skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit monitoring is really an indictment of the entire system: “if our negligence combines with someone else’s negligence, you might find out sooner”
I like this description of having major problems with GDPR as usually either being because you actually are abusing people's data, or because you've run up a huge pile of technical debt related to data handling: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/606812.html
They still do that, but it's primarily for cataracts now
There is nothing preventing anyone to build a whole new set of infrastructure for such "binary first serialization" 20 years ago, 10 years ago or today. We don't even need to do that much. Instead of "text/html" or "application/json", let's just use some binary format in the request headers everywhere and make both the client and server support it. Why hasn't that happened?

It's for the same set of reasons, and people aren't dumb.
Should've started when you were five. I learned English this way.
It's kind of bizarre to me that people now days don't think of their address as public information. In the US at least, until about a decade ago, we would get a physical book in the mail every year of everyone in our metro areas address and phone number, for free, whether we wanted it or not.

You enter your abode via the public. It's really not hard for someone like a stalker or private investigator or paparazzi to figure out if they can find... you. That is to say if you go in public. It's readily available to anyone who actually wants to seek it out, and it's something you do in public. It's not particularly private information in the practical sense.

Every time my address is leaked online, I am not worried in the least. I don't really need to do anything. It's readily available on any number of information sites online anyway.

When my credit card gets leaked, it's a major headache regardless of if I am liable for charges. Now I have to cancel my card, change all my automatic subscriptions, reenter it on every single shopping site. It will take literally months for all that to resolve.
Can language models serve as text-based world simulators?
It’s because you use it daily. If you used it once a month it would rot to hell.
The fact that the prosecutions continued for so long and that it took so long for the scandal to be dealt with is undoubtedly a huge failure of the legal system. It's also concerning that more people aren't asking questions about how and why the judicial system wasn't able to look at appropriate challenges to the Horizon evidence here - there is a big potential systemic problem there. But sadly it seems people would rather focus on questions about who was entitled to prosecute which seems like a bit of a sideshow.

Having said that, I think a mass exoneration via legislation was exactly the right approach to this (even if it took too long to happen). The judicial system is quite rightly built to focus on individual cases and by necessity this would have meant a long, stressful and potentially expensive administrative process at the least for all involved showing that their convictions would have been unsafe without Horizon evidence.
> where you get fined $50 for being stupid enough to give them the data in the first place.

So … you don’t use banks, utilities, phone companies, healthcare, etc. and don’t apply for or accept non-anonymous jobs? This isn’t optional in many cases, which is why it really needs to be covered by legislation which shifts the cost to the company collecting that data.
It depends. Some industries would be able to happily pay that. Others have tight enough margins that they might feel real impact. Even 1 million users x $50 is a huge sum for most companies.
I'd imagine there is quite a lot of legal pressure against doing that. Not knowing who your customers are seems like the sort of thing that would eventually involve lawyers.

mullvad.net was interesting to me because I could pay with Monero, meaning that they may actually have no data about me whatsoever except whatever is technically required for a VPN connection. Pretty cool company but it seems like the sort of model that would struggle in most countries with the amount of financial monitoring that tends to be in place.
If you are called a terrorist because you want to be independent of Spain, everyone knows why you want to be independent, thank you Spain for being so honest.
I’m interested in how they got the CSS to have the text stay within the background grid.
I’m no more insulted than if you told me I’m a fool because I don’t live in a cave in the Himalayas chanting mantras. Our visions of a life well lived are too different for you to be able to insult me.
My right eye was a -5 and was able to be corrected by LASIK. It's mind boggling how big of a difference it can make
Yes, the Amazon brand arrow at centre top is also broken. In fact all of the people look wrong in some way
Entrenched institutional malfeasance and incompetence invites people to dream of a strong authoritarian who can sweep away all the bureaucracy and do the right thing, including punishments in a show of justice by extralegal means.

When institutions fail, the door opens to strong-man tyranny. But the caretakers of these institutions seem oblivious to how fragile their position is. People like Vennels just might get shocked by what their fecklessness leads to.
The Voyager team did win the 1980 Collier Trophy which is the nobel prize of aerospace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy
Separate from the courts, Microsoft could send a message to the AI gold rush field, about "abuse of Microsoft's resources", via ToS:

* All Amazon domain names could be banned from accounts on GitHub, or face annoying restrictions, implemented with trivial technical changes. And lawyers could send a letter to Amazon legal, about how Amazon may and may not use GitHub, including Amazon personnel having to disclose their affiliation (not hide it with GMail), and craft some language about how those employee accounts may and may not be used.

