skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN: Was the internet designed to resist nuclear attacks?
Doesn't look like current internet infrastructure could survive, am I mistaken assuming this?
Tell me about it. I remember trying to write scripts for CS....5? Digitally flicking through a PDF was an absolute pain, and their "JavaScript reference" is a stretch when you could barely write any JavaScript for it. Tonnes of basic features missing from the reference meant coming up with your own extravagant way of performing basic tasks.

I don't know what it's like now, but I'm glad I don't use Photoshop anymore to worry about it
There is also an emacs package that does something similar: https://github.com/jacksonrayhamilton/context-coloring
I'm one of the authors of the bot, AMA
All of you Cryptonites say the same thing... "you choose to not understand...it's not worth arguing" I say, there never has been an issue moving money around. This is purely a solution looking for a problem to solve. Good luck sapping the world's energy supply to enrich the Winklevii.
> Otherwise, that 99% goes down dramatically because I can just steal your phone/Yubikey/whatever.

If this were true your car would probably get stolen a lot more often. You're less secure from targeted attacks from people who know you IRL but that's a lot rarer than the attacks you'll actually encounter.
US government specifies Huawei ‘detente’
The next installment of the Mad Max franchise will focus on a fearless Amazon courier driving around in the lawless postapocalyptic wasteland, delivering smart speakers and juice presses to scattered communities of ragtag survivors.
That’s not what they say when the subject of tariffs comes up. “We’ll have to pass it on to consumers”.
No one is missing out on anything important. Mostly noise. For folks with my same mindset, I do believe I've cracked the code on most social networks, as far as what makes them worthwhile at all.

Twitter- it's the police scanners. Find them for your city, it's really the best way to know what's going on around you. Better than the papers, which can't report on everything or hide stuff for business's financial interests.

Instagram- is pretty much only useful for models, whatever sort you prefer. If you like models and it brightens your day to see a beautiful woman, as it does for me, it gives Instagram a purpose other than the noise it shares with most social networks. If it makes you happy and smile, it's a good thing. No, I'm not into pornography or anything risque. Though if I were, that would probably be ok, I simply value keeping a little imagination and mystery in my life and don't watch it. Nor are the models that I follow doing it as far as I know, but that's their decision. They mostly survive off product placement and payment for additional photos. Nothing wrong with innocent modeling, just like the olden days of pin-up girls and I hope more people support them in their endeavors.

Facebook- this one is better understood by most people, hence the popularity, but it's definitely the whitepages aspect of it. I use the instant messaging more than anything, as it's difficult to have an index of your old friend's emails until you're in touch with them again. Also, people just don't keep up on emails and maintain inbox zero very well.

Youtube- this, other than RSS feeds (through Firefox's Livemarks extension) is my main source of information. I'm not into cat videos, but I certainly love learning about astrophysics and other topics from Youtubers that are more knowledgeable than I am.
It was online. The players were playing from home on their own schedules. The bot did not look at any tells (timing tells or otherwise). The players knew they were playing a bot and knew which player the bot was.
Feeding cows chicken litter is not just gross, but a public health concern
Interesting. Do you have a timeline for your prediction?
>uninstall a program they had nothing to do with from your computer without your consent.

Incorrect. Users who are vulnerable to this had already decided to uninstall Zoom and that's why it was a vulnerability. Zoom had decided to ignore the user's wishes and leave their server behind so that it could re-install the software. Apple's update simply enforces the users' past decision to uninstall the application.
Thanks for the warning, I'm around 60kg, 1.82m high. I do a lot of bike, and I'm sort of thin, for example I can join my thumb and any other finger around my wrist. You could consider someone like Hicham El Guerrouj (58/1.762 == 18.7), that 18.5 limit is not really one for some morphologies
amazing product managers often have their hands tied because of shitty higher-management, and rather than improving product they're stuck navigating the internal-political-hell.
Good point! This could be an option, but a bit later
I understand.

Not that this has anything to do with what you said specifically -- it is just sad how polarized our nation is and the folks at the extreme ends have created a dumpster fire that the media magnifies for profit.
Can you share some about what strategies the bot prefers and how these compare with common professional human strategies?
This might imply that 5 chips = 0.05 BBs, but from a different section

> There were two formats for the experiment: five humans playing with one AI at the table, and one human playing with five copies of the AI at the table. In each case, there were six players at the table with 10,000 chips at the start of each hand. The small blind was 50 chips, and the big blind was 100 chips.
Normally I'd consider this hyperbole, but if I had the means I would absolutely offer it. He's a generational talent.
"Don't forget to occasionally do that thing I mentioned in passing 2 weeks ago, under my breath, during a klaxon alarm test. Otherwise the errors will DDoS the whole cluster. See you in a week, goodluck!"

