skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So since abusers, stalkers, and harassers can't just log out to view the blocker's posts, X is making it so that they can view those posts without logging out or changing to an alt account. That makes it a lot more convenient for people who were already blocked for bad behavior to get mad at what someone posted.

Sounds like they're catering to the kinds of people who would normally have gotten around blocks by using private browsing.
I guess I'll have to buy the new Google TV Streamer because my previous Chromecast with Google TV 4K is now close to useless because of the lack of flash memory space after all the updates (despite it has a properly initialized USB drive connected via a powered USB-C hub, the most essential apps still require to be installed on the miniscule internal memory).
The US seems to be so far behind. For example, in Poland, Europe, you've had online instant bank payments for over 10 years. You’d go to a merchant’s site, click 'pay with my bank,' and an OAuth-like mechanism would log you into your bank to confirm the payment. Now it’s even easier with the introduction of BLIK, which lets you pay in shops, online, etc. Online payments are super simple: you click 'pay with BLIK' on a merchant’s site, go to your bank app (web or mobile), click the BLIK icon, and get a six-digit code valid for 60–180 seconds. You enter that code on the merchant site, and your mobile app shows 'Do you want to pay [xxx amount] to [merchant Y]?' You click yes, and that’s it.
Yeah I think commuters are the biggest reason. It's fairly easy to find parking in Manhattan after 9pm. At noon though? Good luck.
I'm also a bit skeptical about Kotlin multiplatform, but I haven't seen it become an issue so far. Spring e.g. fully supports Kotlin (and so do tools like Gradle) and I've never had any issue with things not working.

Calling Java code from Kotlin may not always be 100% idiomatic but it's still by far the best interop between two different languages that I've ever seen (compare that e.g. to Scala). The interop is more than good enough to be viable for a migration scenario where old stuff is written in Java and new things are written in Kotlin - I definitely wouldn't recommend keeping writing both new Java and new Kotlin code, though.

Build times can be an issue (though hopefully improved with the new compiler), but incremental compilation helps (something that maven unfortunately sucks at, so it's better to use gradle). And in any case, the compiler does more (useful) work in Kotlin, so I think it's ok that it takes a bit longer.
Nuclear power plants, outside of the reaction chamber, are about the least radioactive places you can go. Given the materials they handle, they operate under such strict procedures to get as early warning as possible if anything is, in fact, leaking from containment.
I’ve read about these concerns but my kid is 11 and on there all the time, often with me over her shoulder, and I’ve never seen any sign of it.

It’s a huge platform for kids so I’m sure there are some creeps but there are plenty of controls in place to deal with that and even so, again, I’ve never seen it.
Good work!

I've been working on a similar BF CPU (Mine's called simple mind). I'd love to see a breakdown of how each of your commands get processed.
> I thought reading closed-source code is a very bad idea, as if you wind up writing something similar, then you're possibly guilty of copyright infringement.

The idea is to avoid accidentally copying code, though TBH i think this is some sort of legend that comes from decades ago and not really practical (nor, as the article mentions, required by law). Writing something similar alone won't make you guilty of anything, otherwise people who worked as programmers wouldn't be able to work at a different company on the same or similar field again ever.
> how do I do research that makes a difference in the current, rather crowded AI space?

I hope they are first asking, to which bank accounts is the research actually making a difference? It's a great fraud to present research problems to stimulate the intellect of the naive youth when they have no capability to assess its social impact.
No it doesn't. The people who are malicious about it will be using multiple accounts. The block button doesn't stop them. If anything, it provides them ammunition to go "See, this person is a sensitive one, let's add them to the list".

Either your posts are public or they're not. There's a pretty clear distinction between the two, and anyone who thinks otherwise is sorely mistaken. The risk of people re-posting your content is a natural consequence of your aspirations to be popular on social media, and we shouldn't be giving people a false sense of security.
I often joke that every startup job post Series A is you playing Viscera Cleanup Detail[1] for the "heroes" of the pre-PMF stage

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De...
because people believe that peer review improve things but in fact not really. its more of a stamping process
I’ve been trying to make this point here on HN and elsewhere for quite a while now, but you said it so much more eloquently than me!

I see this as a variant of the tragedy of the commons: in this case it is the reputation and market share of Google Search.

Each individual at Google is incentivised to feed their own cow… err… career at the expense of the commons: Google’s reputation.

