skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you're coming from Ruby and want to learn Elixir, I humbly recommend http://PhoenixOnRails.com
Moats in AI [video]-Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI's Moat, Risk, and SB 1047
Europe has had interoperable eID for a while now, yet it hasn't lead to an increased number of sites digitally authenticating me.

On the other hand, for the few sites that do have a legitimate need for wanting to verify my identity (banks, tax authorities etc.), I feel much better about using actual eID than doing the weird dance of sharing my SSN (the worst bearer token in history) and maybe uploading a photo of my license that they might (but probably won't) check for being lost/stolen/involved in prior identity theft.

Unlike with the "photo of a physical ID" non-model, eID even has the potential to only share some assertions about you selectively (e.g. only your age, but not your name or even date of birth, or a company-specific/non-cross-correlateable identifier).
got it. i mean, what’s to say a physical ID cant be black listed today…nothing stopping them from creating a black list of ID numbers. Would be trivial to do from the governments perspective.

(i’m putting on my black mirror hat so to speak)
In this scenario, Amazon doesn't want to contribute to Elastic, Elastic wants Amazon's changes from Amazon's fork (Opensearch). So they can't demand Amazon sign a CLA, because they can't offer Amazon anything for it. Amazon is fine just ... not signing and continuing on their open fork.

Elastic have lost the Schelling monopoly on what constitutes the "mainline".
Its time to start again (2010)
So it's for existing customers, and it's because they're unable to accept payment for reasons that aren't the customers' fault.
Americans like to think they invented racism and slavery, but it isn't the case. It's older than the Roman Empire, of course:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery

Historically anyone could be a slave, so conflating it primarily with racism is sloppy argumentation.

(I wanted to reply to your post above, but couldn't because it is dead.)
Ah I get what you mean now. For the most part I just don't care about similar things running on the same port, because I've got many thousands of addresses I could just choose to listen to. I can have tons of different things listening on :80 or :443 or whatever on IPv6.
> are already allowed to have my data

You mean the ones that license it commercially? Their interest is not in fixing you; it is in exploiting you and your wallet, so please remember the distinction.

To really fix it (you), access to that data needs to be democratized. But since people (you) don't want that to happen, I guess mortality will remain in the cards. In the end, people (you) get what you deserve.
A musket is a very simple weapon! Does the proverbial SCAR mk20 gunslinger who doesn't know about muskets even exist?
Good move, Elon. Very cool
This is a good point. I would expect that a device like a SAN is just sending telemetry/logs/diagnostics back to the mothership for support purposes. Having a a persistent tunnel kinda of sucks and I much prefer something like shell access being done over a remote support/screen sharing app so I can see what they are doing. Previous security fiascos like the Solarwinds hack come to mind and an attacker could have a foothold inside a trusted/internal network.
> What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here.

> AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.

They didn't start as a multi-billion dollar company. In fact, AWS started shipping their Elasticsearch Service in 2015. Public records show that Elastic's annual revenue in 12 months after their IPO in 2018 was ~200m with <1000 employees.

I'd argue that Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company _in spite_ of AWS.
That’s just for the shading language
I bet there's some kind of use case/arms race soon to happen, like this:

Website offers some kind of contest which is partly dependent on obfuscated client side code.

Clever contestants can now through it into ChatGPT to improve their chances.

Now, it begins.
>every business that has employees on welfare is receiving a subsidy.

Apparently, that subsidy can happen whether or not you are even offered a job. This was found on a recent job application:

"We are asking you for the following information to determine if we, your potential employer, could be entitled to tax credit benefits. These tax credits were created to help people that have historically faced barriers to employment. We may be able to obtain valuable tax credits based on your answers to the upcoming questions."
Justice has fled this country a long time ago.
Me too. Thanks to everybody on the thread for posting this.
It's high contrast, better than a lot of websites. You'll be fine.
Unsure, but I don’t see anything related to it these days
Musk is almost certainly offering free Starlink to circumvent controls on X.
Meanwhile New York just absolutely had to do their own thing – or rather use a vendor's app-based solution that's still only available to iOS and Android, combining the disadvantage of being only available for these two OSes with the inconvenience of not being integrated to the respective wallet apps natively.

On the other hand, I’m glad that this is not being totally gatekept by Apple, even if that comes at the expense of personal convenience in this case.
My parents put it as “it’s best to quit while you’re having fun”. Took me years to appreciate it. I’ve passed it on to my kids. They’re finally starting to get it.
Set aside the details of the case — if money actually translated into power, the richest man in the world wouldn't be struggling to strong-arm an unelected bureaucrat in a country of middling importance.

