skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainly this was just myself getting irritated at MS Teams and trying to figure out what it was doing. It was a couple years ago and my current company doesn't use teams, thankfully, so I can't really see if its still valid.

From what I remember..

There are files on the disk that get updated/overwritten with pulls from the server every time it launches. Somewhere in AppData I think. A few of these are config files (with lots of interesting looking settings, including beta features).

One of the config entries specifies a telemetry endpoint (which, you _could_ figure out with a network tracing tool but there are a ton of MS telemetry endpoints your machine is probably talking to. Best to just grab the one explicitly being used from the config like this). I forget the full name of the setting but the name pretty clearly indicates its for telemetry, and the file is clearly a config file. If you can't find it just by browsing the structure, try a multi-file search tool and look for 'telemetry' or URL/hostnames.

You can't really change the value on disk and make it just take effect from there, since it gets downloaded from the server and overwritten before Teams loads. There might be some tricks you can do locally to persist the change but nothing seemed to work for me. You could override response from server via mitmproxy but that requires finding where it comes across the wire at launch time and then building a script/config to replace it.

Anyway, you can block that telemetry endpoint from a firewall and see your memory bloat. Or you can intercept that endpoint in any mitm proxy. I went with this [mitmproxy](https://mitmproxy.org/). From there you can capture the content it sends to the endpoint, or even change the response the server sends (Teams just seems to expect a 200 code back).

The telemetry data itself is some kind of streaming event format. I think I even found documentation on the structure on some microsoft website, so its likely a reused format.

It's pretty straightforward.

I couldn't spend too much time on it and now it's not something I even use, but some cool things you might want to try if you dive deeper into this:

- Overwrite the config file as it returns from the server, to turn on EU data protection, change various functionality you're not supposed to, or flip some feature flags.

- Figure out if there's a feature flag or even other overwrite to fully disable the metrics so they aren't even collected, from anywhere in the app.

- Intercept telemetry, return an 'OK' response and drop the data from telemetry, or maybe document what they collect more definitively if you think there's interest somewhere. This keeps your privacy but doesn't really do anything for performance.

- Interfere with the data before actually returning it, maybe try playing with event contents and channel/user indicators. Microsoft probably won't like this if they notice, but it's unlikely they'll even notice.
It predicted that ripping off this reddit comment would be really, really funny.
Aren't most environmental targets? Setting extremely high targets, often on unreasonable timetables, makes for great PR regardless of whether or not the targets will ever be enforced.
I think... it has to do with "start with" part of their statement (as in where to start to find what different people can hopefully reach a consensus on), as a more-likely-to-be agreeable thing than the general "killing a person".
I keep meaning to make a Chrome extension called DDGoogle that would reskin Google results in the style of DuckDuckGo. This way people who insist on using DDG wouldn't have to endure Bing-quality results.
> It's all so repetitive and robotic.

Lots of writing is, because generations of people have been trained that "grammatical but formulaic and bland" is the way to write. AI writing is reinforced by the training process, the human trainers were probably trained by they English teachers in a certain way.
The problem is, it's not their software. No control over Slack, Outlook etc
To be fair to LinkedIn, everyone knows it's not expected to be real stories... it's just fun and silly to post random corporate drone bullshit and see people jokingly reply "you inspired me today to thank my boss" or some such.

Anyone who think anything on LinkedIn is not a comedy is missing half of what makes humanity so awesome I think :D They'd be the same who forbid alcohol or dancing and take everything at face value :D
Feral goldfish are threatening the Great Lakes ecosystem [video]
Great read! The 6 layers of corporations with different functions was fascinating.
also modern nuclear is probably too expensive to compete with batteries; steam turbines aren't getting cheaper fast enough, while both batteries and power semiconductors are improving at a staggering rate. there's no reason to expect that nuclear power will constitute any percentage of the power grid at all 20 or 40 years from now. 10 or 100 years from now, yes
Where did you get the attachment? Or which brand model?
He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they were being used as an important part of Ukraine's drone warfare in this case, and actively countering Russia's countermeasures would be likely to move the status of him and his business interests from "relatively neutral" to "Axis of Evil".
They have two things:

A toggle for using the data for training, with it off it is not used for further training.

A temporary chat, which is not used for training and is deleted after 30 days.

They could be lying about either, but you either trust their T&Cs or you don’t.
ShowHN: Automate your group-chat banter with ChatShitGPT.
Weird! I noticed these just a week ago.
Can you share more on what you mean by moving to the small web?
https://openasteroidimpact.org/
And Altman is a disgusting guru, it's so painfully obvious but somehow he gets the same amount of pushback as Enron "Electric Jesus" Musk, but for half the accomplishment: at least Enron built cars, lots of cars. Shitty cars, but cars.

