skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. For the purpose of the foregoing sentence, a “supplementary work” is a work prepared for publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introducing, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes, and indexes, and an “instructional text” is a literary, pictorial, or graphic work prepared for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic instructional activities.

In determining whether any work is eligible to be considered a work made for hire under paragraph (2), neither the amendment contained in section 1011(d) of the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999, as enacted by section 1000(a)(9) of Public Law 106–113, nor the deletion of the words added by that amendment—

(A) shall be considered or otherwise given any legal significance, or

(B) shall be interpreted to indicate congressional approval or disapproval of, or acquiescence in, any judicial determination,

by the courts or the Copyright Office. Paragraph (2) shall be interpreted as if both section 2(a)(1) of the Work Made For Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 and section 1011(d) of the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999, as enacted by section 1000(a)(9) of Public Law 106–113, were never enacted, and without regard to any inaction or awareness by the Congress at any time of any judicial determinations."

Now your turn, quote the full passage of whatever law you think creates this "duty of due diligence" that you've been talking about.
I’m no expert in formal methods, but of all the tools I’ve used, Athena [0] has been one of my favorites to work with. The proofs read much more like what you’re used to seeing in math literature.

0. https://athena-lang.org/
Meadow.os v2.0 Is Here
You're forgetting the issue of platforms creating paralegal environments. A lot of the issues come from IP claims that would not have been made if they actually had to do the work and try to sue you (especially in another jurisdiction to boot).

And you can make services without UGC too.
Even with a car's higher rolling resistance, most of the drag at cruising speed is aerodynamic, though.

But a commuter train, by definition, starts and stops a lot so it makes sense that a large fraction of the energy used would be for acceleration.
How Message Queues Work
Works well at my tricky pizza order test which claude computer use failed..
what's wild is when Google Play Music came to Canada where you could upload your music to the cloud, I was able to get phone support for a bug it had with Linux, and they were very helpful
> What's done to assess the security of these numerous packages?

Nada.
I agree here. I have had an experience of scaling WebSockets server to 20M connections on a single server (with this one https://github.com/ITpC/LAppS.git). However there are several issues with scaling WebSockets, on the backends as well: mutex locking, non-parallel XOR of input stream, utf8 validation.
I do not know the state of the above repository code, it seems that it was never updated for at least 5 years. There were bugs in HTTP parsing in the client part for some cases. Though vertical scalability was excellent. Sad this thing never reached production state.
> Mold gets about a 10% speedup by using a faster allocator (mimalloc). I've tried using mimalloc with Wild and didn't get any measurable speedup

Perhaps it is worth repeating the experiment with heavy MLoC codebases. jmalloc or mimalloc.
Nope. It is literally illegal[1] to ask for identification in California.

In fairness it was ambiguous[2] before, but in practice California has never asked for identification and this was made clear and official policy from the 2024 elections (note: I am not aware if there are any lawsuits that have blocked enforcement of this law, I no longer reside in CA and do not keep close track of their goings-on).

And before anyone says "But registering to vote requires identification!": Yes, you're correct, but remember that asking for a voter's identity is illegal. No one can confirm whether a "voter" is actually a voter, it is illegal to check. Registering to vote is irrelevant.

My personal experiences voting in California also never involved being asked for identification, that includes "name and address". Never. None. I went in and voted, nobody cared whether I could because they didn't or couldn't.

For the record: I'm an American citizen (born and raised, not that that's relevant), I am registered to vote, I am proud to vote, and I am happy to present to any law enforcement or election official my state Driver's License to prove my residency and my US Passport to prove my citizenship upon demand. I question the narrative that any part of any of this is controversial for ensuring the sanctity of the right to vote and holding free and fair elections.

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[2]: https://perkinscoie.com/insights/update/new-california-law-p...
Coming from Europe, what I found incredible at first is the sheer size of some species of bamboo that grow in Southern China. It's really like in the article's illustration, absolutely massive.
Unless you have a very good JIT compiler, like JVMs. Than you can defer LTO and whole program optimization to runtime.
> A million rounds a minute

Dragonfire is quicker, cheaper per kill, and safer in urban places
then spray and pray kinetic weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfire_(weapon)
Gongzilla: The collapsing cost of dumb ideas
Is it popular?
Paying for YouTube still forces you to use their official app instead of the much superior NewPipe/PipeBender.
Or college kids using campus internet?
Which is the point : "computing" shouldn't be involved in these decisions.
Why is Home Assistant not provided by popular Linux distributions?

It has access to security cameras and having to trust a ton of code downloaded with Docker is a no go.
Yes, that's the more formal equivalent formulation. For n > 1/(y-x), the sequence of rationals ... ,i/n, (i+1)/n, ... must land in (x,y).
> Note: I am not a lawyer.

