skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you define a "political opinion"?

Here's some extreme examples for the sake of illustrating my point:

- Is "Trans women aren't women" a political opinion?

- Is "The earth is flat" a political opinion?

- Is "Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of babies to keep her alive" a political opinion?

- Is "Michelle Obama is secretly a man" a political opinion?

- Is "Donald Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide" a political opinion?
I am responding to this:

> The refunds must include all government-imposed taxes and fees and airline-imposed fees, regardless of whether the taxes or fees are refundable to airlines.

This is the provision I am responding to. If the airlines must refund the full value to the consumer, I do not see why the government should not also be refunding the airlines.

And I strongly contest the idea that any delay is a problem the airline themselves created. In fact, I believe the assertion is absolutely dead wrong. There are many externalities to on-time arrivals and departures that airlines cannot control. How could it possibly be an airline's fault if an airport hasn't cleared its runways of ice, or if a tornado is within 5 miles of the landing strip?

Of course I also believe airlines will disingenously attribute delayed departures to these externalities if able to, even if they are actually at fault, so I'm not sure what the "right" solution is here.
KYC stands for Know Your Customer, and is a core regulation in banking. So we can pivot off that and work through what a bank does to verify your identity.

I signed up for a Mercury bank account a few months back for my Delaware corporation without talking to anyone, so I'll use that as a template.

I can't remember the exact steps, but tl;dr submit a passport photo / driver's license photo and a photo I take in the app itself. If it was a not-US passport, then they'd dig into a full verification, not just a quick manual check of "is that face the same as the passport/license, is the passport/license ID # valid, and are the photos edited"
It's why things like Captura no longer exist. You make something fantastic with an open source license, someone else renames it and sells it in app stores, and the people running the app stores go "the license allowed for this, we see nothing wrong".

It's well past time for getting rid of licenses that say "you can do what you like with this software", and replace them with licenses that allows you to sell as long as the original project gets a cut, without taking on any of the liability.

The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and never made you anything makes a random drive-by asshole more than your annual salary.
I always felt that graffiti/jot got the 'return' gesture wrong, it should always be a down stroke followed by a leftwards stroke, which IIRC both MacOS X's and Windows Pen both used.
Getting pwn'd by AI – citing articles
I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss it using a label like “culture war”. This is an important topic to many people, because there is mass censorship of opinions and views that deviate from a window determined by employees of companies that operate these big technology platforms. That censorship has been normalized even though it heavily damages and skews politics. This document has details on numerous practices that are prevalent across the industry and not well understood by most - that alone is worth reading and considering, as it points at a need to regulate these platforms in order to protect our political process. The recommendations made on Page 10 are actually pretty mild for what it’s worth.
FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality in a Blow to Internet Service Providers
This is double true for the effort people would put into getting porn.
what is a rough rule of thumb for each 1nm reduction? What does that increase in transistor density look like each year? If the jump is bigger (5nm->3nm), does that rate of change increase too?

trying to understand the economic impact of these announcements as I don't understand this topic well enough
How's America though?
The L1 latency constraint is a size constraint - if you increase the L1 size, you simply cannot avoid increasing L1 latency.
Double (YC W24): We grew our company from 0 to $5k MRR in 6 months, then pivoted
Hey HN! I'm the co-founder of Double (YC W23). Earlier this year we decided to pivot our company and walk away from $5k, and we wanted to share our journey, the rationale behind our decisions, and the lessons we learnt along the way.

Also happy to answer any questions about it! :)
It isn't like they could have started this after the release and been done by now.
Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs
i’m reading through the contrarian takes here and thinking, “yeah i’m kind of ok with that?”

this would make it much trickier for bad actors to get away with everything from online ai scams to swatting. i could live with that.
I'm GenX and a movie buff, but not much of a music listener, so I replied to the Hollywood part of your comment. There's always going to be more old movies than new and I watch enough movies that I run out of the new ones.
That’s guaranteed to happen. Even beyond that, how are developers going to earn a living with FOSS, at least with open licensing?

We have seen maintainers burnt out. It takes work to write code.
Interview with Sid Meier from 2004
I was in a large org that did this for a while. It was extremely painful to be this far off the beaten path.

When you stay in the well trod C Ruby path, you benefit from the hordes of others who cleared the landlines before you. With JRuby, not so.
Because governments recieve the mandate from the people to take up things like national security on information we are not privy to.

In this -- extreme case -- the exceptional case of banning the company I think is warranted.

