skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest news is the McCarty swapped a “slate” of votes for Chinese authors (that was actually a recommended reading list, published by a magazine), and just replaced those votes for votes for western authors.

This goes well beyond just ham-handed and incompetent attempts to preemptively appease Chinese censors, and into outright manipulation to deny Chinese fans their votes at all.

If we were still just in the world of “McCarty is attempting to preemptively censor to appease the government”, I’d agree with you. But we went past that point, and at this point McCarty’s hands are so dirty, it’s hard for me to assume he was just looking out for his local contacts.
And a more recent heavily discussed rendition:

A 2024 Plea for Lean Software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39049956
Well what can you do? Trace their IP back to a VPN or web of proxies? Or more likely grandmas infected Windows XP computer? Then what? Start kicking doors down?

Going to get the FBI involved for a $20 purchase?

Reminds me of Lebowski asking the cops about his Credence tape.
I would borrow more money, buy LinkedIn and shut it down. All everyone needs is for a way to apply to jobs. Everything else is excess.
> Also Musk's publicly stated goal is to use his fortune to go to Mars.

Not himself though... society in general.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235
The pyramids were famously older to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to us.
Add sorting on the columns. First thing I tried was seeing which one was cheapest per GB.
Agreed about phones disagree about MacBooks.

I wouldn’t want a thicker laptop screen just for a bigger lens. Pointless.
Well, yes, but real matrices are also a subspace of complex matrices, you don't have to switch to a real valued representation of GL(n) to arrive at that.
Then don't put sensitive material in a repo that you decide to essentially make public and serve to the whole world.
What lock can protect people's data if the people hand the key over to the bad guy?
What about a "creator" property on the ws event and the message handler filters for self created events? Alternatively, just send an OK back as the http response and always rely on the ws message to update the UI/state?
For enterprise, Google has something called Vertex AI which has a strict privacy policy but you have to pay just like any other typical cloud service.

Presumably Gemini 1.5 will be available there soon.
It's not about the money. It's about risk vs reward. Musk absolutely killed himself over getting Tesla where it is (it kind of shows in his mental state of late) having that all ripped away because a guy with 9 shares complained about his pay package and won on a minor technicality is vexing to say the least. The pay package required extreme levels of execution, and Tesla achieved extreme levels of execution.
The company did not leak it. People reuse passwords. "Hackers" just tried passwords from earlier dumps and accessed profiles of people who reused the same password with 23&Me
The original source is just their company-internal chat logs, guess someone popped their WeChat for Business. It's too much to quickly pick out the important bits among all the socializing, so there likely won't be much of a discussion without someone providing a summary.

Of course putting the summary on Twitter is not much better.
Whether you think it's a real problem or not, if you want to solve it somehow, I compiled the current options one have in Rails apps:

https://nts.strzibny.name/alternative-bigint-id-identifiers-...
Lol no, the Hugo awards won’t be held in China again for a long while, and other event organizers will stay away after seeing this debacle.
I specifically wrote why know your customer laws are bad.

A law that makes a bank liable for their customer’s illegal actions harms people who kind of sort of look like they could be doing something illegal, even if they are innocent. Plainly discriminatory.

A law that makes hotels liable for human trafficking harms people who “look” like human traffickers. Guess what, now people who want to pay with cash or don’t have an ID or don’t fit whatever other profile are no longer welcome at a hotel. Again, obviously discriminatory since people who didn’t do anything illegal are being punished.

These aren’t made up examples, these are real life examples. The government is literally telling a business they have to judge someone without the person being able to provide a defense, like they would in a court of law.
> I think you are trying to build walls around something that isn't entirely yours, both personally and “you-as-the-voice-of-the-community yours”.

Profiling other users, in addition to being extremely bad form, is a pretty good sign that you don't actually have a valid argument to make - which, reading your comment, you don't.
If you want a more open platform, one of the posters is breaking down and translating all the info here: https://infosec.exchange/@still
(2018)

Discussion and anecdotes then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651
This would be very nice, but it is still very incomplete.

The table needs an additional attribute, ECC vs. non-ECC.

Searching the list for a 2 x 48 GB DDR5 SODIMM kit finds none, while an Internet search finds candidates immediately (e.g. Crucial DDR5-5600 @ $298.99).
This depends on which service you are using, any of the free products allow for training, but the paid services do not.

Allows training on input:

1. Gemini (formerly Bard): https://gemini.google.com/. Policy: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961. Can opt out of training by disabling history.

2. AI Studio free plan: https://ai.google.dev/.

Does not allow training on input:

1. AI Studio paid plan: https://ai.google.dev/.

2. Google Cloud Vertex AI: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai. Policy: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/data-g...

