skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the argument that Facebook/Google aren't actually selling your information.

I think "selling your information" is a good high level description that conveys the essence of what is going on - your information is being used by whomever will pay to use it. But yes, digging into the details it's more like F/G are trusted third parties who keep comprehensive surveillance records on you, and sell services based on exploiting those records, with an incentive to not leak the whole trove because it's their competitive advantage.

The argument for this topic then becomes if F/G are found to be providing services to foreign governments that undermine national security, domestic laws can then be made to stop this behavior. But this assumes that the way those services can be abused will be blatant, the foreign powers using those services will be easy to spot, and also that foreign governments won't be able to exfiltrate significant parts of the databases through their use of the services (what Cambridge Analytica did).

Focusing on F/G also skips the entire ecosystem of smaller players that don't have the scale, scope, or product to be acting as trusted third parties, but instead do just sell the raw records themselves - to F/G, and also to any startup that comes along with funding and an acceptable narrative. Like the carriers and intermediaries selling phone tower data. And that whole cottage industry of apps and frameworks that collect data. And ANPR and other pure infrastructure providers. And the traditional surveillance industry ("credit bureaus").

The essential commonality in both of those is that while it feels good to address the most glaring high-level problems, as long as the underlying incentives remain it just becomes a game of wack-a-mole. And wack-a-mole isn't enough to stop determined foreign actors.
How can trial terms be enforced in perpetuity!?

And the park and restaurant has nothing to do with Disney+ Streaming.
OpenGL Tutorial (2006)
How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer
imagine coming up with this idea, pitching it, and then going through with it

i can imagine as a lawyer thinking of this jokingly, but to actually go through with it is wild
Tesla doesn't have driverless cars, so I'm not worried.

The drivers are responsible if the software shits itself.
but they don't just spy on you

they use that information to manipulate you as much as they can

which is most people is a lot more then they think it is

like a _huge lot more_, humans are fundamentally quite manipulable

especially teens, the main target audience of TickTock

well they also can use the information to idk. know exactly when it's the best time to kitnap a kit of someone they want to blackmail, it's not that china hasn't done stuff like that more then just one or two times
In grad school (I was in Chemical engineering ) I took molecular biology course. We read/reviewd a number of papers in different areas. For my review I proposed a series of experiments to answer questions raised by the paper. It was very logical and well thought out. Problem was it would have amounted to 3grad students full time for at least a year. Once you see the effort involved you can see why the ML approach is exciting
As in everything law related, that depends on the parties involved.
I simply hate being advertised to and sold stuff when I'm not shopping. In any shape or form. But especially on my own devices and in my own home.
Schmidt can go kick a rock
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/10/developing-focal-... (and its critical analysis) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06351

I believe that work on such a project would be interesting, even if it isn't ever done. It is something that if you worked on it as a grad student, and then became a professor and your grad students worked on it ... and they became professors and their grad students worked on it - they'd be the ones seeing the results.

Not so much a "this is a way to do things..." but rather a "thinking about research that spans generations and the problems that they solve in the process of doing that great project has useful spinoffs."

A mission out to 550 AU at New Horizons speed of 2.9 AU / year (it still boggles the mind of talking about those speeds and distances) is nearly 200 years from launch to primary science objective.

It's "only" been 45 years since Mariner 2 to New Horizons.
> Big enough companies have become too big to be disrupted

Eg: Boeing.
> [LLMs] cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity.

Interesting… guess I really don’t need to worry about meteors, greenhouse gasses, zoonotic diseases, nuclear weapons, or, you know, time and entropy.
is there a place where I can read about what ParadeDB actually does? Surely you do more than just pre-install the extensions? Do you also develop the extensions yourself? Do you support RAG? The last question may not make sense as I am new to this space.
"it risks doing so in a way that will satisfy few observers, including those sympathetic to its position”

I think there are many people sympathetic to the government’s position that will be totally satisfied and this quote is not correct at all.
OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop (2022)
OpenBSD 7.1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X280 (8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, Intel wifi)
It works on an easily manipulated minority, which means everyone else has to suffer, right.
The alleged point of arbitration clauses is to ease the burden on the courts, which is rather contradicted when lawyers choose to waste a judge's time with dumb arguments like this.
What? In JS async/await is _literally_ syntactic sugar for returning/thening promises.
Why would they even try this? The amount of bad publicity they'll get shouldn't cover up for a small chance the court will accept it.
> If you have a solution to comprehensive legislative capture at both state and federal levels in your back pocket by all means whip it out.

The capture is obviously not comprehensive, it's de jure, and fatalist attitudes like yours I suspect as being part of the problem here. It seems to me you're not actually interested in a solution, one which you could easily imagine for yourself just as I can, but you're interested in doing precisely what I worried about above.