Secondly, half the country voted for DJT. Some insignificant percentage believed his lies and doubted science and such during COVID. Mistakes were indeed made by governments and scientists and public trust in them was strained ... but it proved to me, at least, that the general US public is not educated enough or are just too hopped on their social media opium to care enough to really weigh the threat that TikTok plays. And in this case I defer to the intelligence community and those who operate in the area of national defense to handle this. Seems enough of congress and the senate agree with me.
Dan Harmon on writer's block (Reddit comment)
Problem is: every i2c transaction is a READ or a WRITE. The spec is mum on the semantics of what that means. Some devices will get into a weird state or irrevocably pop data off a FIFO if you READ them (eg: some IMUs). Others take a WRITE, even with no data, to have a non-idempotent meaning (eg: SMBUS). Some devices will not even ACK their address on a READ request unless it is preceded by a write and a RESTART. Basically there is no safe way to scan an i2c bus and be sure you did not modify some state or put some device into some weird state.
Not unless all the contributors signed an Evil CLA first so I can relicense it :-)
AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars
Same as Humane Ai Pin, Apple Vision Pro etc. They’re making a bet and hoping that when the world moves on from smartphones, they’ll be _the_ platform for the next frontier.

In software we see a lot of these “re-imaginings” come and go, see Arc browser, new cloud databases and myriad other things rolling the dice and hoping that they can disrupt and monetize later.

I think this is rarer in hardware because

a. It is harder, requires more planning, inventory management, higher standards and budget

b. Higher barrier to entry means not a lot of small players taking risks. I suppose it takes a technological shift like AI or spatial computing to re-imagine hardware interaction as well.

The saddest part is, when software companies come and go all that is wasted is some VC money and Twitter rants. With hardware, we’re making more junk to fill up oceans and waste precious resources…
> They have avoided 2 government shutdowns

You mean they passed a bill that was necessary for them to get their paychecks. I fail to see how this is even remotely surprising.
Why is it depressing? It was your choice to share it.
Well, yes it is - but it's completely legal abuse and the society seems to be willing to tolerate it (and much worse abuses, evidently - like total warrantless surveillance absent any proof it's actually useful for anything except partisan political squabbles). I wish the courts and the parliament would be willing to do something about it, but they aren't, and they aren't, because most of the society seems to be fine with it. Sad.
Was Jack Welch the Greatest CEO of His Day–Or the Worst?
> Companies are amoral

No they're not. They very much have a morality, it's just not ours. Some include:

Greed is good.

Profits first and foremost.

Externalities are not our responsibility.
“Congress avoided two government shutdowns” is like saying “I avoided pooping in my pants twice today.” It’s factually true and objectively a positive thing, but there’s nothing really commendable about it.

The debt ceiling is Congress’s own creation, and Congress itself approves the budgets that cause the increase in debt. There isn’t another parliament on the planet that behaves so absurdly, fighting shadow puppets set up by itself.
Any project with a CLA was already subject to that stipulation. You get to do work for a company for free with the added benefit that you're now also on the hook for any legal problems that might arise from the code you contributed.

What a deal, you get to put in the time and effort AND potentially fight a legal battle when a patent troll decides to go "wouldn't it be fun if" all on your own!
I mean great. I don't really want the things it's trying to ban, so good?

But this is sorta like plastic straw bans: 0.0000000001% actual impact, all while making HUGE headlines, while doing absolutely zero to solve root systemic issues: Entrenched Local Monopolies by telco providers.

So yeah, good, glad my Nebula won't be slower than my YouTubes, while all along I just wanted to ditch the assholes in the first place and use a different ISP.
Both sides suffer from shell and ATGM shortage and inability to suppress/destroy air defences, which drives suboptimal adaptations. An FPV drone assembled in a garage from aliexpress components and a tesla battery [1] with a submunition extracted from a cluster shell [2] is more effective than a single old howitzer with 10 shells per 2km of frontline [3], but it's a pretty low bar.

The 10% estimate is not mine, it's from a legitimate expert who regularly goes to the frontline in Ukraine.

[1]: An amusing anecdote from that podcast: Tesla battery packs are a big source of batteries for FPV drones. The packs can be sourced for next to nothing from totaled Teslas, and individual cells are very reliable.

[2]: https://www.twz.com/ukrainians-are-cutting-open-u-s-cluster-...

[3]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukraine-frontline-ammo-...
Ongoing discussion: [0] (164 points, 88 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160429
im not sure i understand are customers of AWS/Linode/Digitalocean now required to submit passport/drivers license to host a blog or website?
"They didn't trip on their own feet"
Show HN: Trivially Simple Value Toggle
I needed access to a toggling value for an automation. I could have written a local file or use a local data store but I was inspired to make a simple web service instead.

swap.ist gives you URL key that whenever accessed will toggle between true or false.