Inevitably this will destroy Google, but this will take many years of accumulated damage to build up to a catastrophic point.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually
and then suddenly.”
Physicists model heavy-ion collisions at the LHC using fluid dynamic simulations, and to get accurate predictions of final particle correlations, you need to account for the position fluctuations of discrete protons and neutrons within the nucleus.
The "Google Chromecast with Android TV" was a stick that was sold for $25, and it runs full Android TV. Google would have to abandon Android TV before it would be bricked.

They were sold as cable box replacements, running the YouTube TV app, rather than their ability to "cast" a phone screen to a TV.
And then it goes on to provide various explanations as to why he may have known it a posteriori.
Cannot recommend this enough!
I am from a country where there are 2 economies. One above water and one below.

Cash allows you to hide revenue. You do not forward the sales tax / VAT of the item you sold, and you don't declare the revenue of the cake.

Added to that you need the cash to pay your suppliers, as they need cash to pay their employees partially in cash, as employment taxes are sky high.
The experience of something like Walmart is so much degraded from, say, the Marshall Field's I grew up with in Chicago, that... no. They are nothing like classic department stores. They are more like a modern K-mart.
It's a prison but it's generally much more open. Prisoners sleep in open air dorms, there are minimal to no fences, there are generally good education and recreation programs and vast majority of people are white collar criminals, the violence is much much lower.
It'd be absolutely foolish if the agreement wasn't contingent on funding. I assume the reason it's not explicitly stated was some sort of NDA (since IA is also involved in turmoil and Google doesn't want to be part of that).
It's a prison, just what you might call a "minimum security prison." Like, you might take out the garbage outside the prison with no supervision.
Yeah but do you really need a separate copy of numpy/matplotlib/scipy/etc. for every single project? I don't have infinite disk space...
If it's important, it should go in archive.is. Sites have always been able to remove their own content from Wayback Machine.
Obvious ad with an aged account.
Cloudflare audits key transparency for WhatsApp
I still brush elbows with people that pay for Sublime Text and Git Tower, I just look down on their judgement as an individual. We don't live in an era where you have to pay for IDEs or compilers or even OSes anymore. Frivolous and vain spending like that absolutely reflects the sort of user you are and many (famously opinionated) developers will judge you for it accordingly. It's like driving a $150,000 supercar to work, you look like a tool and everyone knows it.

> There's much more of a culture of paying your fucking developers on MacOS

No, not really. It's more that Mac users are famously price-insensitive, and since Apple deliberately neglects cross-platform APIs they can create a captive userbase of desperate and moneyed software customers. It's a culture of exploitation on either side, as Apple makes so abundantly clear with their desperate clawing at the iOS market and the right to process payment for thousands of microtransactions a second.

> whereas Windows is shoveled full of "It's free take it" apps that are under the hood paid for through data collection.

MacOS is replete with those too, and many of them will charge you a monthly fee and steal your data. I think Windows is a fucking deralict operating system for the record, but modern MacOS is almost just as terrible and it's honestly hillarious watching people try to deny it. Yeah, you think Apple's fostering a "pay the developers" culture, huh? I don't see much kool-aid left in your styrofoam cup.
I believe it’s being used as a colloquial play on “summer camp” to describe the prison as not that bad.
The White Collar Apocalypse Is Nigh
How do we build our perfect future with desperate scared elites worried they won't get to achieve
Well, it's not an Open Source project. So there's that. ;)
Your arguments come off as incrementally disingenuous and intentionally misleading.

That's +1% share of a pie on the order of $TRILLIONS between 2006-2013 to which the top-1% directly benefited from by under-reporting and playing pass-through games...and this was retrospective analysis long before the TCJA corporate tailwind went into effect.
>Maybe this will help people in this thread see that there is a big picture.

Don't steal money from or offend the rich/elite and you will be all right?

Both SBF and Martin Shkreli have learned that.
How to check that all the changes in a Git branch have been merge into upstream
Original title: Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp
There is at least one thing wrong about this. This is an essay about a paper published a simulation based scenarios in medical research. It then try to generalize to "research" and avoid this very narrow support to the claim. I think this is something true and it should make us more cautious when deciding based on single studies. But things are different in other fields.

Also this is called research. You don't know the answer before head. You have limitations in tech and tools you use. You might miss something, didn't have access to more information that could change the outcome. That is why research is a process. Unfortunately common science books talks only about discoveries, results that are considered fact but usually don't do much about the history of how we got there. I would like to suggest a great book called "How experiments end"[1] and enjoy going into details on how scientific conscious is built for many experiments in different fields (mostly physics).