There are people who apparently _prefer_ the gridlock instead of being involved with their own government on any level. It truly is amazing to me.

> Until one materializes that "hack" as you call it

Since you speak the language of the bully, then please explain to me the utterly exigent issues that will befall us if we fail to obey basic constitutional law?

> most effective method for government agencies to actually do their jobs.

Government agencies are not entitled to determine what their job is. That is the role of Congress. This is why the "Due Care" clause exists. This is a democracy not a state of administrative convenience.
I am more keen to consider democrats as contrarian, I don't think they've any idea, rather than "beat Trump", "Trump bad", "There will be no democracy if Trump wins elections"
As someone who just went through a messy divorce planned for the entirety of the 18m affair my ex-wife was having, there is no court on this earth that I would ever say is reasonable.
Ay, yes, I was focused on the idea that I want my compilers to do TCO and other optimizations, so I missed the point.
No, but I don’t think its clear that Tesla deserves its valuation at its current rate. They aren’t demonstrating any competitive advantage or particular skill in the space vs Waymo
I like and use fastmail but I'm yet to hear any sort of convincing argument why passkeys are better for me in any way, shape or form than passwords (with a password manager)?
(For what it's worth, Chile has no such law anyway, so I felt free to do all this.)
I know binding arbitration is the new hotness, but it seems unlikely this is the first time a company has tried to link a generic “absolved-from-everything” clause to an unrelated incident.
No, Gaussian splats are pretty poor for video games. There’s a significant amount of overdraw and they’re not art directable or dynamic.

Gaussian splats are much better suited for capturing things where you don’t have artists available and don’t have a ton of performance requirements with regards to frame time.

So things like capturing real estate , or historical venues etc.
I think that policy is probably well-meaning, to protect people from installing apps masquerading as other apps by mistake.
https://fusionauth.io/blog/why-passkeys-matter

https://coderoasis.com/passkeys-will-replace-passwords/

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10092/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/passk...

TLDR Replaces secret strings with crypto primitives mostly automatically managed.
New Hampshire regularly charges for backcountry rescues when they determine the person being rescued was negligent: https://www.backpacker.com/stories/essays/opinion/new-hampsh...

Outside of the US all bets are off. Plenty of rescue services that charge.
A lot of advertising on this page, but this is 1passwords explanation of the difference.

https://1password.com/product/passkeys
Show HN: I made a bot and it grew my SaaS revenue by 56%
This book is amazingly well-written and is worth reading on that basis alone.
FaceID.
There ought to be consequences for even trying something this stupid.

Those Disney attorneys feel perfectly safe pulling this, and that's a problem imo.
your periodic reminder that pre-dispute arbitration agreements are evil:

https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/
Pebble was peak smart watch.

After my third one broke I had some time where I tried a Galaxy Watch, played with an Apple watch, and finally settled on nothing until there was something that lasted longer than a day. Fitbit Versa being the spiritual successor I moved to, but its frustrating that Google picked them up after i bought it and slowly the software is becoming less reliable.

My wife's will keep unpairing from her Pixel, mine is insistent on moving the account from Fitbit to Google but the "account migration" fails so once a month it just logs out.

I actively avoid new Google products these days.
There's more to it than that. We're not only bad at making large numbers of humans, we've also become very bad at training them to be useful workers.
t-mobile 5g is the worst. its slow as shit compared to at&t
I stopped the job application process to a well known car maker as a software engineer about a decade ago because the application, to the best of my memory at this time, included an arbitration clause that seemed to me to be very broad. Because of that arbitration clause I have not considered applying to them for more than a decade.
Using the same device,Fastmail never asks for a password except when doing sensitive actions (like adding an email account).

There are a lot of words here, this is an SEO bait, rather than a product update.
What bad press? Think Disneyland isn't going to be packed again soon?
And while US courts have repeatedly shown bias in rulings against non US companies, even if they are from close allies, it's just a limited bias. I.e. you have still a standing it's just slightly harder.

In difference to US companies suing in China where you have on paper also a standing but the bias against you in all kinds of subtle ways is so earth shattering that most times it's not even worth considering suing.
>harsh enough to not let frauds fester for too long.

Didn't the US military spend decades investigating ESP?
> Consumers have proven too passive and docile to act

I know it's tempting, but don't blame "consumers".

For one thing, it's mathematically impossible for people to be appropriately outraged over every instance of corporate evil. There's too much of it.

If you want to assign blame, maybe put it on corporate media (like Disney lol). They're the ones who sold us every war, every atrocity we're complicit in, and covered up or distracted from the most important crimes which enabled everything else.
GenAi is seen by some people as a very negative thing.
Are there any existing compilers that could compile a function like this -- non-tail recursive and non-tail recursive modulo cons -- into something that executes in sub-exponential time? How would that even work? I've never heard of a compiler sufficiently smart to optimize a definition like this and now I'm very curious
you've put your political position in your name on a social network, every comment you make is now directly connected to it. anyone trying to do something that has "nothing to do with the conflict" is reminded of the situation because of your choice of name.
I think this is really about just not being a sucker.

