skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps the process of cryptanalysis is of limited interest to the reader of a novel because the process of Sigint – interception, analysis, cryptanalysis – is analogous (though less interesting) to having somebody physically steal a copy of the message.

Active adversarial SIGINT fits the analogy of "stealing a copy of a message", sure.

Passive mass SIGINT is something entirely different, though. It's hard to even come up with an analogy that doesn't invoke some kind of magic.

Imagine, for example, if paper mail were exchanged using locked safes instead of paper envelopes — safes that all have thousand-digit combinations that nobody's going to ever brute-force. But, deep within USPS, there exists a machine that can clone these safes, without opening them — a very literal black-box operation. USPS takes these cloned safes and stores them all in a warehouse. And then, one day, the NSA manages to figure out a vulnerability in the manufacture of one model of safe, that allows them to crack open all of that type of safe. So, suddenly, they have access to millions of pieces of mail people have sent over years/decades.

See? This analogy isn't even helpful. Can someone come up with something better?
>IPFS over some type of dark net protocol?

Silk Road is a good example of what will happen. Some media mogul will eventually cajole the government into acting. The government will go to the NSA, find the true identities of those responsible, then cook up nonsense about how they gave away their identities due to some weird Stack Overflow question no one could ever notice. The US Attorney will prosecute, and claim that it's a felony because of economic benefit, even if no money was exchanged. The culprits will end up in supermax. They can't afford to do this to everyone, obviously, but they'll pick up to 100 or so of a mix of the worst offenders and the most casual users, to "set an example". The media will publicize it to the point of absurdity so the message sinks in.
It doesnt need to be sustained at the level Google is pushing it.
Development could slow down considerably and it wouldnt harm anything, in fact it would do just what the DoJ wants and make it a fairer playing field for other browsers to catch up and compete.
Now, now iraq and syria were pretty big defeats too. Red lines over which third world dictators stepoed pretty invurnerable.
A lot of this stuff doesn't seem like it was added through any genuine observation of people's needs, but because automakers just want to stick a computer in everything possible so they can charge more for it. I am not looking forward to the day our classic Toyota pickup finally dies, and I finally have to deal with all this fragile, fidgety stuff the newer cars seem to be infested with. Fortunately, these older trucks are basically bulletproof, so I am likely to have a good while yet.
Senator Ron Wyden on why the internet still needs Section 230
The AGI piece from Ezra was frustrating, to the extent that after listening to him talk about technology in this podcast, it made me question the quality of his knowledge in domains I know far less about.
:-)

I was aiming for juuuust subtle enough for the joke to land, if you know the reference. Now I know it did, here the rest of y'all go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich
That is one of the tactics that the DOJ was going after (at least previously, not sure any more).
You have to wonder if Google didn't somehow maneuver the DOJ into telling them to do something that's going to result in higher costs and user inconvenience, as opposed to something effective like you've proposed here.

On the other hand, Google would argue that Doubleclick is Google, and everything else Google does is just to create channels for ads, and acquire data for ad targeting and pricing.
And is that wage growth consistent across all quintiles of earners?

Or is it primarily concentrated in the upper quintiles?

(I actually genuinely do not know the answer to this offhand.)
-2?

I see DOGE/Musk fanbois frequent Hacker News.
No one needs to "prove" an obvious correlation. Why do people have such a hard time spotting root causes? The root cause here is obviously testosterone levels. There will be a precise correlation if anyone were to bother to check.
>Target day funds exist for a reason.

Yes - to make a lot of money on the expense ratio.

I guess if you really didn't want to learn a damn thing about modern portfolio construction a taget date fund is your best bet. However, it is incredibly easy to buy 4-6 ETFs that give you the same thing at a lower cost. Yes, you have to do a little work to re-balance these funds, but that is also an advantage to this approach as you have control over the re-balancing and can do it in a way that is more tailored to your specific situation.

I highly recommend the Risk Parity Radio podcast.
Read/write permissions are necessary to effectively block ads. There's a lot of sites that will throw up a screen saying "please turn off your adblocker" and refuse to let you view the page if they detect ads aren't being loaded. Read/write permissions allows uBlock Origin to inject scripts into the page to fool the anti-adblock scripts into thinking that ads are being served.
hotmail, yahoo mail, etc. were also free when google started gmail. gmail won because it was just way better, and it has changed very little in terms of its value proposition in all that time.
> Is it possible that wall streets economic interests were not aligned with the interests of U.S citizens?

