skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally agree on the publicly available case. Several benefits, probably a couple downsides.

- People are more aware the data's available. Most people are probably minimally aware of how much they're actually being recorded all the time. It occurs occasionally on the news, yet most likely never really consider it much unless they're the subject of constant camera monitoring.

- Anybody can check anybody, and with extremely open data archives, then everybody also knows when other people check. "This many people clicked on your account" or something similar, just with surveillance footage. Like usual, police / FBI / spooks / ect... probably just write laws to legalize not telling you and that entitled people don't have to follow those guidelines. Theory's nice though.

- Data's already there and being used, yet, currently, only the police have the data, and you never know what it's being used for unless you ask. Even then you may get a wall of legal issues to ensure you're not allowed to find out. Or you have to lawyer up and pay expensive fees to fight the legal wall.

- Data can be used for other purposes. Anonymized statistics on usage of municipal resources, infrastructure, high traffic areas, crime area behaviors. Amazing what you can find even just cruising around on Google Street View in areas known for high crime. "Damn, just saw somebody pull a gun on the street car. Duck Google driver!"

- Adds to other sources like people's webcams, government satellites, sensor stations for things like weather updates and verification of events / conditions in other areas. Amazing how difficult it's become in the era of fake images to tell whether anything is "actually" happening in some distant location.

- Partially deals with the "Who watches the Watchmen issue." The other Watchmen. Crowd sourced observation and journalism has already shown on numerous occasions that it's often more responsive, and frequently fair, than a lot of the paid corporate journalism. Ukraine was a case where the crowd source journalism and data analysis was so much better than anything the news was showing, it was like every Wiki editor was down on the ground following troop movements. Barely get the mainline news to show anything other than stock footage.

Downsides:

- Obviously stalking. Although with notices about people checking your data frequently, there's at least some push back against the stalking.

- Profiling. However, this probably already gets done by the police anyways. Dark skin areas, "ethnic" areas, ect...

- Data's there, somebody will probably find an "app" that does something miserable with the data. Too little faith in humanity to believe they'll do almost anything else after LLMs and image gen.
How many packages will work without NSBullshit though?
If all you need is the terminal than windows is definitely getting in your way, WSL is a worse experience. Plus you still have to put up with candy crush in your start menu, Cortana annoying the hell out of you, and the taskbar giving you unwanted updates on the latest news from the Kardashians.
> For example, you can't name the exact time that day becomes night, but it doesn't follow that there is no distinction.

There is actually a very detailed set of definitions of the multiple stages of twilight, including the last one which defines the onset of what everyone would agree is "night".

The fact that a phenomena shows a continuum by some metric does not mean that it is not possible to identify and label points along that continuum and attach meaning to them.
I have been guilty of this. I will sometimes use MST when I should use MDT due to muscle memory. And if I say MT it could be ambiguous when you consider Arizona (which doesn’t observe daylight savings).

I will not write “X city local time” though, I will take the extra time to make sure my timezone is correct.
None of that is solar roofs. That product never worked. It's nearly all batteries. The Solar City was worthless and it hasn't improved.
Ever?

In 2019: "Because of that, you’re not paying for those tariffs. China’s paying for those tariffs,” the president said, hours after announcing the new set of tariffs on Chinese goods. “Until such time as there is a deal, we will be taxing the hell out of China.”" - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-slaps-10-perc...

In 2024 - "I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country." - https://x.com/acyn/status/1827139464906600538
We do not. A banking company recently applied for a banking license to provide full reserve banking ('narrow banking') and their license denied. The government makes it illegal to make a bank immune to failure when they contract supply.

>was a huge contributor to the great depression.

... the great depression happened under a central bank system, within 15 or 20 years of this industry becoming far more regulated.
Well, again, that is not completely straightforward - what exactly is a "persisted object"? We have two things here that are usually called entities:

1. The domain entities, which are normally represented as native objects in our codebase. They have no idea whether they need to be persisted and how.

2. The database entities, which are - in RDBs at least - represented by tables.

It is not uncommon that our entities of the first type can easily be mapped 1:1 to our entities of the second type - but that is far from guaranteed. Even if this is the case, the entities will be different because of the differences between the two "worlds": for example, Python's integer type doesn't have a direct equivalent in, say, PostgreSQL (it has to be converted into smallint, integer, bigint or numeric).

In my "correction" above I was talking about the domain entities, and my phrasing that they "need database access" is not fully correct; it should have been "need to be persisted", to be pedantic.
Show HN: Multi UPS SNMP based shutdown
How to doc recommends using Oracle Free Tier but they recently had a breach and leaked login server data https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-custom...
> I mean, these people apparently have a university degree. I don't believe they don't know what a tarriff is. But how can you be comfortable saying such stupid shit in front of a world audience?