* More harshly, but fear-instilling to individuals throughout industry, the individuals who let their accounts be used for the scraping could be banned from GitHub, for ToS violation. Not only those particular accounts, but any accounts the individuals might use. (This would hurt, not only for genuine open source participation, but also given how open source is sometimes used for job-hunting appearances, and all the current employers that ask for candidate's "GitHub" specifically rather than open source in general.) If banning would have undesired effects of projects GitHub wants to host being pulled, or public reaction as too harsh and questioning why GitHub has so much power, there could instead be annoying restrictions.
> including some non-verbal expectation of what is likely to happen next

Some of that isn't learned at all (other than through evolution). A newborn will flinch back from a growing circle on a screen.
Personally I do not think that there are any fundamental differences; Recall is just more "obvious" or "apparent". Plus according to someone Apple's AI thing does not record what you type into the text field inside your browser, but I really am not certain about that. All that said, I will continue using Linux with firejail (because I do not like the idea of programs sharing data in many cases).
From what I remember reading 1k rps is the recommended limit for sqlite right?
Not an issue for WAL2 mode, which mitigates this issue.

—-

> In wal2 mode, wal files do not grow indefinitely

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
I bet that the successor algorithms will be implemented everywhere in hardware, and we're stuck with the patent problem once again.
Glad to see Ted Gioia’s work here. He writing over the last year has been helpful in getting new understanding for me.

His posts on technology are sane and levelheaded without being Luddite.
> It's also concerning that more people aren't asking questions about how and why the judicial system wasn't able to look at appropriate challenges to the Horizon evidence here - there is a big potential systemic problem there.

This is the core of the issue. And sadly not addressed, meaning it can happen again.
Google Just Said Many Blogs Will Lose Ranking Thru Latest AI Developments
You are not seeing inside every company in the world that is doing Windows development.

The COM interop in .NET is mostly for consumption, not implementation, other than other userspace applications, Office automation style.

For the Windows extension points that use COM, writing those implementations in COM is not an option, when they are, again, in-proc COM, and use apartment models not covered by interop.

I use .NET since the prerelease days, when it was only available to MSDN partners with draft documentation written in red, and Windows itself since 3.0, you won't tell me nothing on Windows system programming that I haven't seen before.
Yeah. It is likely an edited AI image. You can confirm by looking at the text on the box at the top left. "BMGOMa"
I don't see a date announced for launch, and I see a lot of technology that needs to be invented for this to be feasible. How likely is it to happen within the next 10 years?

I'm just thinking about my old roommate, a space science postdoc, who told me about all these cool propulsion projects that sounded very feasible. That was—sheesh—20 years ago, and I keep waiting for any of them to be real.
They're not pointless if you're in the Guild of Box Ticking Consultancies, and guess who gets to say what the boxes are?
It sleeps inside, and parking is protected at work, sure it has some influence
It’s arguable that the chief through line of his corpus is the attempted overcoming of nihilism.

He viewed nihilism as one of the largely inevitable outcomes of the failing of transcendentals to provide meaning.

Thus he attempts to overcome modern ennui via the construction of a strictly immanent conception of the world.

Labeling him a “nihilist” is misleading. Owing to the conflation of nihilism with a dour, depressive outlook, many are surprised to find out that his writing is in fact consistently joyous.
Yeah, I guess building a distributed version control system is basically an intractable problem.
> Self-evaluation might be good enough in some domains?

This works perfectly in games. e.g. Alpha Zero. In other domains, not so much.
I wonder how much it costs to host this I bet it’s fortune.
Why do scientists feel the need for clickbait? It has nothing to do with Pompeii, yet they named it Britain's 'Pompeii' for PR reasons. There was no Volcano, there are no corpses, there was no catastrophe.

If we call this 'Pompeii' because a settlement burnt down, then there are many Pompeii,

"In the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, the burned house horizon is the geographical extent of the phenomenon of presumably intentionally burned settlements. "

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_house_horizon

Overall this reduces trust in science further.
If we're going to worry about inflation, we might as well worry about the climate burning up our planet.

Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but the next ~100 years we'll be bothered trying to have enough food and water and killing ~80% (or more) of humans of the planet who want our food, water, and shelter from the extreme weather that we won't be sending anything to chase the Voyagers...
They should send make this data available for everyone on AWS.
Nethack FTW :)
It seems that any company that both A) stores user data and B) is sufficiently successful will predictability sell that data for profit.
Are you sure about that? People commit financial crimes with possible jail time all the time. Even putting the CEOs life directly in the line of danger does not work, see OceanGate.

