skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CommonCrawl is supposed to help for this, i.e. crawl once and host the dataset for any interested party to download out of band. However, data can be up to a month stale, and it costs $$ to move the data out of us-east-1.

I’m working on a centralized crawling platform[1] that aims to reduce OP’s problem. A caching layer with ~24h TTL for unauthed content would shield websites from redundant bot traffic while still providing up-to-date content for AI crawlers.

[1] https://crawlspace.dev
I seem to have missed the thread. I was looking for it the last few days.

Thanks for sharing your favorites.

I have read PHM and liked it. I will try Children of Time.
The primary purpose of Bitlocker (when used with a PIN + TPM) is it makes a powered off computer or a drive itself as good as a brick. Assuming the TPM doesn't have any key extraction vulnerabilities.

Keyword is powered off.

With any general purpose drive encryption, the TPM doesn't actually decrypt the bulk of the data as its too slow so the OS eventually ends up with a key that is extractable.
i think you're overestimating how good people are about maintaing their passwords. if you tell people "you'll lose your passkey and have to reset it" they'll freak out. but most people lose their passwords and get locked out of their account on a somewhat regular basis anyways. people suck at passwords.

if they can have that level of reliability with a bit more everyday convenience, they'll be happy.
> And release it after an "invocation" returns, or if the host requests it explicitly.

This would only work when being called from Lua, but not when the host calls into Lua (on the top level).
Here's a more fleshed out version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem. He did acknowledge things like transactions costs etc., which like in can-opener fashion, is typically assumed away by mainstream economists.
> This is how those proprietary rf protocols work for mice and such.

In my experience these usually use Cypress/TI chips and FSK, rather than going all the way down to IQ.

> No, I mean rf mcus that let you do all the way down to IQ sampling or pulse shaping.

Do Nordic chips let you do this? I've never seen it documented.
Some time ago I read You Can't Win[1], a 1926 memoir by a hobo-by-choice named Jack Black. He describes his life as a hobo in various cities (including SF!), and the picture he paints of the turn-of-the-century will be eerily familiar to anyone living in a major US city today: huge numbers of homeless hopelessly addicted to wine and opium (called "hop") that was cheap and easily accessible in streets and flophouses; tent cities lining the outskirts of town; entire communities of people living in that fashion and outright refusing to re-enter society.

The big difference between now and the turn of the 20th century is that back then, the law had little to no tolerance for public vagrancy. Jack Black describes dodging sheriffs, being locked up for the crimes of vagrancy and burglary, spending long stretches of time in prison and emerging completely unreformed, immediately returning to his life of encampment and crime. Even though ultimately his behavior didn't change, the law made him spend significant lengths of time removed from society.

I don't know what the lesson is here, if there is one. While a century ago their approach also didn't solve the problem, it did result in more livable cities for everyone else in the meantime. Perhaps one takeaway here is that it the problem isn't truly "solvable" given how we have structured our markets-based society.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-black/you-cant-win
Some comments are wondering how DCMA claims work and where ads revenue go to. So here is the gist.

The current YouTube DCMA system is broken. Here's how it (mal)functions:

- Creator uploads video, gets ad revenue.

- First valid claimant gets ad revenue.

- Subsequent claimants are ignored, first claimant keeps all revenue.

This leads to a first-come, first-served system where the first claimant wins all, regardless of the actual IP ownership.

Would need to implement proportional revenue allocation and a more transparent with arbitrage claiming process, e.g moderators with subject expertise chiming in.

That's if YouTube wants to fix this. But they are rather worried about a/ being accused of copyright infringement for not taking "some" action and b/ aggravating their profit making distribution agreements with major content owners.

To note there is also an automated id system which applies primarily on audio fingerprints, to a degree visual frames as well.

- Creator uploads video, id system finds matching fingerprint against a large DB of copyrighted content and send ads revenue to whoever owns the match.

Also to note, that applies to largely most audio content at this point. Not much to big films (studios are still onto trying to keep distribution via their own streaming platform, to be platform or preferred partner platform).

We are in this mess, not because YouTube is dragging its feet, but because the IP laws simply aren't reconcilable with the way we create and consume content these days.

A brick needed to build a more fair revenue distribution system could be to revise legislations, e.g banning distribution exclusivity. That would give incentive for innovation, a startup could build an engine that redistribute somewhat fairly.

