skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Justice Department also kept a Biden-era proposal that seeks to ban Google from paying companies like Apple, other smartphone manufacturers and Mozilla to make its search engine the default on their phones and browsers.

RIP Firefox?
An utterly uncalled for hit piece on a much beloved piece of work (LOTR).
I despise the snot but solitary confinement should only be used for the most egregious, violent offenders. Throwing someone in the "hole" for such a minor thing is inhuman. Solitary should be outlawed.
because it can be used to effectively block Google ads and tracking
And also protesting and taunting the bootlickers who mindlessly and reflexively jump in to defend him, who are just as bad as he is. You know how white supremacists gotta stick up for each other and silence all criticism, since they're so thin skinned and sensitive to reverse discrimination for being such free speech absolutists.
> need to listen to the DB for events

You could store the key->version separately, and read the said version.
If the cached version is lower, it's a cache miss.

Of course, evicting something from cache (due to memory constraints) is a bit harder (or less efficient) in such setup.
Papers are reproducible in exactly the same way that github projects are buildable, and in both cases anything that comes fully assembled for you is already a product.

If your academic research results in immediately useful output all of the people waiting for that to happen step in and you no longer worry about employment.
He was stealing the discs. Those are actual property.
Yet another Chromium browser, you say?
> Ask any attorney: the relationship with the state is adversarial; the state is not your friend in matters of jurisprudence, it is your adversary. What kind of person gives the benefit of the doubt to their adversary? No rational person for sure. Conclusion: you either are the state (represent the state) or you're irrational.

Huh? If a someone commits unspeakable crimes against a loved one of yours and the state is mounting a case against that person, you'd view it as an adversary?
The poster asked for down sides.
> Unless he is communicating with a former co-conspiritor or otherwise in furtherance of some crime.

Assessing this is precisely why permission is required. Also victim protection, for example; a criminal recounting the crime in an interview in detail would potentially retraumatize their victims.

There are lots of reasons permission is required. I agree it’s not pleasant, and feels wrong, but there are real reasons that are not “prisoners aren’t people.”
I've been thinking about this, to get rid of feeds I need something that will allow me to find posts and videos via related keywords. I want to be able to search for information by myself, but in this time, I need to be able to do it at scale. AI Agents that do research for me is a step in the right direction. Also, I think the platforms would resist this by trying to gatekeep information by all means necessary.
How can you diff the formulas in two spreadsheet templates?
Your employer is constantly adding non-standard shit to their browser so instead of making competitive browsers others have to either burn cycles on demolishing that bs, or catch up with you. You want an example? That command and commandFor bs from a couple of days ago.
Bill Gates on the iPod (2003)
How is this legal? Also, given the difficulty some Trump appointees (Kushner) have had with getting clearances, this is of the utmost hypocrisy or clearances and security classification means very little.
Can you explain your use case? Looking at hundreds of results from a search query doesn't strike me as "finding things by accident", but I'm curious to know more.
They also probably use the roads, coffee shops, telephone network, and public parks. Shall we ban all of those as well?
For sure, I just don't see it coming out of a place of "I need to analyze my credit card statement"

Excel wasn't built out of a small personal project, it was a huge multi engineer project built on microsoft (built upon decades of spreadsheet software tradition and arguably centuries of accounting tradition), by a company that had a huge userbase that acted as stakeholders for managing the data and accounts of multi million dollar companies and small businesses alike.

I think that complex contraptions arise more from complex necessities than overengineering a solution from a simple problem
They’re already in prison, applying extra pain with no trial or anything like that is not very civilized, to the contrary.
Oh I see. I knew "lenses" existed but as you say it's a multi-step process to use them and not from the browser search bar.
If it's purely ephemeral and not replicated between instances what are you getting from redis that couldn't be done with SQLite or even a good old hashmap in a separate thread?
From all accounts, Mordor seems to be a more pleasant place, than 1916 Somme.
It's not strange. Mozilla Foundation is a non profit and Google is not.
There's really nothing very exciting except I don't want to sure the bits used to keep out bots to avoid them being gamed too easily!

The main script is ~10 key lines. If you send me contact details (eg via stuff in my bio) I could send it over to give you some ideas.
> You don't get to express gratitude toward human staff

For some people, this is a feature.

https://unbelievable-facts.com/2024/10/ichiran-the-japanese-...
> Catching panics is correct only in extremely niche scenarios.

Catching panics is correct when the panic would cause unwinding across a FFI boundary. I can't think of anywhere else where I wouldn't be very suspicious seeing a catch_unwind().
> The DOJ claimed that "copies of Spider-Man: No Way Home were downloaded tens of millions of times, with an estimated loss to the copyright owner of tens of millions of dollars."