I still agree that the punishment for these crimes is too soft, but even ramping it up to insane levels isn't going to make everything perfect.
GitHub offers more then version control. A decentralized version is about as realistic as a decentralized facebook.
Mullvad VPN does this. No email. No password. Just an account number. If you want to to send them an envelope full of cash, you can.
H.262 == MPEG-2 Part 2 Video == ISO/IEC 13818-2. Video codecs are fun because multiple standards bodies publish their own version of the same codec. The ITU-T publishes the H.26x specs, and ISO/IEC publish the other xxxxx-x specs.

Pesonally I like the ITU-T because you can get the specs for free from them. ISO/IEC demand $242 for a copy of ISO/IEC 23008-2 (also known as MPEG-H Part 2 or HEVC). But ITU-T will give you H.265's spec (which is the same codec as ISO/IEC 23008-2) for free: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265
This double standard from Amazon particularly predates AI by decades. They scrape their e-commerce competition but don't want anybody to scrape them back.
Assuming climate change doesn't prevent any kind of launch or most further research.
Sadly probably won't happen. There was likely some clause in their previous ToS which allowed them to make this change. Standard business practice.
Another reason to adopt alternative payment methods and currency that respect privacy. Like decentralised bitcoin or monero.

You don't need to like crypto, but all those privacy issues, inflation, regulations, etc. with fiat money naturally leading to find better alternatives.
The article is talking about retailer data breaches not credit card companies.

If someone steals your CC and buys a bunch of stuff there’s 4 people who could be stuck with the bill. You, the merchant, Visa, and the bank who issues the card. Right now Visa is never paying though they still have a little hassle from such transactions. If you don’t notice you might get the bill and under special circumstances the bank might get stuck with it, but mostly it falls to the merchant. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/merchants-vi...

However, if Visa/Master Card etc had some actual liability you bet they would be some real changes.
Figures. After 20 years of positive recommendations from friends and family, and years of hemming and hawing, I finally bit the bullet and decked out my home with Sonos.

Six months later they redesign the app and hugely cripple the experience. And now they're going to sell my data. What is our recourse? These are expensive pieces of equipment installed everywhere in our home, and some of them have microphones. This can't be legal, can it? Can we form a class action? Because they never would have gotten a dime from me if I considered it possible that they would be able to start selling my data (some of these things have microphones in them, ffs)

20 years of good will undone.
It can go both ways, there are engineers who use their prior knowledge to understand where the design principles come from yet acknowledge the current state of affairs and there are engineers which use it as an excuse to ignore anything that happened past their active learning phase.

I worked with sufficient amount of the latter type to remind myself everyday to be wary of this failure mode, and to appreciate the former when such people do come by.
seeing as every big corp chooses it for their libraries, I'd say it's a skill issue
That's the naive black and white way to think about security. If it's possible to learn something with a bit of work then why bother keeping it secret?

The answer is that the bit of work - "really not hard" as you put it - actually can be quite hard, and it is a real deterrent.

You don't really care about whether something bad can happen... you can about whether it is likely to happen. It's a probability. And making it hard to find your address reduces that probability.

Also I would suggest that HN members are unlikely to be stalked. You might feel differently if you were a Twitch girl or whatever.
Why I Like Programming in C. [video]
Another fascinating time capsule is Sandby fort on the island of Öland in the Baltic.

It was a field that was rumoured to be haunted. Archeologists examined it and discovered a round defensive iron-age settlement that had been razed.

All the inhabitants were found killed in their houses and left with their artifacts. In their mouths were coins to pay the ferryman, but too little, as though condemning the killed to limbo.

http://www.sandbyborg.se/en/home
Are Diablo fans getting too old for the old-school item grind?
Spending too much time optimizing for loops
> In a very close future every single programmer is going to have chatgpt open.

Hell will freeze over before I consider using proprietary software for programming.
Think around the edges: you could opt out of phone books because some people really needed the ability to do that, and that was in the era before bulk operations were easy. Someone targeted, yes, you could look them up and even get phone books from other areas, but the kind of data-mining and cross referencing which are now trivial were cost-prohibitive.
Causing major damage and misconfusion while rebranding name, example of Freenet
Freenet orginally was designed by Ian Clarke. Its initial version was released 24years ago (2000).
>Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship

Its still being maintained by group of developers until this day.

One day around 2023 Ian Clarke jumped out of blue (it been long years since any his commit to the project), forcing community and developers team to rebrand 23 years old project.
It was decision against userbase, as well as against Freenet maintainors
You can read his messages on here.
https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/

Hes been working on another decetralized project called Locutus meanwhile.
Project that have different goals than Freenet(2000), where anonimity is optional feature at top of.
Out of, lets say 26^10=141167095653376 possible name combinations, he still decided to make hostage takeover of name. So Locutus becomes new 'Freenet', while really it doesnt.

