skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people really want "buy" either. Not deep down.

For instance, I bought Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. That game is locked in. No fixes, no additions, no nothing. What is on the cart is what you get. Nintendo has no more obligation to me and I have no more obligation to them.

But people expect updates and changes. Let's not talk about "incomplete games being finished through updates", games get updated all the time now. Even for physical copies. Games now often install on the hardware and check for updates on first run.

So if we go to "buy", if you get a broken game, that's on you. Don't buy from them anymore. You don't get to hound the developers to "fix" the game. You paid for the thing, they gave you the thing. If you want a refund, return the thing.

I think we still haven't quite figured out how to work with ephemeral goods like software. It's kind of like a performance, kind of like a physical item, etc. It requires far more effort to generate than it does to copy. And buyers want to buy on the value of the copying, but sellers want to sell on the value of generation.
This isn't about libertarianism at all. it's about justice.

It is unfair and unjust to punish someone based on probabilities. A innocent person should not be treated like a criminal. A free person shouldn't be treated like a prisoner or a slave.

The government has no authority to punish citizens because they might commit a crime. Citizens are subject to the rule of law. But in exchange for compliance to the laws, we expect a fair and just treatment under that law. That is the contract.
Based on OP's history, I doubt this was an accident, but both "inner city" and "thug" have become racist dog-whistle terms.

To OP: have the courage to say what you really mean and accept the consequences. If you're ashamed of your beliefs, perhaps they could stand to be re-examined.
Happy to comply even if the other party does not
Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch
Friendly neighborhood incomprehensibility sounds like something up Nasruddin's alley:

Having been engaged by a nearby village to present his philosophy over a three-day series of lectures, Nasruddin started on the first day:

— O Villagers, do you know what I'm about to tell you?

— No, Mullah, we do not!

— Well, I'm certainly not going to waste my time lecturing the ignorant!

and he promptly left on his donkey.

On the second day:

— O Villagers, do you know what I'm about to tell you?

— Yes, Mullah, we do!

— Well, I'm certainly not going to waste my time belabouring the obvious!

and he promptly left on his donkey.

On the third day, the villagers (having stayed up late in conference the night before crafting their strategy) were more excited than ever to hear Nasruddin speak:

— O Villagers, do you know what I'm about to tell you?

— Some of us, Mullah, know, and some do not!

— Excellent! Let those who know instruct those who do not.

and he promptly left on his donkey.
Executives can already go to jail for not reporting vulnerabilities. The risk of personal criminal liability is one of the reasons people choose not to move into the Director role, in big tech security careers.
We're talking about different things.

If your car gets stolen, that's your problem.

If suddenly a massive number of cars are stolen, that's the government's problem. (As now police forces have to deal with criminals trivially obtaining getaway cars)

So it seems reasonable that the manufacturer in question should be sued for the cost of the additional police resources required.
> I believe that Mega Man actually employs infinite acceleration, that is, you’re either stopped or on full speed

Yeah, acceleration is essentially infinite.

https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/Rockman/Data

When moving horizontally there's very small lag at the start and then he accelerates to full speed pretty much instantly.

When moving vertically by jumping, his speed is straight up set to some constant. There is downwards deceleration by gravity though, leading to "fall faster" tricks:

https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/Rockman#FallingFaste...
Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu
It's time for the bivalves to rise again!
You'll have my unlimited consumption when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
For example, if they had said, "given this trend in ocean acidification, we think the combined die-offs in coral reef ecosystems, kelp-forest areas and reduced reproduction rate of these family of plankton, the rate at which marine ecosystems sequester carbon will decrease by k% in 10 years, which would be equivalent in impact to <list of countries> abandoning their 2050 emissions targets" that would be a clear way to explain the scale of one dimension of the impact. Or "the decrease in marine biodiversity on <whatever measure> over the next decade would be equivalent to k times the losses from commercial fishing over the past decade".

Or something more concrete than "we're headed to a bad state."
I don't understand. Ordering PCBs online is nowadays almost as fast as ordering the components. Why would you want to make them yourself?
Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform
> The imaginary crime of money laundering

There's nothing imaginary about trying to hide money that you stole from someone, so that it can't be taken back from you.
Poker is the only casino game approaching fair where a highly skilled player can be profitable as they are taking money from other players and not the casino (casino just collects their rake on every hand). But that's why casinos hate offering many poker tables, it's just not as profitable.
Doom in the iOS Photos App (Kind Of)
Keep it simple and just use the word rent. No need to complicate it.