Nah - that would never happen.
The progress you have made in this research field is amazing. What do you think will be next step or where do you the the future of your research?
I have two question in my mind.

1. Are there anyone on HN knows him in real life?

2. Does anyone have other people in their mind who is in the same league as this man? Mike Pall's LuaJIT sort of make him at this level but that is only one thing. Fabrice create things that everyone are using it one way or another, and if it wasn't HEVC patents mess we would have his bpg [1] replacing jpeg.

[1] https://bellard.org/bpg/
obviously yes. we are in a trade war
Doing gods work! Kudos to whoever at Autodesk on open sourcing this.
Congrats! As soon as I saw the title I thought “I wonder if this is the project Noam works on...”
I said what I'd use it for ;)
Or they go the other way, after an initial assumption that the task was performance-critical when in fact a scripting language was perfectly capable and took 1/10 the effort to write.

https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl
Speech: The future of online advertising regulation
I suspect the availability of better public transport allowing a commute from 50/60 miles on the train which in turn allows you to buy a nicer bigger property.
Yes, they have too many cars, and also make stuff not enough durable. If you (and I) do not have any children then human population of future can be reduced hopefully; currently human population is too much but that is one way to reduce in future. There is some other way as well, I think (but, you should not just kill everyone (regardless of their species) just to reduce the population; only for self-defense or for food).
I think big tech companies are so large that they've realized that if they keep pumping $200k-$500k/yr employees into the bay area (that weren't there before):

1. Housing prices will continue to increase since the supply is not changing yet demand (and ability to pay at current prices) is increasing

2.1 Gentrification happens and existing bay area natives get more adversarial to tech companies

2.2 Existing employees experience a decrease in QOL if comp packages remain the same

3. Tech companies keep having to increase TC packages to keep their employees' abilities to purchase homes

Also by expanding into other large markets tech companies can hire people who have lots of ties to an area and don't want to move. This has an added benefit of perhaps not having to offer as much TC since these markets might be less competitive.
I'd also like to add that most people don't understand what can be done with all this data. If you start explaining even simple examples so people they think you're a conspiracy theorist, unless they're already a conspiracy theorist then they "already know". But a simple example like the story of Target mailing coupons to a house with a pregnant teenage daughter. Many people still think that's impossible or the father hard to be really dumb not to notice the girl was pregnant. As techies we look at that sorry and say "well duh, that's not even that difficult" while non techies have a hard time comprehending how that's possible. This is a huge disconnect. So I'd argue that even though some people understand that they're giving up their data that they don't understand how it can be used.

My favorite example is just waiting for someone to mention how Facebook must be listening to them because they had a conversation in private with their friend about something, say an extremely new found interest that "they've never talked about before ever". I'll explain how the process works and how we can connect certain things together, how there is proximity, and knowing social groups and structures. That while the microphone would be useful, it isn't necessary for a good guess (and that it is a guess). I think most people here would say "well duhh" but try it with your relatives, see how crazy they think you are and that it has to be a microphone.

There's a big disconnect, this is a problem.
Why did you optimize for using less cpus? Was it a happy accident or a goal?
How many people actually paid that top rate? Or was that on paper only?
FFI into C++ is a lot of work in any language. A lot of projects just define a plain C wrapper for the C++ code they want to call, and call that C code from whatever their glue language is.

However, Python does have CLIF[1], which is the nicest solution for calling into C++ that I'm aware of.

[1] https://github.com/google/clif
I like iptables fairly well, though it does take some planning to ensure it can remain speedy. In fact, the only way I could make shaping in Linux work involved using iptables to tag the packets for tc to then shape. Used that for our mirror server, among other things. Even had a fairly slick setup where our core routers would, every few seconds, report their bandwidth usage to the mirror server, which would adjust it's shaping to consume all our committed bandwidth, without interfering with customers traffic or costing us more bandwidth charges.
Google V8 Array.prototype Memory Corruption Vulnerability
The assumption is that Russia, China, Iran are less dependent on Google, Twitter, etc., in part because some of them aren't allowed to operate in those countries, in part because some of them are much less dominant in those markets. 'Us' means 'people who might care that Twitter (or whoever) is down'.
The blockchain has revolutionized the way people talk about... the blockchain.
FWIW, ubuntu python3 does not install Tk by default.
From what we’ve seen it appears many real-time bidding practices are unlawful. What we’re less sure about is whether industry players are aware that what they are doing is unlawful, or whether they do and are continuing to flout the law regardless.
Can't speak to 1, but I kind of feel like TJ Holowaychuk in the Node.js community started getting close to Fabrice's level (until he left Node). Express, Stylus, Koa, Formidable, etc...
Hospitals have IT people.
I have homeassistant running on a pc with cameras attached. Dont have a great solution for cameras, but xiaomi sensors and switches with zigbee interface works solid.
Is the source code and data available for allowing others to play against this not?
> They are.