[1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo596942...
It's the handwriting of the person who transcribed it, who was likely a professional.
(2005). I wonder what's changed?
Based on my reading of the article, this change would not start showing you Elon’s tweets if you have him blocked.

What it would do is allow Elon’s feed to show everyone, and not have holes in it from people who have blocked him.
I welcome this wholeheartedly. I recently sold my first home and was frankly disgusted by how large the fee is for what my realtor did. I eventually went For Sale By Owner and will never go back to using a realtor. Zillow/redfin already replace the search and comparables part of the process. What realtors currently provide is the “white glove service” which helps first time buyer/sellers feel good about one of the biggest transactions of their life. Other than that I’d say realtors are mostly rent seekers, and their time has come.

What I predict will make or break the AI realtor experience is how well the AI can emulate (maybe and even improve?) the feeling of security and assurance that one gets from using a realtor.

I’d love some responses with stories on where realtors provided some actual unique service. Because all I’ve seen are realtors as a dying parasite of a bloated system.
Some huge percentage of STEM graduate school is just for immigration

These people are not seeking "truth"
i wonder if science could benefit from publishing using pseudonyms the way software has. if it's any good, people will use it, the reputations will be made by the quality of contributions alone, it makes fraud expensive and mostly not worth it, etc.
The reason cash sucks like this on the US is because of the tradition it has of listing prices before taxes. In countries that list prices after taxes, the cake would be priced in a way so that the final number would be something round like 60. (Although they would likely do 59.99 or 59.95).
But what new insights does it bring to the table to call different things the same or not?
oh heck yeah, that was fun times!
Was that meant to be imaginative, or realistic.
I think X is still really great and it's even better now that you can finally pay to have no ads (and verified means verified instead of 'friends of a twitter employee'.

It does require some effort to curate a worthwhile feed though (and you have to be mindful to not get sucked into junk/avoid the for you tab).
There were API endpoints that worked at some point, made it easy to do.
>I don’t know any other real estate people who know anything about code

CRE professional here (about a decade in the industry) who was a coder first. I think there's plenty that can be disrupted in real estate, and specially commercial real estate, where there are a lot of old problems that are ripe for solutions. It's like you said though - those who experience the problems and actually know how to write software to solve them are rare. We are in a good position for opportunity.

I think that brokers can (and should) be replaced by something more efficient, but the real problem for disrupters is regulation, IMO. A program/app/SAAS cannot hold a real estate license, and therefore cannot do things like quote rates, terms, or manage transactions. As of right now, it's illegal in most states.

As for the website that OP created, I think it was a nice attempt, but it seems very half-baked and the case for its value is not clear at all. There's some pretty design and not a lot of substance there.
That sounds like a variation of the Great Filter[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter?wprov=sfla1
It makes sense in a "costumer obsessed" way. The user agent tries to show content, tries to send requests and receive the response on behalf of the client (costumer), and ceteris paribus it's better for the client if the system works even if there's some small error that can be worked around, right?

but of course this leads to the tragedy of anticommons, too many people have an effective "veto" (every shitty middlebox, every "so easy to use" 30 line library that got waaay to popular now contributes to ossification of the stack.

what's the solution? similarly careless adoption of new protocols? and hoping for the best? maybe putting an emphasis on provable correctness, and if something is not conformant to the relevant standard then not considering it "broken" for the "if it ain't broken don't touch it" principle?
Prior to the changes which only went into place in August, agents were colluding to keep fees artificially high. Buyers' agents would actually hide listings that promised less than what they wanted and all of that information was hidden from buyers until the buy/sell agreement. It is way too early to say exactly what the impact will be, but as an anecdote my agent accepted 2% on the home I just closed on. My prediction is fees will decrease significantly, because it just doesn't make financial sense to pay agents as much as people have been. Also, agents wouldn't have been colluding to the extent they had been if they believed a free market was good for their bottom lines.
> He said he thought she had lost consciousness “within two minutes” and had died after five minutes. “We saw jerky, small twitches of the muscles in her arms, but she was probably already unconscious by then. It looked exactly how we expected it to look,”

It always leaves me feeling uneasy when I hear professionals use language like "it's probably alright".
I'm not sure I'd call it lenient. The title doesn't match the article either. Even the prosecution declined to recommend a sentence.
That was kind of a whirlwind. You seem to be saying 1) "rent seeking" is specifically about passing savings on to third parties, 2) credit cards are bad because they're a tax on the poor, 3) you use them because (like me) you are incentivized to, but 4) you "feel bad".

