throwawaybutwhy

Does your employer know about your promotion of inauthentic content on a social network site not controlled by your employer?

Why are you rolling out your own crypto? Timing attacks, unvalidated inputs and no bounds checking.

> I am not a cryptographer. ... However I am fairly confident that this is at least safer than pass. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Translation: I have no experience in safe cooking. Please use my garlic oil, and my chicken salad. Feel free to prove me wrong - from the ER ward.

What is the name of the genre of name-dropping in two or three passages and leaving the reader guessing why oh why he read this blissful snippet of wisdom?

At the very least, have the audacity to talk about congestion management in more than two words.

Upvoting for visibility. Yet, why am I not surprised? In the immortal words of Claude Rains (modified): them are the usual suspects.

A literally deadly book with arsenic-laced pages. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Book_Project

Reddit (and quite possibly, a few other fora) has banned online communities that unite enthusiasts of 3D printing weapon parts.

TL;DR Stack Overflow poisons its data dump. Grifters gonna grift, it seems.

Προσδοκῶ ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν. Καὶ ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος. Ἀμήν

'nuff said.

When things like these get posted to HN, there is a plot twist... Always a plot twist.

How to optimize applications on NVIDIA GPUs

Not a fan or foe of protectionism per se yet getting books printed literally across the ocean and then shipped back on fossil fuel-guzzling container ships isn't my definition of an environmentally sound activity.

Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205 (2013, 244 comments)

No need to click.

    The song is called Subways Of Your Mind by FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in September 1984.

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2468-2667%2824... - use the source, Luke.

Number 2 user at Stack Overflow (by reputation) admits massive-scale GPT fraud and apologizes.

Hilariously ambiguous, bordering on outright devilry. Also, a bulls*t generator licenses content from a propaganda machine.

I heard about points of view similar to yours, but I don't share them.

egads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places.

Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.

A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.

Major pharma companies rely mostly on buying innovation, but do not abandon own R&D completely.

Original paper:

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/entities/publication/f42a3e9...

Previous submissions related to the same event:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786401 (0 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740994 (0 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639794 (0 comments)

An alternative to e.g. Gradio, no analytics / phoning home as far as one can see, and also deployable as WASM. Pretty nifty.

> Update #3

> If you care about your unlisted URL privacy with Cloudflare, make sure you don't have the Crawler Hints feature enabled. - A good hunt, thanks and sorry!

How about not using CloudFlare at all?

Quoting from CF's own blog [0]:

> Going forward, because the benefits are so substantial for site owners, search operators, and the environment, we plan to start defaulting Crawler Hints on for all our customers.

Which by the way directly contradicts what jgrahamc stated in this thread.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-supports-microsoft...

Not entirely correct, I'm afraid. Concentration camps were inaugurated by the Spanish and popularized by the British. Co-location of killing facilities and camps was not a common occurrence even in Germany, so there were many more concentration camps than death camps.

Was the gist generated by ChatGPT? Regardless, large language models are AI, same as Eliza the Emacs Psychoterapist was in days of yore. It's numbers in and numbers out, only much more advanced.

Are you in any way affiliated with Google?

No compatibility improvements? Sad. In my experience, LibreOffice lags an awful lot when opening Office docs; crashes in quite a few cases; doesn't render like MS Office for a vast number of documents (most tragically, PPT slides).

Google Search is not to blame for SO's decline.

Toxic deletionists are part of the problem, yes. But they are the literal dregs at the bottom of the bottle when all the good experts have left or burnt out or converted to deletionists. There's no way to find great questions that would make their talents shine.

And here we come to the next point - the company behind SO stopped investing dev time in improving the core experience. Yeah, they were also overrun by vitriolic politically motivated folks, but this is only a lateral plot line. Rearranging CSS, coming up with brand-new bug-ridden editors, concocting impossible get-rich-quick subsites parasitizing on the main site's popularity against the opinions of old-timers - here are just a few examples of brainless PM activities over the years.

As a consequence, Stack Overflow is dead. As in, still twitching from a combination of ideological / greed-fueled Cordyceps firing up random neurons. But yes, mostly dead.

So many comments doubting the validity of the claim.

Kinda fishy, but the touchstone is simple:

- Does Facebook have an IRB?

- How are experiments documented and vetted?

We did not know about Plutonium Files, either (for the record, these were the experiments where plutonium and other radioactive compounds were injected into pregnant women, prisoners, mentally disabled children etc etc).

> on the basis of mountains of backbreaking and incredibly impactful work

I can spot (maybe unintentional) ambiguity from a mile away. Whose backs were broken, and who did the work.

These devs are, quite plainly, gaming the system (I'm talking about F-Droid specifically). They have found that being on top of 'last updated' list leads to more installs, and are churning out versions.