skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is constantly being sued for nearly everything they do. They create a Chrome Incognito mode like Firefox's private browsing mode and they get sued. They start restricting App permissions on Android, sued. Adding a feature where Google maps lets you select the location of your next appointment as a destination in a single click, sued (that's leveraging your calendar monopoly to improve your map app).

Google has it's hands in so many fields that any change they make that disrupts the status-quo brings down antitrust investigations and lawsuits.

That's the reason why Firefox and Safari dropping support for 3rd party cookies gets a yawn from regulators while Google gets pinned between the CMA wanting to slow down or stop 3rd party cookies deprecation to prevent disrupting the ads market and the ICO wanting Google to drop support yesterday.

This is not about bad press or people feeling bad about news articles. Google has been hit by billion dollar fines in the past and has become hesitant to do anything.

Where smaller companies can take the "Elon Musk" route and just pay fines and settle lawsuits as just the cost of doing business, Google has become an unwieldy juggernaut unable to move out of fear of people complaining and taking another pound of flesh. To be clear, I don't agree with a strategy of ignoring inconvenient regulations, but Google's excess of caution has severely limited their ability to innovate. But given previous judgements against Google, I can't exactly say that they're wrong to do so. Even Google can only pay so many multi-billion dollar fines before they have to close shop, and I can't exactly say the world would be better off if that happened.
Under that framework, we should learn self control as early as possible. We learn faster at age 6 than at age 16.
Or maybe they just don't feel the need to afford Gucci bags.

China makes a lot of these "luxury" goods which may tend to dilute the brand mystic in their market.

And they often make similar "replica" products for domestic consumption using the same materials and the same workers in the same factories.

The only thing really missing is the label and the outrageous price tag.

www.businessoffashion.com/articles/china/chinas-factory-brands-clones-counterfeits
> But support for vendored dependency in Cargo is weak/bad.

Could you be clearer about this? What's wrong with cargo vendor?
You might not need Redis
It's the usual CEO claptrap before they decimate the company.

1. Acquire company

2. ???

3. Fire developers until profitable without doing actual work

4. Raise CEO Salary
Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques
Today I published a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2024-1086, working on Debian and Ubuntu among others.

The affected exploit versions are from Linux kernel v5.14 up to v6.6. The support for v6.4 to v6.6 is depending on the `CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON` kernel config variable, but please check README.md for this info.

The bug was patched in February 2024, and has been labelled CVE-2024-1086.

Make sure to update your Linux devices!
You gotta watch The Big Short. That's where I learned what a CDO was
Never underestimate the creative and intellectual power of boredom.
There you have it, "the future of nursing homes"... All the material for a dystopian sci-fi book, fueled by a single spooky headline. Matrix and A Scanner Darkly mixed up into something... that makes you even more affraid of the future.
Correct, with the implication that by creating incentives to bundle junk tech debt into 'AAA' packages (packages with good reputation), the Rust ecosystem is heading for a bubble (and eventually a collapse) because the rating agency that's supposed to regulate things has been gamed.
React Server Components Now in RedwoodJS
For humans it’s primarily a form of data compression. We rely on a shared understanding and ability to detect inconsistencies and ask.

This breaks down when someone starts talking outside of that shared understanding (say, on the internet) but do not realize more context is now needed.
Sex and the College Girl (1959)
It's whole-society. A prominent member at my synagogue gave a talk and said that the real war that will rock Israeli society is not Israeli vs Palestinian. It will be a civil war within the Jewish community, with largely secular, modernist Israelis on one side and Haredim on the other. The Haredim are not content to practise their ultratraditional lifestyle quietly amongst themselves. They want to impose that lifestyle on all Israelis.

(Note: The Haredim themselves view the term 'ultra-Orthodox' as pejorative.)
There is a watermark that the video is made by another platform that uses Sora. Are there any descriptions on which materials are by Sora or other software like for the voice?
It would be interesting to see you or anyone with your opinion about solitary spend even six months in U.S. Federal/state supermax levels of isolation and then emerge to say with a straight face and sound mind that it isn't torture.

Humans are innately social animals, and isolating them against their will from virtually all human contact even for fairly short periods of time can be more destructive to their being than physically mutilating them, even if the scars won't be so visible. Whether such a punishment is justified for some types of extreme criminals or not is another argument that we could debate, but let's at least be honest about describing it for the cruelty it is as a method.

Total supermax-type solitary is one very major reason why even some of the wold's hardest criminals in other countries fight extradition to the U.S at all costs. Should someone like Assange be placed at the same moral level as a mass murdering Mexican narco boss?
Small binaries has nothing to do with the reason for that. Build tools will only include what's needed either way, so e.g. your Hello World program will have parts of std::io and std::fmt, and not really anything beyond that. So you "pay for what you use", regardless of whether it's part of the standard library or an external library.