Why would we allow a country that bans all our news and social media tech companies to operate their company here?

If they want to operate tiktok, then we should be allowed to operate google/Facebook/twitter/etc. They can’t ban our companies on national security grounds and then act like we are crazy for banning theirs.

The difference between europe banning us companies vs Europe banning Chinese companies is simply that europeans can operate similar companies in the United States without issue, whereas any service like this owned by europeans would be immediately banned in China.

Tit for tat policies serve as an effective standard for encouraging foreign countries to open their markets, as each side is incentivized to reduce trade barriers in response to similar actions by the other, ultimately fostering fair and balanced economic exchanges. We do it with airlines, why wouldn’t we do it with social media.
Yup. I had a Pixel 4a, which is 5.8". I thought it was a great phone and still perfectly usable, but it stopped getting security updates. I'm now using a Pixel 8. It's fine, but too large and no headphone jack. I'd buy a new Pixel tomorrow if they released a smaller one.
That's how we do things with sqlitebrowser.org as well. The Patreon donations are helpful contribution from our users, paying for things like domain names, certificate renewals, new hardware (eg for development), and so on.

We don't gate anything behind the payments, and it's extremely unlikely we'd ever even consider doing so.
IANAL but seems like a text book example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
It's the only way that he can guarantee that the information is distributed in its original form and not through the victim's bias. So I'd argue that from his perspective, that was definitely the best (read as: most democratic) option.
im absolutely cynical these days, so take that into account, but i’m skeptical if some billionaires are influenced at all by the us government let alone “controlled”

either way, if social media in its current form is that dangerous, and it very well may be, why do you believe any group should have that kind of power? that seems so strange to me.
Out of (genuine) curiosity, what major hardware improvements are you referring to?

On paper, it’s largely the same as prior years for the SoC at least. I think the fold has the most obvious upgrade but nothing I’d consider really major. Other than that, it seems like mostly a camera bump year?
The article does a pretty good job of making this argument, including your (and my initial!) question about why not to just use password managers.
What's an ICT? The post doesn't define it yet, it appears their entire argument depends on understanding what it means.
Why assign screen brightness up/down to a hotkey, does it not have function keys for that or you just prefer them on the bottom side of the keyboard?
> due to privacy concerns or legal reasons.

There are probably only ~10,000 phone trees that cover the vast majority of calls in the USA.

If a phone tree is seen by many users and is identical, there is probably no privacy reason not to publish it. Even moreso if the total number of digits typed in quick succession is < 4 (ie. user hasn't entered some password to get in). A human operator could be the final check.
I found this extension significantly less useful than SponsorBlock. The "less clickbait" titles are all invariably written in a worse fashion and are overtly wordy and annoying. The non-clickbait thumbnails looked worse and were mostly random screencaps of unrelated portions of the video because most people didn't bother picking a proper screenshot. My barometer for this was Tom Scott's channel which generally has titles that are mostly all fine yet a lot of them were "rewritten" for no reason that I could discern

SponsorBlock is significantly more useful but you still see the same kind of annoying people there too. There's a channel called "11foot8" that puts out videos of the local 11'8" (+ 8" after they raised it semi-recently) where trucks disobey the height warning and get destroyed. Most of the videos are around 1 minute long yet there are people picking "highlight" moments in SponsorBlock to skip to the relevant portion. These are mostly videos about a minute long so it baffles me the kind of people whose attention span is that short to want to skip 10 whole seconds to get to the "action". These are the kind of annoying people that rule DeArrow. I didn't want to deal with that anymore
What do you expect. A lot of the people -- including the US congress-- believe, with or without proof, that TikTok is just a CCP stooge at its very core, or else why the congress wants it divested from China holding.
I hate marketing.

But I need to grow my startups.

So I built a Twitter bot that extracts some data from my SaaS and posts it on Twitter.

9 days after the launch, it has 707 followers and grew revenue by 56%

Background:

I built a link-in-bio tool for developers/solopreneurs — it's called IndiePage. Customers can verify their revenue with Stripe and display it on their profiles.

It's been making anywhere from $1K to $4K/month since I launched it 1.5 years ago.

The Twitter Bot posts every time a customer of IndiePage makes money. The bot tags the maker of the startup and links to her/his website.

It gives them a little extra exposure.
It gives IndiePage a little extra exposure too.

I love coding too much. So I find ways to do marketing in symbiosis with my coding drive.