It's simple. The way democracy works is that if you get 51% of votes (or something like that), you have absolute power. This means that the most effective strategy to "win" is to find some social group that happens to be 51% of the whole society, and focus on them. Actually, you don't need that. You need 51% of votes, not nation-wide support, so if your social group happens to vote more actively than the rest, you can win the election despite having minority support. Or you can use quirks of the voting system (gerrymandering, electoral college, etc.) to your advantage.

And guess what social group is at least 51% of the whole society, easy to control, and won't mind you wrecking the country? Stupid and poor people combined. Stupid people are the majority and can be easily manipulated. Poor people can't lose anything, so they're willing to vote for any change whatsoever. By convincing the majority of stupid and poor people to vote for you, which is easy as long as you forgo your personal honor, you're pretty much guaranteed to win.

The bottom line is, when a politician says something that isn't logical, it's not because they're uneducated, it's because their target audience isn't expecting logical arguments, but rather emotional ones. They're not addressing an intelligent conversation partner, they're addressing an elderly with dementia. There are seven million boomers with Alzheimer's in the US. And 1,5 million college teachers. It makes zero sense to focus on the latter group, if the former group is four times larger. That's an extreme example, but it illustrates the point.

Source: this is how the "gays spread ADHD and 5G" party won election in my country. The good news is that after eight years they lost the majority in the parliament, but they still remain a monument to the monumental collective stupidity of my nation.
Irony: the first Bitcoin block has a link to an article about the bank bailouts, highlighting how it was created to be an alternative.

What started as an attempt to get away from the worst kinds of financial capitalism turned into an absurdist parody of it.

A take away of mine from the whole saga is: it’s actually very hard to get money to do useful things.

Money “wants” to scam, pump and dump, and most of all to gamble. A casino is what every financial system “wants” to become. Take away the regulations and rules and casinos is all you get.

I feel like a loose analogy can be made with trying to build a heat engine, to get energy that “wants” to just dissipate into entropy to do useful work.

Maybe there’s some kind of weird connection there. Useful investments are a lot harder — meaning less thermodynamically favorable, less likely to exist, lower entropy — than scams and bullshit and gambling. If money has an easy way to flow why would it take the hard way?
A single anecdote does not summarize the current state of the country. Assuming that something as complex as the state of a country can be summarized in any rational way.
Apprise is awesome.
The problem I see with TURN is there's basically no way to prevent people from abusing it publicly for relaying any traffic they want, without any of your own web sites or WebRTC apps involved.
relatively cheap event space and hotels. it's hard to find a city to host a large conference.
It will never be. I don't know why people keep trying to make it into a research scientist. It's a great helper but it has no original insight and breakthroughs happen through original insight.
LLMs are simply a conditional probability net of existing data so it can never ever have an original insight. I don't know why this is so hard.
What do you mean "no limitation to lawful orders"? That's what "according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice" means. Article 92 is pretty explicit about what constitutes a lawful order.
The "fair price" standard and ruling is about both the process and the price. And the standard is likely not what most people would assume it to be, particularly as stated by the OP, resting on matters such as "was and is the transaction synergistic to Tesla?" It's also notable that the court found several process flaws created by Musk but ultimately determined the Tesla board was independent enough that it was likely fair.

Was it actually fair as evaluated by any outsider on first principles? Probably not. Was it criminally unfair? No.
Real, I feel the exact same way.
According to existing Supreme Court precedent, the president isn't able to impound funds which had been allotted by Congress (line item veto) [1], or fire the head of an independent agency for reasons other than allowed by Congress [2], it doesn't really seem like precedent has much weight amongst those in power today.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/524/417/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey%27s_Executor_v._Unite...
I don't think it was suppressed by a "a cabal of moderator/admins". I think it was flagged by regular HN users who think you're a dicknose[^1][^2].

Regardless, none of us can tell you for sure. Only dang knows. Why don't you ask him?

[^1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/08/ill-tempered

[^2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019147
Weakness in the linked devices security model. And so by extension, tools like "beeper"

If you don't link devices and check there are no linked devices your side of things is OK but you have no certainty in group chats or the other side one on one. So it's down to your own trust in the other party/parties.

"Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead"
Is it your contention that a tiger may be the same thing as a brain state?

It would seem to me that any coherent philosophy of mind must accept their being different as a datum; or conversely, any that implied their not being different would have to be false.