Kind of obvious IMO that money translates into less real-world power than ever before in history. In 1800, this judge would be at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. In 1950, he'd be deposed in a paid coup. In 2024... the richest man in the world complains about him on Twitter.
Yeah, though for now it's just proof of concept stage.
Not necessarily. You can run opensearch on your own hardware and pay nothing to Amazon.
Sorry; I meant to say "except Quebec" in the "95% identical" line, but it somehow got omitted.

When annexation happens I do not expect the US to be interested in Quebec because of language. I suppose that means that sovereignists ought to be in favor of US annexation.
Does this imply there's a massive opportunity for Japan to encourage learning English to attract business, or are the economics not aligned?
Why is this even news?! I don't know about USA but in India you can store licenses, vehicle ID cards, school certificates, insurance and hundreds of other state or federal issued documents in an app -Digilocker for years now.
These judges are known for punishing family members of the people they go after. I've recently seen news of their censorship of social media accounts of a politician for "fake news" or some other nonsense, and they censored the accounts of his wife as well. Faceless corporations probably mean nothing to people like these. They want Musk, they see Musk's name on Starlink, they go after Starlink.
Show HN: MetricWhiz a Rust based TUI for NLP binary classification analysis
To be fair, Starlink can't continue offering services to new customers either because they've been effectively forbidden from doing business there.

(The merits of the case and each parties viewpoints are a separate matter.)
SpaceX statement.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1829253524842303678.html
Show HN: Building a Humanoid
What is the essence of the beauty I see in 90s websites?

To me, they are easier to reason about. Maybe because of a higher information density, that’s static and aligned such that it’s easier to track groups of components and their relationships; cohesiveness is probably the word.

Maybe it’s just nostalgia. But I don’t think so.
The CDA was about making it clearly criminal to send obscene content to minors via the internet. Section 230 was intended to clarify the common carrier role of ISPs and similar providers of third party content. It does have a subsection to clarify that attempting to remove objectionable content doesn't remove your common carrier protections, but I don't believe that was a response to pre-CDA status quo.
I think that would have a pretty concerning chilling effect in many public forums.

Not everything needs to be on the public record permanently; among other problems, it makes it that much harder for people to walk themselves back from a previous extreme position as they grow up, make new experiences etc.

Of course it depends on the use case, but for some, pseudonyms are really great. It's working pretty well over here, for example!
This is billed as a means of selling customers on-prem stuff that you can remote-manage into with SSH despite firewall rules blocking SSH. You can do this. You can get a lot more sophisticated than the tricks outlined in this article to make it happen. It is very difficult for customers to prevent you from doing it. And, if you do it, you're going to get famous for doing it, when a customer that actually cares about your network security notices that you built a remote tunnel into their network.

I strongly advise anyone making product decisions to assume that none of these tricks work, and that there are no tricks you can use to build discreet remote management tunnels to devices (including hosts running your software) that have customer internal addresses assigned.
Be real. You’re obviously not going to be able to find a source for that. I think the facts stated above (about the lack of a visible human footprint for this company) easily raise a presumption that something is not right.
Reuters story:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazilian-court-suspend-x...
wow looks really good. i've been expecting this space to get much better (because it never looked good) and this looks primising. congrats!
Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)
I think you are just looking at one specific issue on the wrong timescale. Palms will be greased and he will get what he wants.
Minister of the Supreme Federal Court Alexandre de Moraes has frozen Starlink's bank accounts in regards to an ongoing complication between X (Twitter) and the state of Brazil.

It should be noted these are two entirely different companies. Hard to see this as anything else except Brazil having a "rocket man bad"-moment.
I was hoping someone else was going to call out DPDK, because I've never used it, am aware of it, and don't want to explain it. :) You can't possibly offend me by suggesting I'm not aware of some technology.
Im not disagreeing, but how do you figure that it’s obvious and in 1950 or 1800 it would have been different?
Is this judge freezing SpaceX’s finances because Twitter won’t censor speech?

Those are two completely different companies.
The point being: Having the inspection prevented me from having an S-trap that I likely would have had if I or a plumber had done it without inspection. In my case it was particularly tough because I had the floor joists, cross bracing 2 water pipes, and another 2x4 to negotiate, while the drain was moved over 2 inches from where the original was. It was doable, but was great to have a master plumber verify my final solution wasn't an S-trap.
It's based on an open standard which Apple implements, as far as I understand.

State DMVs don't have to use Apple Wallet, in any case. I have a New York license that uses NY DMV's own (pretty clunky, to be honest) solution based on Bluetooth and QR codes.
"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html So it might be OK as a normal post, but Show HN actually has its own rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Interesting, I hope they merge the two passions and create a Earth AI from weather / climate / environmental data.
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is now available
Should be pages A31-32 in this appendix for the appellant's brief I think:

"The TikTok Defendants Knew the Deadly Blackout Challenge Had Killed
Multiple Children"

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca3.118...

