skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He had to give a postal code to register the card and presumably had his IP address logged. It should be easy enough to trace his real identity.

Yes, he says a fake address may have worked, but that may be criminal fraud. Also, the given address could be automatically checked against the geolocation of his IP address to make sure he's being honest. And it's not difficult to filter Tor/VPN IPs.

Another problem is that while he never gave personal information, he still created a pseudo-anonymous identity that can be profiled and potentially linked to his real identity based on a myriad of potential factors. Whereas if he used something like Monero (which he seems to be aware of), then there would be no such risk. There's really no point to this method anymore, and another commentator pointed out it wouldn't even work in certain countries.
I’m a pretty good engineer, and I’m never going to join any job with a probationary period. It could turn out to be a bad manager or something and I would end up with a messed up resume. Why would I accept some kind of second-class status when Google etc. are willing to hire me with normal employment terms? I think you’d have a serious adverse selection problem if you only hire people who are willing to take such a job.
Pure speculation, but if you publish something created by another person without an explicit permission by them, it may open you up for a lawsuit. If some groups required explicit approval by a moderator in order to read the posts, I would take it as they didn't want the content to go public.

So technically, some legal troll could post some copyrighted information, wait for it to be published on Archive, and then sue Archive for copyright infringement and Verizon for assisting it. As a non-profit, Archive will likely get away with just taking it down, but a for-profit Verizon is a wholly different story.
Exactly. This is designed as a "low collateral damage" weapon.
I think that's 3.5' radius (edit:wrong). Both hits I've seen online have been center-punched in the middle of the roof of the car...amazing precision.
Correct. They had done some testing, but that's all. They were just getting yahoo id's, while iterating on software improvements, so they could then download the groups.
That's incorrect.

You are thinking of the older way, where fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) must be used after open(), leaving a short window in which the file descriptor may be inherited.

The newer way passes the O_CLOEXEC to open() and there is no fcntl() call. This is atomic with respect to inheritability: The kernel returns a non-inheritable file descriptor to libc, and libc returns it to the application.

Other syscalls that return a file descriptor have similar flags, so they are atomic too.

These flags and behaviours are exactly the same, whether done by calling through libc as most programs do, or direct kernel syscalls bypassing libc, as Go and a few other programs do.
Tragedy of The Cloud.

IIRC, Archive.org is still running its fundraiser today.

We need LOTS of publicly-sponsored and paid-for digital archival centers that, like libraries, are maintained for the common welfare. Or we could, you know, add that duty (and funding) to existing libraries! With -paid- archivists!
The most popular toolchain is devkitPro, which is based on GCC: https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started

The impression I've gotten is that the GBA is powerful enough that you can write most of your programs in C, but some performance-critical stuff (like if you're trying to draw pixels directly instead of using the sprite/tile hardware) is best written in assembly. If you're interested in learning more, I would highly recommend this tutorial: https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm
I wonder if such a weapon could be feasible given the affordance of modern technology. Very steam spunk, if so.

Not to say I condone such matters, but curiosity wonders the same.
People who personally have 100,000 Yahoo accounts because they made them back when you could just pretend to be blind and request the captcha in spoken form, and then fed it into Google's speech to text engine, fed it back in to Yahoo, made the accounts, and who also have a botnet of a million residential IPs and can spin up a bunch of servers to run some scrapers.
> As far as I can see, there is precisely one scenario where GraphQL makes sense - and that's where you are trying to build a lot of separate frontend clients which will consume the same large, complicated data model. And unless both of those things are true, GraphQL is going to cost you more than the value it adds.

Exactly
An extra 10 lbs isn't the issue here. The average American man is now 23 lbs overweight.
I personally think it's more of a give-and-take or feedback loop. Sometimes you need leaders who recognise strong ideas and run with them.

I think a clear recent example (regardless of personal opinion) is the whole gay marriage debacle. The majority of the population wanted it but no leader had the guts to be the one to do it. The closest we got was wasting money on a plebiscite, spending $80 million to basically ask "are you really sure you want this?". I don't mind being more directly involved in democracy, but we never have such plebiscites for other issues. They didn't have the courage to go ahead without covering their backsides.

Anyway, back to the quote, if we're going to anthropomorphise Australia then the impression I get is that we are the rich kid who grew up with all the advantages bestowed upon us by Mother Britain but we never really learned to fend for ourselves as independent adults. We can't coast forever.
This is a good thing. Surgical strikes will have lower casualties.