Except those weren't prospective buyers--they were downloads, which don't have a direct 1-1 mapping. On top of that, you can only infer they were people who thought the movie was worth downloading if it was free, not that they would have purchased it at the retail price. Who's to say it wasn't downloading for convenience, i.e. to use on a plane or something, and the person hadn't already bought a license another way? The total loss was probably 10s of thousands at the most.
I honestly don't see why the cops should arrest someone that burgles an office building (say of a film producer) and not someone that gives away the content they paid to make for free. In what way is it different?
This article that I discovered because it was at the top of HN's frontpage is really telling it like it is!
That's just introducing a complex new vector for compromise without getting out of the dichotomy.

Option 1: Bob gets a credential that can be traced back to Bob; privacy fail.

Option 2: Bob gets a credential that cannot be traced back to Bob, shares it with everyone; defeats the system.

Notice also the tradeoff you're forcing for no benefit. If Bob has a unique blinded signature, even if the signer doesn't know the unblinded value, the verifier would and so Bob has to get a new signature for each use or the verifiers could correlate one use with another. But needing a new signature for each use creates a timing attack because now you can see that every time "someone" presents a signature to use a particular service, Bob had just requested a new signature.

In this context blinded signatures have only costs and no benefits over universal shared passwords.
While this isn't at all like StumbleUpon, I've been enjoying a similar sense of discovery by adding https://indieblog.page/random as a bookmark to my web browser. Whenever I have some spare time and feel like surfing the web the old-fashioned way, I click this bookmark and get a random post from an independent blog. It's definitely a refreshing and much calmer experience compared to the black-box-algorithm-driven feeds of mainstream social media.
Ah fuck.

Welp. They had a chance to be default alive and they fucked it by trying to spend the money on new initiatives instead of just spending the interest payments from an endowment.
The point is that the relative elevation difference is more similar to skyscrapers. You look down from there (or even Twin Peaks) and you are towering over sea level locations and can see extremely far on clear days.
Given his quite healthy lifestyle, I believe that we should be okay on that latter front --- I certainly hope so.
Single files can easily be versioned. Consider git, which uses blob based tracking, not file based tracking. It doesn't matter if you split file A into A and B, git tracks it just fine.
Very interested, their search tool has been good for me, just haven't been able to try the browser.
I'm with you. Every time one of these arguments come up, people talk about how Chrome is superior. I've used Firefox daily for minimum five years as a daily driver, and it's been atleast 3 years since I've had to install Chrome because some website specified that it NEEDED a Chromium based browser for something specific, I believe it was a Firmware Upgrade over USB - through the browser. I split my time between Windows and Linux equally, and Firefox is the daily driver on both.

Can someone in this thread who have swapped between Firefox/Chrome explain the problems they run into ultimately driving them back to Chrome?
I do not trust AI on my editor, I prefer to use on a separate application.
What if instead of static code our programs of the future are written/rewritten on the fly?

Imagine a simple todo application. Instead of a conditional filter on completed items the code itself changes to always and only return completed items upon request, spoken or otherwise.
All that rather pathetic grovelling and kowtowing to Trump, for naught.
Why don't you put the blame where it belongs, and tell Putin to go back to his country? Per Occam's razor that should be the simplest solution, no?

Otherwise, should Europe keep giving up territory whenever the Russians roll in?
Its funny, because once you go through the effort of determining which query fields you should compose to make your cache key, you're 95% of the way to the index you should have had in the first place.
The thing is that those needs people are trying to fulfill with social media feeds are mostly real and legitimate. The problem is to find alternate, and better, sources of fulfillment. This is something you cannot talk into existence.
If you are interested in a time-lock implementation you can use today, here is one I made some 5 years ago and still using: https://github.com/rayanamal/timelock

- Can time-lock (encrypt) in negligible time (almost instantaneosly)

- Non-parallelizable sequential algorithm

- Decrypts in constant CPU cycles (meaning CPU with 2x faster clock will decrypt 2x faster)

It can only time-lock numeric data though. It's enough for me, I'm using it to encrypt PINs and root passwords for the Screen Time restriction setups of my various devices (iPhone, Linux PC). It allows me to have unbypassable restrictions while also not having to trust a friend/relative. This concept is known as a commitment device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_device
Alec also cited this video as at least a partial motivator for his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOol5OTasw

It focuses on the harmful nature of infinitely scrolling content. Cutting out all infinite scrolling apps has had a hugely positive effect on my productivity and mental health.
Or, the charges are being dropped, a layer appointed by the judge to be a neutral advisor recommended the charges be dismissed with prejudice, and the prosecutors are on leave and being investigated for potential misconduct revealed they may have acted in bad faith:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/appointee-recommends-j...
Unreplicated MEMORY tables, prepared and cached statements, efficient DDL and sane indices, no contention or locking, no access from multiple sessions, some performance tuning of InnoDB, ample resources, DB not stressed, no difference in pure network latency.