Yes

but current administration and policy is terrible for almost everyone. Globalization has in general benefited poor and rich countries very broadly while hurting a few workers in certain industries. Trying to reverse that is largely futile and will double down on the bad sides of protectionism while not doing much to "bring back" jobs that moved abroad or became more automated.
Non-bullies don't want their unborn children to experience the same shit that they did. I wasn't bullied, and I think the exact same way and have no kids, btw.
> We drove cars for a long time without seat belts and air bags, too.

And if we were having problems with seatbelt jammers, everyone would instantly respond by just not using seatbelts in those areas. There would be no road closures and no trip cancellations. What are we supposed to learn from this analogy?
dang for president!
Oh I just got it, that was funny
This is absolutely terrible news. It's been pretty clear this was coming, and I think fairly clear that this is part of a very high-level strategy for Google. They've been investing heavily in all aspects of this for years now, on the client and server side. It reeks of enshittification to me, but more than that I think we're just about to enter the era of locked/closed tech. A Youtube without DRM does almost feel like an anachronism when you consider the rest of the landscape. Most people willingly buy devices that severely limit what they can do, so I'm not expecting any real pushback from consumers either. Those of us who really care about this will probably just find ourselves faced with a choice: digitally divide (and deprive) ourselves for our principles, or be forcefully shoved into the same box as the lowest common denominator users.

Assuming non-evil motivations on the G executives part, I do wonder if AI was the final straw here. In order to build their "moat" on Gemini they need to make it so data collectors can't get to Youtube videos. Only "real" way to ensure that is to DRM things. X/Twitter, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and many others have taken steps as well for similar reasons. I'm sure it's something they wanted to do anyway so maybe AI is more an excuse than a reason, but it's surely not nothing.
Why? Google develops ad-supported software, they run their own ad placement service for it, and they allow others to use that service to run ads on their own sites. I think there's a bit of a conflict of interest between running the website ranking service and running an ad service that ranked websites can choose to use, but that's minor compared to also controlling the browsing platform.

If Google started ranking sites that use AdSense higher than other sites, you could probably prove that in court fairly easily — your lawyers would make them hand over their ranking code during discovery, and it would say `if (usesAdSense) score++`, and you'd win.

But if they made (are making) subtle web platform changes via their control of the browsing platform that hurt competitors and help Google, that's extremely difficult to prove. Look at third-party cookies, for example.
From the Reuters article:

A source in the internet infrastructure industry said X had been hit by several waves of denial of service beginning around 9:45 UTC.

Although CNN insisted on adding this skeptical note.

Musk has a history of attributing technical snafus to cyberattacks. When his conversation with Donald Trump on X started 42 minutes late in August 2024, he said there was a “probability” of an attack.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/tech/elon-musk-x-outages/inde...

The weird thing is the report says the outage is hitting "nearly 12,000 users". I've seen other numbers, but X.com has something like 240 million daily users. So that's an outage for just 0.0125% of all X users...
It's not about you being able to do whatever you want on your machine. It's extension authors being able to. Malicious Chrome extensions are a huge problem.
A number of machine vision camera vendors have higher-end variants that support active EF-mount lenses. They tend to be quite expensive models with larger sensor, since you tend to lose a lot adapting full-frame lenses to tiny C-mount sensors.

If you want a computer-controlled lens, one of the cheapest options is to use Blackmagic cameras that support SDI and/or USB control. You can then control either native M4/3 active lenses (focus, aperture, zoom) or supported EF-mount lenses if you use one of the EF->M4/3 active adapters.
Why would browsers turn to "shit"? The web platform is quite capable these days.

I think Chrome on Android is already pretty "shit" these days, because it doesn't support ad blocking at all.
Vertical integration. Redfin will funnel purchase mortgage deal flow from their real estate transactions to Rocket, and Rocket financial professionals will pair potential real estate clients with Redfin agents.

https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/deta...
> How were those punitive as opposed to not? Should they have not sued at all and just let the infringers continue?

In Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, they tried to sue for more money than existed on earth. I'm not saying they didn't have a case against individual cases of infringement, but it was quite clear what they were doing while they were doing it. The goal was always to intimidate would-be pirates with high-profile cases about grandmas and teenagers losing the family house because they downloaded an MP3 off Kazaa. The damages the RIAA sought from these people were completely disproportionate to the actual financial losses they demonstrated, to the point of being unconscionable. It's notable that they eventually abandoned this strategy by the end of the 2000s as public opinion began turning against them.

