skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were the claims made in 2017 shown to be false? I haven't yet read the book - how widely accessible was the beta?

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4136/Spotify-TeardownInsid...
I think it depends on the target audience. For casual photographers many might not care about AI but poor curation makes it look cheap. For artists, if they see any hint of even minimal AI usage or hints that you may approve of gen AI it would be a total dealbreaker. For the subset of tech minded people that approve of AI, they probably already know how to host a site -> but maybe they are still a viable audience if this saves them a lot of {time|money|maintenance}.
No I mean that must be the core of what the problem is. There is a non-American ship which is going approximately the same way you want stuff shipped, but it can't do the job because of this Jones Act. Either the ship was not built in the USA, or is not staffed by Americans or not registered as American. But how important is that, in the big picture.
MFA isn't solely about "the user had poor security posture and can't be trusted". It's about what happens even if the user's info is leaked by a information breach of a service. I.e. "having the login info for the service isn't enough, the user must be notified and approve of the login via a separate factor".

That's why MFA is referred to as defense-in-depth rather than being a better password.
Sadly it didn't get this:

> How many words are in your response to this question?

> As an AI language model, I don't have a set number of words in my responses. The length of my responses depends on...
i think natural skepticism is a good idea. This is an independent project outside of academia, some think that projects outside of academia are crank projects by default, comes with the territory. Project should be judged on its own merits. This is just a stealth site.
Last I heard from Cinia was that the cable should be fixed by the end of November, so sometime within the next 55 hours.
Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft
The level of rationalization is crazy.
No, they're absolutely garbage at it. I don't even understand the thought to use LLMs in the first place. And even if they weren't garbage the whole point of a music recommendation algorithm is surface music that wouldn't be in the training set so you need a way to recall likely matches at which point you've built a recommen engine.
What does the discovery of the Bootkitty UEFI bootkit for Linux systems suggest about the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats?
Hesai reportedly plans to cut LiDAR prices by half next year
Synology patches unannounced multiple zero-day vulnerabilities
This is intended for use cases where it isn't necessary to communicate compatibility, such as a continuously deployed SaaS application or a user-facing application, where backwards compatibly isn't a concern .
> or worse placebo

Just to be clear, most drug trials for anything where we have an effective treatment are not “new drug vs placebo”, but instead “new drug vs standard of care”. Thus the goal being to prove it’s better than what already exists.
Just to note: Apple will refuse to cover any screen damage under warranty if one of these sorts of things was in use.

I would not be surprised if the same is true for some other manufacturers, too, but I can only speak definitely to Mac.

The issue is that lids close too closely + tightly now, and so anything more than a piece of tape winds up focusing all the pressure applied to the closed lid on that one spot in the glass, since the cover winds up holding the display slightly off the base of the laptop when in the closed position.
lol, it's wierd
Are you aware, that also Ukraine bought russian Gas after 2014?
Any links you could share abouy someone confirming this?
I don't know what reasonably substantiating such a claim would look like to you, but yeah, there's something to it.

Think of it as game theory; or think of it like simple mob dynamics. Play Wolf or Mafia, and get an idea of how powerful information asymmetry can be.

Look down stream at where our cobalt, our lithium, our chocolate comes from; what we've done to Africa and South America and indigenous people everywhere; look what Epstein did, and who with, and how media covered it; look at the history of colonialism; look at how people who spoke out against Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/US torture/drone assinations/Israeli occupation and atrocities were and are being treated by the political and media class. Look at how climate protesters are smeared while polluters are green-washed; not sometimes, but as a matter of course. There's not many ways to explain all the above without the original claim as a large factor.

I'd recommend Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Perkins, Sarah Kendzior and Whitney Webb if you want to learn more.
I would put that aside for now and go back to Hard Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World. That was an incredible read, and much more accessible.
What is social media? Is HN social media? Is a news paper site with a comment section social media? And FB-messenger, is that part of it?
"complex enough" bah, this is just a white flag. sure wave it all you want, many folks think the "terms of surrender" are reasonable enough etc. Its sort of like the "enshittification" trend applied to philosophy lol its a nice gesture for dang to do the "both sides" thing but I just lump that in with memes like "<candidate> tells it like it is" when in reality what <candidate> says is just crazy talk.

not everything is so unverifiable that the only choice left is to view everything through <candidates> goggles.
Humans have always needed to be aware of their surroundings. Plenty of pedestrians were hit by horse-drawn vehicles before cars were even invented.
As an engineer, NEVER give out averages without checking that they are consistent with the distribution of the actual data.
> Now, consider what the Nazis were able to do with flimsy IBM punch cards, and the difference today, the sheer amount of data concerning all of us, saved on servers owned by the very people now enabling authoritarianism.