MySQL's query optimizer/planner/parser perform a lot more "gyrations" than Redis or MemcacheDB do before finally reaching the point of touching the datastore to be read/written, even in the case of prepared statements. Their respective complexities are not really comparable.
> Do you believe his confinement was decided by one guard (selflessly)? Do I need to explain to you how organizations with rules/processes/guidelines function?

That is not what I said, and it not the most charitable interpretation of what I said either.

Of course these choices aren’t made by a single guard. But there is no evidence that in this case it was not done for reasons that were reasonable. If it comes out that it was done purely as punishment, and not to assess what the fuck had just happened, I’d agree with you.

Absent that evidence, your assumption of malice is unfounded, even if in general the prison system is corrupt and/or awful.

You can separate the forest from the trees; in fact, you must.

Sometimes, the justice system incarcerates innocent people and abuses prisoners. That’s fucking awful, and we need to fix it.

But also, sometimes, the justice system works properly and locks up actual criminals who have committed actual crimes. SBF is one such case. There is no evidence he has been abused, unlike other criminals who had been abused.

If you want to make this an argument about whether incarceration is beneficial at all, or if we should focus on better rehabilitation, I’d almost certainly agree with you, but that’s not the discussion we’re having, and it isn’t the system we have.

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> I think you are either unaware that (or do not understand why) "innocent until proven guilty" of individuals is explicitly codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (not the "Universal Declaration of Corporate Rights").

Please. I’m very aware of this. Your extremely confident belief that you are right is clouding your ability to actually see what I’m saying.

SBF is, in fact, a convicted criminal. He was considered innocent until he was, ahem, proven guilty in a court of law, by a jury of his peers. They deliberated for less than an hour, I assume because the evidence was apparently very clear.

Prisoners convicted of a crime in a court of law no longer have the presumption of innocence for that crime, by definition. Moreover, they lose many other rights, due to the fact that they are prisoners, and not general civilians.

I have no idea what point you’re trying to make, but I implore you to read what I’m saying and not what you think I’m saying.

I’m done with this conversation, mostly because the rate limiting is annoying. Have a lovely weekend.
Picking a European Public Cloud Provider
I've been thinking about an ideal "algorithm" for myself.

I read a lot of online content, from all kinds of sources. Different types of content: short-form, long-form, memes, WaPo editorials, sports, politics, tech, stuff, weird stuff, off-beat, serious, rants, opinions, facts.

The most delightful experiences I've had is when something totally random pops in from someplace. It could come from anywhere, but I've noticed that the best surprises come from places like longreads.com, which collect good writing across a diverse set topics and sources. Pretty much all social platforms do a horrible job at this, and recommend content that is so similar to content I've already consumed that the additional value of that content is extremely low, often even negative.

I think the ideal algorithm for me would be randomly suggestions after filtering out the garbage. No ads disguised as journalism, no influencer content, no clickbait, no spam, no AI slop, etc. I would jump on a platform that does this immediately. Even better, if the platform allowed me to control the knobs on what I consider to be garbage and not garbage.
Benefits of green: Lower sugar, higher in 5-HTP (potential mood enhancer, sleep enhancer, anti-anxiety). https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-794/5-htp

Benefits of brown: Sweeter, softer, better for making banana bread :) https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/recipe/baking/banana-bre...
so if it's ai created, is it copyright free?
Actually, not as much as you think. That the rule of law isn’t being followed is a real problem and is why so many citizens of the US find what’s happening right now immensely concerning and troubling.

It’s precisely the desire for the rule of law that make it so unsettling right now.
It's not a matter of should government be allowed to protect kids. They already do, that's not the discussion.

In the same way that parents can control what kids do with their devices, so can governments and they do, all the time. Through regulation they control what software companies like Google or Apple approve for kids, and they can control or subpoena data from kid apps.

>Should law enforcement be able to access messages sent to my kid? I'm going to have to say no to this one.

100% should, and 100% does, you are misinformed on what is and what should be. Thankfully you are not in charge of this decisions.
I have worked with two programmers who had well-thumbed copies of TAoCP on their shelves which each had actually read (one was the only other person I've met outside of a TeX conference who had a reward check) --- to this day, I've not worked with better devs.
HN does this for me.
Manifest v3 is not even breaking any standards. This is like saying Google should not make any changes to their browser as any forks will not be able to maintain any divergence. All forks are free to keep manifest v2. Off course maintaining a browser is expensive, but that doesn't mean Google has to foot the bill for everyone and everything.
Seeking a pardon is legal and actions in furtherance of that end are also legal as long as those actions themselves are not crimes. You are allowed to try to "get away it" in the context of legal process. Legally, seeking a pardon is no different than filing an appeal.
VR in solitary confinement isn't a Black Mirror episode. It's happening in CA
Based on my own experience as a peer reviewer and scientist, the issue is not necessarily in detecting plagiarism or fraud. It is in getting editors to care after a paper is already published.