“Rent until we choose to not allow you to access it for a one time payment of $x”.
> criminal pays a heroin addict for their real ID and then basically uses them as pass through nominee on the account

Sure. If you're at a financial institution and accept that documentation, you're personally in for a world of hurt. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, either due to someone being negligent, overworked or happy to look the other way. But if it's caught, it's not great for the individual. (The bank will survive after paying a fine unless it's systemic.)
Uh, I buy Onigiri in NYC at Dainobu and I'm pretty sure it's $2.99 MAX $4.99.

I think in many metros they could have a market esp if they did some sort of anime tie in.
Who is growing and who is shrinking? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
It seems like this could ultimately fall under the category of financial fraud, since the allegations are that he may have favorably misrepresented the results of drug trials where he was credited as an inventor of the drug that's now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Anecdotally, during my (fairly short-lived) academic career, in which I did research with three different groups, 2/3 of them were engaging in fraudulent research practices. Unfortunately the one solid researcher I worked for was in a field I wasn't all that interested in continuing in, and as a naive young person who believed in the myth of academic freedom and didn't really understand the funding issue, I jumped ship to another field, and found myself in a cesspool of data manipulation, inflated claims, and all manner of dishonest skullduggery.

It all comes down to lab notebooks and data policies. If there is no system for archiving detailed records of experimental work, if data is recorded with pencils so it can later be erased and changed, if the PI isn't in the habit of regularly auditing the world of grad students and postdocs with an eye on rigor and reproduciblity, then you should turn around and walk out the door immediately.

As to why this situation has arisen, I think the corporatization of American academics is at fault. If a biomedical researcher can float a false claim for a few years, they can spin their research off to a startup and then sell that startup to a big pharmaceutical conglomerate. If it fails to pan out in further clinical trials, well, that's life. Cooking the data to make it look attractive to an investor - in the almost completely unregulated academic environment - is a game that many bright-eyed eager beavers are currently playing.

As supporting evidence, look at mathematical and astronomical research, the most fraud-free areas of academics. There's no money to be made in studying things like galactic collisions or exoplanets, the data is all in the public domain (eventually), and with mathematics, you can't really cook up fraudulent proofs that will stand the test of time.
Yup, I had bought a few thousand bitcoin at about 2 or 3 cents each and sold them at 50 cents. Still "made money", but uhhh....
Fair criticisms, John. I just want to address macros.

Yao has something like Rust's macros. They are called "keywords," because even the built-in keywords are implemented that way. (That is why Yao can just not have a `while` keyword.)

My Yao-based build system, Rig, uses keywords to implement a build DSL. [1]

And keywords are fast to compile.

[1]: https://rigbuild.dev/build.rig5/#keywords
As a scientist who has published in the neuroscience space, I don’t what to say other than the incentives in academia are all messed up. Back in the late 90s, NIH made a big push on ‘translational research”, that is, researchers were strongly encouraged to demonstrate their research had immediate, real world benefits or applications. Basic research and the careful, plodding research needed to nail down and really answer a narrow question was discouraged as academic navel-gazing.

On one hand, it seems the push for immediate real world relevance is a good thing. We fund research in order that society will benefit, correct? On the other hand, since publications and ultimately funding decisions are based on demonstrating real world relevance, it’s little surprise scientists are now highly incentivized to hype their research, p-hack their results, or in rare cases, commit outright fraud in an attempt to demonstrate this relevance.

Doing research that has immediate translational benefits is a tall order. As a scientist you might accomplish this feat a few times in your career if you’re lucky. The rest of the corpus of your work should consist of the careful, mundane research the actual translational research will be based upon. Unfortunately it’s hard to get that foundational, basic, research published and funded nowadays, hence the messed-up incentives.
This is such a misrepresentation of the issue and what people are saying about it. They call it "theft" because corps are, apparently-indiscriminately and without remuneration of creators, "ingesting" the original work of thousands or millions of individuals, in order to provide for-profit services derived from that ingestion/training. "Pirates", on the other hand, copy content for their own momentary entertainment, and the exploitation ends there. They aren't turning around and starting a multi-million-dollar business selling pirated content en masse.
A bit of a weird complaint, do you expect people that work on the topic and are aware of it to just stay at home and live off the land? Change isn't happening instantly.
So, cannot use "buy" for modern phones and cars either? ;-)
Our family loves onigiri. It's one of those foods you can customize to whatever you feel like that day.

We love this Nori Komi furikake, you can put it on anything, including buttery popcorn!

https://www.amazon.com/Jfc-International-Seasoning-Furikake-...
It makes me wonder about the meta question about how to stop whatever the next iteration of this will be.

Like, if we look back at this, surely there were people saying, "Hey, things have changed. You don't actually 'own' the thing you think you're buying anymore. This could come back to bite you," but on the whole, not nearly enough people cared for it to shape the market.