The use-cases are... at least one, but probably more.
> I think you're misinterpreting what's being said here in order to over-react.

If you can point out how I'm misinterpreting, I'm open to discuss. From what it appears though, we have a disagreement on what we wish to delegate to different branches of government.

> But they should be acknowledged as a necessary evil, and their use minimized when possible

I disagree that executive agency rulemaking is a "necessary evil". Congress can simultaneously be derelict in their duties as a legislative body while having a executive regulatory apparatus that creates rules under their purview.

> Whereas you seem to be defending taking those practices to the extreme simply because of historical precedent.

If not for historical precedent and recognizing the practices we've been utilizing for 4-5 generations of people, what should we prioritize?
'Buy Bitcoin' Notepad Held Behind Janet Yellen Sells for $1M
Linux foundation was never about Linux or open source. quite the contrary.

the foundation started as a way for companies to band Against gpl. and they won the day Linus have up and allowed tainted kernel be the default and every device distributor moved their proprietary code to modules and rejoiced.

their focus then was on gpl3 fud because google et al have much more money than modem vendors.
Recent articles citing the mid 2023 paper “Getting pwn'd by AI: Penetration Testing with Large Language Models” that ends its ”Final ethical considerations” section with ”Attacks will use LLMs … Defenders need to be prepared for that …”
You obviously haven't been in any right-wing circles.

They're constantly saying that the other side "hates you and wants to destroy the country", exactly the same thing left-wing circles are constantly saying about them. If they're laughing when they're saying it, it's either because you're failing to read the room and arguing with someone who's just sharing an edgy meme rather than actually talking politics (I see this very often on the fediverse), or they're doing it in a cynical "haha, we're so screwed" manner.
I start all my stuff with AGPL .
I would expect for example the work of brick-layers to remain the same, regardless of the version of USB implanted in their brains. Same for many (most?) other physical work/activities.
>and he packed the federal and supreme court

I can tell where the hypocrisy starts and the eye roll begins.
Thank you, that worked! The app is a bit fiddly but it works :)
> The same thing happened with chip frequency around the end of the 1990s.

Not really the same thing, though. If I buy a chip that's advertised as 3.4GHz, it'll run at 3.4GHz. Maybe not all the time, but it'll achieve that speed. If I buy a chip advertised as being produced with a 3nm process, there's nothing even resembling 3nm on there.
> Is it that it's a slippery slope or perhaps I'm being naïve in regards to the scope?

This. Also, it won't stop malicious actors. Setting up a LLC to mask your true identity is cheap and easy. Not to mention that providing a fake identity or pretending your are not a "foreign person" is also cheap and easy.
TL;DR: Once again, capitalism takes it's toll.
There's a lot in the book about this - it depends what you mean. Tor has a lot of social and technical design elements that try as best they can to minimise this risk. It would be pretty hard for intelligence services to compromise the Tor organisation in ways that meant they were deploying malicious code, for example. Plus, the way it's grown over the years has also given them some protections.

In terms of deanonymising people through surveillance (for example, by spying on the whole Internet and tracing you through the Tor network), Tor explicitly doesn't protect you against this. The decision was made early on - they switched all the high-security design elements to 'off' to make the network faster. They calculated that a hyper-secure network that was so slow no-one used it was less secure - i.e. made less privacy exist in the real world - than one that was less secure but used by millions, because that would give you a huge crowd of people to hide in. This gets really complicated - because you also want lots of different kinds of people using the network, so they can't tell if you're a drug dealer, an activist, a spy etc. just because you're using Tor.

Individual bits of major intelligence organisations can probably deanonymise you at some times, and not at others. The real question is if they can do so in a way that's dangerous to you in a sustained way, and if it's actually useful for them to do this. Usually, it's easier to do this through simpler mechanisms (bribing your friends, putting a camera in your bedroom, figuring out who you are etc.) than compromising the Tor network. Some security services absolutely will be researching and developing ways to deanonymise larrge numbers of Tor users at a given time - but in general, the budget for this is going to be quite high on a per-user basis (so you'd have to be a prime target for it to be worth it), and a lot of the complexity of the Internet geography makes this quite hard itself.