I think in Rust the choice is more one that originally prioritized viability of long-term maintenance of the project by keeping the volume and surface of the standard library small. For all more recent inclusion the inclusion criteria seem to be either "small ecosystem functionality that everybody is using and has proven to be valuable" (e.g. once_cell) or "what is close-to-optimal solution for critical parts of the ecosystem that we have to include to minimize ecosystem splintering" (e.g. the work around std::future). I wouldn't be surprised if there are actual written down criteria for std inclusion somewhere.
> or sorting mixed trash into non-recyclable and recyclable (and further into various metals and plastics)

A lot of that can already be automated. Push the trash into a series of shredders, until it's powderized, then use magnets to pull out metals, and differentiate the rest by weight, IR spectrum and air streams. Then, one can use a spectrum of solvents to target plastic polymers to get back the precursors.

Unfortunately, for plastic polymers that's still way more expensive than to just dump the wholesale trash on some Asian or African piece of land where it will eventually either degrade into microplastics or be burnt by extremely poor people who hope to get some of the metals back.
But this is code obviously without side effect.
So much harm has come to this world through earnestly "good intentions." At least in this case it was largely only financial.
Fair point. Was my first Google hit on "is dog poop bad for a lawn" which was probably lazy on my part.
BTW, what browser do you prefer?
> Additionally, children can volunteer for the military at the age of 16.

In the US, under 18, only with parental consent.
I think the empirical evidence is fairly clear, actually.[1][2]

Having struggled with various forms of screen addiction myself, I find it sort of odd that a lot of people are so laissez faire about giving children the most addictive device ever created.[3] Whether or not this law is a good idea, I think it's incumbent on parents to monitor and limit screen time and access to social media. Which is difficult! When my wife and I are tired, setting my daughter down in front of an ipad is the easiest way to get a break.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23522...

[2] https://jeanmtwenge.substack.com/p/yes-its-the-phones-and-so...

[3] Sure, it's not technically "the device," itself, but rather what it makes possible.
I did too, but I would gently point out that you had to actively look for it. something rotten was a known site for that kinda stuff. You only went there if you were doing "illicit browsing" shall we say.

It was pretty difficult to stumble over a video of something visceral. Moreover, the internet wasn't real when we grew up.

The internet is real and omnipresent, filled with the mountains of clickbated bullshit, and only ever three videos away from some sort of porn(if you're lucky).
Managing 100s of Kubernetes Clusters Using Cluster API
> May be kids of now will just need to be educated about the real impact and not be treated as if they are in glass houses?

The problem with this argument is that TV had ads and while they are manipulative, they are absolutely no match for the shit that Meta, YouTube, etc pull. Kids (and quite obviously lots of adults) simply do not have the ability to deal with that.
I'm not sure if I missed a joke about the NSA, or if there's a computer agent you use, in which case i'd love to hear about it.
Organic farming still uses "organic" pesticides like copper. The real falsehood is that organic farming is perfectly nontoxic and safe.

Looking forward to having more advanced robots, we could start seeing a lot more permaculture. Organic farming not only relies on pesticides and herbicides but also on monocrops and tilling all of which add up to a lot of problems. Robotic tending could eventually allow more diverse permaculture to take over.
> The mobile ecosystem has moved on a lot since monolithic APKs and user expectations are too high for them to be sufficient.

As a user, I expect that software I run is protected from tampering.

... and there's no reason, other than laziness and "we know better than you do", that you can't define a manifest/asset signing format that supports that and supports incremental distribution of apps and doesn't demand giving the authentication keys for every single app to the distribution point.
I suspect literally billions of people have some doubts about that.
I've seen it happen internally over years of sweat & tears

A few large customers can move things on specific products if they're able to escalate their support ticket into talking to the right developer
Traveller and expat here - "free world" is absolutely correct.

Even its allies aren't free of government interference from the US.
Several people have tried to create such a thing over the years, but the ecosystem never uses them. People objectively prefer to pick their own set of packages.
Pittsburgh built the replacement for the collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge in less than 8 months. The one that collapsed took 14 months to build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Hollow_Bridge
That's true for google, sure. But what about individual workers and managers at google?

You can push things forward hard, battle the many stakeholders all of whom want their thing at the top of the search results page, get a load of extra headcount to make a robust and scalable user-facing system, join an on-call rota and get called at 2am, engage in a bunch of ethically questionable behaviour skirting the border between fair use and copyright infringement, hire and manage loads of data labellers in low-income countries who get paid a pittance, battle the internal doubters who think Google Assistant shows chatbots are a joke and users don't want it, and battle the internal fearmongers who think your ML system is going to call black people monkeys, and at the end of it maybe it's great or maybe it ends up an embarrassment that gets withdrawn, like Tay.