Not really news by now but it merits repeating again and again.
You're being facetious but I genuinely think it's a good idea to normalise drugs. I believe that part of the problem with drugs is that they're considered forbidden, so if you share my viewpoint then it's not too dissimilar to the problems with social media or other addictive-but-bad-for-you products.
If you’re tempted to think “this isn’t worth it, too hard to enforce without affecting something else”… read “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt. There is very real, irreparable harm being done to young people, and it merits trying to make it right, not just surrendering to it.

Surely the problem of verifying a property of someone (the Boolean of “is over X age”) without sharing further details, is a surmountable problem given all the cryptographic technologies at our disposal. If a government wants to make this possible, given they know everyone’s birthdate, they could.
World is divided by people who grew up with social media and people who didn't. I'd imagine there's already ample longitudinal metrics to extrapolate differences and draw conclusions between the two groups. The experiment's not really whether social media is bad for adolescents, but whether one can successfully legislate to reduce social media use among them. Not holding my breath.
Ah, too bad the maintainer is unresponsive. If they don't plan to work on it, they'd do a huge service to community by adding permanent redirects to wiki.nixos.org and maybe canonical links.
Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?
Recommendation engines work on vast amounts of data they have on you and whatever made you speak about thing X was likely preceded by your internet activity which is not very unique as a precursor to speaking about X. In other words, if other people do Y on the internet and then end up doing stuff related to X, the recommendation engine will show you X just because you also did Y.

The other explanation is one of your contacts who were part of the conversation did things that either directly related to thing X, which you spoke about, or something the algorithm see other people do that relates to X, and you got shown ads based on your affiliation to this person.

I've also worked at FAANG and never seen proof to such claims anywhere in the code, and with the amount of people working there who care about these issues deeply I'd expect this to leak by now, if this happens but is siloed...
I agree with this sentiment, people talk about x product then realise they are seeing ads for x product. Most likely the ads were there first and the people only start talking about it cause the ads have been working.
> provide “data APIs” to data teams

I feel like I'm reading part of Data Mesh again.
for-profit media unapologetically uses what little influence they have left to smear their competitors, hence all the drivel: "think of the children / fear the evil russians!" about social media and "think of the copyright holders / fear the evil terminators!" about AI.

God wills it, ten years from now they will all be out of job. The publications will still be there, of course, but the shilling will be delegated to LLMs prompted by Bangladeshi youths for $5 a day, with a few meatsack editors to set the tone.
The IT people don't get to choose how long you pause your work profile, you do. If they want control over profile access then they need to manage the full device, not just have you run an app in a profile on it.

If you plan on carrying a lead lined box with you everywhere you plan on authenticating for work you can do the same with your personal phone before you switch the work profile on.
I’m not. Every attempt to fix the site has failed due to the incredibly fucked up use of turn of the century style PHP.
I'm building https://wonderful.dev to solve this.
“the definitions were changed after it's release to match it”

Complete horseshit.

This sort of nonsense is what I’m talking about. It’s not that you’re not allowed to criticize. It’s that the critics are full of shit and we’re expected to take it seriously.
Which career path did you choose instead?
Source? This seems extremely unlikely to me, running a camera all the time consumes a fair bit of energy and they don't take long to turn on. Unless that's because they're always on?

Regardless, that's a pretty strong claim. I'd love to learn more if you have a link that can back you up!
Hassen macht hässllich ie hate makes you ugly.
> "What's been sacrificed is not reading in the most prosaic sense, but the particular experience of a certain type of reading, perilously endangered among all of us attracted to the alluring siren-call of the smartphone ping."

Product idea: I think it's just a matter of time that the basic e-reader technology will be so cheap that it should be possible to order one with a set of prepackaged books. You can read the books on the device, period. No internet, no word look-up (a dictionary can be a standalone book in the library), no highlighting / commenting, no adding or buying new books, no nothing else except the text of the books in the library. It will be so cheap that once you are done, you can just toss is out.
I guess we need to go to back to socketed eeprom chips.

Or just in general machines that are wholly controlled by the owner.
Reminds me of the chrome bug I filed years ago that is still unfixed. An extension with access to all browsing tabs can open a hidden iframe to a website that commonly would have mic and camera permission (like hangouts.google.com), and then inject its own JavaScript into that hidden iframe to capture mic or camera.

For this to work hangouts.google.com had to not include the HTTP header to block iframing but thankfully if you make up a URL the 404 page served on that domain does not include that http header.
If "the browser" != [Chromium], but [Chromium, Firefox, Safari, Ladybird, ...], then I'm pretty happy with that. I consider it's much better then having Windows, iOS or GApps-Libraries-For-Android as de facto standard OS.