> We’ll be focusing our efforts on the ePrivacy Directive,

The author doesn't seem to know that an EU Directive is not binding law. They're mostly irrelevant. It only matters how member states implement Directives. Some states like Germany didn't change any laws at all regarding the EPD.

EU Regulations like the GDPR are different.
I have been using a catchall mailbox with hostname type names for over a decade now¹

So, com.example.shop@example.org for https://shop.example.com account(s). I've recently switched to a randomized username part, as bitwarden supports this well.

This has saved me numerous times from scams². Because scammers would email me on the wrong address. Either they'd mail me on an adress listed on my website, when the actual company would've mailed on the unique address I gave them (more targeted phishing). Or they'll mail me on an address that I know to be leaked (these are redirected to spam in filters).

I am convinced there's an actual solution to a lot of scamming here, if the UX and UI are carefully designed. To be used by "muggles", not just the crowd that knows things like filters and catch-alls and plus-appended etc. It's a pity Google, Microsoft or even proton aren't actively promoting such a "unique mail for every service". But I guess there's little in it for them.

¹ used to self host, but now that's near impossible with the monopolies on mailserves at big tech and moved to mailbox.org. big shoutout!

² aside from the other great benefit. I'm often one of the first to know some service or site was compromised by receiving scam, spam etc. A few times I was even the one to report a breach to such an org via this.
So much this.

I recently saved a friend from getting scammed when she wanted to buy an audiobook, we wanted to avoid Audible because of the DRM and limited device selection.

The first few results she got were some shady services offering really good deals. I looked them up on trustpilot and they weren't outright scams, but they aggressively pushed you into getting an expensive monthly subscription that was basically impossible to cancel.
>not one moving 200+ mph with an evasive trajectory

that is slow. Well under RPG speeds that current active defense systems (like Trophy) easily catch. And evasion on such a slow speed isn't a real evasion - at best 1m shift in 0.01 seconds - even cheap radar would easily track and would take it out with shotgun or machine gun.

> proper missile defense system or CIWS

that resolves, tracks and targets 30 cm diameter missile moving at transsonic speed at 2-4km. The point defense i'm talking about would need to resolve and target a 30 cm target at 10-20m distance (the tank or APC can take a drone warhead explosion at 5m distance) which is orders or magnitude cheaper/easier (you can even put a sub-$100 car radar or LIDAR onto a rotating plate similar like on Waymo car and whenever it picks something moving toward you at a distance less than 20m - just shoot in that general direction. Yes, infantry hates being around tanks with active defense in combat as shrapnel from the ADS hits the infantry, frequent story with USSR army back then in Afghanistan for example)

>Add a small rocket motor to the $20k drone for final approach and it’d probably top out at 400-500mph and it can use propellers to “jump around” randomly in its flight path so targeting it is nigh impossible.

Now you're trying to invent a jumping around RPG or Javelin missile. I agree that such development will happen too (though "jumping" at 200m/s is petty hard), yet it will not be able to always jump out of the shotgun grape shot cloud at that 10m distance. So, yes, there will be race between attack and defense, and my point is that single drone approach will be left behind pretty much from the start.

> cheap drone swarms is that their range is shit

50-80km communication and flying range is what we have already today. Communication - while staying cheap - can be extended further by retranslator drones (and for autonomous/AI drones the communication is much less of an issue - for example no need for high quality video, if at all), and electric drone-plane (not quad) can do up to 200km even today.

>I think saturation attacks are only going to be useful against static targets

I see quite opposite. Modern air-defense shoots down all single targets with high probability (except for stealth, which like $4M for one Storm Shadow stealth cruise missile). On the other hand - Pantsir-S1 can target simultaneously only 4 targets. A battery of S-300/400 can shoot only 12 missiles before reloading. Trophy and the likes easily shoots down one incoming targets and takes half-a-second or similar to get ready for the next target. And improving the simultaneous capabilities is costly. Where is saturation (horizontal scaling :) is an easy and cheap way to overwhelm/defeat such systems.
Have a look into Sam, groundingdino, groundedsam

https://github.com/IDEA-Research/Grounded-Segment-Anything

You can use that to take images and generate annotated segmented images/masks that you can then train a YOLO model on. I've done this for prototypes before and it's a very quick way of getting started as you can hand off the really annoying annotation work to a machine.
Would this still be possible now? Especially sending class 0 SMS?

Or has something fundamentally changed so makes no sense to bother trying
Interesting but in the EU spam calls/sms seem to have gone down over 99.99% after GDPR. Some huge fines at the beginning helped
You can get back to it, :)

https://retrogames.biz/products/thespectrum/
> MenuetOS also has a x64 version with SMP which is closed source.