Mr Altman (whom everyone calls Sam like he's their friendly post-human overload) is just a cringe VC scammer, not very sure why he's there in the first place, sending "Her" to create some hype 2 days before being called out like a pervert by an actress :D

It's hard to see a train going full speed towards a wall and everyone congratulating the pilot for his ability to go that fast, sigh.
In water? Doesn't seem like an issue.
Was also sold one by my dentist. Turns out you still have to floss so it was just another thing I paid for at the dentist that I didn't really need. Cool.
Very well said

It’s finally recognizing that the centuries of generational interpersonal trauma that was normalized has been catastrophic for the world

You have to recognize the problem before you can solve it
If he was more diligent, he could have defeated the wartime abilities of a nation state?
Should be easy for Proctor & Gamble or Johnson & Johnson to have grounds for a lawsuit if that's the case. I'd love it if they sued ehn.org so we could clear it all up.
It was commercial, wasn't it? And only worked on Windows? IRC was the open alternative.
I would not even share personal matters like those with an AI.
We are so screwed we can't even quantify how screwed we are, because the entire planet and population are contaminated and have been contaminated for a long time now, so there is no longer a control group to compare to.
Dumb people are the best customers.
> This kind of thing shows we are not quite there yet

I think you need to probably consider the time it took to go from 100% wrong, to 90, to 80, etc…. My guess is that interval is probably shrinking from milestone to milestone. This causes me to suspect that folks starting SWE careers in 2024 will not likely not be SWEs before 2030.

That’s why I tell my grandkids they should consider plumbing and HVAC trades instead of college. My bet is within 10 years nearly every vocation that you require a college degree will be made partially or completely obsolete by AI.
This is part of the grift. Here we have Sam 'too dangerous to be released' Altman warning again and again while at the same time doing exactly what he is warning about.

I doubt he actually expects some type of regulation that will make the snake oil he is selling last a little bit longer. More realistically its so drive up the hype and cash out as much as possible until hardware is cheap enough for a good enough model since right now the gap between the pay to use models and the free models will only get smaller and smaller.
So GG Capital paid $2.1B for Red Lobster, and sold the land for $1.5B. They still owe $600M on their purchase! Did they sell the remnants to Thai Union for > $600M? Only then this whole thing makes sense.
because the people who have spend years of their life trying to build something, whether that's a brand, an experience, a product, whatever, have an emotional attachment to it and don't want to see it destroyed. so when they're struggling, the look for a lifeline. PE provides that lifeline as a cash infusion in exchange for ownership.

PE "vulture capitalism" is profitable because it takes advantage of vulnerable people who want to see their dream continue. and yes, the execs at $1.5bn companies can still be vulnerable people who want to accomplish something in the world.

the argument that PE firms are skilled managers only holds water if they actually turn the companies around and make them succeed. but more often than not they don't, they're burning things down to milk as much profit as they can before the end.
It shows that on all shares. I gave it no prior instructions. This was GPT 3.5.
Paraconsistent and Paracomplete Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory
Big discussion [0] (773 points, 9 hours ago, 506 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625
It seems narrow, but there really is no safety-friendly explanation for Altman et al giving their robot a flirty lady voice and showing off how it can compliment a tech dude's physical appearance. That video was so revolting I had trouble finishing it. I think a lot of people felt the same way - it wasn't because the voice sounded like Scarlett Johannson.
Ubuntu 24.04: https://x.com/dhh/status/1794068961367065087?s=46
> When terminating a service, temporarily place it in a state where the service is unavailable but all data is retained and can be restored at the push of a button. Discard the data after a few days. This provides an opportunity for the customer to report the problem

Replacing actual deletion with deletion flags may lead to lead to other fun bugs like "Google Cloud fails to delete customer data, running afoul of EU rules". I suspect Google would err on the side of accidental deletions rather than accidental non-deletions: at least in the EU.
You could try Cypress, it has a component testing solution. It's not for everyone, but the way Cypress works, is it will auto-wait for your assertion to run, so you don't need the whole async/await.

No solution is perfect! I see this as more integration / component testing than a true unit test.
UHOH!
This may be true but it doesn't have to be so cynical.

Most people don't have experience on how to squeeze the last drop of value from a struggling company. And many don't know how to quantify the value either. So if the average corporate executive tried doing this, they might not recoup the full value than if they just sold to the "experts".
Don't be so fast to assume that your willpower isn't just from genetic luck. You might as well be surprised some people are short. I mean, look how much better your life is as someone tall.