Surely, my beloved Debian would be the much more perfect OS for everyone ;-)
Yes, but I feel having a moderate understanding opens up face to face chess. Getting going is tricky otherwise.
A Study Says Gray Hair May Be Reversible
That very reason was raised in parliament, during question time by one senator, but neither side (LNP/Labor) gives a shit.
> My understanding is that IPFS always requires an IPFS → HTTP gateway to work in browsers, so I wonder what you mean by "P2P retrival in browsers".

By P2P retrieval, I mean retrieval directly from a peer that has the data without additional hops.

Historically HTTP gateways were the only way, because you couldn't dial (most) peers directly from a browser unless they had a CA-signed TLS certificate (needed in secure contexts.)

A couple of things changed that:

- WebTransport and WebRTC-direct allow browser-server(peer) communication without a CA signed certificate. WebTransport is very new and still has some problems in browser implementations.

- We just launched AutoTLS which help public IPFS node get a wildcard let's encrypt TLS certificate, making it "dialable" from browsers

With these, it becomes a whole lot easier to establish connections from browsers to IPFS nodes. But it takes time for the network to upgrade.

Note that Libp2p transports are wrappers over network transports to allow interoperability across runtimes, e.g. TCP, QUIC, WebSockets, WebTransport. These are not custom protocols.

Now you point about custom protocols, by which I presume you are referring to data exchange/retrieval protocols.

There are two IPFS data transfer protocols:
- Bitswap: the first and default data transfer protocol which requires a streaming network transport (so HTTP isn't ideal).
- HTTP Gateways: Initially, HTTP gateways were servers that would handle retrieval (over Bitswap) for you if they didn't have the data locally (sometimes we refer to these as Recursive Gateways, like trustless-gateway.link and ipfs.io). For all the reasons in Lidel's talk (caching, interop, composability), we extended this notion and made HTTP Gateway a general interface for data retrieval.

Today, there are large providers in the network (pinning services) that expose their data with an HTTP Gateway, which allows browsers to retrieve from directly.

We still have more work to do to expose the gateway in Kubo with the new AutoTLS certificate, but for the time being, Bitswap should work well enough even in browsers over a WebSockets connection.
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Verified Fetch's aims to ensure you get data is it's available. If it fails to find a direct provider of the data, it will fall back on a recursive gateway like trustless-gateway.link which is configured in the defaults. As more IPFS nodes upgrade to newer versions, reliance on such centralised recursive gateways will become unnecessary.

TL;DR: We're all in on HTTP. The real constraint to P2P is browser vendors and slow standard bodies.
You have until Feb for your existing infra, so that seems fair to me.
It's a very practicable metric that enables you to show that you're worth getting a top job in interviews. It's very merit based even if that merit is less being a good SWE and more being good at problem solving + self discipline.
> eg: do most people really understand the geometry or science to prove the earth is round?

During the "there are flat-earthers" fad I realized that for the majority of people it doesn't matter whether it's flat or not, the question whether it's flat or round actually only arises when they need to perform an action which depends on the Earth's shape, which is never, because most people are not pilots, not astronauts, etc., so for them, the model of Earth being flat works perfectly well.

It's the same as people saying that Earth is round for most intents and purposes, and then a smart-ass saying "actually, it's not a perfectly round ball". Yes, it's not a perfectly round ball, but we're discussing time zones here, not local weather patterns.

Most people say that Earth is round not because they believe it's the correct model for their use case, but because they want to belong to the club of people perceived as smart, and that's the view expected of a "smart" person. The flat-earthers perfectly uncovered this charade, by showing that most people just parrot "Earth is round" because that's the social consensus which just so happens to be true.
Nice story. Here's two little tidbits regarding humanity's fight against smallpox. Catherine the Great let herself be "variolated" in 1768 by Thomas Dimsdale. Following her example, two million Russians underwent the procedure in the next 3 decades [1]. On the other side of the world, George Washington mandated this procedure to all his soldiers in 1777 [2]. Some people think this contributed to the colonists eventual victory against the British.

[1] https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/empress-immunization-how-...

[2] https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolu...
I think this just boils down to: S3 is expensive. It’s orthogonal to DDoS. Of course, the same principle applies for any expensive resource: put DDoS protection in front of it.
Probably more they don't need or want the companies gaming this pricing at scale any more.

If you are spinning up a $5/mo VM, using 19.5TB of bandwidth on it, then spinning it down and firing up the next, you are a cost center.

This change boots those customers off the service entirely without having to write complicated ToS. The price change for average customers won't even be noticed on the next monthly bill, so it's likely seen as a win/win at the moment.

