skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the US military by the way - despite persistent rumors to the contrary, other countries do exist.

I also find the outlook a bit optimistic admittedly, but there are definitely plenty of better targets than cars for a sophisticated actor. Car software is very different from model to model, and there's a large variety of models on the road - even if you can cause all cars of model X in an area to accelerate to dangerous speeds (something far beyond the capability of current exploits), that will only affect a small proportion of all cars in the area. It will undoubtedly cause chaos, but nothing on the scale you can get by attacking some weaker systems.

Even a coordinated attack against traffic lights is easier to pull off and has no less potential damage.
This also works in reverse. If you build an extensive ecosystem of "partners", then decide to cut them off, chances are these people will move on to something else and take customers with them, cutting you back to size. (Oh hai Oracle, I definitely wasn't talking about you, nope, nossir...)
I think they mean that they add "reddit" to the end of the search strings they submit to Google.
Often if you're looking for discussion on a certain topic it's a reasonable starting point for a lot of things.
For any organism to hold together and be viable, it's critical for all its cells to obey their programming perfectly. If individual cells went off and did their own thing, it would not be viable. Our bodies line up such rebel cells and shoot them by the hundreds every second, the rare ones that somehow convince us they're on our side are called "cancer tissue" and don't contribute to our fitness.

You certainly could make some analogies here, and it's an interesting topic. The mass of humankind as a substrate on which memes are selected for fitness, where more viral memes outcompete the less viral ones, now there's a fun one. But a single superorganism... I find it hard to see.

Yes ultimately we obey our genes ("programming") in a way determined by our environment... but so does cancer tissue. Plus there's such a great variability in how humans might respond to the same stimuli that we're not like well-behaved cells at all, plus much of the environment surrounding each human is not determined by other humans, which throws a lot of indeterminacy into the mix.
Yes. They'd be using the same language, but see different syntax styles.
I think you misunderstood how big the earth is.

We can release all our nuclear bombs then multiply that by a factor of a billion...it won't do didley squat.

Our destruction is primarily focused on the delicate biosphere, because it is sensitive to small changes. Thats relatively easy to alter and mess with. Harsh environments really aren't moved by our actions. In short, we excel at fucking up places that are nice to live in. Don't mistake that for genuis.

The hard work is making making harsh places nice to live in, ie Terraforming but that's beyond our ability at least for a few hundred millenia. To get there faster we need all the brains we can get to be working on the problem. As of right now building snapchat filters is number one human priority. Building facebook stories, making financial derivatives is close second. Very far away from space exploration...
Yes, but isn't it more about the message? "We can get anyone, anywhere, and get away with it?" If nobody knows it was them, does it then work for making an example out of someone?
In reality he seems more of a small-time crook and a big-time creep. Arrested mainly for steeling from families while dressed as a pilot and a kids camp.