— Marc
I Use Hacker News for technical input.

on an average, HN crowd is pretty clueless about

a) running a profitable business

b) foreseeing technological progress -- say two iterations down the line.

c) mass adoption of features

On an average, they tend to be elitist and don't represent the average brand popularity (e.g Google, Meta, Amazon). They only mildly upvote technology that helps their extremely privileged life.

E.g Current AI / Metaverse features helps plenty of poor, underprivileged people around the world, especially non-english speaking. But HN is the first to mock such features.

Because of this, they tend to be poor individual stock pickers. They are highly risk-averse and typically bring an SRE mentality to the world.
> I eagerly await the qualified immunity argument against this.

As I understand it, there won't be any qualified immunity arguments made against these charges... qualified immunity is about civil lawsuits, not criminal charges.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity
The announcement post from Fastmail does a good job at listing the advantages of Passkeys over passwords: replay resistant, database-leak resistant and fishing proof.
It's still like that here in Japan. The current year is 令和 (reiwa) 6, since the current emperor has been reigning for 5 years.
Now that's interesting, I initially read this article using Firefox's reader mode. Turns out the article is a lot longer than presented in reader mode (8 of 21 paragraphs), hence my comment. The detail is after the part I was presented, had you not mentioned the technique used I wouldn't have known.
> mostly automatically managed

boosters have yet to address this particular elephant to doubters’ satisfaction
That sounds about right. Fail fast and loud so things have to be fixed, rather than continue silently and likely corrupt data.
The most important lesson of the 2010s is that neckbeards and g*mers whine online, but they can't stop paying.
Like people sometimes ask "if money is the root of all evil, why does the church want it so much?". :)
For me, it's like GP said: Absolutely no unauthorized network traffic unless strictly required for the purpose of the software (e.g. curl). No security updates, crash reporting, telemetry unless you prompt the user and show the user exactly what will be sent (similar to how syncthing does it).

Anything less is voyeurism.*

* extreme language I know, but it's precisely how I feel about these acts.
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope things are looking brighter
self-administered an EpiPen, and was transported to a local hospital, where she later died.

Even the Epi pen did not work. Must have been a really bad reaction. Imagine going though life knowing that even a tiny misstep can kill you.
I’m not asking why it is. I’m asking why it should be.
By "deploy", they almost certainly mean "set up to use" and they may have also included "learn how to use" and all its various forms, as well.

LLMs really are almost magic in how they can help in this space; and setting them up is often just getting an API key and throwing some money and webservice calls at them.
this makes sense, the palette cleansing works both ways!
that's fair, i'm not a jazz listener
having a flag in your name isn't a political statement. it can simply indicate where you live or where you have strong ties.

moreover, why should one be targeted by harassment by simply being born in a certain country?
Is it normal to go into anaphylaxis an appreciable time after eating the food that supposedly caused the allergic reaction?

Everyone I've ever met that has a severe allergy has an adverse reaction immediately after exposure to the allergen.
I added an example of rendering to image today. It's a bit rough atm (not very configurable), but it seems reasonably fast.
> In this case we’re talking about the Air Force, so yes congress would need to intervene.

Well obviously not, the Air Force is under the command of the elected head of the executive branch. All you would need is for the President to tell them to do otherwise.

Which kind of implies that the whole thing is a political act to make headlines before the election. Otherwise why is the Air Force challenging the interpretation of their own administration's EPA?
Agree! While cost is one aspect, the quality of some open-source alternatives is incredibly high.
Only if it is a kyber crystal…
Now THAT is some impressive chutzpah!

I wonder if it's possible to penalize the lawyers for even coming up with this argument?
Doubters gonna doubt, it's shipping to hundreds of millions of people today, and their passkeys are backed up to either iCloud Keychain or Google Password Manager (depending on ecosystem). If you have a password manager, that's great! Most people do not, and this is easier for them.
Eh, by recursion I meant specifically the exponential "fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)" flavored definition. If you're writing the linear-time algorithm and happen to do the iteration via tail recursion, I don't think there's anything absurd about that
It's just that 0.999... is an awful notation, in the sense that it invites people to complete these allusive ellipsis with whatever fit their intuition, possibly even different meaning depending on the context.

If we mean 9×10^-i for i from 1 to infinity, then let's just state so. Let's not blame people to interpret towards other direction when they are provided misguiding hints.

Regarding infinity, there is a constructive proof that it doesn't exists which work perfectly provided that there is an infinite amount of resources allocated to it's execution.
Definitely check out what https://recombee.com is doing (API doc is at https://docs.recombee.com/ ).
> not getting health insurance from employer so budget $6k per year

FYI when I took some time off, I had to pay ~$3500/month for health insurance for a family of three (and of course still pay deductibles and out of pocket costs).

Health care insurance in the US is unimaginably expensive.