There is sure to be another thing like this, some other movement where yet another owner of something finds a way to sell you access to it in a way that makes you think it's "yours," but actually all you have is permission to use it as long as they remain happy with you and happy to continue allowing you access. How do we make sure people know and care next time?

And what about the fact that, on the whole, most people are apparently fine with having access to things rather than ownership of them? How do you make the distinction when it matters, but allow both types of transactions? (For example, I'm glad I don't have to buy, and then sell, even a single room in a house to stay in when I'm traveling; paying to use it for a limited period is preferable to me in that situation.)

We know putting the information in the terms of use won't help, but what would?
There was a period of time when science was advanced by the aristocrats who were self funded and self motivated.

Once it became a distinguished profession the incentives changed.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
It's not "a statistically impossible amount." That sounds like another great regulation to put in place though. If they can prove cheating or statistical unlikeliness then go ahead.

Regarding "everyone knows" - right! Does "everyone know" this about sports betting apps? If no, then they should. If yes, then no problem requiring unambiguous disclosures.
Counterpoint: Yes, they are, within the bounds of higher law.
This is moreso amortized optimization/reinforcement learning, not randomized algorithms.
It's also funny given that The Hague is specifically an international destination for diplomats. So the city itself contributes more to international flights than any billboards ever did.
I'm afraid that the connotations around rent (namely monthly payments) would only encourage the worst publishers to only go further.
Well maybe I'll have to watch that now.
> The cabinets DO prevent shoplifting, obvious

You literally stated these cabinets are not preventing shoplifting. Direct quote from your previous comment.

> they may believe they're preventing shop lifting, but they're not

I'll take it as maybe you misspoke here, but I don't see any other way of reading that other than "they're not [preventing shop lifting]".

The person I was originally replying to was absolutely suggesting shoplifting practically doesn't happen and that these cabinets are entirely unrelated to shoplifting. That no, they did not set up these cabinets as any response to shoplifting. So, it's not obvious to a lot of people.

> The question is SHOULD THEY?

Uh, yeah, they should prevent shoplifting. Shoplifting increases costs for everyone actually trying to buy things. Overall, we should be trying to prevent and stop shoplifting, its bad for society overall. Unless you're arguing rampant theft is a good thing overall for society and a society which steals all the time is a healthy and good society.

> What, is every other person a mass shoplifter?

In some locations, kind of? As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread I've personally seen people come into stores, open a box of trash bags, fill the bags with stuff, and walk out the store. It happens, and quite often in some places.

> If they're putting penny items

They're not penny items. They're $20+ items which are now far easier to resell thanks to things like Amazon not questioning where stuff comes from and the rise of people using Facebook Marketplace and other online storefronts like that. Remember, a bottle of Tylenol or cold medicine or a pack of Fruit of the Loom socks can now be around $25. Grab a dozen or so of each of these items, sell them at half price, and you're up a few hundred bucks. Pretty low risk since so many jurisdictions these days won't actually enforce it at all, and technically there's nothing illegal about selling socks on Facebook Marketplace.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/organized-shoplift...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/inside-organized-crime-rings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmTNB5zo5tI

These kinds of organized shoplifting groups have greatly increased in the past few years. Usage of things like FBM exploded. But hey, you were just arguing shoplifting hasn't increased much, so you'll probably also argue this just doesn't happen.

> the fact that these corps DID NOT do the proper risk analysis here

You're stating it as if it is a fact. Where's the actual hard analysis you're presenting to prove this fact? Why do you refuse consider that maybe they did do the analysis? Just a few days ago you were of the opinion shoplifting was trending down, why are your thoughts from your wandering mind absolute truths?
Whether they do or not, Wirecutter was such a successful format that everybody else copies the style when when writing fake reviews. The giveaway is when every item in a category happens to be the best at something that could be read off the spec sheet and they never actually recommend one: This one has the best sound quality, this one is the budget pick, this one is best for people with cats, this one has more battery life, etc.
I was trying to backronym it, but I got stuck on "Doesn't Upload My (synonym for data)"
Yes, sorry. I should clarify that.
Try the Japanese markets first. Nijiya, Mitsuwa, Marukai

Pro tip:

Get a real rice cooker (Panasonic) and real rice (Nishiki) and use the right rice-water ratio of 1:1.25

Be sure to rinse the rice to wash off any arsenic dust. (Same is true for other rices and grains)
Here's the article: https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-...
In the system prompt tell it to keep its opinions to itself and follow the instructions. This worked for me but with other models.
If the explosives are inside the battery how were they actually triggered?