From Wikipedia:
"Abagnale was in fact in the United States Navy from December 1964 through February 1965. Following his release from Great Meadow Prison on Dec 24, 1968, Abagnale was re-arrested on Feb 14, 1969, in Baton Rouge after victimizing a local family and small business. He told the Parks family of Baton Rouge he was a TWA pilot on furlough while he stayed with them. While their backs were turned he rifled through their belongings and stole their personal checks. This is the first reference to Abagnale committing a crime dressed as a pilot. Abagnale was convicted and sentenced for theft and forgery from the Parks family and a local small business (Dolley and Son) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in June, 1969 (State of Louisiana vs. Frank W. Abagnale. Case #69.103 and Case #69.104). Abagnale fled his supervised probation and court-ordered psychiatric treatment and in August, 1969, he victimized two local families in Klippan, Sweden, while dressed as a TWA pilot (Swedish national Archives, Case #B -195/70). Within a month, Abagnale was arrested in Montpellier, France, and served 3 months in Perpigan prison. He was extradited to Sweden and was sentenced to two months in Malmo jail. After deportation to the United States, Abagnale secured a Pan American Airlines uniform. In the summer of 1970, at 22 years old, Abagnale began a three-month period where he wrote 10 personal checks with a Pan American Airlines logo attached. Targets included small businesses such as Hales Camera in Provo, Utah, and Pilgrim Dry Cleaner in Houston. On November 2, 1970, Abagnale was arrested in Cobb County, Georgia. This three-month period is the basis of his self-promotion as the world's greatest imposter. Federal court records show that Abagnale was convicted for the 10 Pan American Airlines checks in five States (Texas, Arizona, Utah, California and North Carolina), worth a grand total of less than US$1,500 (United States of America vs. Frank W. Abagnale. Southern District of Georgia. For the US, J. Owen Forrester, Docket #s 26829, 26814, 26797, 26793, 26734, 26733, 26706, 26689). Following parole, he claimed he went to work for the FBI. However, he was arrested in the summer of 1974 in Friendswood, Texas, for theft at a kids' camp, Camp Manison. This arrest was noted in the local paper (Houston man arrested for Camp Manison theft. The News (Friendswood, Texas). 1974;Thursday 5 Sep,Page 1). Combined, the NPR article, and the separate article in the Louisiana Voice, and the detailed, 350-reference book The Greatest Hoax on Earth, debunk Abagnale's many claims, and refute his long-standing claim that he "never, ever" ripped off an individual or small business.[33] There is no evidence that he was ever nicknamed The Skywayman, nor that he was ever on any wanted list of the FBI."
> Energy Consumption Is Not Equivalent to Carbon Emissions

> Bitcoin Can Use Energy That Other Industries Can’t

> Mining Bitcoin Consumes a lot More Energy Than Using It

These are the key points, very interesting and concrete report, thanks.
Yep. Alternate headline: "Netflix IT exec chose products using standard industry practices".
In many ways nice that they open their performance work, some of which could be upstreamed.

In some ways a bit cheeky that they took the 'dump it and see' approach rather than offering to work to upstream it, since it's kinda outsourcing the work of maintaining the performance improvements to the Python core devs rather than offering to put some of Facebook's considerable resources towards doing it themselves.
It should read:

"sufficiently capable nation state..."

Which I doubt is as many as you're implying given the use of the term "certainty."
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For which generation?
Static Python is a bit different in that it’s not a subset language. It makes a few semantic changes, most notably that classes are slotified, so you can’t tack random extra attributes into instances. If you’re writing typed Python you probably don’t do much of this anyway since all type checkers will complain about it. But the approach is “normal dynamic Python with optimizations where allowed by types,” not subset.
Yes but they still cannot be too open about corruption.
They also have a habit of letting early booster stages fall in mainland China. There are videos of remote villagers walking around crashed boosters with lovely red NOx smoke coming out.
Lol that will be cool thou, BTTF Vibe
Doesn’t that just describe the majority of Snapchat filters?
Abagnale says himself that "Catch Me If You Can" is mostly fiction:

> I was interviewed by the co-writer only about four times. I believe he did a great job of telling the story, but he also over dramatized and exaggerated some of the story. That was his style and what the editor wanted.

ETA: It's not like the version on his website is likely true either, just saying that questions about the veracity of the story have been around for a very long time and have been strong enough that he's backed away from a lot of the claims in the book.

https://www.abagnale.com/comments.htm
Sucks to hear that employees saw Sumo underperforming. I used it at my last place, and while it has a steep learning curve, it's incredibly powerful. I thought it was the premier enterprise logging/monitoring platform.
From the article it doesn’t really sound like the story had any basis in truth at all. The movie was simply “based on a story” or “inspired by a story”.
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for this! I'm working on solving a similar problem for a side project (though in Clojurescript) and this is super helpful for understanding better how the grid works. I will definitely be crediting you once I have something publishable.
I would have thought that the claim that Frank Abagnale passed the bar exam would be easy to check -- there have to be records about those, right?
Yes, that's exactly my point.