The amount of precision required to kill a moving vehicle without harming other vehicles is impressive.
Hackers targeted BMW, Hyundai in hunt for trade secrets
I’ve known three sets of identical twins. In each case the personalities were very different. Outgoing vs reserved, aggressive vs laid back, etc. I could easily see one wanting to be held more than the other.
Maybe go to Tuvalu and try some of their imported water, or eat some of their famous canned cargo "meat". Tuvalu and other islands really are becoming uninhabitable for humans so let's be nice ya?
Can a Computer Catch a Spy?
A post from RCA's blog a year ago addresses that more directly:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/11/19/why-everything...

He argues very convincingly that high income leads to high health care spending very directly. Not only is the US not an outlier in terms of inefficiency, but he can't find any compelling examples of countries significantly improving on health care spending predicted by actual household income. (Other countries have better health outcomes, but not significantly less spending relative to income.) So while common sense indicates that there's lots of room to reform the system, analysis of data from around the world indicates that no one's been able to do much to avoid spending roughly a fixed percent of actual income on health care.

> The most successful cost containment regime in the OECD was probably the UK (NHS), which was perhaps an accident of history. They rationed particularly aggressively and managed to hold costs substantially below what we would expect for a country of its wealth for a few more years than usual.

> However, people (voters) ultimately wouldn’t stand for it, so this rationing effort was radically reduced (budgets expanded). Today they are much closer to expected spending levels.
Well that was obviously forseeable and dumb then. Use the user's resources or charge money.
If you read here you will see that there are many active groups. Even of those that aren't active, some have important history, even scientific value.

As for old posts disappearing, individuals have always been able to go to Yahoo Groups and delete posts that they later thought the better of. Group owners can also delete posts.
Is the Deliberate Practice View Defensible?
Fear? Nukes are my first guess.
The most important factor for financial time series forecasting is undoubtedly access to clean data. This is what sets Renaissance apart. There’s no need for particularly sophisticated math - they’ve been doing it for 3 decades.
Android PC for less than $20
Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator (Ciao)
Hmm, I don't disagree a lot of factors affect decisions like this, but... That's not really how board meetings work.

I think it came from a genuine place. You may not agree, and I understand your perspective, but I think there's two things Reddit believes that explain everything you've complained about.

First, that their app is a better mobile experience. And I'd agree, actually, but I understand why someone would disagree. From their perspective it's an easy download and it's native app and it's way better.

Secondly, the best way to build something good is to have more data. This involves tracking people. I think most people have two opposing options: tracking people sucks, and making product decisions in a vacuum is wrong. It's a tough balance.

I think most decisions are done without malice and without "suits" involved.
That's probably why Ukraine's per-capita GDP is about one third that of Russia (itself a pretty poor country) - each new cohort of politicians has to rob the country blind again and again, and they have to do it quick before they are chased out of the office. In Russia everyone knows Putin and his cronies aren't going anywhere until Putin croaks, and dude seems to be in good health for the time being.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
Guilt would seem to depend on per capita emissions, not total emissions. I don't see why the size of the nation would permit its citizens to pollute more per capita.

If so, many vulnerable nations would probably be guilty, which is probably how the law should work, but might not be how they expect. Many small, vulnerable nations emit more per capita than IPCC recommendations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous....

Eventually, nations will probably make laws against people polluting like they have now against littering. One of the purposes of laws is to regulate behavior that affects others.
> [Emacs] can understand that a certain part of a file is written in one language and another in another language; and then give you appropriate syntax highlighting, indentation etc. in these specific parts. Vim can't do that.

Sure it can! Here[1]'s an example of someone using it for html embedded in heredocs.

> [Emacs'] scripting language is a lot nicer to work with.

This is not a fundamental limitation. E.G. neovim uses lua. (I'm not counting python and lua embedded in vim, because afaik they're a total pain to work with.)

I actually recently started transitioning from vim to emacs recently, but I don't think any of your arguments in favour of it are particularly strong. I do, however, agree that vim and emacs are at the cutting-edge of text editing, possibly along with some more niche editors like vis, sam, and kakoune.

1: https://forum.dlang.org/post/bvznmyneecpwgrxmgnby@forum.dlan...
The article is ambiguous on this:

> the missile, which is roughly three and a half feet wide when its blades are extended

That really sounds like a diameter and not a radius. But on the other hand:

> Supposedly, three people were killed in the vehicle when the bladed weapon smashed through the roof of the vehicle.
> Is there no way to have a single hosted instance rather than downloading again for each user?