The rest of your comment refutes this. They might pay it sometime in the future, but they are not paying it by parking it abroad.
Good, let's hope it stays down. If only we were so lucky.
If pricing is similar to other serverless offerings at AWS, then it will cost much more to run it constantly at low rates than to just run a small instance all the time. But maybe the much faster scale up would be desirable in some cases.
How the ‘Indian Oskar Schindler’ Took in 1k Polish Children During WWII
Can't exactly guarantee offer tax breaks if they are short on tax revenue, and while every government federal/local is always short Chicago/Illinois is deathly short. The tax increases have already begun and there have been weird talks coming out of the Chicago mayor's office essentially asking for a tax on the rest of the state to help out Chicago proper.
It’s worth pointing out that tmux is part of the OpenBSD project, where this would be mitigated by the replacement of sudo with doas.
It seems a bit of a coincidence, yes? Unless they are all copying each other (e.g. all using Kubernetes or what-have-you), in which case it might be less of a coincidence.
And vim apparently: https://github.com/jaxbot/semantic-highlight.vim
This article uses something that is not proven to exist—a soul—as evidence that humans can't be cloned. One could replace the word "soul" with "unicorn" here and make just as strong an argument.
https://github.com/skiplang/skip

> The Skip project concluded in 2018 and Skip is no longer under active development at Facebook.
A little bit of both. We didn't think we needed the extra computing power. And we really wanted to convey how cheap it is to make a superstrong poker AI with these latest algorithms.
Are there any ethical considerations relating to the prospect of use of this bot for cheating in real-money games? Either from your internal team or after public replication?
I have never been successful at using tc or the recipes in LARTC or other resources to set up anything more than a basic shaping setup. And even basic ones took hours of messing around to get working. Maybe that's just me?
Hey thx for sharing this. Would you mind sharing some details about deployment and cost? Would be very helpful?
I actually like visiting Manhattan but I don't think I could ever tolerate living there. I spent a summer interning in Midtown for a small consulting firm while in business school. We're admittedly talking pre-Giuliani New York in the summer with very little money but it still wore on me to the point where I pretty much decided I wasn't interested in working there.

I do, on the other hand, understand the attraction of the Bay Area given enough money although, in this case, the negative side of the balance sheet has gotten much longer and redder.

I agree with your basic point. Another reason I never seriously went after an investment banking job was that the sort of thing I was interested in was pretty much viewed as grunt stuff that techies did, i.e. not really respected.

(ADDED: I was using Manhattan as a term for the [nice uber-urbanized] parts generally although I know that's not accurate. I don't think I ever set foot in Brooklyn until relatively recently.)
Reddit being up for 24 hours or generating pages in less than 3 seconds would be noteworthy.
In the interim we are using our legacy system. I wrote a connector that uses the Shopify admin api to fetch unfullfilled orders and fulfill them.

Long term we are thinking Ship Station or maybe ZenDesks ecommerce offering.
As much of my disgust of these people, I can find you literal Nazi's that are still on Twitter.
I like to precisely know what's installed and running on my devices. It does not make sense to install latest HP printer software, or new Apple Pro Codecs, to patch a particular security flaw related to Zoom.
> "That's a straw man."

No, it isn't.

Road tax pays for road maintenance. Municipal tax pays for municipal maintenance. VAT and Income Tax pay for government expenditure. Taxes are collected in exchange for a service.

Foreign businesses providing entirely digital services in France aren't actually receiving any kind of service back from the French government. In other words, this specific tax is just a mechanism for collecting money arbitrarily in exchange for nothing.

That's a slippery slope.
I'm 99.99% laughing (and 0.01% thinking 'uh oh').
So let me see if I understand this. I don't believe it's hard to write a probabilistic program to play poker. That's enough to win against humans in 2-player.

With one AI and multiple professional human players sitting at a physical table, the humans outperform the probabilistic model because they take advantage of each other's mistakes/styles. Some players crash out faster but the winner gets ahead of the safe probabilistic style of play.

So this bot is better at the current professional player meta than the current players. In a 1v1 against a probabilistic model, it would probably also lose?

Am I understanding this properly? Or is playing the probabilistic model directly enough of a tell that it's also losing strategy? Meaning you need some variation of strategies, strategy detection, or knowledge of the meta to win?
Thanks, to conclude from your detailed answer: I can still license the code other than CGAL to MIT, but license the whole project to GPL, and in the future if I removed CGAL, I can license the whole project back to MIT. And the plugin API is not related with CGAL at all, so I can let the user choose whatever the license.
The FB post is much more detailed and I think the link on this post should be updated to point there.
And?

It's kind of like how I've seen you comment multiple times about how software shouldn't be written in C. You even said it during the DNS fuzzing thread earlier today.