EDIT: my position has been held -- even taken as axiomatic -- by the vast majority of philosophers, from the pre-Socratics onwards, and into the 20th century. So it's not some idiosyncratic minority position.
I had this problem as well. "Luckily" for me, the Android work profile on my phone seems to bypass do not disturb settings.
Basic authentication is covered in Section 11[0]

There are more thoughts on tightening up authentication in the last section "Tightening and tidying"

Apologies if I have misunderstood your comment

[0]https://github.com/lvidgen/WebRTC/blob/master/FOSS_TURN_Serv...
Exploiting exposed Portainer agent and using new SSH persistence
A interesting analyze of a intrusion capability, that seems to use the wrong conclusion:

> What is really important (and documented)6 is that this registration does not persist across reboots of the portainer agent. This effectively means that a portainer agent with its port 9001 exposed may be taken over after a reboot if an attacker connects before the legitimate Portainer server.

What the documentation really states:

> For security reasons, the Edge server UI will shutdown after 15 minutes if no key has been specified. The agent will require a restart in order to access the Edge UI again.

In other words, if a user installs the Edge Agent and does not connect to it, it will shutdown after 15 minutes. And if a serve or the docker agent restarts, it will again be exposed for 15 minutes.

In non-agent mode, the agent will use a digital signature or secret for communication.

If it was registered, it does not lose its persistent registration on a reboot (of the portainer agent). Author seems to have mixed up a few things.

Yes, if you install the portainer agent and never register it, its exposed for a while and IF you reboot your server/docker agent, it will again be exposed (for a while). But its not exposed if properly registered and rebooted server/agent.

For the rest, interesting article over the infection.
> cut at a more or less arbitrary point

Cut literally - I worked on a student newspaper (with professional phototypesetting gear, comparable to the city papers - AKI Ultrasystem) and second-tier "filler" content was just set in a single long column, then pasted up on the layout boards (hot wax as the adhesive) and then trimmed when it ran out of space (with an x-acto blade.) Reading that class of content was kind of optional for the layout editor, at least at 10:30pm when trying to get the boards out the door for an 11pm press deadline...
Big fat warning that there is absolutely no proof of why they were banned, the title is very misleading.
Oh yeah. A classic awesome site. I read once that the authors of both The Expanse and For All Mankind have cited that site as a source. Probably other hard SF too.
You won't spend a cent but it'll cost you more than a dollar. Spend time with people in their day-to-day life intentionally. That's truly a gift that can impact anyone not just people with low income. It might just change you, too. You won't be able to do with many people, but do it with a few.
> But you can't copyright the actual AI-gen pictures,

The US Copyright Office has, in fact, granted at least one copyright registration for an image created with the use of AI generation.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/invoke-snags-first-ai-imag...
You gave a strong example of the stick figures working better than generic AI art. Ironically, the AI image was necessary to drive home the point. That AI stock “photo” is just plain boring, even in contrast to stick figures on a plain white background. Those two images are worth an infinity of words that most anti-AI art people would rant about human creativity or whatever.
Chris Titus and many volunteers have created an open script powershell application that allows modification of most aspects of windows complete with popup help, references, forums, etc.

The "MicroWin" tab allows users to create their own Windows Install disk image version from the official releases .. giving you the reusable install disk of your choosing .. w/out microsoft accounts, telemetry, etc.

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://christitus.com/windows-utility-improved/
The only issue here is that companies need certainty the tariffs will be around for a while before they would take on the massive cost of on-shoring manufacturing.

Which is lacking in this current situation.
Some multiple on the last funding round (perhaps a multiple <1) would be perfectly sufficient.

Declaring my company has plans to build a Dyson sphere doesn't make it suddenly worth infinity money, and even if you believe it does, that belief won't stop the US government from seizing it.
And why is there even a desire to replace research scientists? Presumably this is the kind of job humans find meaningful and are good at. I don't understand AI as a replacement for humans instead of a smart tool for humans to make use of.
Can we get valued changed to "valued"?

I just paid my wife $2.5 million to acquire our 1999 Saturn S-Series. Absolute classic car if anyone wants to buy it. I'll sell it for a clean $3 million.
The Wire is absolutely worth the ~61 hours it'll take to watch all 5 seasons.
Bill Gates: AI will replace doctors/teachers – humans unneeded for most things
In Judea? Probably very high, some sources say up to 20% of men. It's was religious duty of every Jew to read the sacred texts and also to be able to write a Torah scroll(but most likely it was not mandatory). Father was to teach his son to write. Actually it was the initial reason for public schools, for orphans to learn read and write.
Right, so as the OP said above: half of the GD was caused by Smooth-Hawley - the implication being that the other half was caused by other things - most likely the massive bank failures. By letting banks play with crypto we seem to be trying to speed-run a new great depression.
I know that they claim their long term plan is Mars colonization and asteroid mining, but frankly I think those are lies.