Pretty obvious it been very bad decision for both independent projects.
Causing mass confusion within userbase.
Which you can read clearly on the comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676335
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469711
Their 5g is their primary internet. Land lines are mostly a western luxury. High end phones are probably not in play but lower end ones are
Apple punishes women for same behaviors that get men promoted, lawsuit says
From the guy who invented spaced repetition: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_does_not_work_for_kids

> Whatever enhances child's model of the world will integrate with his "world" knowledge. It can even integrate at the physical neural level and last for a lifetime. All irrelevant and abstract material will be rejected. As a result, this is a perfect illustration of the fact that early teaching makes little sense. It is the child's brain that makes choices on what to remember. SuperMemo becomes useless because it does not have a contribution to the child's knowledge. That contribution will only slowly develop over time when memory improves, mnemonic capacity improves, and the ability for abstract reasoning shows up.

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Educational_dyslexia

> The mechanism of educational dyslexia (or school-induced dyslexia) is the same as the formation of toxic memory in all forms of coercive learning. When a child learns to associate reading with displeasure, the learning process may grind to a halt. A regress in reading skills is also possible. Sensitive children with passions that do not involve reading are at particular risk.

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Don%27t_teach_your_child_to_read

> Optimum age for reading is not much different from the optimum age for learning multiplication or learning how to use a map. Optimum age is as absurd as the optimum time to learn the Beer's law in physics. Some people learn Beer's law at 3, some never learn it. In the same individual, Letter A may be familiar at the age of 1.5, while the distinction between U and Y can be made stable only at 7. Should that smart kid learn to read at 1.5? No! That would sure lead to toxic memories (unless under zero coercion). Perhaps at 7? No! Why wait? Knowing A may accelerate learning B.

> As long as it comes naturally, early is good but late is also nice, and always better than never.
Any brands for the bike sprays?
In this world renters already pay a 100% land value tax. Levy a land value tax on landlords and renters will neither pay more nor less. It's already baked into market rent.

There is law, economic or otherwise that a business has to make a profit. With an LVT you cant profit from land speculation only providing a good, well maintained property which uses space efficiently.

LVT does not discourage diverse development. It only discourages land hoarding and inefficient use of land (e.g. San Francisco's one family homes).
"Can $procedure have life-altering complications?" Yes, every procedure has a non zero chance of having complications. Yes even stuff at your dentist, or having a mole taken out etc.

> within a standard risk profile

Well, not following post-op guidelines takes it out of the risk profile, still, it is good to have a second opinion and understanding the risks for your case

> laser used had a smaller diameter than my lenses

Given that it was 20 yrs ago it is possible that this was an effect that was not well known and it is better controlled today.

It is very possible that this result would have been better with modern equipment and techniques (especially if this was not bladeless Lasik) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31353955/
Temperature and language complexity: Evidence from 7M parliamentary speeches
This reads legitimately as Russian propaganda. Is this satire?
"Featured image credit: Eray Eliaçık/Bing"
And that’s not how long term bookmaking works, as you’ve proposed a wager where I am guaranteed to lose at least the time value of my money on either outcome, and I’m extremely confident I’d lose exactly and only that. But I’ll happily put down $100 in today’s money if a win in 30 years returns a 10% profit over inflation, on the conditions that the probe must be launched from the Earth’s surface after the book is made, that it must overtake Voyager 1’s then distance inside 30 years, and that it must be actively transmitting at least one piece of meaningful local-condition scientific data back under its own power (for validation of ranging purposes, at least) at that time.
I agree that it's mostly around mindset. Most people don't really care about physical security either. Sure, many people say they care about it, but many don't follow basic safety patterns because they don't know them, they find them burdensome, etc. Just basic stuff like placing valuables out of site and locking car doors, closing blinds or curtains at night, having a halfway decent deadbolt and using it, or having protective film on your windows (depending on the area), etc.

Same thing with tech. Most people only run backups of thier system after they lost data and felt pain at one point. I would guess most people have Maybe 3 password and just reuse them across evertlything on the internet. The only people who might be more security minded are the ones who do related stuff for a living or if they had a security incident happen to them. Nobody else cares.
its called spontaneity, and that's a healthy thing.

if you find out about something interesting that you didn't know before, why should you not be able to change your plans to go see or do it?

hey, i just got some free tickets for that show, so how about we cancel dinner and go there?
There is no one-size-fits-all solution in the SQL world, and using SQLite in such a scenario is not a good idea. SQLite is an embedded database for embedded use. Even PostgreSQL is not universal, as many people assume. For use cases like analytics, there are many better-suited database engines.