Rest of the filings here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67500541/tawainna-ander...
I believe Utah is the only US state where you can carry your ID digitally on your phone and use it to buy alcohol or give it to police during a traffic stop. If California moves in that direction, it will be a big deal; soon we could leave home with just our phone without any analog cards.
>desktop_polymer.js

its doing such fun things as patching tons of standard js methods (.append() .appendChild() etc) for no reason other than maybe fighting adblockers?

When debugging own scripts/extensions running on YT every other call to standard function ends up calling some proxy in desktop_polymer.js
Wonder no longer! It's Section 230 of the communications "decency" act, not the communication freedoms and regulations act. It doesn't talk about censorship because that wasn't in the scope of the bill. (And actually it does talk about censorship of obscene material in order to explicitly encourage it.)
and breathalyze for the car to start

This is old tech. I had a boss in the 90's who had an ignition interlock thing on his car and it wouldn't start unless he blew clean.

I found out about it when he was trying to find someone at work to blow into it so he could go home.

It wasn't until a couple of days later that I put it together that he managed to get so drunk during working hours that he couldn't drive himself home.
No one ever accused Amazon of breaking the law.

The issue that Elastic had is that their entire business model was offering a managed elasticsearch solution. Amazon then created their own offering of the same thing, but of course since it is Amazon it was more tightly coupled with AWS and benefited from being a native AWS solution. There was simply no way for Elastic to compete with that.

Now, there can be a lot of opinions on whether that is a good thing or a bad thing for the open source community, but it should be pretty obvious why elastic didn’t like it. They were a company who had a product they were selling, and then the biggest competitor in the world starts selling THE EXACT same thing with the EXACT same name. They needed to do something to compete.

So they did, and forced Amazon to change the name of their offering to opensearch instead of Elasticsearch. Once they achieved that, they reverted the change.
Really not sure what kind of tracking you think the establishment would be doing or why?

Besides, like you say, banning people. But that's legitimate.

And in terms of aggregating information, the credit card companies know who uses their cards there. ID's aren't adding anything useful.

AFAIK scanning ID's really is entirely about catching fakes and banning people who have misbehaved.
Google doing something not in the interests of their users? Shock
Brazil is both richer and more powerful than Musk. It's one of the top-10 largest economies in the world. They have so much more money than Musk they can maintain exclusive control over land, raise a military, and enforce their own laws and regulations within their borders. Never seen Musk even attempt anything like that.
> Also, let's not pretend that a chat app is some kind of rocket science that requires a company of gazillion engineers

You cannot be serious. A service with a billion users and Telegram’s feature-richness and complexity cannot be maintained by a few people. If it’s true that there are no Telegram alums on LinkedIn, etc., that is deeply suspicious.
I think it's more important to lower roadblocks as opposed to costs for solar.

It seems australia removed a lot of roadblocks and solar is very popular.
I've found the key people at work, and took every chance to learn from them. But in general I've learned the most via blogs og people I identified as great sources (eg Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Bruce Schneider, and many others). I remember printing hundreds of pages a week, books and blog articles, to explore concepts and ideas (old days :p)

I'm on the other side now, and actually struggle to get visibility. I focus on Knowledge Management, not software development so much these days. I hoped to be in a new category on platforms like MentorCruise, but they considered it too nice. So I rely on my blog, my newsletter, and Gumroad: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/pkm-coaching?layout=prof...
Apple can hold out indefinitely. If a website doesn't work on Apple devices, that's not Apple's fault, according to legions of Apple users. And they're kinda right: there really are a lot of them, and they do tend to spend more money than other users, so websites that somehow manage to stupidly not work on Safari (presumably by using Chrome-only functionality and never testing) are potentially losing a lot of users and business.

I'm not normally a fan of Apple at all, and I have no interest in using Safari myself, but here I am glad that they've so far refused to jump on the Chrome bandwagon: it's good for keeping the web standards-based so we don't have a repeat of the IE6 days.
Simple answer is I find search engines mostly useless. There is no investment in curation, compared to site-specific search. I run and have access to a few semi-private curated lists of resources, good enough for most of what I need and certainly for the kinds of resources I (and other like-minded people) host solely on-prem. Furthermore "search engines good" does nothing about the "not good" traffic; it's a not even wrong argument from my POV.