3. Gemini for Workspace (formerly Duet AI for Workspace).
Your signup form isn’t working on iOS. Would be great to give this a go!
> Does that mean Google can take them away at any time?

It's open source software, so no. The product is basically google vetting the software, building it in a reproducible way and then packaging it up so you can have some more confidence in where it's come from. If they shut it down you could switch back to downloading the same builds from wherever you used to get them, though obviously you wouldn't then benefit from the vetting etc.
Missing an 'ECC' vs 'Non-ECC' filter... and I honestly would like all the marketing people that feel a need to specify 'Non-ECC' to just be fired for search pollution.
Here, try this: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/
Off topic, but has anyone used HVM? What do you use it for?

It seems like a very interesting project with quite a steep learning curve, given interaction nets look like a whole new way of thinking.
If big platforms like amazon find themselves liable if they cannot connect seller activity to real human beings and real businesses, they will have an incentive to fix their systems to stop those spammers churning out KYC'd accounts.

The platform will care about costs to itself. One of the advantages these large platforms enjoy over smaller ones is their ability to pass the buck on consumer law, to their benefit and to the scammers. By making it the platform's liability, always, this could start to change.

If the companies that think of themselves as large 'platforms' end up erecting barriers to legitimate business in the process, then that becomes their problem and is likely to result in more competition in the market from companies who act as actual stores themselves.

It's not 'so simple' but a liability change, and an end to exempting retailers like amazon from their retailer responsibilities could start to rebalance things.
And more recently related:

Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548712
FYI: Japanese people don't read 漢字 (kanji) as "hanzi".
This is why I have a problem with a lot of the legal structure and incentives. If you measure in number of arrests you aren't solving the problems. I'm not sure there's any good metric to measure that.

To take an analogy I'll mention the drug war. The main target was always low level drug dealers and users. They're easy to arrest and easy to say you're doing something. But they are fairly inconsequential to the business of selling drugs and thus the availability on the streets. But it's orders of magnitude harder to go after the root of the problem. I don't want to detract this conversation with the other aspects or conspiracies (real or contrived), but just focus on the incentive structures. I think the same is here. Blizzard gets no short term reward for reporting fraudulent activity. It's hard to know if they get long term. But at the end of the day it would be the right thing to do.

That's what matters. Doing the right thing. Move fast and break things it's a great strategy. But it can't be used in isolation. If it is you're left with a trail of destruction which never gets cleaned up. It's hard to quantify objectives and so every objective function is misaligned. You need to rely on humans to see through that and correct the course as best they can. You need both the people pushing to move fast and the people pushing to slow down and repair. There's a harmony in that competition. Pick your camp but recognize that there's value in the other one too.
> Say goodbye to the complexity of crafting queries by code.

IDK about this angle, just because elasticsearch / SQL has fucky syntax doesn't mean that crafting queries in code is something we wanna say goodbye to?

I like what Google Malloy has done, it made writing things in code enjoyable by reinventing the syntax and language, but keeping it compatible with existing tech.

Otherwise this is cool! I found it daunting as a newcomer to search thinking about optimizing search and making sense of how users use it.

But even with elasticsearch, it was not that hard to craft queries to do a faceted search and it was cheap and easy to setup, so the value I see is more in the analysis. And if you're going beyond a faceted search with basic group and / or logic, then isn't vector searches the way to go anyway?

I'm probably missing something!
> multiple floors

But not if you lived on the ground floor I assume?

> iterate over alphanumerics instead of just numerics

Why would you suggest another sequential ID as a solution to a sequential ID? I didn't, UUIDs have decent entropy and are not viable to brute force. Don't bastardize my point just to make a response.

> I'm reasonably sure the decision to use usernames instead of internal IDs in HN profile URLs has very little to do with this particular "mitigation" and everything to do with convenience

It wasn't intended as an audit of HN, I was holding your hand when walking you through an example and chose the site we're on. I missed my mark and I don't think a third attempt will do much difference when you're trying so hard not to get it. If you someday have public data you don't want a competitor to enumerate you'll know the solution exists.
Reddit was the more popular hn replacement. Twitter has too weird a form factor to ever allow the possibly of anything but hot takes.
"Your greatest challenge lies ahead -- and downwards..."

Oh, wait a second, my bad, that's the quote on the box cover for Zork I: (

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Zork_I_box_ar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork )

What you really wanted was a link to where you could download Nix/NixOS -- and/or learn more about it!

Well, here ya go!:

https://nixos.org/

"Your greatest challenge lies ahead -- and downwards..."