Or you can publish some academic papers. Maybe do some work improving the automatic transcription for youtube, or translation for google translate. Finish work at 3pm on a Friday, and have plenty of time to enjoy your $400k salary.
I was referring to the dark and light side of the force :-)
The container ship "unluckily" maneuvered between the protective barriers. About 4 more protective barriers would have stopped this collapse.

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No bridge survives being struck by a container ship. That's why barriers are erected around critical points. There already were barriers, they just weren't complete coverage for some reason. (EDIT: Maybe the older 1970s era design of this particular bridge wouldn't allow more protection to be placed. Obviously this situation calls for a full investigation / lessons learned kind of thing, as part of the new bridge building process)
Most people don't even want to do that (and it is vastly improved from the old days).

I can't find exact numbers, but I would bet that Hogwarts Legacy sold more on consoles (combined) than on PC.
Hopefully no DMCA of something like that affect this project, long time ago I wanted to build a lyrics translation website, but apparently you may get in trouble for using copyrighted lyrics.
> The common consensus seems to be, yeah, it’s obviously stolen, what are you going to do about it?

When good sleuthing collides with entrenched forces.
After reading the readme I'm not sure how this works. Will the "prompt" be the "raw audio" of the song? And the model returns lyrics, chords, beat, melody and the tabs?

I'm looking for something that I can sing to (a self composed song without music) and it would recommend guitar cords/tabs + melody to accompany myself. Any ideas?
> Started on the cheap during the Korean War, the Tappan Zee was deliberately built to last just 50 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyregion/a-bridge-that-ha...
I believe your hope that he will face anything like a fair trial in the US is misplaced. The conviction the US seeks under the Espionage Act is as good as automatic. There are books and numerous articles covering in minute detail the extraordinary nature of his persecution, detailing the numerous perversions of justice involved.
Registered mail to Adobe?
Also TVs since 2000 in the US were all required to support v-chip which allowed parents to set restrictions on content. Getting around v-chip could often be somewhat complicated. Meanwhile it is usually pretty trivial to get around parental control software on computers.
> If Affinity had a great business of their own, they wouldn’t need to sell.

They don't need to. They mentioned that in their FAQ:

> We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only a couple of months ago!) there was something about it which just felt right.
Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
One of the major points, afaik, is that these beautiful buildings require a lot more manual work. It used to be that materials were expensive and labor cheap, but that equation reversed, and skilled labor required for such a nice facade now comes with a heavy price.

But I have no expertise in construction nor history so can't say if that's true.
> But: if I can get thru that, and start to engage with (say) Italy at a deeper level

I was at a native+ level of English in high school according to an IELTS test I took for fun. During college my English improved further.

When I moved to USA … ho boy the difference between fluent English and culturally fluent idiomatic English is surprisingly vast. Much hilarity, frustration, and subtle misunderstandings ensued. It’s like an uncanny valley when your language is so good you start being judged as a native who’s a little weird and unsettling.

After 9 years of full immersion (I live here with nobody of my native language to speak with), you could say my English is near perfect. Hell I write and publish books in English! The next generation has started using new idioms I do not fully grok. What the hell is “based”?

Basically feels impossible for to ever fully catch up. Language moves too fast and your cultural background will never be same as the natives.

Edit: One super interesting aspect is that to speak fluent native English you have to do it wrong. Californians, for example, don’t use the plural contraction. You have to say “there’s many options” instead of “there are many options”. Otherwise you sound like a weirdo.
Just look at birth rate, depression, etc.

You will see we are in a dead end.

I don't think this law will change the trend unless there is major concerted effort.

Boys have access to so much porn and gaming that they are checking out of real life.
Girls have their problems too with social media.
That last line helped - thanks.
Swift embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success
I'm so excited about this and that there's finally an alternative to Next.js's implementation.
You really can't speak for everyone. You can maybe say this particular cohort is fine despite seeing some of this content while young, but certainly not because of it.
> If you want to say that a problem can be solved by additional intelligence, you need to posit a mechanism.

I can posit a mechanism, but that's not my point.

The original claim included an argument how intelligence can manipulate people (by using "game theory"). Then if I understood your reply correctly, you basically rejected it with "if I can't do it, then the AI can't do it". That doesn't make sense, especially given that I don't see any reason to think your execution of any "game theory" is betting than a powerful AGI.

And my understanding of "game theory" is just the accumulation of what we already know about human psychology and behavior. And we know that even simple algorithms (eg. the ones that Facebook, Tiktok etc uses) can get people hooked. It's not surprising to me that a more powerful algorithm could get people to change their minds on something quickly (heck, even Facebook/Tiktok tweaking the algorithm to make people more conscious of <issue> isn't something inconceivable.