It cost the Diablo cheater nothing to simply lie about this, they have no concrete plans on how to get to Mars or establish a colony, they still can't even get to the moon, with the deadlines being pushed back years at a time and getting increasingly more convoluted.

I'd be happy enough to be wrong, if we can get people on Mars in our lifetime that would be pretty cool, but Elon lies and embellishes nearly everything, and there's basically no consequence to lying or embellishing "plans" to colonize Mars.
If somebody did that to my kid, I wouldn’t be enjoying any shows there, ever. Absolute cattle.
I wouldn’t be so dismissive. Research is just a loop of hypothesis, experiments, collect data, make new hypothesis.
There’s so creativity required for scientific breakthroughs, but 99.9% percent of scientists don’t need this creativity. Just need grit and stamina.
I really did need a kick in the ass to get Linux on the last machine in my house not running it. I know people say this all the time, I have my own excuses for why I still have 1 windows machine, but it truly just isn't worth it anymore.
And they're all going to IBM's one step forward, two steps back counterpart, HCL... it's literally there in the company name I-1, B+1, M-1 = HCL
In this analogy are all the steamroller manufacturers loudly proclaiming how well it 10x the process of bulk ironing clothes?

And is a credulous executive class en masse buying into that steam roller industry marketing and the demos of a cadre of influencer vibe ironers who’ve never had to think about the longer term impacts of steam rolling clothes?
>It's not difficult. When you think about a tiger, you are not thinking about the brain state associated with said thought. A tiger is different from a brain state.
We can safely generalize, and say the content of a thought is different from its associated brain state.

Just because you are not thinking about a brain state when you think about a tiger does not mean that your thought is not a brain state.

Just because the experience of thinking about X doesn't feel like the experience of thinking about Y (or doesn't feel like the physical process Z), it doesn't logically follow that the mental event of thinking about X isn't identical to or constituted by the physical process Z. For example, seeing the color red doesn't feel like processing photons of a specific wavelength with cone cells and neural pathways, but that doesn't mean the latter isn't the physical basis of the former.

>> The correctness of a thought can be judged only by reference to its content, not to its associated state. 2+2=4 is correct, and 2+2=5 is wrong; but we know this through looking at the content of these thoughts, not through looking at the neurological state. This implies that state != content.

Just because our current method of verification focuses on content doesn't logically prove that the content isn't ultimately realized by or identical to a physical state. It only proves that analyzing the state is not our current practical method for judging mathematical correctness.

We judge if a computer program produced the correct output by looking at the output on the screen (content), not usually by analyzing the exact pattern of voltages in the transistors (state). This doesn't mean the output isn't ultimately produced by, and dependent upon, those physical states. Our method of verification doesn't negate the underlying physical reality.

When you evaluate "2+2=4", your brain is undergoing a sequence of states that correspond to accessing the representations of "2", "+", "=", applying the learned rule (also represented physically), and arriving at the representation of "4". The process of evaluation operates on the represented content, but the entire process, including the representation of content and rules, is a physical neural process (a sequence of brain states).
Yes, but input materials are always cheaper than finished products (for any reasonably run business). Often below half the price.
The comment to which I replied and gave this recommendation mentioned Android and did not mention Apple.
I'm amazed at your experience, not sure what distros you've been using.

I've been using Linux for over 20 years. Can't remember when I had to do anything other than choose my keyboard layout, region and enter the WiFi password. 20 mins later, all installed and working.

Dual boot I agree can be awful, because for me, Windows has hosed the other operating system more than once on some update. Can't put them on the same disk together safely, but seems OK so far on separate disks.
I would be much more sympathetic to this argument if we hadn't seen Musk and the other oligarchs get away with anything and everything over the past two decades. Especially now that Musk holds a position of very considerable power in the administration, and without the approval of congress.

It seems to me that Musk may very well spend the next 4 years cutting everything he can from NASA, NOAA, the Post Office, and other federal agencies. Those capabilities will still be needed, and it is clear from the stated goals of those steering this administration [1] that they intend to steer as much as possible into private enterprises. Many of those enterprises are owned by Musk himself.

I don't know about you, but I see a major conflict of interest with one person both guiding the privatization process and profiting from it. If we do see a case where he steers federal funds from government agencies into a private company - at the cost of the ability of our government to execute critical functions without enriching Musk himself - then I have absolutely no issue with reclaiming those capabilities.

[1] https://qz.com/donald-trump-privatize-us-government-project-...
Do you really think that's what you are seeing? And Canada and Mexico?

He tariffed China in his 1st administration as well, which was a failure (and in terms of war, inconsequential).

The more obvious reason here is that it's part of the bullshit "america-first" campaign, and no further thought went into it.