:-) <g> :-)

I say all of the above in the spirit of humor -- and as a NixOS user and fan!

(But yes, there is a learning curve to it, so yes, learning Nix/NixOS could be a challenge!)

((But you're a bright person (you are here reading HN, aren't you?), you have Google and ChatGPT and Internet forums to assist you, and you like challenges!))
I forgot the exact context, I just knew it seemed to come out of nowhere. I think it's this tidbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJQ0TcBmqU
I have never heard of this parable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse, but I came to comment the same thing.

In Yogic teachings there is the idea that it is impossible to know whether any given event is a good thing or a bad thing, and the conclusion and perspective will often constantly change over time.
I am curious what you - and with you more proponents of Tailwind in this thread - mean with “component” and “component framework”? I’m also Zen-garden age and with my very limited React experience this does sound like you are meaning a component framework like React, correct?

If so; what would be the motivation for using JavaScript to style a button? Call me old - my coworkers do -, but that feels counterintuitive.

Please note that I haven’t really formed an opinion on Tailwind yet. This is an honest question.
> Going to get the FBI involved for a $20 purchase?

Sure, why not? And if you're at the scale is Blizzard I'm sure it's a lot more than $20.

We're collecting all kinds of information these days. Surveillance capitalism is a common term for it. Data is gold they say. So why not give that data to people that can use it to stop crime?
[dupe]

Lots of discussion of mentioned FT post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418386
I know that this is mostly for fun, and it looks cool. But on a serious note, as someone who's dabbled in both J, stack languages (Forth and Factor), as well as tacit programming in Haskell, I'll say that naming is an awesome way of making programs more readable.

Trying hard to avoid names (by, say, eta reduction in Haskell) is a fun excercise that rarely leads to more understandable programs.
Why is there an ffmpeg dependency if the app is only working with metadata?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDNS

I did not know that

Is it widely used?
A320neo successor will be based on sustainable aviation fuel: Airbus CEO
There is a setting on Gemini paid, however it isn't about disabling model training, only activity storage length.

Also (On manual deletion):

"Even when Gemini Apps Activity is off, your conversations will be saved with your account for up to 72 hours to allow Google to provide the service and process any feedback."

And in any case:

"Conversations that have been reviewed or annotated by human reviewers (and related data like your language, device type, location info, or feedback) are not deleted when you delete your Gemini Apps activity because they are kept separately and are not connected to your Google Account. Instead, they are retained for up to three years."
Not with family sharing.
This is an article from 2014 that has become a racist trope.
I mean that only bad thing makes so much of a difference.
Same here.

I log in with my personal Apple ID and get the stuff from App Store I bought on my company machine too.

All companies have used MDM to disable iCloud Drive though, which was a pain with a few apps that used it to sync stuff between computers, but perfectly reasonable. It's so transparent that it'd be too easy to accidentally get corporate stuff on my own Cloud Drive.

I moved that stuff to sync via a Dropbox account I don't use for anything else and everything has been fine for years.
It is a valid argument. Certainly it resonated with me. Your original comment made it seem like you were the voice of the community, that a majority or at least a plurality of users want your proposed change. But there’s no indication that they do.
They apologized and gave promocodes, subsidizing the service even further. They were well aware of the problem.

Things normalized a few years later. I think the biggest lesson was that clients were willing to endure a lot of hardship for a 50% discount.
Is it good way to rely on web-socket events instead of API responses?
We're about to kill an accidental experiment in reducing global warming (2018)
Hah, same thing I thought!

Went looking on the AppStore and I had bought Duet on December 2004!

They went subscription based, https://www.duetdisplay.com/
There are a lot more sites than that when you throw in personal blogs.

The issue is that those are now impossible to find.
GLMs are a non linear transformation on an output followed by linear modelling. They are referred to as “linear models” but you might as well then also consider NNs as linear models, or any model at all which ends with addition as the final step.
Cool project, I look forward to digging in a bit - been meaning to check out some of cloudflare's dev offerings for a bit.

Athena is already a name in the cloudy database segment though - Amazon's managed Presto offering

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/what-is.html
What does not kill them makes them stronger?
Abstract the LLM calls into one layer, bundled with the prompt engineering for your use-case.

Et viola, your application is now free from LLM lock-in.
The Google One AI plan does provide access to Gemini Advanced (backed by Gemini Ultra 1.0) at a significant premium to the current highest Google One plan: https://one.google.com/explore-plan/gemini-advanced

The free tier of Gemini (formerly Bard) has been on Gemini Pro 1.0 for a bit now.
>This is made easier by the partitioning of the site into subreddits. ... It's a fundamental design flaw (if we were to assume the design of Reddit was intended at all to provide a space for authentic personal takes on real issues and by real humans).