Ultimately, creators own their arts and can pretty much dictate how their works can be used, and call out their licensing fees. But when intermediaries step in and figure out exclusivity would milk more cash from consumers, it goes all the way to effectively lobby for the laws to remain crooked to their advantage.
I'm not sure cause and effect on that: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/07-12.47.14.html

But I also find it odd that Johnson became a guest host a few episodes after Deyton was kicked off in 2002. Was Johnson's adulterous nature not known at the time? Johnson's cocaine stories were, I think, 2005 (on the show itself), 2007, and 2019, and he hosted again in 2003, 2005, and 2006, at least the last of those should not have happened on the basis of the argument used against Deyton.
each computing device manufacturer is required by law to provide a storage so that the user can plug in their single, universal, transferrable set of security credentials (like passkeys)

Indeed and that law would provide overrides for the state. And which state, you might ask? All of them? The state where the device is manufactured? Hmm...
BitLocker volumes can have multiple protectors; you can use a key file, a passphrase, PIN or TPM storage: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

In Pro editions it is also possible to require an interactive step at boot time via group policy (this also works if you have no TPM available), then it will ask for a password on each startup.
>they can just use glass

Does anyone even recycle glass anymore? I know it used to be a thing but I think fresh plastic bottles probably cost less than even the collection and sorting costs for glass. I haven't seen any recycler ask for glass in ages.

>Companies need to stop externalizing their costs into environmental problems and telling people it's their problem for buying it.

They are just giving people what they want at a price they can pay. If you really want to minimize waste, the way to go is probably for people to make their own soda at home using flavor extracts. It's easy and probably less polluting to do this than anything else. But when you're not at home, you have to have drinks ready-made.
I've seen concurrency in excess of 500 from Metas crawlers to a single site. That site had just moved all their images so all the requests hit the "pretty url" rewrite into a slow dynamic request handler. It did not go very well.
You are right, but i still have no idea what is the point of this article.

The guy unlocked the bitlocker, then restarted PC just before login screen appeared. He said that's when he had most success. What sense does it make to restart and start looking for key in memory, when bitlocker has been just unlocked.
A third options is to prevent towns from establishing rights that override those of other individuals (and interests).
Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results–and denies it (2011)
Why We Make Resolutions (and Why They Fail) (2013)
I hear from people who did both that smoking is harder to quit. It's just not the nicotine itself, from experience.
The Romantic Era Never Ended
> People do not synthesize drugs on their own without any prior knowledge. They take university organic chemistry classes and then start synthesizing drugs.

The girl who needs mifepristone will not be an organic chemist. The trans-person who needs their hormones will not be an organic chemist. etc.

What part of: "Distilling alcohol is about as easy as it gets and yet people wind up poisoned from homemade hooch all the time." did you miss?

We know what happens when drugs are made illegal--they wind up adulterated with god knows what--sometimes intentionally, sometimes not.

The "solution" is making sure that these drugs are legal and available. The solution is social and political--we need people to put in as much effort into the politics as they do into dubious "tech" solutions.
We are rationing. But not in the binary yes/no sense you will get from a bureaucracy designed flow chart. It’s economizing which allows substitution and sharing across supply and demand.

At least you agree it’s a resource problem and we don’t have infinite healthcare.

The point about rich folks being price insensitive is demonstrably false. One key here is that rich and reckless exists, but is a much rarer breed than rich and careful.

> much easier for a bureaucracy to handle

Navigating bureaucracy favors elite groups even more strongly as it requires education in law, politics, and communication skills most lacked by disadvantaged groups.

The biggest problem is if your voice isn’t loud enough you literally have no alternative.

The insurance pleading nightmare is exactly this system. They are a rationing bureaucrat.

The US has unique demographic problems where the bottom quartile of health and well being demand most healthcare resources. So the sales pitch for European style healthcare sounds like “we are going to make everything slightly worse for responsible people and remove higher end options, so we can better cover super users”.
Is there? In most US states, the concept of premises liability seems to be derived entirely from case law, not statute. Some states appear to have statutes limiting its scope, such as https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_13-21-115

Edit: to be clear, I don't think there's anything actually stopping someone from attempting to sue a bar or grocery store over a crime committed there, but it usually doesn't happen and would likely be an uphill battle for the plaintiff.
https://archive.ph/2022.01.02-143901/https://www.newyorker.c...
Why do you ask? One often encounters an argument that if I cannot make up a rationale that you consider as reasonable, then it means I am wrong. The problem is that the polarization means that neither side can rationally understand the argument of the opposing side. The fact that you don't consider the argument of these people as reasonable does not prove anything.
2024: My Year in Books
In the mid 1990's, as a teen, I once was hired to cold call a bunch of software companies to contribute to some non-profit, and I recall calling Mustang Software.

That was 30 years ago. I don't know who I talked to, but they were not too happy to have me on the phone lol. Sorry if that was you. and OP sorry about your father. I recall QModem well.
It’s distributed in MacOS, Chrome, Firefox, etc. I think these companies do due diligence.
It remains incredible to me that none of Tesla's investors have pulled Musk aside for an intervention to remind him that, as CEO, he is absolutely torching the company's goodwill, and along with it the company's future.

Tesla's stock is priced as if it's going to grow until it consumes all car sales.