This might make the problem worse; then they'd have to do processing server side, rather than offloading it on the client. I dunno whether this would be more or less expensive than the initial download, but the torrent they put up seems cheaper either way.
Recaptcha doesn't know the difference between anything. It's just trying to gather consistently tagged training data of regions which can in turn be used to train something that can identify objects.

Crowdsourced labeling doesn't make sense if you already have something that can tell you what the label should be.
The most angle I see in this one is "weapons are cool".
The wealthy are also pouring money into lobbying and PACs to hold onto their power and influence. Is that productive use of capital? Well, it is for them!

I don't care that they invest, I don't care that they buy stock. Regular people would buy stock and give to charity too, if they could. This level of wealth concentration is toxic to our society, full stop.

You have to look at not just what things look like, but also what things could look like, if we didn't have so much power concentrated among so few, with so little oversight.
I'm not a fan of targeted assassinations, but if the US is going to do them, at least with a weapon like this they can largely avoid the injury and death of innocent bystanders.
Prices for most things would be (much, much) more expensive in Tuvalu than Mississippi, pretty much everything has to be imported at very small scale and high cost and if it's remotely affordable it's because of aid from countries like New Zealand and Australia subsidising it.
My personal website is minimal, but still very much a work in progress.

https://thomasbrittain.com
> libGraal, a pre-compiled C2 JIT compiler, is bundled with GraalVM

libgraal isn't a C2 JIT compiler - it's (the clue is in the name here) a Graal compiler.

And the person you're replying to already mentioned it:

> or it could be AOT-compiled into a native shared library, which is then loaded by Hotspot like any other shared library
Page kept scrolling to end and getting stuck there (iOS/firefox). Not encouraging.
Has anyone evaluated libraries like Pydantic ( https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/) and Encode Typesystem (https://www.encode.io/typesystem/) versus MyPy as a real life thing ?
The unexpected thing was that Google colab and GCS are separate such that transfer costs between them often end up as international external egress fees
Harvard geneticist's goal: to protect humans from viruses,genetic diseases,aging
Starlink has been LEO since it was first announced, so how bad geostationary internet may be is not relevant to the discussion about why SpaceX lowered the altitude.
I don't really understand how it works. Do the blades move? Are the blades deployed just before impact or after? Or is it basically a sword-wielding boring machine that cuts through the target with sheer speed?
The internet archive also has a usenet archive, FWIW.
Wait, wait, this is a university developing something, that needs to be downloaded, they choose a commercial solution for that, and that costs them $10k per day? They don't have their own file-hosting solutions? At a university with an AI dept?

With that money ("for a couple of days"), you could buy your own server and do it yourself, for a fraction of the price. And don't tell me you can't find people who'd be capable of doing that, if you've got AI development going on.

What am I missing?
This is amazing. It's hard not to be humbled upon realizing just how small and insignificant we are in the scheme of things.
The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale (taloflow.ai) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694835
Show HN: Autonomous Shared Contacts DataBase, powered by ethereum
http://www.aidungeon.io/
Zoom in on any place on earth where agriculture is happening, like here https://www.google.com/maps/place/Narrogin+WA+6312/@-33.4993...

and tell me that is not grand scale ecocide.
>It is a disturbing sign when authorities press baseless charges against children of people who served their country their whole life.

Don't get me wrong, tribalism happens in all systems (e.g. if you're immediate family of a local cop it's often a free pass to DUI in many parts of the US) but not prosecuting because his dad was "one of us" is even worse than prosecuting in the first place.

If they're gonna be tyrannical I'd at least like to see them be consistent rather than give people with ties to the state a free pass as happens in so many cases.
Previous HN thread since I missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022
Me too! It's so obvious! It's not like you would sit there and wonder whether or not his statement was satire.
This is just my 2 cents, but you've already identified the flaw in Michael's books. I have an older version but in my opinion they're screenshot heavy with a reliance on step by step instructions. Gaining an understanding of the general techniques can certainly be applicable but that's really just the "tradecraft" of OSINT, which I would argue is not where this book shines. I also take issue with Michael because he used to offer a law enforcement only version of his book that contained what he claimed to be techniques not made publicly available nor made available to the impacted service providers, which I feel violates the ethos of responsible disclosure.
Dignium - is that an online conference? Do you need to own a share to get access? I'm having trouble making it out.
Sorry, can you please try to explain that in another way? I don't understand what you mean.
Here’s an example of a large telescope in a very large city:

https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/great-equatorial-tele...
I’ve written a similar python library called `safetywrap` that implements both Result and Option types from rust, with almost all of the interfaces implemented, including unwrap, map, flat map, err_map, etc. It fully supports types and works well with mypy.