Ultimately, for any given high value target, there are usually easier ways to get them than through breaking Tor. In almost every case, a person will make a basic OPSEC error long before mass-scale traffic analysis gets them.
I was just in Munich the other day - couldn’t even move because there were so many tourists. I think tour groups need to have a hefty fee attached.
That was Jan 2010.
The data suggests that "both sides" isn't really the case here.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457289.2019.15...

"these results suggest that Trump was able to leverage populist anger for political advantage in ways that other candidates were not and that such anti-elitism played an important and underappreciated role in explaining the outcome of the [2016] presidential election."

*Edit - added year in brackets for clarification.
Astral Codex Ten: Contra Hanson on Medical Effectiveness
Stripe to start taking crypto payments starting with USDC stablecoin
A ton of us grew up reciting

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
PLUTO

But, the meme doesn’t die because the deplanetization of Pluto was a weird occurrence that doesn’t usually happen. The biggest association I have with Pluto is that it used to be a planet, so why wouldn’t I joke about that every time I see it mentioned?
Homepage is still up :)

http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/datebk6details.htm
Your best bet is to try to contact as many companies that send text messages on behalf of campaigns as possible (like Tatango, though there are probably a half dozen big ones), and threaten them with legal action if they don't completely block your number.
Google Relents on Threat to Demonetize Naked Capitalism
I worked at a startup that (despite my protests) had a 5-figure AWS bill, when we could have fit the whole company on a $50/mo dedicated server. Maybe you're falling into the same trap?
It depends where you come from and how surrounded you are with people familiar with the language. If you're working on your own, it can take some time for the key concepts to click. But if you have a mentor that can help you go through the core concepts, then it can be pretty quick.

I've been on both sides, I leaned Rust very early and it took me a while to even understand what lifetimes were and wth was `Copy` and `static`, but after that I've been onboarding complete beginners at several companies and they got proficient very quickly with some guidance from me for key concepts.

Rust isn't hard, it's just has a few concepts that you need to understand otherwise you're just confused by everything you encounter. But to me wasn't not too different from the effort it took me to understand "wtf are prototypes" when learning JavaScript 15 years ago.

When you come from a certain language paradigm and you're learning a language with another paradigm everything sounds so confusing at first, even though the difference aren't actually that big in reality. But you need to be able to overcome the difference before you see the similarities.
> This is not happening. It is a lie.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This document has deep details on moderation/censorship schemes across the industry. How can you claim it’s a lie when there is significant evidence throughout the document?

> There's a difference between expressing an opinion and pushing ideologies that are incompatible with a free and open society where people are actually able to have civilized discussions on differences of opinion. (If you are unaware of this concept, brush up on "The Paradox of Tolerance".)

Civilized discussions can happen if they aren’t censored. But using vague and highly subjective labels like “hate” to dismiss and censor discussions is what is incompatible with free societies. Obviously free speech is fundamental to any functioning democracy - why shouldn’t the same be true for online platforms when that’s where most citizens hold political discussions? It doesn’t make sense that this value is somehow only necessary for the government, when these large platforms have government-like power and influence.
Apple was never a friend to open source. They wanted to control the hardware and the software.
It's the evolution of the 'cope cage' that grew out of the shortage of active armor plates.

Ukraine hunted that tank down and destroyed it by drone, btw.
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I don't think people are quite willing yet to fathom that Amazon and Facebook are on a rampage.

Amazon copies succesful products and claims them as their own. Facebook looks at SSO authorization numbers to determine what should be the next product area to focus on.

Their endgames are to take over everything, everywhere.

Forums used to exist... now it's FB.

Successful shoe manufacturers, bag manufacturers... decimated by Amazon's copy and paste attitude.

I don't know if it's that kind of world I want to live in.
You don't actually understand Turing completeness if that's your takeaway.

Turing completeness is about computational equivalence. That, fundamentally, any Turing complete language can perform the same classes of computations as any other. It says nothing about substitutability of one language for another within any other context.
As someone who is both a “bad writer” and a “petty critic”, I think this is pretty solid advice.
Fully open access PDF version free here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-D...

Though do consider buying it if you like it!
Normally it's American exceptionalism — assuming the USA is better than every other country. I think this is the first time I've seen someone assuming that since America has a problem, other countries must have it too.
Nice to see you're still working on it! I've used it a couple of times since I first saw it a few months ago (albeit only for short amounts of time) - I'm looking forward to the future updates based on your Github and lore doc.
You're free to define it that way, but that's substantially different from GP's "if it's not a display adapter, it's not a GPU" that I was pushing against. It does seem pretty fragile to define a GPU in terms of the particular architecture of the day, though. There's plenty of things called GPUs that don't/didn't have TMUs, for example.