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ForHackernews··on Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture
Too late: he already bought BTC
ForHackernews··on AlpineBSD
There are non-software jobs, and also paid work supporting and developing free software.

With the arrival of AI, many of us will need to career change anyway.

ForHackernews··on Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
I think the IRS already did some version of this and open sourced it https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph

There's an article about it here https://biggo.com/news/202510160717_IRS-Fact-Graph-Public-Re...

These were artifacts from the IRS Direct File program (RIP)

Maybe your project could (re)productionize this dataset.

ForHackernews··on Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel
DVD, then. Although that's sort of cheating since it's such a natural evolution from CDs -- it was clearly better than VHS and it didn't take any convincing for people to adopt them.

(you'll probably point to DIVX but that was an experiment with a terrible business model, not a technological failure)

ForHackernews··on Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel
CDs were invented jointly by Philips and Sony and then sold successfully to the public. By 1991, they had overtaken cassette tape sales

https://www.discwizards.com/index.html%3Fp=5179.html

ForHackernews··on AlpineBSD
God that would be amazing. How incredible would it be if basically all software was free?
ForHackernews··on It's now official, tech is the new tobacco
Adtech is the part that makes the money. Even OpenAI's best idea to monetize is "put ads in it"
ForHackernews··on About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
"AppleCar sometimes explodes on bumpy roads unless you manually disarm the bomb in the trunk before driving. If you do not drive on bumpy roads, you don't need to do anything. If you have disarmed the bomb, Apple Updates will automatically re-arm the bomb after every update. Please remember to manually disarm the bomb after each update."

It's right there in the article, look how proactive they're being!

ForHackernews··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Great, you have an inconvenient way to possibly-maybe see some random's gmail inbox at Starbucks.

You'd be better off just mugging them in the parking lot.

ForHackernews··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
There's no conflict: Markets can remain irrational for a long time and they can certainly place a high value on notional nothing. This piece of cardboard is worth $500,000 https://www.pokevalues.com/card/illustrator-pikachu-japanese... but at least that is rare and has a cute pokemon on it.

If a company chooses to list its stock on a blockchain instead of the NASDAQ, then, sure that could have the same value as a traditional stock assuming it confers the same rights.

ForHackernews··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Improved robotics would improve biology. Fast cheap accurate flexible pipette-bot would help in many labs. Imagine if a postdoc could demonstrate and the arm could watch and repeat.
ForHackernews··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
Again, that's not true. As a matter of law, a bank balance is a debt the bank owes to you. An NFT or a bitcoin is a row in a spreadsheet that records the exchange of notional nothings.
ForHackernews··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
I don't think stocks are tokens? Stocks are shares in a company: some fractional ownership that carries legal rights and a claim on assets.

Crypto tokens are just some meaningless entries on a blockchain.

ForHackernews··on Is my data used for model training?
Sophisticated technology experts shocked to find world's 4th largest data-ingestion machine ingesting their data.
ForHackernews··on Is my data used for model training?
"So here's how ThanosCorp isn't living up to the altruistic spirit of the ToS for their Human Extinction Project..."
ForHackernews··on PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends
FTA:

> The failed leaks highlight a broader challenge: building a generalized exploit that works reliably across PHP versions and deployment configurations is difficult. The kit’s B1 layout was calculated for the official php:8.4.26-apache image with a 128 MB memory limit. Other instances like our Roundcube honeypot ran the same PHP version from a different build, with additional extensions and a 64 MB memory limit. These differences can affect heap layout and memory reuse, potentially preventing the leak from working as expected.

It sounds like it's hard to put together a generalized write-once-run-everywhere version of the exploit, so you need a human or an expensive LLM backing each attack and trying to adjust for the particulars of that target's deployment.

ForHackernews··on PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends
Two things can be true:

1) A motivated human eager for $500 and internet cred can exploit a vuln (perhaps using AI tooling to help)

2) The vuln is not easily exploitable at scale by driveby bots.

ForHackernews··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Sue them. They'd sue you for ignoring their ToS.
ForHackernews··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Plus you'd kill a lot of people.

"You're absolutely right, that drug was lethal and that's on me. I'll add a note to check human toxicity for all compounds in the future. To verify the safe dosage, I'll administer a high dose and then check smaller doses until the patient survives — not guesswork, grounded, load-bearing experiments."

ForHackernews··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.ht...

    (10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

    (11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

    (12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.
ForHackernews··on 'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear
Self-installable plug-in solar is coming: https://www.energysage.com/news/plug-in-balcony-solar-panels...
ForHackernews··on A mathematician reads the AI future
Gravitational wave detection was another big banner experimental result, about ten years ago now https://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-detection-gravitational...

Much of the low-hanging fruit has been picked but there's still interesting experimental work happening. Just in the past few weeks LZ reported an [unconfirmed] detection of dark matter https://www.newswise.com/articles/lz-experiment-sees-surpris...

ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
> you are all claiming that Google is literally offering

OP did not say that, has clarified his intent. At this point I think you are the one willfully misinterpreting the discussion at hand, either so you can "win" at internet pedantry, or perhaps so you can feel better about the evil panopticon you have helped build.

ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Maybe your objection is to the OP, because his point was perfectly clear to me. If you want to mentally substitute "exploit" for "access" because that helps you sleep at night, that's fine.

For the rest of us, I don't see why it's supposed to be acceptable that Google hoovers up all our data, but a horrible violate when Samsung does the same thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
What would you claim that Google sells? From what does it extract value? If not its users data, then what?
ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
The OP you're mad at did make that distinction. They stipulated that Google is not literally a data broker, but they sell access to your data in the form of targeted adverts and content.

Yet here you are with the "WELL AKSHUALLY..." brigade.

Do you work in bigtech?

ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
This is a distinction without a difference to me and many others. I'm sure the adtech industry like to believe it because it lets them cope that they're the good guys, unlike those sneaky data brokers.

As a deliberately hyperbolic example: "We're not selling child slaves, we only offer a marketplace where clients can bid for the use of the labor of our child slaves."

The problem is the intrusive violation of privacy involved in building giant databases of personal information on every person on earth, not that someone-other-than-Google is doing it.

ForHackernews··on Root shell on Samsung TV
...how do you believe Google ad targeting works?
ForHackernews··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Software has not driven massive productivity gains in every industry in the last 50 years.
ForHackernews··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Fully agree with that. The problem is the AI boosters really believe in The Singularity that will transform all of human experience. If you try to tell them AI is a high-value enterprise technology -- more valuable than docker but less than the steam engine -- they get mad at you.
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