Weird Al wrote a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY
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Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing for a $4T debt ceiling increase and $4.5T in tax cuts. Talk about handouts!
Microsoft have always made a point that they can never compete with Google on price of office apps, therefore they try to compete on service, support, and included bells and whistles. This is why when you buy an O365 license you basically get anything Microsoft has ever developed thrown in with it.

Office is Microsofts bread and butter, for Google its a side project that disrupts Microsofts business model.
Agreed, and good reminder that a lot of people here have probably only learned about the dot-com crash from comments and history. I remember when Cisco had a P/E in the hundreds during that era. People have forgotten just how stratospheric some of those valuations were back then.

I hate to say "this time is different", but it really doesn't feel the same way, at least in public equities. nvidia has a high stock price, but they also have a P/E of ~36. Meanwhile, modern Cisco is ~27.

There might be some parallels though. OpenAI as modern Netscape might not be that far off.
How about we raise some money and buy Chrome for the users? First order of business will be removing all privacy invading "features" and re-enabling Manifest V2. If somehow we'll have some cash left, we might even contract Igalia to build blocker right into browser.
>Does Musk even want to be CEO anymore? He hasn't seemed to care about Tesla ever since he had to settle with the SEC

He recently got a contract with the State Department for 400 million to make armored Cybertrucks so he is still involved with Tesla. Musk wants to do whatever he wants without other people saying whether he can or can't. Every agency on his DOGE hit list was an agency that was investigating him. I'm sure he wants to be involved with SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla but these pesky things called regulations and investigations keep getting in his way so he has decided to tear it all down.
Hellworld.
The US stock market has been an outlier for the last 150 years. Predicting that the US stock market will be an outlier for the next 150 years seems unlikely. A better predictor is likely global stock market performance, which leads to a much less rosy prediction.
just pay $10 million to have a sit with him and all your troubles disappear
This is a Trump policy I can get behind. Do you know how large the endowments of certain private colleges (ahem HYP) are????
I would like to know this, too. It does not seem to be on the list of features unless they are referring to it via "cosmetic filtering". I often block particular elements on websites.
I agree that's what the laws are supposed to go after, but forced sale or divestment seems like the wrong remedy here.

Force Google to charge money for the service, or to pay a portion of imputed stolen revenue to competitors. But Chrome itself is not a viable business without the huge fountain of money that is search ads.
And they are going to also experience "inconveniences" for random bullying.

Ignoring what a bully does has predictable consequences.
Will this kill extensions like Vinegar for Safari?
> Over the lifetime of a dryer, 100% line drying could save a household upwards of $2,100. That would also cut back CO2 emissions by more than 3 tons per household over the same time. Though the contrast between dryers and line drying is stark, it’s not surprising, the researchers said.

Sad to say, I know people who've spent well over $2,100 on the dryer itself. (Initial purchase, then repairs.)
I have an electric clothes dryer in my apartment, but growing up my family always had natural gas-powered dryers. Even when my parents added a washer/dryer to their bathroom, they ran a new gas line for it.
What a great time to enter the market!!
I can't see the article without buying it (nope) but my first "hm, I wonder..." would be to see if they adjusted for education, income level, and parents' income level.

This might just be saying something like "bullies don't excel in school", given what we already know about socioeconomic demographic trends WRT fertility. With the wrong study design they could even get this result if bullies have lower fertility than some SES sub-group they also tend to be a part of. One would suppose they adjusted for that, but sometimes papers make it out with some really weird oversights.
That's the name of the exercises in Mark Kistler's [1] Draw Squad (1988), too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kistler
You have just confessed to a federal felony under 17 U.S.C. section 1201, punishable by up to five years in prison. Breaking DRM, no matter how weak, is in and of itself a crime, separate from copyright infringement, unless it falls within one of the specific enumerated exceptions set forth by the Librarian of Congress, listed here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/28/2024-24...

> But now, how exactly do I get DRM-free movies while also paying for them?

"That's the neat thing -- you don't."