No code required.
What's so wrong about it? It's ugly, but it's just a graphic. It's not like it's going to forever taint their research.
That's crazy. We also have sales in almost every country in the world.
Are you a European company? How do you dispense with US sales?
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It doesn't make it any less shady/unethical.
Yes, we should have 100%.
That was a "move along citizen" move, the US already uses these techniques to assasinate targets.
If you develop for a niche you care about, even not for profit, it shouldn't be hard to cover the bill (along with other day job). I'm doing so but in small scale so far.
I’m curious what the middle finger emoji origin story she mentions is, I couldn’t find anything interesting searching around for it.
Perhaps Signal should adopt blue and green coloring so people know they’re getting protected chats, or maybe a padlock to communicate security.
This should be a responsibility of those who run algorithms. As a data scientist and growth hacker, I have seen so many situation that a platform has been manipulated by a dark force of marketing. However, a response from leaderships are too underwhelming.
What's the big deal? This happens in most places especially universities. /s
This is a case where using HN's "code" feature can help

The first link is:

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000336900709.html?spm=a2g01.12617084.fdpcl001.8.2665mpnYmpnYMH&gps-id=5547572&scm=1007.19201.130907.0&scm_id=1007.19201.130907.0&scm-url=1007.19201.130907.0&pvid=65430901-7ec6-4584-a620-4618974e03ae

The second:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000336900709.html

(HN normally truncates links to ... 60 characters, it seems.
Like my Palm Pilot :)

https://designobserver.com/media/images/Palmsmall_525.jpg
> “I remember just having this nagging feeling and that something just wasn’t quite right about [the movie ‘Catch Me If You Can’],” Logan said. “And that was that.”

A reasonable perspective to have about every dramatized based-on-a-true-story blockbuster, you'd think.
At many companies you need to be VP or director of HR to get away with this stuff. Companies tolerate it in HR because HR heads do it at all the other companies, so firing one doesn't help; the next one will do it too. The ones that seem not to be doing it have a trickier grift that is harder to quantify: better the devil you know than the one you don't.

People disinclined to grifting gravitate to other departments, leaving it to them.

There is a great deal of corporate behavior that can only be understood as a vehicle to generate opportunities for kickbacks.
I'm not sure if I agree with the second point. If Bitcoin wasn't using so much energy then energy producers would lower production.
You should add Hissp to this list: https://hissp.readthedocs.io
“One of the greatest hoaxes”? Because they turned his story into a film? Seems like a pretty insignificant hoax compared to the likes of Madoff, Adam Neumann or Theranos.
What would stop Frank W. Abagnale, a conman by profession, from telling another lie? Even though Frank in the book is sympathized by the reader, I'm still disgusted by these deceivers who most likely are lacking all empathy and possibly are also psychopathic or narcissistic
I was living MLK’s dream of living in perfect racial harmony despite the fact that I was a minority and they took that away from me.

It might be forgivable if the studies showed that this hyper focus on race at work actually reduced racism, but it doesn’t. It’s just pure evil.
What more could we expect from them to do? They are a for-profit company. Opensourcing their entire interpreter stack with years of proprietary development is a bold move. It shows that they care about open source and want to give back to the community.

They could've kept these developments behind closed doors and nobody would mind it.

They also offered to provide support if anyone wanted to contact them. That is top-class behaviour from instagram, I personally couldn't expect more.
Not convinced by this article.

It looks like the author tries to make a point, cherry picking articles that fit his view.

First, there is no causal relationship, something he mentions "more research is needed to determine if multitasking is physically damaging the brain (versus existing brain damage that predisposes people to multitask)", but dismisses it right after "it's clear that multitasking has negative effects".