Given this context, I don't see how your argument of "I can't do it, why should I believe an AI can" holds any water at all...
> Sometimes you just say fork it.

FTFY. And vendoring a dependency is really just a hidden fork.
I comment on this below, but just try doing a path = "" dep to a 3rd party workspaced project inside a workspaced project and see what happens. I'd have to dig through old chat logs to find the specific explosions, but cargo did not like this.

(It's possible it's been fixed in recent Cargo versions, but that's not available to me.)

But in the end, cargo is a tool primarily designed for building crates that depend on crates in crates.io. Even workspaces themselves are a bit of a half-baked afterthought.

But cargo really should have started by looking at Maven for inspiration -- a) a moderated repository and b) Maven has much more expressive support for version restrictions etc.

Instead crates.io feels like it's going the way of the world npm.

Anyways, sorry if this sounds like "get off my lawn", I'm grouchy today.
In this specific case, some good Samaritans came around and fixed the lawn for him while he was imprisoned. Had they not... I don't know how it would have been possible.
Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)
Sorry, misspoke. I meant any animal that eats meat, including humans, dogs, chickens, etc. If they eat meat, there are toxins in the poop that make it inappropriate as a fertilizer, but you can compost it and kill off most of the bad stuff.
But the subscription based company was the one to buy the non-subscription company. Because they generate the funds to do so.
Of course he wants to affect political outcomes. Is that not the entire point? The US is committing war crimes, why would he _not_ want this to change?
Also, how would unbiased reporting on war crimes look like?
Lastly, does "having an agenda", whatever that might mean to you, change anything about the facts that were presented? Does it make the crimes the US is committing any less severe?
I would imagine that this is similar to the same shared security model that you would use within AWS and other Cloud Providers. At some point you have to point to their documentation and how they do things as being out of your control but possibly audited on its own. But if you are really worried for iOS it is optional.

I don't see any capabilities regarding your first question outside of testing specific devices through TestFlight, but I would think it is fairly safe to assume that Apple has put a lot of work into making sure this works consistently between devices.

It is also entirely possible that, like working with Cloud Providers, that there is a difference between what normal users can do and what can be done with NDA's and other contracts signed.
In light of that, I'm surprised that only 91% said they used grafana. How did the other 9% even get in to the survey?
If you just want to put your text/images up, and don't need to allow users to comment, buy stuff, or that sort of thing, then you want a static website, written in html and css. Get a VM from the likes of Linode, and install a basic static website as shown here (https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/set-up-web-server-host-we...). You don't even need a static website generator; just edit the html yourself.

If using a static website, you can have Cloudflare do the https for you, Troy Hunt covers it here: https://www.troyhunt.com/https-is-easy/
Personally speaking I’ve always found Inkscape frustrating compared to Sketch or Affinity Designer, but it’s in a different way than GIMP is. GIMP I think would mostly be fine if they just ditched all the quirky GIMP-unique UI conventions in favor of more commonplace counterparts (which in some cases is as “easy” as using standard GTK widgets instead of custom stuff) but who knows when or if that’ll happen.
They were not.

Fortunately the values are always prefixed by a dollar sign, making parsing deterministic, though ugly.
One giant AWS account is technical debt you can't afford
How did you figure out how to navigate the filesystem in the first place? Or use the terminal app to get to the man pages?

I remember opening up my first IDE when I was about 14 and becoming overwhelmed with my complete lack of knowledge about coding. Looking at the blank text file was like staring into a bottomless pit of nothingness.

I learned how to read from the terminal though, so I knew commands like `cd` and `dir` before I even knew how to read.

I'm unsure how someone just figures out the terminal without a guide.
One of the biggest indicators to me, as someone who has navigated such lines before, is how comfortable co-workers are with waste. A co-worker who takes catered food home (without saying something like, "oh I have 3 growing teenagers" or something else to excuse it) is low-class. Do you keep the little sauce packets, napkins, disposable cutlery, etc. from take-out? Low class. Do you keep the pencils and notepads etc. from places? Low. Class. Also this causes you to need to have a place to store all these things, and now you fulfill the stereotype of a poor, messy person.

Minimalism, aka the confidence to be able to acquire anything you may need at the moment with resources always available to you, is a class indicator.
a) Not all newspapers were paid.

b) If someone handed me a newspaper I was not expected to pay for it as well.

c) The newspaper dosn't fucking track you.
The freedom, such as it is, comes from alternative app stores. I trust F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) somewhat more than I trust apps on the Play Store so that's my first stop when I'm looking for something.
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