Meanwhile, its market share has peaked[1]. Rather than reflect on this and take corrective action, Musk seems to just be snorting more drugs and wading deeper into politics that are abhorrent to his primary customer base.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/727744/tesla-market-share-2024-q2...
> You do need to have a minimum though.

But my question was precisely why is the minimum so high? Sure, maybe don’t allow someone to play naked or with a t-shirt stamped with gore or racist imagery. But jeans? Come on. Looking at the rules, I wonder if they’d also, for example, prevent a man from playing in a skirt that would otherwise be acceptable for a woman.

https://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS_2013/FIDE/Proposal_...
When a claim is filed through content-ID, the claiming company basically gets two options: disable all ads (taking out any revenue for the uploader), or run ads and get paid out. They also get to pick how many ads to run, which means a three second segment can insert minutes of ads into a video. They can also mute audio during infringing sections, or block videos in certain countries.

Stephanie Sterling famously came up with a trick to make their videos run without ads, even when including fair use content: by intentionally including content from multiple companies, each with different preferred monetisation preferences, introducing a conflict in the Youtube content-ID system that didn't get resolved automatically. Their videos were intentionally run without ads, being supported by Patreon and all, and companies kept claiming sections for themselves and inserting ads into videos.

Bizarre that to shield oneself from content ID bullshit (like including a three second snippet of a Ninendo trailer blocking an entire video), one needs to intentionally infringe on more copyright, but that was the Youtube system of yesteryear.

I don't know if the system still works like that, but based on the seemingly random snippets included in Sterling's videos I'm guessing they're still applying this trick.

In theory one could take this further, uploading parts of one's own video to content-ID so the system hands over some partial control over the content, but I feel like Youtube wouldn't take too kindly to that method.
That’s not enough which is why this page exists:

https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license
O3, Oh My
You also can't look at the encrypted drive's contents if you connect it to a different machine.
and has land borders with two (Ireland, France).
> Credit card delinquency rates... remain nearly a percentage point higher than they were on average in the year before the pandemic.

Just another journalist trying to scare you. All that happened is bad debt rose 1% compared to 5 years ago.
Maybe Apple has figured out something better than a unified memory architecture.

It's hard to rule out their ability to create silicon that is a step change.
Wait for all the 2.x% 7/1 and 5/1 jumbo ARMs issued between 2015-2022 to renew at 7%+ and we'll see how strong the mortgage market actually is.
I have refused to create any content on YouTube for this reason. My Google account is too valuable to my digital identity.

When Google banned a user because their Google Drive was used to share a picture of their child’s skin with the doctor for diagnosis reasons and Google flagged the account as CSAM, I felt vindicated that I don’t create content for YouTube. Not because I believe my content would get banned, but because their automated systems catch irrelevant content and the user experience of those instances is like a DoS on your digital identity.
As a Navy veteran, I agree with you. As a descriptivist, I can accept someone referring to a destroyer, carrier, gator freighter, or anything else that carries lots of armament a "battle ship".
The FDA gets 7.2 Billion dollars per year. The problem is probably that 3.3 Billion of that is paid by "User fees" which have effectively become a vehicle for industry lobbyists

https://www.fda.gov/media/166050/download
> What sense does it make to restart when bitlocker has been just unlocked.

You steal a laptop. You turn on the laptop. You reboot it into UEFI and steal the keys. This is bad for BitLocker. Ideally this is not possible because the MOR bit should cause the keys to be erased by the platform initialization before boot-from-USB is possible.
They speak of "QR-style" barcodes, but it's very unclear to me whether GS1 is actively pushing QR or DataMatrix as the preferred 2D barcode style. In medical devices and pharmaceuticals, both the 1D and 2D DataMatrix GS1 barcodes have been used extensively for quite some time so I would personally think DataMatrix is the way to go. I'm just a casual observer though. Is there anybody here that has more inside knowledge on what the game plan is?
As a high load system engineer you'd want to offload asset serving to CDN which makes detection slightly more complicated.
The easy way is to attach an image onload handler with client js, but that would give a high yield of false positives.
I personally have never seen such approach and doubt its useful for many concerns.
Privacy policy / cookie dialogue on that page is class A scum-worthy dark pattern.
I'm not an ecologist, so no, I don't have a particular technical solution in mind. I'm going off of memory from living there at the time. That said, I would expect any oil company operating so close to shore to have a proper disaster preparedness plan. As I remember it, BP drug their feet fighting over who was responsible for the cleanup which made it end up being worse than it potentially could have been.
1pp != 1%
Anecdotal but my spending habits changed a lot during lockdown and it's been an uphill battle to get them back to normal.