It is also interesting how he went from "smaller density" to "damage", which implies some kind of destruction rather than adaptation. Then there is all that part about EQ, which mixes bad behavior (not paying attention), with other forms of multitasking like having plenty of stuff open on your computer. I mean, I can monotask during a meeting by not paying attention at all. Then it connects it to the "brain damage" study by saying that some of EQ-related parts of the brain are also related to multitasking, without showing the whole picture.

The IQ and performance related part is more convincing, but also isn't really tied to the "brain damage" part. It is also a bit confusing as evidenced by a commenter asking "what is multitasking".

That IQ drops when you are doing two things at once is kind of obvious, but it is nice to have a study to back it up. The question is "is it worth it"? And now comes what I think is the only insightful part: media multitasking, basically having more than one thing on your screen(s) makes it harder to switch tasks properly.
That makes a lot of sense...
Ye and photos will be gone too ... I buy printed photo books to at-least try to keep some pictures.
If C is a "portable assembler", then Forth is a "non-portable assembler" (many people roll their own, which resulted in a proliferation of non-compabile versions).

Neat little language, small enough to pick it up in one afternoon, versatile for tiny to small projects, in particular embedded systems and control software, but nothing you should use for anything that involves medium to large size or more than a single developer.

Languages similar to Forth are often used as intermediate languages in portable compilers, in particular ones written for educational purposes, because it's easy to generate code for stack machines (no register allocation needed).
To clear some confusion: both of you misunderstood my point.

I don't think Python's language readability is the problem.

The problem is CPython's core team shooting down any performance improvement for the sake of keeping the compiler source code readable.
Right. They were the people who investigated the story first. And they didn’t catch the lie? Maybe they were in on it too.
But now that it's associated with Biden, it's really, really wonderful!
Removing utm_ parameters will probably always work, because they are standardized and shared between different applications (like the website and Google Analytics). If you try to obfuscate them your analytics software can't read them as well.

But yeah, home grown analytics can't be reliable circumvented.
The 1% are stealing our freedom.
A few reasons:

- I don't think that ETH specifically is the next big thing, just blockchain technology like ETH in general. There is lots of competition, both on top of ETH as well as different approaches.

- The price itself isn't strongly correlated with usage or value. Sure it's used for gas, but the price is mostly driven by speculation for now. So you never know what's "already priced in"

- Timing is hard. The space is still extremely nascent. There may very well be a few more crashes and cycles before it all settles down and becomes more mainstream. The timeframe here could be years. I think it's totally possible that crypto prices crash 90% tomorrow - but it's already too big to go away completely.

So I don't really have an opinion on the current ETH price, I'd just be gambling.
"Not advocate" is different from "stand against"
But this can be solved, too, can’t it? It’s effectively a Bitly link. Just need to auto-expand to the final destination, right?
I realize it can be fun to be snarky but consider the “business priority” portion you didn’t quote and the difference between “it’s too hard to do” and “doing it would cost X and impact performance of service Y by Z%”.
The CV title of having worked at FAANG and the big tech compensation.
The japanese pirates, the indian pirates, chinese and Korean Pirates, east African pirates make no appearance in this article/historical tale.

Im curious by what metric is most famous using? Is it a matter of geography, culture, race, gender, skill, appearances on google searches circa 1999?
Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.

I wish people would stop saying something is "dying" when they personally dont like it anymore or don't use it as much, you don't speak for the world.
>You can't lie to your employer about receiving money from another company in exchange for preferential treatment.

but can you receive money from another company for preferential treatment and when asked by your employer say yes, I did it? If you can do that then can you lie by omission? I think these things might depend on the jurisdiction, but I guess this was federal so easier to figure out.
In case you want a good use case: https://www.json.org/json-en.html
Oh, stop, the vast majority of people of any generation don't write memoirs to be discovered in the first place.

What I suspect is most typical? - My grandfather on my dad's side was illiterate and my grandma (his wife) is barely literate, so I don't think she'd ever write down anything more than a grocery list.

