different from movie storytelling and that’s fine. Most of your time with a character in a game is not spent performing the actions written in the script. The character doesn’t mostly live in the script, they mostly live in the gameplay and the environment interactions. It is a different type of storytelling, just like movies and books are different.
Hamas is more popular in Gaza than the Republican party is in the US. It is not true to say that they are "pretty unpopular."
Could you elaborate here?
Is there any evidence they prefer the trash to real shells? This could be a sign of shell shortages, maybe a consequence of increasing ocean acidity, or a boom in hermit crab populations.

I don't see the problem. Used correctly, even trash can contribute positively to ocean like all the ships we scuttle to build reefs on.

Edit: from TFA: > The researcher said that the natural snail shells were in decline, so she suspected it might be becoming easier for the animals to find an artificial alternative. And lighter, plastic 'shells' might even help smaller, weaker crabs to survive because they are easier to carry.
> Gitlab has, as I understand it, a pretty excellent security team, which gives some sense of how hard this bug class is to avoid.

I disagree. It's a bonehead mistake to send password resets out to tainted email addresses. As this was an authentication change it should have received extra scrutiny and so have been even harder to introduce.

Something is wrong with their engineering culture that needs correcting.
>Some of the output you can get from it beats the top agency talent I've worked with
>I would never trust any AI tool to actually write on my behalf

That's because AI is unreliable. Algorithms are deterministic, but AI is probabilistic. You can trust the algorithm will always do its job, but AI will only "probably" do its job. The best thing we can say about AI is that it will probably fail less than a human.

AI is like rolling a die. Sometimes you get a 10. Other times you get an 1. And other times you get a 20.

That's why the best uses of AI, in my opinion, have been in areas where the AI only needs to go beyond a human capability once, rather than in areas where you need a constant reliable output. For example, when AI is used to designed a sorting algorithm faster than what humans have ever created, or when it's used to design structures for space rockets. In these cases it doesn't matter that the AI fails at its job 99.99999999% of the times. It only needs to surpass human ingenuity once and we can use that design forever.

When I hear about using AI as a replacement for search results for example, or in this case for a textbook or tutorial, what enters my mind is... just read an actual written by a real human. If this is unfeasible because search engines suck or because the articles are written in a very confusing way, maybe we should try fixing how we search for humanly-written articles and how we write articles, rather than using AI to generate the text of the articles and then AI to digest the content of articles for you.
36,000 is an impressive install.

I’d imagine that every single thing that could happen to an AP would happen.

What hardware did you use?
Or a leap forward in consciousness due to said beliefs turning out to be founded.
It's not just pedophiles. It seems like boys are targeting girls of the same age and producing child pornography using AI generated video. From the article:

> Last year, a New Jersey high school student launched a campaign for federal legislation to address AI generated pornographic images after she said photos of her and 30 other female classmates were manipulated and possibly shared online.

> Francesca Mani, a student at Westfield High School, expressed frustration over the lack of legal recourse to protect victims of AI-generated pornography. Her mother told CNN it appeared “a boy or some boys” in the community created the images without the girls’ consent.

In the US, minors attend high school from ages 14 to 18. Francesca Mani was 14 years old when this happened in the fall of 2023 [0].

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/04/us/new-jersey-high-school-dee...
I actually do get a bit of motion sickness when I get off a treadmill. It takes me a couple minutes to get my bearings after stopping.
> I'm the proud owner of a major brand WiFi router

Why not name it?
That’s mostly true, but not entirely. SMA (inverter) offers Secure Power Supply on some models, which give you a single 120 Vac outlet that can provide up to 2 kW (about 15 A) assuming there is enough sunlight. If the solar panels are producing less, it can still provide lower amounts of power. For things like charging phones, a small TV, laptop, modem, and router, it should give you power during most daylight hours, regardless of cloud cover, if you have a 6 kWdc array.
dev time isn't free -- if it works, it works.

Eating up life-cycles with broadcom/infineon issues sounds like one of the circles of hell , personally.
this analogy doesnt work because it’s not at all even in the same realm of utility or function.

the reality, as you say, is that development and operation of services and APIs isnt free, and you are not entitled to sell your apps to apple’s users. the og iPhone didnt even have an app store; a lot of work went into making a great product and an ecosystem.

developers and apple enjoy a certain relationship, and users love iOS apps, but its not true that developers have the right to do whatever they want (privacy, security, not their platform).

go invent your own OS and phone then
Especially those stupid blog-like formatted ones.
Comparing traffic, pre sale, of logged in twitter users vs traffic generated by those without accounts would give insight into what percentage of users have to take action to continue to use twitter normally.

I spent a 1-2 minutes googling and could not come up with numbers though.