We humans are very quick to assume our positive traits and outcomes come from conscious decisions to make things that way. It's why every successful person has a book about how they chose to become successful. They just worked hard. It's something we want to believe rather than admit anything came down to luck of the draw.
Yes. Thai union bought a 25% partial stake from GG capital in 2016 for 575 million. Thai union must have been happy, because they bought 24% more to become the primary owner in 2020 for an undisclosed amount.
My former Marine ex-roommate said that 20 years ago. It's a fucking expensive, military-industrial complex boondoggle and deathtrap. NASA built one and then Marine buyers were enamored by shiny features.
For all the halballoo about AI safety and laws, Google released it knowing very well about the hallucination.

Also it’s so prominent that you can’t even turn it off.

How is Google making money on this? It takes so much space, the ads are pushed down even further.
Potential analogy to incentives which motivate chains of software exploits.
I do like Voja as well.
I just don't think he gets to review as many devices overall.

But, it stands to reason that since Voja is not running an e-reader shop, that he would be more objective.
I don’t think you can blame mask policies for police power trips. For one, police unions widely opposed mask/vaccine mandates. For two, ACAB; if it’s not masks, it will be something else.
The headlines are at least nonsense and at worst propaganda. Germany is part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomati... and has no intention on breaking that convention.

So "abiding by the law" means upholding the convention and granting the Prime Minister of Israel diplomatic immunity.

It's a mystery to me how journalists can be that stupid to not know about such things and just copy & paste this nonsense.
every library has a human being going through, by hand, and deciding what comes in, what goes out, and what is on "reserve", "special collections", a children's section, a fiction section, a non-fiction section, and on and on and on. libraries do not typically put an emphasis on "how to make a bomb" books. yes you could find one in certain libraries, but its not like there is an entire section dedicated to it, nor will it be featured in the public display nor will it be in the children's section. the purpose of it being there is not to help people make bombs, it is for research. if you came in there every single day with meth spots asking for the "bomb making book", that book would be taken out of circulation. much like the purpose of playboy in some archival libraries is not so patrons can go jerk off in the bathroom, but so that people can go read old interviews. libraries are nothing like the internet nor are they like AI. if a bunch of crackheads wander in asking how to make crack, the librarian does not point out to them the crack making manuals.
Further muddying the waters (with an ethics quagmire) were health officials who intentionally misled the public in an attempt to protect supplies of masks for medical workers during the PPE shortages that characterized the first months of the pandemic[1].

[1]https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/noble-lies-covid-fauci-...
Well, Omegle doesn't exist anymore, so that's a true statement anyhow.
The article describes what happened and it had nothing to do with Unisuper. Google deployed the private cloud with an internal Google tool. And that internal Google tool configured things to auto-delete after a year.
Cool, so now, with just a little clever “prompt engineering” I have access to 11 years of this guys most personal memories?
I didn't mean the users, I meant the potential customers.

Websites are (still) such a subjective, sometimes personal, sometimes tied-in-red-tape etc type of thing such that "what you, or even the vast majority of web designers, would recognize as very good" and "what the customer will be satisfied with and ready to pay for" don't line up as nearly as often as you think it would.
Reminds me of payday loan companies, except for billion dollar businesses instead of poor people struggling to pay for groceries.
Does Azure? I think there's AWS then everyone else.
Is this person a lawful agent of a legitimate government? Is the ice cream policy reasonably connected to some compelling government interest, like public health?
I can think of ten thousand things I'd like the Spotify player to do.

- First of all, stop changing the layout every goddamn day

- Stop pushing podcasts

- Better 'ignore' functionality so I can listen to something without it influencing my recommendations. I know Private Mode exists but it's clumsy and all-or-nothing. I want it to be more granular and available on an as-needed basis.

- Support for player cursors, which is like 'queue', but with the ability to tell Spotify to 'resume playing from this point in the playlist'. Maybe even expand this, and add multiple simultaneous cursor support, allowing for on-demand blackout zones or something.

- Bring back the 30 second press-to-hold song preview. Removing this feature was a crime. "low usage" my ass, so what? Keep it in, you scoundrels, even the SDK still supports it.

- Support for song start/end offsets. This is the #1 most requested feature on their feedback forums, has been open for 10 years, and they only ever occasionally chime in to say "we hear you, but not right now". If the issue is legal, just say so and stop leading us all on.

- Allow me to re-order my Liked Songs.

- Do what Apple Music did and require artists upload lyrics. Partnering with Genius was a dumb move. Genius is inconsistently available, and more often than not, just straight up incorrect.

There are so many more. Their UI is just barely on the right side of acceptable and not one inch further than that. I stay on Spotify because their music discovery is really excellent, I look forward to the new recommendations from Discover Weekly and Release Radar, and I think the Spotify Wrapped is a lot of fun every year. But as a music player, it is deficient to the highest degree.
In my experience you’ll be fine with monolith instances and failover. Probably until you’re Google scale
San Francisco Police Code article 55 - cashless rule

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s...
One of the often not talked about problems is that lots of masks were terrible and the quality in general was very variable.