I don't think I can unpack all of the social good / feel bad stuff, but there is no way credit cards are the definition of "rent seeking" unless we combine the HN dogma that "rent seeking = bad" and your opinion that "credit cards = bad" to get "credit cards = rent seeking". Which I don't buy.
Truthfully, that says a lot more about you/your searches than it does about Google. I almost never have questions where LLMs can actually give me a good answer, whereas Google usually has something for me. I have to sift through the dross, but it's still there.
Yes that a misconception that many people think that peer-review involves some sort of verification or replication which is not true.

I would blame mainstream media in part for this and how they report on research and don't emphasize this nature. Mainstream media also is not interested in reporting on progress but likes catchy headlines/findings.
If this is indeed true, that ship has sailed. WP Engine was founded nearly fifteen years ago. You need to enforce your trademark for it to be valid: you don't get to decide fourteen years later that you're actually not happy about it.
I’m not sure this is still true. Debit cards have a similar dispute process to credit cards.
It's definitely slept on. I do think it ought to be very powerful given enough compute to throw at it, hopefully. I think short description length algorithms such as simple compression algorithms or instant-ngp could be interesting to play with through that paradigm.
You can also say "hey google fast forward four minutes" instead of unlocking the phone and trying to hit that tiny button eight times.
Federal minimum security prisons don't have fences surrounding the prison so the only thing keeping prisoners from "escaping" is the extra five years that'd be added to their sentence. They have far fewer guards and the prisoners live in dormitory style quarters so it's far more like adult summer camp than prison (commonly referred to as "Club Fed"). Instead of having services on site they'll often drive the prisoners to a local dentist or doctor, etc.

As they get closer to release or if their sentences are short enough, prisoners can even get work release which allows them to leave the prison during the day to work at a regular job. (I think the GP is confusing work release and parole - the Federal system does have work release)
Merchants are able to price things to result in exact numbers, and some do especially if they sell individual items.

However, many customers (1) throw odd change in the tip jar, and (2) an exact amount might discourage add-on purchases.

In this case, an exact amount would certainly result in zero tips. The customer would need appropriate bills and wonder how much would be appropriate (since 15% of $60 is too much).
I am genuinely surprised to learn that it even still existed. I'm pretty sure it's been years since I have seen a Google result which actually had a cached version for me to pull up.
Because people use published results to justify all sorts of government policy, business activity, social programs, and such.

If we cannot trust that results of research are true, then how can we justify using them to make any kind of decisions in society?

"Believe the science", "Trust the experts" etc sort of falls flat if this stuff is all based on shaky research
Telenet and Tymnet were the main US X.25 networks. [1] X.25 was the global standard packet-switched network that preceded the Internet. It was mostly B2B, as it was pay-by-the-minute plus pay-by-the-packet, plus of course the cost of the modem phone call if any.

Access to some of the X.25 networks was easily hacked, as there was almost no cybercrime back then outside of teenagers. In some cases, there was only a logon code - no password at all. I remember a network where the code was just a short-ish number, so it could be easily mined via brute-force search. The modem bank would disconnect you after X failed attempts, but you could just dial back in right away (there was no caller ID either.)

X.25 had hosts called Outdials in most area codes that would let you make a local modem call back out for no extra charge, as long as it was toll-free. [2] This was a way to avoid expensive long-distance BBS calls, particularly if you were using a mined X.25 logon. The latency was pretty bad but the connection could be much more reliable than a modem on a noisy long-distance line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25

[2] https://github.com/maestron/hacking-tutorials/blob/master/Ba...
Evidence?

Especially given the context.
But what's the alternative here? "We spent longer than was minimally viable but we still don't have a good idea if it has market fit"-product? In my experience the code usually gets binned whether the idea gets traction or not. Some companies misjudge when to rewrite, but that doesn't make the MVP part of the process wrong.

The absolute greatest wastes of talent and humanity I've ever seen in tech didn't come from tech debt, those efforts were almost always at least working on a product that people were paying money for. The biggest wastes were from over-delivering products that hadn't and were never going to succeed.
Just because it was discussed way back when doesn't mean everyone has to accept the resolution from that. People obviously think it wasn't addressed in a good way.

There's a lot that you can say about all of that, but calling it "bad faith" is not great, to put it mildly. I had seen the video before, but didn't realize the person speaking is Ted Ts'o (I'm sad case and don't recognize Linux developers by voice alone). Ted has spent about 30 years working on all of this stuff, including investing a great deal of his spare time on it. He isn't some sort of random internet troll or anonymous HN user. Dismissing his views as "bad faith" does not leave me impressed.