Huh? I don't follow here: having multiple subreddits is exactly what makes the site usable for so many utterly different niche topics. There's probably a subreddit for repairing 1967 Camaros; do you really want to see posts like that every day in your news feed? I don't. Reddit isn't meant to just focus on tech topics like this site; it's meant to be a site with discussion forums for every topic imaginable, and there's no practical way to do that without subreddits.
It’s not “the whole world” moderating you, it’s more likely than not specifically Google. In my age and peer group, personal usage of GMail is 98%+, professional usage of GMail is 50%+. Not delivering to GMail is not an option, especially so if the email is not just for a social purpose but, for example, for finding a job.

I ran my own email for close to 15 years, most of that time on the same IP address and the same old domain. I could never get GMail to reliably accept my mail, and of course there is no support to find out why. I set up and tested their documented best practices, and had no issues corresponding with a lot of people.

Spam is not an issue in practice. Two basic filters drop 95% of spam without scanning the content, and an open source reputation+content engine drops the rest to the tune of maybe 1 spam a day. The two annoying parts are dealing with exceptions, often large companies misconfiguring their outgoing email; and the open-source nature of the filtering engine’s ruleset, meaning it occasionally completely breaks for a short while.
"The operation is spelled _"

And pronounced underbar, as in where you need to drink yourself when programming in this language
If you sell something to the public, you must abide by certain regulations.

A law that says "Amazon must know their sellers and be able to pass the consumer on to those sellers, or it is liable itself as a backstop" might indeed shut some people out of Amazon's marketplace who cannot comply.

But those people would not be allowed to legally retail to the public anyway, as they couldn't fulfil those requirements

> The government is literally telling a business they have to judge someone without the person being able to provide a defense, like they would in a court of law.

A business, not a someone, and there are all sorts of compliance rules you could complain about doing exactly the same thing.
And preferably don't have a numerical passcode.

It's really easy to shouldersurf a numerical passcode, the buttons are so big and clearly placed.

It's a lot harder to do with a CorrectHorseBatteryStaple style password.
Nothing officially confirms the existence of Phone (2a) via its YouTube channel and social media handles and the specs for this phone have been leaked
It is in fact very instructive, given that email is an open federated protocol but it doesn’t matter because the industry has centralized.

We now have several new social networks based on the ideas of open protocols and federation. They are not yet large enough to attract too much attention but we’ll see if the story rhymes.
The other problem is the moderators themselves. Each subreddit has its own volunteer moderators. It's a thankless job, so who volunteers to do it? Frequently people who shouldn't have that power. So many subs have terrible mods who abuse their power.
if you are primary payer, you still get it I think
Quotable dot points:

* ""All-in-one combat platform" product whitepaper - dated 2022. Appears to be a large internal network for assigning and performing red teaming tasks."

* "what do you mean they stole 3D models of the entire Taiwan and what do you mean it's 459GB"

* "no fucking way you can grade each mission's like an assignment"

* "Microsoft email secrets platform - dated 2022. Basically designed to exfiltrate data or attack Outlook/Exchange. The attacker can use it to create phishing emails."
My plan is to get a government clearance. The work that requires it is harder to outsource to anything.

The pay and the work itself is probably worse. But I’m just a sysadmin… Running dnf update and shooting the shit with the people around you is universal :^)
Neither Nebula nor ZeroTier is based on Wireguard.

What they compare in the article are systems that provide some form of ACL, which is why bare Wireguard is not included. That means there are features in the data path that could have significant performance implications versus a simple tunnel. The impact of using ACL features isn't really a focus of the presented benchmarks, but they do mention a separate test of using iptables to bolt on access controls.
So a bit late but this is definitely a thing, but as far as I know, with any kind of rapid weight loss, the loss of muscle "lean mass" can be an issue.

Did your doctor warn you by any chance about the cracked vertebrae and the interplay with losing weight/muscle? I'm assuming not but that is definitely not the kind of pre-existing condition that someone might notice (though I'd hope a doctor could notice/forsee that)

Starting to pair lifting weights with the treatment seems to be what everyone is suggesting is figuring out now, much like you did[0]. Along with that, probably some remodeling of eating habits is required (instead of just eating less).

[0]: https://glp1.guide/content/can-glp1-drugs-replace-diet-and-e...
Very cool project. Similar to the Ruby on Rails debugger that I wrote, which allows you to see all of the methods that are called for a given request (and param values, return values, etc).

https://callstacking.com/