This wasn't some huge technical lift for me to implement. Trust me on that. I got tired of Amazon stinking up my logs and decided that since I can't discriminate based on reliable information about the services being hosted there which have a legitimate need to reach out, I just don't need their help. Really, I'm helping them by ensuring no spurious pongs or SYN/ACKs come from me. See? I'm helping the best I can.

If you think this is heavy-handed and arbitrary, take a close look at email and domain reputation providers sometime.

Need a version of nc which does multicast and is written in python? Well, you can't get that from an Amazon address anymore... unless you've mirrored it. How many people care? How many people care about precinct-level voting patterns for King County Washington from roughly 2005-2009?

It's not a "grand narrative", I've been playing with the internet since it was possible to do so legally. If explaining that history is grandiose for you, that's you. I host on-prem for my convenience and nobody else's. Enjoy the article... or not.
Meme Weeding: High Wages and Baumol's Cost Disease
The transfer information is at least in line with why there’s a voice over system in the first place: giving useful actionable information to the blind in line with ADA requirements.

But it does not need to be in four languages, nor should there ever be a single message played back that isn’t exactly the stop information and maybe some transfer information. Every single other message from “please stand clear of the doors” to “sexual harassment sucks, don’t do it” doesn’t need to be in there.
I know, I wasn’t going off of that. I meant that whatever mysterious, emergently random force that determines what path a given quantum system will take, would be either driven by certain consciousness (assuming quantum processes in consciousness) related maxima, or it would be the so called hand of god. For example, the fact that there’s an infinitesimal chance for particles to suddenly become something else under QM, one might call that a miracle.
> A solar farm can use robots to install tens of thousands of panels cheaply.

Doesn't matter if it doesn't bring down the cost of electricity. For example in california PG&E will still charge a substantial "delivery fee".
Heh. There's a ... kinda major ... sailing competition taking place just down the road from you right now. Might want to go check it out?
That's an interesting thought. Although that might say more about geopolitical dynamics (US/Brazil, and in general) than the power of the billionaire class.
This is well argued. I think the part that you missed the part that the majority of people calling or voting (or "wishing"?) for a military takeover is technically still a democracy. It is not necessary to call for a free speech argument, when you have the power of the mob behind you. Incidentally, why democracies are just... dangerous mob rule.

As you said, democracies do vote in socialists, or communists, which are far worse.

Banning 'wrongthink' while at the same time allowing murderous ideologies like socialism to roam free, so that ideas have killed hundreds of millions of people in history, are actually scot-free, does seem paradoxical, at the very least.
What's easier if I just want to make random personal-use web apps for myself as a beginner, this or FastHTML?
I remember asking a friend who understood solar what angle was best to capture the most energy. He told me "you don't aim for the sun, you aim for PG&E"
I certainly understand political and cultural considerations when moving to a place. But since you seem to be trying to stay away from anyone wherever you settle, I’m a little surprised the politics and culture of a place would matter much to your circumstances.
Yes, they are also part of the DMV website, the FTB website, the IRS website, ...

there should be a law against this.
There are two questions - one is "should social media companies be globally immune from liability for any algorithmic decisions" which this case says "no". Then there is "in any given case, is the social media company guilty of the harm of which it is accused". Outcomes for that would evolve over time (and I would hope for clarifying legislation as well).
> "collecting unsolicited donations for content creators without their consent"

Those "donations" were from handouts of BAT. What they "collected" was their own BAT that they've donated to users of Brave. And it wasn't long lived. At least they've been trying to create a business model that's privacy preserving and that benefits content creators. Firefox has been selling their users to Google for years.

> "suggesting affiliate links in the address bar"

You mean like what Firefox also did?

> "and installing a paid VPN service without the user's consent."

I've never seen a VPN service installed with Brave. Is this a Windows thing? If you're talking about the VPN functionality in Brave itself, isn't this what Firefox also did?

> "It's also founded by Brendan Eich who was forced out of Mozilla for his strong and vocal opposition of same-sex marriage."

He never talked on the topic. And did you know that, at that time, both Obama and Hillary Clinton were also opposed to same-sex marriage? Times change, people's minds have changed. Whatever beliefs he still has, he keeps private, as he should.

But yes, this confirms my suspicion that this is a US-politics thing, and for non-US citizens, it's getting annoying. While we are on the topic, don't you find it problematic when Mozilla engages in political activism, promoting Marxism? Or when they promote cancel culture?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/chris-smalls-ri...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

For me, these were never reasons to avoid Firefox, but seeing that this is how the world works now, maybe they should be. And I'm sorry for pointing at Firefox right now, I used it for years, but I'm sensing a serious double standard. So let's talk of Chrome ... have you surveyed the political beliefs of Chrome's developers? Because it's the big, faceless corporations that benefit from this kind of polarisation the most.