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neuroticnews25on The Myth of Neutral Code

Ok then, my radical political ideology is "what would Linus Torvalds do".

neuroticnews25on Show HN: Firgit, tell your agents to forget stuff

I think you're onto something here! Overall it's too much tokens for me, but the forget directive sounds like an elegant solution to the real problem of agents polluting docstrings and comments with irrelevant nonsense, or the second order irrelevant nonsense about the irrelevant nonsense being irrelevant.

neuroticnews25on Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)

Flat parts of the earthen mound and the floor of the adjacent spaces were carpeted with bodies of dead ants. Locally the deposits were a few centimetres thick. (...) the number of dead Formica polyctena workers probably amounted to about two million. The cemeteries comprised also remnants of other insects, most probably those caught by foragers of the free-living upper colony that had fallen down. Of other ants, only a head of the Leptothorax sp. worker was found.

"Ah yes, that small speck of chitin among 2 million other corpses is obviously a head of the Leptothorax sp. worker."

neuroticnews25on sshole

That's a well-made site, yet I feel nothing.

neuroticnews25on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

Why she? Karthikey is a male name and the youtube streams show a male face. (Of course it's just a weak signal that can be overriden with an autor's declaration!)

neuroticnews25on Residential proxies detected on White House network

>you shouldn't just leave to door open to potentially known bad users / traffic

Why not? If security is the priority, the worst that could happen from that is clutter in logs and higher resource use. Nobody wastes 0days spraying them on random hosts, and a real motivated attacker targeting your server will not be stopped by an ip blacklist.

neuroticnews25on Show HN: HackerHack – HackerBooks but for Posts Posted on HN

An aggregator for aggregators that don't include themselves.

neuroticnews25on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

I'm not being exploited any more than I'm exploiting my employer, that's a toxic way to look at voluntary interactions of people doing their best to escape suffering and death.

neuroticnews25on I Did This Without Your Knowledge

A movie version with dialogs like this would be hilarious. I don't think it's AI, just a person who doesn't know know or care about how to write in a conventionally good way, it gave my Ayn Rand vibes.

I enjoyed reading it too, but the ending was disappointing. But not as dissapointing as most comments here.

neuroticnews25on Pillowfort Is Closing

The claim regarding username is 'i can make my username "signout" and it signs people out when they click my profile', not that it can contain <img src=/signout>, so no html injection here.

Visiting https://superlogout.com/ logs you out of gmail with a cross-site GET request and it's not considered a vulnerability by google [0]

Posts could contain a safe subset of html (no scripting) including <img> as a feature - that used to be an acceptable design choice. In connection with the /signout it did allow for some unfortunate shenanigans - the kind of bug you just add additional sanitization for and move on, nothing indicative of a below average code quality.

>If you don't want to call that an XSS, what would you like to call that?

I would call the version you described a HTML injection to CSRF, but as Dylan16807 noted apparently it does fit OWASP's wide definition of XSS: "Since then, the term has widened to include injection of basically any content." [1] But that's not what happened, there was no HTML in usernames and HTML in posts was intended.

[0] https://bughunters.google.com/learn/invalid-reports/web-plat...

[1] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Sc...

neuroticnews25on Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

>It's not blocked anywhere that much more tame sites are usually blocked

Any examples?

neuroticnews25on Pillowfort Is Closing

There's actually no proof or claim of XSS vulnerability in this bizarre article. Username url confused with special url is a common bug, I've seen it "exploited" on facebook.

neuroticnews25on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

I don't think being hacked by an anonymous entity grants much political advantage? If anything the downside is shifting the overtone window by dumping all the far right takes on the broad public and making them a bit more familiar.

neuroticnews25on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

It's a great way to watch whatever you feel like watching on whatever device, frankly I don't even know what are the alternatives.

neuroticnews25on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

>Its fictional opponent's inability to understand elementary explanations does much of the argumentative work

My reading is the inability to understand serves only as an educational device for the reader. After all, at the end of the article the only point of contention is whether or not the objective truth exists. Is your point that the postmodern types don't claim that it doesn't? Or that they're an easy target used to later claim victory against a larger group?

neuroticnews25on Fable Took My Job

There are also homeless people, not every IT guy has the wherewithal to be a trashman.

EDIT typo

neuroticnews25on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

This sounds like you're equating the defender's right to counterattack with the attacker's right to continue the attack?

neuroticnews25on Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude

This, but unironically. Why would we assume that's not possible?

neuroticnews25on Cleo (Mathematician)

It's a new technology and we're figuring out important distinctions as we go, nothing necessarily intellectually dishonest about that.

neuroticnews25on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

But isn't the wet market hypothesis equally bad looking for China?

neuroticnews25on Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

It would be way more fun if it showed by default the results for the questions I've answered instead of all the questions sorted chronologically. How could you not think of that?

neuroticnews25on Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

What about Minimax algorithm playing Tic-Tac-Toe? Is it inteligent? Is it inteligent we if we reduce the search depth so the right decision is not obvious?

neuroticnews25on Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

>A chess engine can be dropped into a board position it has never encounterd and search over possible continuations, evaluating and selecting actions based on the state it finds itself in.

Sounds pretty similar to a calculator with a numerical root-finding algorithm, if you only substitute board position it has never encounterd with a polynomial it has never encountered.

>The core of being intelligent is being able to make decisions independently

What does it mean for a deterministic algorithm to make decisions?

neuroticnews25on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

I don't disagree with your stats but the jump from "households have to work more" to "society is worse off" is a personal value judgement. Seriously would you rather spawn as a random person in the 1950s than random person now?

neuroticnews25on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

>It was a massive net loss to society

Yeah if you totally ignore the unprecedented crazy high standard of living developed over trillions of work-hours.

neuroticnews25on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

But don't you think the motivation for favouring your race/country/tribe/religion is often very similar to that of favouring your family or your friends? Maybe there are counterexamples when it's really about resentment and symbolic superiority and whatnot, but I don't think actionable definition should be based that much on intention, or purity of the heart, or how much negative thoughts you had about the discriminatee, when the outcome is the same.

neuroticnews25on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

I agree that liberals don't think all discrimination is bad. I understand they're mostly opposed to what they consider unfair bigotry, I just think you fail to define it.

>there is us, and there is them, and we want to end up with us having X and them not having it

There is your family, and different families, and you want to end up with your kid having the last icecream rather then some other guy having it.

>My objective is not to "favour my kid"

But you are favouring your kid, and it would become conflictual if someone demanded your money for his kid.

neuroticnews25on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

Yeah, if you restrict the meaning of "discrimination" and "ingroup" and "outgroup" to examples making your point obvious and true then it's obvious and true.

neuroticnews25on Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

>A discrimination is bad if the real principal objective is to favour the in-group and disfavour the out-group

Come on, the outgroup is indefinitely big and the resources are limited. You buy icecream for your kid and not for the random kid. You favour the wellbeing of human race to that of aliens. Presumably you understand the will of Sentilese people to not share the island with strangers. Does it matter whether they think "we have to do this to protect our existence" or "we fucking hate white people"?

I think if you try to define what forms of favouring the ingroup are justified and what it means for Steve to deserve X you'll end up with something like "discrimination is bad when it violates the liberal moral intuition". Don't get me wrong, I love meritocracy and the world it built, but I don't think we can navigate millenia worth of social constructs with a simple rule of thumb.

neuroticnews25on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

Comparing raw punishment rates tells you nothing, because transgression rates can vary.