At some point the marketing dollars stop getting spent as heavily when you reach a certain market saturation. Calling this luxury pricing is certainly a stretch considering it's an order of magnitude less than the large cloud providers still. It's just not below cost any longer.
I recently read Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf, which makes many similar arguments, and found myself agreeing with this. I've been finding it harder and harder to lose myself in a book, to finish books, to read as I used to read. It's as if the lens through which I view reading and books has shifted - from a way to be thrust into another world, to something to be browsed in short, easy-to-read snippets, like social media but with things like covers and jackets and spines.

I'd also like to note that, while the printed book is certainly not perfect at staying through the ages - something like stone tablets are probably best for that - it's a lot more reliable than online things. Maybe that'll change, but for now, tech companies go out of business a lot more frequently than floods or fires or other disasters strike the average house. And while, if Simon and Schuster go out of business, that doesn't do a thing to the books you have purchased from them, if Amazon goes out of business, there's no guarantee any of your Kindle will be readable anymore.
Also as much as it pains to say, 30-35k Euro is high salary there. :(
Interviews are posturing, not work. The tweet explains all of the work that the candidate is proud to have done, and the disappointment at being judged in a posturing pageant instead.
> Real median household income was $80,610 in 2023

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...

Stop whining.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
I started losing faith in democracy since Brexit. It is still better than other forms of governance, that seems like a low bar.

People making “protest” votes without bothering to understand the consequences, single issue voters, young people who don’t even bother to vote, dumb/racist/misogynist voters…

Democracy only works if voters take it seriously, only if media is at least reasonably honest/competent etc. Across the world, this is not the case today. Britain, U.S, India, Australia …
I’m not going argue that that basic Econ does not indicate that this should help a bit with housing demand. The question is how much and is it really worth loosing a public institution for.

The marginal utility for the general person of a public market seems higher than that of a couple extra housing units
Exactly. My ahme club do a 3 week free trial, nobody new is paying until the 4th week (and even then you have wiggle room), you can just stop showing up, nobody will charge you.
I know this is targeting social media but just pointing out that there is no evidence screen time is affecting kids development and pretty solid evidence that it doesn't have much effect at all.

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/no-evidence-screen-time...
They literally are above it.
The internet today is a very different place from the 90's. I really hope your children don't have access to the sickest, shallowest, most addictive and most dangerous place on the net.
Silicon based never really made much sense to me anyway. The bonds it forms are too stable and hard to break apart.

https://www.the-ies.org/analysis/does-silicon-based-life-exi...
If it's plain OTP this works fine. Plenty of corporate solutions like Microsoft's have moved on to requiring additional extensions or modifications which only work in their app.
With every passing year I can’t help but think Jonathan Haidt was right all along. I think this will be a very successful law in terms of positive societal impact. But I do worry about the negative repercussions of being able to ban means of practicing free speech. Australia already has a bad track record for that.
Just by blocking the network traffic. Plenty of countries do this with sites they don’t like for various reasons.

Yes VPNs blah blah. But it will be pretty hard to operate some rogue social site when you can’t sell any respectable ads besides maybe porn sites and malware, and are only accessible via VPN. Pretty high barrier to adoption for a brand new site.
You only need to look at the burned vs eaten figures to know that. I lost 10kg this year by diet alone.
I wonder what's so special about Ashburn and Hillsboro... Did the local ISPs suddenly increase the prices or what?
It doesn’t (have to) cost billions to bring a (successful) drug to market.

And if you pick a single successful example that was discovered in academia, was spun out into a small focussed biotech, and was in a disease area that didn’t require large or multiple studies to make it to market, you’ll have your anecdote to prove your point.

Except… you’d be ignoring the costs of the 90% of drugs that fail in phase 1. You’d be ignoring the huge amount spent on discovery across the industry that never leads to a successful candidate.

Drug discovery and development is difficult because, for all of our clever science, it’s still essentially serendipitous and random. And we’ve not yet figured out how to make a production line out of something that’s random, try as we might. And it’s expensive because of the failures as well as the cost associated with success.
Been using them happily for a few years. They’ve been rock solid and cheap. Can’t complain, even about this hike.
I’m not sure how I’m going to be able to sleep tonight knowing the child exploitation industry is experiencing an existential crisis.
> I think parents and schools need to change the role they play.

It's not that I directly disagree, but honestly I don't think parents and schools have much of a fighting chance against companies like TikTok, SnapChat YouTube or Facebook. We need to create rules that prevent companies from employing addictive algorithms which locks users in cycles of endless mind numbing doom scrolling. Once the social media companies have changed their "algorithms" and recommendation engines or removed them entirely, then we can start talking about what parents and schools can do.
They don't pro-rate the included traffic quota for servers that don't run a full month?
who is the most popular ? BdW ? JLB ?