There was a period there where we were flush with valuable cash that you wanted to just spend, just for the dopamine hit in some cases, but also because you knew the cash was going to be worth less over time. Getting stimulus checks was a bit of a mindfuck too. We still shop almost exclusively on our phones, and it's so easy to just "add to cart" and have someone put it in my trunk or drop it at my doorstep.

Cut to a few years later and the cost of things has risen faster than my income and my brain is still "COVID rich", I can see why credit card balances are higher and defaults are more common.
> "BitLocker uses the TCG Reset Attack Mitigation, also known as MOR bit (Memory Overwrite Request), before extracting keys into memory."

(Edit: No this is a UEFI request to clear memory. Below is incorrect.)

I don't think this is what the commenter was mentioning. I think this essentially makes it only possible to extract the key from the TPM once and then the TPM needs to be powered off and back on to get it again.

The TPM has no control over whats in the system memory, so if they key is in system memory, no TPM mitigations are going to help.

UEFI firmware must support clearing the keys from RAM.
Per your own post you claim two things - that a very similar (and possibly worse) problem existed with ruthless enforcement, yet the problem was still bad. Why is then your conclusion/question that we need more of that, or I guess to more accurately paraphrase what you said, less compassion than we have now? Those things don’t really seem to logically follow.
sorry, forgot about ftp:// and ws://. i think your comment is a better approach than the original RFC. the hosts file approach is overwrought, and trouble waiting to happen.
sounds agentic
I wish a President would say that

as well as publications leaning either direction
Linking 23M active mortgage records to borrower demographics
This entire article seems to be completely based on a non-inflation adjusted write-off value. It is not surprising to me that we are setting write-off records. We were bound to at some point!

It is clear that delinquencies have ticketed up over the last year or two. But this article does not do a particularly good job about contextualizing if this is actually concerning.

Here is the actual rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CORCCT100S

Pretty tough to look at that and determine if this clearly concerning or an moderate adjustment to a changing post-covid environment.
I ran all my research papers (about LLMs) on a Mac Studio.
> Until someone finds a successful collision attack.

Indeed, and within hours of the hash function being made available to me I developed a second preimage attack (strictly stronger than a collision attack)... allowing me to modify images in a visually non-objectionable way to match an arbitrary hash value.

> Until shareholder/growth pressure causes them to replace that human with an AI.

Indeed, but more than that:

The "human" is still a dire privacy loss. Perhaps Apple's review might have protected you from some erroneous reports to law enforcement, but does it protect you from an apple-employed stalker ex? does it protect you from paparazzi? Does it protect you from the double thinking ("do I photograph my kids playing in the sprinklers? do I take a nude photo of my spouse?") due knowing that your private activity is being watched?

One could easily argue that some AI second level review is an "improvement", which is another reason why your assumption that even that backstop would eventually be removed is a reasonable one.
00.008% increase =

(very nearly)

flat

according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.
Isn't US military alone the biggest money spending governmental organisation (well, technically multiple organizations), in history.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240101000000*/https://wiki.dia...
"homeless" is a very broad term, and I think we need to segment it out because not everyone needs the same response.

The single parent who is trying to make life work, who loses her job for some reason, and becomes homeless? Compassion.

The drug addicted thief who has no interest in being a part of society, who basically wants to live that way? I don't think compassion is the right answer. If you show compassion to that type, you will just be taken advantage of.
I wonder if these are the same people who whined about DC casting a black woman to play an orange alien from Tamaran?

They also criticized Disney for having a Black Captain America in the movies even though it was clear to any Marvel comics fans that this was always going to be the case.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I don't have anything super-personal to contribute except what has been said many times already: QModem was my first window on the digital world and a delightfully crafted tool. Developers of today (like me) could learn a lot from your dad.
> The chance of a hash colliding is near 0%.

The 'chance' is 100% -- collisions and even arbitrary second preimages have been constructed.

> The hashes are for some of the worst content out there, its not trying to detect anything else.

You don't know that because apple developed powerful new cryptographic techniques to protect themselves and their data providers from accountability.
As with most homeless issues the problem is a hard one. You can't let them accumulate trash. These sweeps are the only practical way of dealing with the issue. Is there more humane and compassionate approaches, maybe. But storing and proving ownership of property would be difficult and fraught with issues.

As with most other social issues. If you want this compassion find a way to pay for it yourself. The city is already operating on the input of its citizens and would love for you to take the issue off their hands.
Per-person sq. ft. of home interior seems like a far better metric...but you analyze the data you have, not the data you wish you had.

I still recall a 1990's newspaper article about the largest piano store in (trendy, upscale) Ann Arbor, Michigan. Supposedly, their #1 driver of sales was new homeowners whose McMansions had huge, empty great rooms. It didn't matter if they couldn't play the piano, and had no kids - a grand piano filled up a lot of space, and looked suitably upscale.
Receiving a reply like this makes me know I am doing something right.