What's the point of making something like that closed source in 2025?

Would anybody actually use such a thing except for as a hobby OS, on a multi-core X64 machine no less?
My observation with the Scala and Haskell ecosystems has been very similar. One primary source of churn is changing interfaces. And very advanced static type systems offer a large design space how to model interfaces. Which leads to lots of incremental improvements. But lots of interface changes together with deep dependency trees lead to exponential explosion of changes.

Rich Hickey has been discussing this very early, but almost nobody got it when he said it, myself included. Striving for obviously simple interfaces, that avoid nominal static types like the plague, is the way to avoid this often pointless waves of changes through language ecosystem, just because someone designed a better option monad or whatever.
Only lesson 16 is extremely important when you’re out of money and luck. Sure, you want to practise the other 15, but you can’t.
As the other poster told you, they filter it out.
Yup, that’s what the internet is going to become. Huge swaths of meaningless babble by machines that do not care. And you’re responsible for it.
The article picks Fathom fingerprinting but there are differences. Other services like Plausible also include time element. So to plausible every day you are someone else. Unlike Fathom, Plausible cannot track unique visitors per month. Fathom is pretty sneaky here and its not surprising because they have been pretty sketchy in past.

EU law is very much based on interpretation and “spirit” of the law and Plausible lawyers just think its enough to not be able track individuals but track overall flows of masses.
Including the right kind of leader to push it.
Perhaps the answer isn't Siri or summarizing or whatever else they had planned. Perhaps the entire interface needs to be rethought. To me this is more like the switch from text-based to graphical. They're missing the Alto to copy from this time.
Stripe Accidentally Sent this Duck to laid off Employees
Very cool project, congrats guys!
I make a habit of always praising my colleagues when they help me or deserve it. It has made work so much more enjoyable.
Author seems to have buried the lede, because the real meat of the problem is described only in the last third of post. It's not about technology, it's about the scope and intent. Or if we had to distill the opening premise of the post into a single word response:

> All web analytics need to somehow track individual users.

Wrong.

Suitably anonymised, unintrusive first-party statistical analytics are fine. Stalking users is not.

ObDisclosure: I used to wear the DPO hat in my previous job, and assist in the practicalities in my current one.
Leaked Nokia Presentation: How they planned to beat the iPhone in 2007
The same applies to any antiscam measures. Maybe blame the crime lords rather than those trying to reduce the number of victims.
Finding Brad Feld's Finest Thoughts (2012)
Most of these "cookie free" analytics vendors keep talking about how cleverly they have anonymised the data, but this article finally gets it right: That does not matter for cookie popups. Anonymisation is only relevant to GDPR, but you still need cookie banners under the ePrivacy directive.
If you look at the price tiers per country (https://www.theworldranking.com/statistics/671/youtube-premi...), you'll be able to see why - as a user in Switzerland - so far I wasn't willing to pay 250$ every year for YouTube Premium, it"s simply not worth the price to me. With less steep pricing, I'd pay.
The guy's not building a gigafactory in his garden, is he?

> If anyone can just build a factory there, they will have a negative ecological impact (interrupt animal flows, pollute in areas that are supposed to be cleaner, etc).

All true of farming. FWIW as a fellow NIMBY myself, I use the excuse of 'animal flow' (in particular the flow of bats) to prevent anyone from putting anything more than a fence up within 150m of my house. It's great!
I thought we stopped calling everyone “communist” back in 1959? Can’t wait for the new “House Un-American Activities Committee 2.0”!
I haven't seen Meta's AI assistant incorporated to the Quest 3. There is a lot of low hanging fruit there.
Not sure what the autocorrect did there, but basically that the AI tech is being packaged with a bow and a set of turnkeys practically.

To expound, AI can analyze and profile people based on the smoke data collected on them, can identify and track individuals using surveillance state monitoring (us already has the monitoring).

So ai can track your day to day movements, thoughts, actions, spending, whatever. It can learn your gait, track micro expressions, recognize you in disguise. All these have been done. China tracks people individually and assigns a score rating their good communist citizenship

The eye forever watching.
If I understand correctly, the core value of TikTok lies in its algorithm, which is not mentioned in the article.
At the same time, YouTube AFAIK is the highest paying platform for content creators. Presumably this is because ad spots on YouTube are associated closely with the content itself, so YouTube actually has a more direct model for paying out, but is there any reason they can't be taking a bigger (but still small) cut of this revenue stream?
This is wrong, read the article.