Feel free to give it a shot! https://pypi.org/project/safetywrap/
Before Bootcamp was a thing the community developed XOM to boot XP on Intel macs (which at the time lacked the legacy bios in it's ROM) so it should be possible

I'm not having much luck finding very much information on it though
Do you truly believe that every (or charitably, most) women have no desire to see men express honest emotions? Is that based on your experiences/observations you'd like to share here?

I understand and am painfully aware of the societal pressure but I don't think it is intentionally malice by any gender moreso than a series of qualities we've fanned that have left this unpleasant side effect
My understanding is that each user runs a separate Colab instance with its own hardware, it's not the kind of thing you could replicate easily with one server and a couple GPUs.
The US has the largest number of CCTV cameras per capita
Fine polluters proportionally based on net greenhouse gas emisions put the money into some kind of foreign aid fund.

Not sure why precedent is required, as such would be a logical fallacy; I will give an example because it sounds like that would reassure you that such policy could be just: in the U.S. you can sue the federal government to repeal regulations formed by arms of the executive branch. The requirements are different for different agencies, but for NOAA no damage to life or property is actually required for such a suit. One can simply argue that their rule is based on poor quality research.
I am trying to think some solutions but the crux is that users may be expecting to have a unique story tailored specifically to them. If that assumption is false, then we have some solutions:

- save top or similar stories and make them pre-determined to avoid calling the ai services

- decrease the amount of times the user can keep the story going: users can only give 3 times input instead of X

- charge people for the game

Probably there are more ideas out there.

One last idea: package the code and instruct users to run on their own machine(s) or have then to run on their own GCS account.
It appears that it has been updated to use bittorrent as a temporary solution: https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeo...
I'm tired of people complaining without offering solutions.
I almost got through a third of this article before I realized that the author was going to spend the entire article throwing a pity parade without discussing any solutions.

We already realize housing prices are sky high and many people are suffering.
I remarked how impressed I was with the state of technology that made it possible to freely spin up a VM with ~14GB of memory and beefy compute.

Now it all made sense--of course someone had to pay for this all. Doh!
> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me.

It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for chimps ( our closest ancestors ) and even our common ancestor. It's only recently with the push to get women into the workforce where women were encouraged to separate from their newborns so that they could go back to work.

> As soon as they came out, I held them and sang and hummed the same tune to them. It immediately calmed them - with my first, she immediately relaxed and stopped crying whil the nurse took her vitals, measurements and pricked her heel.

The mother's voice also helps premature babies develop. The fetus probably has gotten accustomed to the mother's voice in the womb and associates it with comfort and safety. Perhaps it's an evolutionary relic since many newborn animals are drawn to their mother's voice and vice versa.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/shouldstorm/201909...
> syscalls are rarely if ever intended to be called directly nilly-willy.

I don't think this is true, at least on Linux.

On Linux, the system call interface¹ is the documented interface to user space. Even the commonly used vDSO² is a stable interface. This is important because it means the popular C libraries are not part of the Linux kernel interface. Although glibc is often portrayed³ as some kind of Linux kernel wrapper, they are entirely separate projects. Linux manuals⁴ also make it seem like they are one and the same:

> The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs.

These same manuals also document systemd as if it was part of Linux. I went there expecting low level documentation useful for writing one's own init system and got systemd documentation instead. It's very confusing in my opinion. Why are external projects documented in the Linux manuals?

Anyway, these kernel features are used by C libraries to implement all their functions. Using C libraries is the traditional way to build a Linux user space but it is certainly not the only way. Compilers could emit these system calls directly, avoiding the need for a runtime library. A programming language virtual machine could be built directly on top of Linux system calls. It is possible to create freestanding programs that run on Linux with zero dependencies.

Incompatibilities are caused by these user space libraries, not by the system calls themselves. For example, glibc maintains a lot of thread local state and will not work correctly if the program calls clone(). A program that does not link to glibc does not have this limitation.

Although low level, Linux system calls are in many ways a simpler interface: their behavior is more precisely documented compared to POSIX; there is no need to deal with errno; there is no hidden C library functionality that's hard to understand; freestanding programs do not contain references to hundreds of hidden standard library symbols that implement obscure functionality.

The kernel itself containd a nolibc.h header[5] that it apparently uses for its own tools.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_kernel_System_Call_...

[4]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

[5]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...