Some reports suggest they were triggered by a message sent to the pagers over the pager network. But batteries generally are only connected to the power and ground lines of the device they are powering. If the pager firmware was modified to watch for receiving a special trigger how would the firmware communicate that to the explosives inside the battery?

It would seem there would have to be some extra connection from the mainboard to the battery.

I suppose there could be wireless communication between the mainboard and something inside the battery. I doubt a pager would feature Bluetooth, since you generally don't need headphones with a pager, but often devices use chipsets that include capabilities the device doesn't use. E.g., you might use an ESP32 module to give your device WiFi capabilities and completely ignore that ESP32 also can do Bluetooth. If the chipset has Bluetooth or some other radio communication support not used by the pager firmware, the bomb maker could have put a receiver for that in the battery with the explosive and hacked the firmware to use that.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe a firmware hack could communicate to something inside the battery over the power connection. There are probably things the firmware can do that affects power use, like changing the display brightness. It could do something like rapidly switch between maximum and minimum brightness in a particular pattern. A trigger inside the battery could watch power use and look for fluctuations that match that pattern.
The disagreement concerns the licence's period of validity. If I lease a car, I know how long I can use it.
When I buy a licence to use a game, the publisher can revoke the licence the day after I buy it, and the contract is drawn up in such a way that nothing obliges them to compensate me.
The situation would be much healthier if the publisher announced a ‘5-year user license, including server maintenance and security patches’.
It's like all those ‘lifetime’ licences that only cover one major edition of a software and give you a royal 20% discount on the licence for the next version.
It's a deceptive practice.
Which model exactly? You understand that every few months we are getting dramatically better models? Did you try the one that came out within the last week or so (o1-preview).
Even when you license a game on say Steam the developers have no obligation to fix any problems.

You get to self-refund a game on Steam within a certain timeframe, after that it's on you.

Game breaking bug? Eh, they got their money.
When I need a new personal tool, I simply code it with my AI assistant
> if you actually try to wire somewhere with bad KYC I think you're going to have issues

Sure. There are three black list countries: North Korea, Myanmar and Iran. "Almost all large transactions" do not happen with people in these countries.
As a weekly listener to Security Now, hasn't this been out for several months?
> If Shell's scientists publish a paper

A lot of companies reward employees for publications. Mine certainly does. Also an oil company may not be such a great example since they directly and covertly rewarded scientists for publishing papers undermining climate change research.
Maybe so, this is a public community and the community will decide on its own standards (as it should be). My opinions are my own.

I can't exactly draw the line about what does belong on hn, but a question I sometimes ask myself is "Would I be rolling my eyes if I read similar content on Linkedin?" If so, I assume it shouldn't be on hn.
> real polluters (India, China)

Per capita CO2 emissions of

India China US UK
2.07 9.24 13.83 4.42

US's per capita annual CO2 emission is 285% of that of global average, while India's is 43%.

The amount of carbon you emit to go to the groceries is probably equal to produce all my groceries for a week.
I'm fine with the buy terminology. When I buy a car, I get fixes for manufacturing defects for free. Day 1 bugs are similar defects.
it's incredibly authoritarian to have to affirmatively prove that one is not committing a crime to the government

burden of proof should be squarely on the prosecution, period, end of story, don't force people to create evidence against themselves
Cookie banners are not a regulation requirement.

Contrary to what you seem to believe...There were more geoblocks when the EU law went into action a couple of years ago. There are less now.
I'm definitely of two minds on this topic:
1. I'm getting value out of the current batch of models in the form of accurate Q&A/summaries as well as tweaking or generating clear prose or even useful imagery well beyond what I'd ever considered possible from computers before the last two years.
2. It definitely has limits and can be a struggle to get exactly what I want and the more I try to refine something the worse it gets if the initial answer wasn't perfect.

It really feels like a substantive step forward in terms of computer utility kind of like spreadsheets, databases, apps. We'll see how far it takes us down the line of human replacement though.
Pick up an old engineering book at some point, something from mid 1800's or early 1900's and you'll quickly realize that the trust people put on science isn't what it should be. The scientific method works over a long period of time, but to blindly trust a peer review study that just came out, any study, is almost as much faith as religion, specially if you're not a high level researcher in the same field and have spent a good amount of time reading their methodology yourself. If you go to the social sciences then the amount of crock that gets published is incredible.

As a quick example, any book about electricity from the early 1900's will include quite serious sections about the positive effects of electromagnetic radiation (or "EM field therapies"), teach you about different frequencies and modulations for different illnesses and how doctors are applying them. Today these devices are peddled by scammers of the same ilk as the ones that align your shakras with the right stone on your forehead.
Good old days?

https://todayinhistory.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ea30f...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGLtwVmWwAAia-Y?format=jpg&name=...