There are some really great ones, and there are plenty that are quite difficult to breathe through. The N95 standard for breathability would pass some pretty bad ones.

Most places sold all sorts of badly quality controlled masks and it was a crapshoot what you got. And less breathable didn’t necessarily mean better protection.

Plenty would also collapse onto your mouth or not etc.

Some people definitely had a nicer time than others with them.
Unleashed Chat
I think it did at some point, but I think it was quite a few years after ICQ was purchased before the infrastructure merged.
The degree to which people think these factors matter is likely a deciding characteristic in their response.
It's more meaningful to get a blood test which Quest Health offers without a prescription in the US, although it's not cheap. Obviously the blood test is very precise, but it tests only for a few types of PFAS, whereas thousands of types exist in the environment.
every time my safety is restricted its under calls of some kind of "freedom".
Don't denigrate him, he's done the one thing that is simultaneously most likely to affect change at a company, and also the hardest thing for an individual to do: vote with their wallet. He's right, Spotify does deserve less money for their godawful decent into the lower rungs of mediocrity.
Texas is also a "constitutional-carry" state. The other person being merely armed should not be material (if Texas were consistent in applying the law.)
> Coming back to see whether your crush had messaged you.

Reminds me of personal experience of course but also the "Less Than Three" video [0], which in turn reminds me of the GUNSHIP Art3mis & Parzival music video [1]. I'll probably never watch the Ready Player One movie again, but I'll likely watch the GUNSHIP video another 100x.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQu71l1WQ3g

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQaH3lh-CA4
First-world thinking.

A quality mask costs around $1. Per-capita GDP is about $33 per day worldwide. Or put another way, with 8 billion people in the world, a mask a day runs around $3 trillion annually.

The world is interconnected.

I like masks since, aside from viruses, they filter pollution and allergens. I feel a lot better post-2020. However, universal HEPA filters and covid masks are very much for the rich.
Finally a chat bot that… accepts Bitcoin payments (???)
I'm not sure those vet deals are profitable yet. A lot of the deals in the last 10 years will be looking for their exit soon and I'm not sure there are buyers.
"It's a mystery to me how journalists can be that stupid to not know about such things and just copy & paste this nonsense."

ooooorr hear me out: they have to write bombastic headlines and content to get the clicks/eyeballs
How to become a great web back end engineer?
Hello, so I’m just curious what it takes to be a great backend engineer.

What CS knowledge do you need to understand?

What are some backend engineer fundamentals?

And in terms of actual practice l, what technologies/ languages should someone know if they want to be a great backend engineer? Thanks
Reminds me of Amazon's "AI" turning out to be cheap outsourced office laborers watching ip cams
As someone on the Q Typ116 that this app doesn't support, it's the primary reason I don't use the camera as much as I would like.
Both have independent benefits. Most importantly, using a waterpik is never a replacement for flossing.
Do you expect anyone to follow any rules?
> So he ran a red light, driving into the crowd, and then shot a guy who yelled at him for it because the yelling guy was carrying a gun.

So one can't exercise their first and second amendment rights simultaneously in free Texas? Or is that reserved for the good ol' boys?
> Why not then publish the strategies once outmoded

Because then your competition knows which strategies don't work, and also what types of strategies you work on.

Don't leak information.
ALT and AST of over 100 aren't an accident, usually. Rewatching this a couple years back this stood out immediately.
Show HN: Comparative Semantic search for Indian Constitution and parliament
I’m releasing the public beta of the Constitutional Observer that was in the works for a few months now. It brings together a corpus of the Constituent Assembly debates and questions from the LS.

“Who must educate our children?” It is envisioned as a comparative interface to understand the historical context of a constitutional argument. You can ask it seemingly simple questions, and it will semantically understand and return relevant responses from both corpora

The conceptual framing of these questions is meant to poke curiosity at a primal level , outside of explicit notions of political questioning.

Much of the data is present as a proof of concept and has not been fully cleaned/ constructed yet, and is slated to be next on the roadmapa
I thought it was pretty catchy, actually.
Another hidden tweak (that unfortunately interferes with yours): "Swipe between pages" set to "Swipe with Three Fingers." No more animation when navigating back/forward in Safari, and it works in more places to boot, e.g. Finder and Xcode Documentation. (This is because it uses an entirely different code path for navigation. Some more context under "Technical Notes": https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net)
Congrats! Big fan of Dashy, and happy to see a project here that is not all about AI.