I know I am part of the percentage of people that used to read twitter without an account, or at least not logged in, and now read twitter a trivial amount.
Every time we get a story about a vulnerability, we get comments about how they're indications that engineering cultures need correcting. All I'll say is, the impression one gets is that every engineering culture needs correcting. I buy it!
IMDB best documentaries -

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_ser...,

1. It's not the best people have ever seen, it's what average people love [1]

2. Ratings # is 5000 minimum. Rare stuff has less ratings. I doubt many in this HN thread would be less than 5000.

3. Political/emotive docos on strong lines will be overrated. It's a effect with some Indian or Turkish topics, and things like veganism or the holocaust. They are often rated higher than the quality of the documentary.

4. You can make the minimum 5000 ratings higher for more solid docos. You could try putting rating # to 1000 - 4000 to try and find some gems, but I don't think that will work. I think the gems are ones people don't get. So low numbers and middle ratings. Maybe looking at the graph of the votes might work. IMDB data is open to download FYI

5. Torrents are really bad with keeping docos alive. eDonkey fills the gap a little more. Youtube are always low quality.

[1] Mads Brügger The Ambassador (2011) is so subversive, it often makes me think. It's only 7.2 with only 4200 votes. It's hard to say is it good? His "The Mole: Undercover in North Korea" (2020) is on the list however.
Yup tired of the election propaganda trying to make it seem like the current ruling party is doing great because the economy is just humming along.

At this point the media is gaslighting the public. This is the most bleak economic future I have seen in my lifetime. I say this as somebody making multiples of the median income. I greatly worry that one day I will join the lower class (where I started) in misery as my buying power is completely eroded.
I have misunderstood you/OP. In this case you are right. I was commenting from perspective of someone that do not have account but came across the twitter links on sites like HN.
have you heard of licensing for chip technologies? maybe from qualcomm?

the reason apple doesnt pay carriers is that the market has changed and handset makers have more power. also phones work on wifi too ;)
My startup Nūdl is using AI to iterate trillions of pasta shapes for optimum twirlability, semolina coefficient, and hospitaliano. While it is still early days, we project that with our current runway and model capabilities, our pasta may become sentient in time for the 2026 Feast of St. Anthony.
Kind of. Midjourney V6 has certainly improved image coherence by a fair margin, but for complex prompts where accuracy is important, DALL-E 3 still has the edge.

Comparisons I made a while ago:
https://imgur.com/a/2GTRjfK

I will update with v6 later this evening. Unfortunately OpenAI is the most censored, though in my tests, the DALL-3 API is less restrictive than using DALL-E via the ChatGPT interface.
I know what you are doing here and you will not change your talking points. So I repeat again. China has surpassed the threshold. It is now in the big boys club and should start acting accordingly.
There is an Oculus game Tea for God that had step scaling as an option. It is rooms ale, but every step you take, it moves you 1.25 steps of distance.

I get motion sick easy, but this option doesn’t make me sick.
But it also seems bad for customer acquisition to close off twitter. None of us outside the organization know if the cost is offset, but this is certainly not the typical SV playbook.
Fish poop and piss where they sleep. Have you ever watched the average ocean dweller's mating process? They just gush and let the tide take it away. Ever thought to yourself what sea foam is made of? The stuff cresting picturesque waves? It's all sorts of organic gunk left over from previously mentioned biological processes… Oceans are icky.
Interesting - is there a type safe way to do this? vector<variant<>>? and/or a custom “vector allocator” to hide the details?
Monsanto hasn't been a separate company for years: Bayer bought them out for 63 billion in 2018: A coup for the Monsanto CEO, as Bayer's total market cap today is 34 billion, and that includes all the pharma and chemical work too, not just crop science.

When they were independent, their legal team had a very successful track record, but I am told the majority of them just retired with the very large windfall they got out of that merger. Given that Bayer has a different CEO than when the merger occurred, it'd not be crazy if Bayer jettisoned all of crop science away. For all the concerns about Roundup, I'd expect the Dicamba legal risks to weigh down the value of keeping crop science at all.

It might not be remembered as as silly a merger as AOL acquiring Time Warner, but it's close.
as a ploy to get manufacturers on board with their “open” platform which they now control (and also have stupid fragmentation issues)
Cruise failed to disclose disturbing details of self-driving car crash
Why not make an account if you want to read it?
It's honestly fascinating how the same RISC-V binary might run in different ways on wildly different CPU implementations.

Binary compatibility seems to be some kind of invisible glue that is often overlooked but holds software ecosystems together, e.g. people buying brand-new Steam Decks to run age-old Win32 exes.

I wonder what kind of unexpected developments will grow on a simple, stable and microarchitecture-agnostic ABI like RISC-V. A plethora of niche JIT compilers maybe?
UK police increasingly using polygraph tests