Beyond that, if someone wants you to have/read something, they'd give it to you. If someone encrypts their writing or puts it behind a login, it's because they don't want you reading it.
It seems like there are quite a lot of relatives/family members of doctors on HN. My wife is a doctor (and she hates most f what she sees in the way the medical field is run/operating these days), but I try to be impartial about judging them. The general emotion toward doctors on HN or any other Reddit forums is like they can't do no wrong or they are not evil or that they are smart (smarter than average) people (example that I just ran across today on Reddit's front page: https://i.redd.it/bjhk6ozyj7x61.jpg). That assumption/belief is very different from the reality. After observing and hearing so many stories about doctors (I have quite a lot of doctor friends/acquaintances in the US), my conclusion is that most of them are complicit in some of the things that is wrong with the US medical system these days.

A quick anecdote - my wife used to volunteer at a clinic in Chinatown. The doctor always get invites for lunch/dinner from medicine companies and she'd sometimes invite my wife to attend. I was extended an invite to one of them (the doctor knows me via my wife). It was hosted by a rep from Sanofi for the staff of the entire clinic (about 6 people) plus their SOs (including myself and the doctor's husband). There were a total of ~10 people at the dinner and the doctor gets to pick the restaurant so she picked one of the most expensive hotpot restaurants in Chinatown. We ordered lots of grade A beef slices and other expensive goodies. The rep, who is white, curried favors with the doc and the nurses/staff members all evening (to the point that I felt cringe at one point when she says something like this to an asian nurse, "I really like your Asian skin and hair; it's so smooth and glowing"). My estimate is that the dinner bill came out to at least $2000. That dinner, according to the doctor, happens every year with this particular company. Of course, I had to sign on a sheet (roll-call if you will) to acknowledge that I attended the dinner (I presume it's for the rep to reclaim expenses). I can only imagine how much/many drugs from Sanofi that the doctor is prescribing to her patients throughout the year.

Another anecdote - my host-family mom is a psychiatrist (the doctor type; not the other psychiatrist kind). She worked for a private mental institution near Philadelphia. There, they have about 20 mentally-challenged patients, 4-5 nurses and my host-family mom. I have accompanied her to there a couple of times and spent ~6 hours while she was touring and meeting with the patients. Both times, a rep from a medicine company brought lunch for the host-family mom and all the staff. Once was just pizza. Another time was some sort of sandwich and stuff. According to my host-family mom, that's pretty typical and they have about two or so such lunch from medicine company reps every week.
Interesting, but so wasteful and hamburgers?

In Hungary kids eat something like these for lunch:

https://m.blog.hu/eo/eokoskodas/image/menza2.jpg

https://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/1758/17587/175878/17587888_0...

Far from fancy, but at least real plates and cutlery. I guess American schools are afraid kids will hurt themselves with a real fork or break a plate on each other's head and the school gets sued out of existence by the parents or something?
Between the NIC and the human is a massive stack that might be called the user agent (using that phrase way more broadly than just "browser" here) and so long as the human can audit all of it, it's reasonable to let all of it access the unencrypted data in an E2E scheme. But we know that's not merely unreasonable for the average user, but truly impossible for even the expert user, thanks to stuff like Intel Management Engine / AMD Secure Technology. Therefore the E2E scheme should attempt to keep the unencrypted data away from as much of the user agent stack as possible, perhaps ideally confining it to HID components.

But then all you've got is unaltered human speech flowing from one human to another, with no data processing to chop it up, calculate on it, conditional logic based on it, nothing! It's quite a conundrum.
To clear some confusion...

Python's language readability is NOT the problem I allude to here.

The problem is CPython's core team shooting down any performance improvement for the sake of keeping the compiler source code readable.
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I didn't enjoy the movie because it was true, I enjoyed it because it was executed well and John Williams wrote the score. It could be entirely fictional and still be just as good a movie.
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