Your answer aligns with GDPR, but cookie banners come from the ePrivacy directive. The author is one of the few to describe it well.
I think scammers have a specific bad script for a reason. They want to find the most gullible people they can.
Technically you need one, because you're using session storage for something that is not strictly necessary to make the page work. It's in the article.
Idk what the experience is like on chromium, but on Firefox, ad blockers have continued to be basically 100% effective for me.
TV is very different despite being made to look like short bursts of colors and cuts because unlike short form content, there is a theme or a story that is being played through, our brain is engaged on a much longer arc of a story than short video content which does not give the viewer enough time to think beyond what is shown.

I agree that the medium through which one has pleasurable experiences is very subjective, but at the same time how much of it is consumed, absorbed and captured is what I think matters when talking about a medium being just for consumption purposes. Earlier web and social media was a lot about contributing and having a dialogue now its vastly about consumption or some form of outlet which does not encourage any traditional engagement but a passive viewing.

That being said, all these channels also have content which is good and enriching. But to reach that one has to be familiar with the platform to navigate away from the algorithm and also be looking for it. The idea that TikTok throws in only the entertaining content for selected topics at the get go says a lot of the culture its promoting and encouraging.
I did this too (twice, once before LLMs and once after). It was fun both times, but soon spammers switched to automated responses (prewritten in the former, LLMs in the latter), so in the end I was just increasing OpenAI's revenues.
I've started to think the solution to burnout is to just up and quit your job wherever anyone tries to force you to do anything without a good explanation.

This is obviously not something everyone can do, but if you can, maybe it's worth it.
No it's not. Nowhere in the ePrivacy Directive do they specify anything about first- vs third-party data.
It only opens the terminal by default. The key binding is to use the same shortcut to focus back to the editor.
Ansible looks like a default choose for this use case but for my personal server (running in a VM) I'm planning to migrate away from Ansible and try puppet. I tried to use Ansible for a few years and abandoned it because it was too tedious to maintain configuration in Ansible. Puppet of course also requires time but if feels so much easier, mainly because it has ruby-like DSL (not YAML).
Personal data (while being what GDPR uses) is not as precise. Key is "identifiable".

For example "likes french fries" is "personal data" in the general sense but not gdpr since it is not identifiable since you cant figure out who it is talking about. Your name, address, etc is identifiable because it can be tied to a physical person.
He links to an overview of national implementations: https://matomo.org/faq/general/eprivacy-directive-national-i...
Same. The broken back navigation needs more attention. Upvote here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/75889
The "definitely not heavily lobbied" loophole that lets EU claim good press for most of the law while leaving the backdoor wide open
Yeah, I'm simplifying a bit. It may not cause an immediate exit, but it can leave the service broken in unpredictable ways. See this discussion for instance: https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/go-http-handlers-panic-and-dead...
They have been for years:

https://thespamchronicles.stavros.io/welcome/
> Yes, this is awful and something the default should've changed

> years ago instead of continuing this massive collective time waste.

This doesn't seem feasible, because that would go against the culture and long-term practice of doing things. That's why approach of "starting from scratch and doing it right without the baggage" like Helix's works so much better.
Nope. It's not the first time I've seen this happen. And I think it might even be against the guidelines to imply it ever does. If it was flagged the normal way, there would at least have been a 'flagged' designation on the post, whereas this one was done silently, but by who?

Edit: Oh wait. It has since been flagged. Must have been too political or something, because we all know the tech scene is especially apolitical right now.
Internet Archive Has a Ham Radio Archivist (DLARC)
That's an hour and 20 minutes they'll never get back, for yet another ai slop turd.
Laws no longer matter.

Our new president is a felon, after all.
There's value in making the "hot lead" signal useless, though.
Society pays the consequences either directly from government or the impact the kids have on everyone else that has to live with adults that discovered porn as a kid before they could understand it.

Kids that discovered porn at an early age will not understand how to process it properly and this will impact their relationships in the future. It is their future partners that suffer along with the kids and family.
Sadly that isn't true: it requires a server to be running to receive message content from the phone app, run inference using the LLM and send back responses. All of that requires electrical power and maintenance at the very least.

In this always connected, SaaS-dominated world, it saddens me that all too often people marginalize the cost of keeping all that infrastructure up and running.
And they are ironing their stuff on their own in their hotel room? Isn’t there a service for that?
Apple has that with their Hide My Email service (included in the iCloud+ subscription at $0.99/month). It nudges you to create a new alias on every form that contains an email field.

The good part is the that aliases are inconspicuous @icloud.com email addresses that don't follow a specific pattern and are thus:

1) Accepted everywhere (contrary to custom domains — which I also have).

2) Are pretty much impossible to detect ahead of time.

————

For illustrative purposes I just clicked several times on the generate new Hide My Email button and it returned those:

pie.tall9x@icloud.com

drivels_eras4x@icloud.com

showier.sizzle-7y@icloud.com

I have around 160 aliases so far, I'm not sure what the limit is (if there is one).