During peer review, this could be great. It could stop a fraudulent paper before it causes any damage. But in my experience, I have never gotten a journal editor to retract an already-published paper that had obvious plagiarism in it (very obvious plagiarism in one case!). They have no incentive to do extra work after the fact with no obvious benefit to themselves. They choose to ignore it instead. I wish it wasn't true, but that has been my experience.
It was much more varied than I expected after skipping through for half an hour. I wonder if he has a favourite track?
sharing similar ideas is never stealing. Your vantage point is unique and everyone should be espousing their take on the lack of agency running our lives these days.
I'm not a drone specialist. As I understand it, you can jammed radio controlled ones under certain circumstances, and to some extent.

That doesn't apply to drones controlled by fiber optic cable.

I don't know about the most efficient modality for their destruction. Probably laser guns guided by search&destroy AI?
Great point. I'm personally trying linkblogging and following other link blogs inspired by Simon Willison [1].

The more people that do this the more we can start rebuilding networks of people we trust and still retain control over the diversity of our sources.

1: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/
Kagi has crypto now too? I thought that was just brave.
In reading the actual judgement that's not the case:

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mc...

Tucker Carlson is specifically cited as maintaining that he spoke the truth on page 5. Rather it's Fox News that argues that Tucker Carlson was stating an opinion with hyperbole for effect:

"Fox News first argues that, viewed in context, Mr. Carlson cannot be understood to have been stating facts, but instead that he was delivering an opinion using hyperbole for effect...

This “general tenor” of the show should then inform a viewer
that he is not “stating actual facts” about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary.”"

At any rate, the case is a lot more complex than just one guy claiming no one believes anything he says. Using it to justify the possibility that the interview by Tucker Carlson was not with the actual Sam Bankman-Fried by with a potential imposter or AI is absolute bonkers.
There is no foundation with the budget to even maintain a web browser, let alone keep developing. If Google is not footing the bill then Safari will become the torch bearer, and Apple has no incentive to make Safari become more capable to threaten that sweet IAP revenue.
His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors
I think a cool idea for future legislation may be to force social media companies like Youtube, Reddit, Instagram, X and Tiktok to allow users to easily disable machine learning-generated recommendations.

LinkedIn already has this feature and it's significantly reduced the amount of rage-inducing influencer hot takes that show up on my feed. You can also turn off your watch history to get far fewer recommendations on Youtube.

I still personally find LinkedIn and Youtube to be a net-negative on my mental health, but these settings have helped a lot.
Financial Fiasco (2008)
> thanks to the power of open source, everyone could've disagreed and forked KDE 3.5 to stick to the old design.

And thus was born the Trinity Desktop Environment.
International law lol. Laws don't apply to countries. Thats kind of also the reason Europe gets away with stealing Russia's assets, for now.
I think Google after around 2022 is also another phase, where it became completely unusable.
Oh! I didn't know Cloudflare had a free analytics service.

That's probably the easiest thing while not adding Google to my stack.
All of those can be serialized and stored in an RDMS. You don't need Redis for that.
Perhaps, but it’s funnier to imagine that someone is assembling a comic book-styled initiative of charismatic crooks
That's a great way to be excluded from a political conversation, pretend that the other side does not exist and that we are a strawman from a conspiracy.

How about recognizing the inevitable conflict between two priorities: kid safety and online privacy? Simple thing really.

Again, you don't need to do this, but you will be ignored and put in a kiddy table while the adults talk in the senate and in school boards.

Most schools have deep inspecting firewalls btw. Go tell them that it's an invasion onto kid's privacy, and that you should be able to speak with them without their parents or guardians snooping. See how they look at ya
They probably need your address for tax purposes. Especially the EU is really strict on charging us VAT for foreign purchases.

It does completely kill the anonymity though, I agree. It's strange that in this case they're worse than something like duck duck go. Because they don't require payment they simply have less data on you (especially confirmed data). I'm sure kagi protects it but the data you don't even have is even better protected.
They started with Orion.
Really the most useful feature in Redis to me is TTL - so easy to cache things and not worry about them being too stale. The second most useful is that you can attach something like BullMQ to it and get cron/scheduling for a couple lines of code.
He was always right-wing coded so not really a switch, but Andrew and Tristan Tate are two huge ones that did the grift and it's played out for them.
Ditto! But for me, it was the whole weekend!
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"This seems extremely authoritarian"

Yes prisons generally are like that.
I must say, you do a lot of talking for someone who doesn't intend to converse.