You saying that is just as pointless. You would be very surprised at how much new stuff is written in C!
Plenty of systems already exist that can win against weaker players and/or at limit (especially limit heads-up).
Productivity skyrockets!
His definition of "us" seems to just be "Americans". Which is fine because he's talking about American companies...
Or, you know, stuff people are willing to pay for. WaPo and NYT, among others, have seemingly done okay after paywalling their content (with admittedly relaxed rules to preserve inbound hits from Google, Twitter, etc.).

The real problem is the lack of a payments infrastructure that doesn't have tremendously high fees for small amounts, especially small recurring payments. I'm willing to pay for a WaPo subscription upfront, for a year, and that makes the credit card fees acceptable on their end. But the amount I'm willing to pay for other sites is smaller, and that probably makes it prohibitive for them to accept credit cards directly, and there's no other good standard way of getting paid.

Ironically Google is in the best position to do micropayments (hell they could even do impression-based micropayments!) because it's not too dissimilar from their ad-revenue billing. But of course they won't, because they're an advertising company.

But the faster we kill ads, which basically means the more people who use adblockers, the more market pressure will be created for someone to act as a clearinghouse for small payments between content creators and consumers. And the stuff that people aren't willing to pay for, won't be created, or will be created only if it's someone's hobby or scratches their creative itch.
Yes, otherwise why should citizens pay more for local services? Or should we just remove all local taxes instead to make companies even?

Currently local businesses pay for the "right to the free French market", but remote businesses don't.
I'm not sure why you got into this argument about paying for ransomware unlocking with cash. I mean, one can mail cash, and I've done it many times. To buy Bitcoin, back in the day, and VPN subscriptions.

Anyway, ransomware operators request payment in Bitcoin because it's much less hassle than mailing cash. And there's much less risk of theft by dishonest postal workers.

But with thorough mixing and other good OPSEC, Bitcoin can be as anonymous as cash. So that helps protect ransomware operators from arrest. I think that we all agree on that.

However, you seem to see that as a negative for Bitcoin. That it can be used for such horrible things. But I see it as a stress test for using Bitcoin ~anonymously. If assholes infecting people with malware can use Bitcoin safely, that inplies that decent anonymous cowards like me can also safely use Bitcoin.

And if some of them get busted, there's the chance that investigative methods will be revealed, and so I can tweak my OPSEC to deal with them.

Another key benefit is evading all that bullshit about limiting cash transactions. It's not that I'm a criminal, it's just that I don't acknowledge government authority.
Both those problems are not my problem. I am perfectly fine with putting those problems on the hospitals and medical device manufacturers.
Thanks! I think going beyond two-player/team zero-sum games is really important. This was a first step, but it's definitely not the last. I'm hoping to continue in this direction, and maybe start looking at interactions involving the potential for cooperation in addition to competition.
It should be, surely.
The article makes it sound like the AI is trained by evaluating results of decisions it makes on a per-hand basis. Is there any sense in which the AI learns about strategies that depend upon multiple hands? I’m thinking of bluffing/detecting bluffs and identifying recent patterns, which is something human poker players talk about.
Really not a good look.
NYC TC is fairly close to SF TC.
The real story here is a choir teacher is not a proper source or a replacement for teams of Scientists and Engineers that do these crash analysis for a living.
(Author here)

Regarding empowerment/trust: those factors are definitely critical to PMs' success, but I'd also argue that finding folks who can thrive with this independence is itself important. We've had success with defining clear areas of ownership within our product, within which PMs have substantial autonomy.

Regarding project management: I couldn't agree more. But at the same time project management does need to get done, and PMs are often well positioned to help. I generally feel that PMs should be accountable to making sure that effective project management is in place for the teams they work with, whether by partnering with designers/engineers to set up efficient processes or hiring/designating dedicated project managers (but not necessarily directly project managing themselves).
Software is getting increasingly complex. Why? To ensure better uptime, amongst other things. The funny part is that all the complexity often leads to downtime.

A single server would usually have less downtime than Google, Facebook and so on. But Google and Facebook needs this complexity to handle the amount of traffic they're getting.

Makes me wonder why people are trying to do stuff like Google when they're not Google. Keeping it simple is the best solution.
Something like this is my bet too, there was a recent post somewhere called something like "why all outages are due to a configuration change". There are monocultures in site reliability ops for big companies, "configuration over code" but with heavy automation too. From my outside view it seems there's a tradeoff when you do that between more frequent smaller issues and less frequent bigger issues. Also reminds me of Google's move away from eventual consistency because with their infrastructure they can make a CP system highly available in practice... except when it isn't, due to a botched configuration change.
As long as biometrics alone are the basis for an arrest, we'll see more and more of this. I'm curious what the accuracy score for the biometric source "evidence" was on which she was arrested, and what the match score was between her face and the source evidence.