Part of the point of copyright is that the copyright owner solely determines whether and how their work gets distributed or exhibited. If they want to make it available exclusively through streaming, so be it. If they want never to release a movie again (see: Song of the South), so be it. You don't have the right to have your own copy of a movie, nor even to see it more than once. You can do these things only inasmuch as the copyright owners allow you to.
WaPo columnist quits and accuses publisher of killing op-ed critical of Bezos
More than half of the maintenance costs on my vehicle over the past decade have been components that aren't ICE-specific.
Whats weird is that nobody has tried to sell browsers for a very long time. It's not like they gave away Chrome to drive some other browser out of the market.

They developed Chrome because their business was web based and they wanted a solid platform for their apps.

And we all benefited from that stable platform. And it's mostly open source in Chromium. And they are paying Mozilla to stay in the game - an arms length, independent implementation of standards.

I think its wrong to suggest what they should have done is build an entire walled garden like Apple has done.

Update: I think the important part of your statement was "too keep out competition." I don't see how developing and giving away Chrome is stifling the browser market.

I can see how paying other people to make Google search default might stifling the search market, but that has nothing to do with Chrome.
True, let’s simplify. The people who have a say are higher up managers who have been granted that power by the owners.
Elon Musk claims X being targeted in 'massive cyberattack' as service goes down
It sounds odd to have the staff perform maintenance work at the warmest temperature of the day, not to mention the period of time where the demand is also high. Imagine a subway that is closed in the early afternoon for maintenance, people would be stranded and businesses would be outraged.

Reading between the lines, the parks' real audience may be office workers who are employed during this time, and the parks are closed to keep everyone (undeserving) out so that they are nicer for those people. But I'm not part of this culture.
Breakthrough on Kakeya Problem: Sticky Kakeya Conjecture Proven in 3 Dimensions (2022)
Well said. It also wasn't worse in any way. It was strictly better.

Firefox is definitely better than Chrome in some ways, but it is also worse in others. Notably performance and integration with Google's password manager.
Yeah, I use Chromium for anything Google made, and FF for everything else. Google makes sure that their pages work sloooowly on Firefox (e.g. Google Earth). No such problems elsewhere.
Also, quite a few lease agreements I have had place restrictions on it.
Reinforcement Learning Tips and Tricks
A Browser with 65% share of the worlds web access can be leveraged to do a lot of things.
I don’t think you are the hero in this story. Pretty terrible behavior.
It took until reading your comment for me to realize I was misreading it as well
There are a fair number of us not worried about the drop in our portfolio as much as we are worried that the current decisions will decrease the world's willingness to invest in American companies and markets permanently.

What if your hypothesis is that the fundamentals have changed?
Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about their stalling phone, tablet and laptop revenues, that they hope to compensate with "services" revenue, i.e. App Store 30% racketeering and App Store search ads?
>Although I actually preferred the tapered design of the M1.

Same, also greatly preferred its heatsink vs the redesign which doesn't seem to handle the M2/M3 nearly as well.
> Yes, there was a small amount of money pumped into the consumer economy ($2000/household).

Covid caused us to print $13 - $16 trillion dollars.

That's more money than every war the US has ever participated in combined.
They may not want to imply that didder's linearized rabbit is wrong, but I'm comfortable saying so. It's not just a little dark, it's way dark, to the point of hiding detail.

The linearized RGB palette is similarly awful. It clobbers a whole swath of colors, rendering them as nearly black. Purples are particularly brutalized. Yellows disappeared and became white.

On my phone, the middle palette doesn't appear too bright to my eyes, either.

Even the linearized gradient looks worse, .

Maybe linear is not best for perceptual accuracy.
Basically Thats the plan, to replace everything with Grok.
So everyone and everyone's information will be under one roof.
Just like the social system in china, but with a mildly psychotic bipolar Ai.
Musk blames 'massive cyberattack' for X outage
This removal can be bypassed until June (edit: or possibly even August) by changing some flags or setting enterprise policies: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1itw1bz/end_o...
My guess is this may go to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Linux Foundation, or other industry consortium, since Chromium is already an industry standard and that structure would enable Google et al to continue to directly employ the developer teams currently working on it.
They are a few warts like this with core/apps controllers. Nothing unfixable within general k8s design imho but unfortunately most of the community have moved on to newer shinier things
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That would also mean you avoid any extension that would have been able to (ab)use webRequestBlocking, so removing it wouldn't have increased security.
We retired our family 11-inch Air last year. Awesome little laptop but it just kept feeling slower and slower. Replaced with a M2 MacBook Air.