skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iCloud Backup corruption is still a thing even though it is extremely rare.

Does anyone have a TM backup that has not corrupted in over a year of use?
First drone refuel of US Navy fighter jet in midair
Could you explain roughly what was the biggest tell that he copied Replit's architecture patterns? No need to go into details, but perhaps this would make your side of the story more clear.

So far we only have seen Radon's post and emails screenshots. He seems to be very adamant about not copying any of Replit's IP. But clearly every story has two sides and I think it's very important to hear yours. Hopefully it will come in the form of a blog post or similar.

Genuinely curious and not taking sides with anyone here. I just believe that the OSS community can learn from this.
Who cares what ex-CEOs think of you? They are competing and trying to win and you are getting in their way.
When your government greenlights criminal activities against their enemies it helps a lot. Many* cyber criminals act as mercs for hire, and are in fact hired for official government operations against the US.

It's simply not true that political boundaries don't factor in. They're a massive part - most obviously, consider extradition or whether the attacker's government will cooperate with the US.

* I say many, but it's more like "it happens", but it feels important to point out.
My google foo failed and I wasn't able to find the correct @hnstatus account when I was having trouble. Perhaps a ”status" link in the footer would make this easier to find?
I wonder how much CPU this uses. An immediate mode GUI (ImGUI, which CodePerfect 95 uses) constructs the entire GUI on every frame by default.
> it doesn't answer the question of why an entity would want to invest their money on an uncertain venture when it would just be worth more doing nothing with it.

Simple, because the investment would return more than the natural rate of deflation alone would.
If its the only way to make money, it doesn't really feel like the burden is on the people to make a cleaner pool
This could have been far downstream from the hackers themselves. They might just have been monitoring the bitcoins and waiting for some to land in one of many addresses for which they have the private key. Presumably FBI is continuously scooping up whatever private keys they can.
"Save face" for whom? It wasn't the US gov who got hacked or paid the ransom, it was the Colonial Pipeline Company.
Identical experience. It was so buggy that clicking the play icon on a song would play a random other song in the same list. As well as being insanely slow. Switched to spotify and it has worked well.
They can’t be very elite if even I know the following would absolutely work.

Run bitcoin through tumbler -> convert to Monero -> run through tumbler again -> convert to eth -> cash out
Maybe it's worth having a chat with the EFF guys. They might be interested in what is going on.
Maybe this thread should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27420044
> there is some line that it's unethical to cross in copying a former employer's product

Depending on the severity of the offense and the circumstances this would make sense, but this was just a small project, not an entire VC-backed service. Would you be willing to provide concrete evidence to show that the intern was actually copying the specifics of your product? As it stands many of us are not convinced that this is the case. What are these "unique, invisible aspects" of Replit that you are referring to which are so integral to merit legal action from you? And do you believe it was justified against a project that was never even intended to be anything more than a hobbyist activity?
I had the exact same reaction, and even briefly panic'd that that might be the case. I saw some DMs come in, and I was like "he's going to give some reasonable explanation, isn't he?"

But those DMs were other people. I got silence. And I spent all day pondering what the hell had just happened.

You're right. This is the first time I've ever posted someone's DMs without their consent. And yet for the life of me, I can't bring myself to feel even slightly bad about it.

In that vein, I'll post here what I DM'ed him with five minutes ago. https://gist.github.com/shawwn/150f2711efc1d4a7821806ec23aeb...

I don't know whether he'll listen. And me making it public will make it even harder for him to listen.

But you know what? I felt the switch flip from "on" to "off" for "do I care whatsoever about repl.it?"

And that's sad. I was... just, such a huge fan. Still might end up one.

People usually feel like "yeah! fuck this dude! I hope X bad thing happens to them!" in situations where there's a lot of outrage. But all I feel is sorrow. I grew up on HN, and by extension YC's mission, since HN = YC was true from 2007 til ... 2015-ish, I think. That's around the time the cynical masses truly overwhelmed the YC founders, and they all fled off to Bookface. Who wouldn't? I've been curious about bookface not because of "oh look, a bunch of powerful people are here," but because "man, I bet so many interesting conversations happen there. I wonder what they're like."

pg and jessica forged YC's reputation by hand, from day one till now. It was not easy. And I hate that this incident has made me question whether I was falling for an intelligent rich person's selfish ploy this entire time, and all those words about earnestness (http://paulgraham.com/earnest.html) and niceness (http://paulgraham.com/mean.html) were just a siren's song for the young and the naive.

Thankfully, I know I'm not wrong about pg being genuine. he writes lisp. amsad writes js. :)

the only other thing I want to say is, I'm so sorry to Radon for casting so much suspicion, and making up completely crazy theories. You didn't do anything wrong. I was wrong.

Keep on building stuff, and everything will work out.
This is clever!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Learn+how+to+solve+a+Rubi...
> the synthesized images would clearly be derivative works, and thus copyright holders have rights to the (portion of the) output which is derivative.

Good luck proving it. So in practice it's basically legal.
I'm a little concerned about the new Safari interface [0], which very smoothly integrates the tab/address bar with page content. For example, the background color of the page flows behind the open tabs such that it looks like one unified interface, rather than browserchrome || pagecontent.

This is all great to experience as web apps increasingly take over the functions of native apps. It does help them feel more like first-class citizens, rather than plain documents pulled up through a program.

But it easily brings up new potential abuses by phishing sites, spammy notifications, and other bad actors. The new design seems to start breaking down the browser UI's Line of Death [1], at least in perception.

[0] https://www.apple.com/v/macos/monterey-preview/a/images/over...
[1] https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
3d chips. Imagine current size with 1 million layers. Sure it will start with just a few layers. And many obstacles to be overcome like temp and delay. But one day our cpus will look like little cubes. Moore's law can continue for at least another 30 years
From the article: "they responded that ‘whoever did not believe that the holy body of the Apostle St James the Great lay in the high altar, and doubted, and wanted to see the body, would immediately become as mad as a rabid dog’"

Since ancient times, the Catholic Church has placed the relics of martyrs underneath the altar. The fact that the voices of the martyrs come from under the altar (Revelation 6:9-10)– exactly where their relics are located in Catholic churches – is an interesting biblical confirmation of the Catholic practice.
If you love building stuff in Rails, keep an eye on my project Sitepress at https://github.com/sitepress/sitepress (there's a project site too at https://sitepress.cc). I'm a few betas away from dropping a 2.x release. I'm still working through a few refactors that makes the whole thing more modular.

I built this because it was extremely difficult to embed Middleman or Jekyll into a Rails site. While I was building it, I discovered that Rails actually has a LOT of stuff in it already that make it work well for a static site compiler.

I run it in a few places, with the largest deployment at https://www.polleverywhere.com. At Poll Everywhere it's happily been serving up content pages for a few years. I've switched all of my personal static websites over to it as well.

Here's what's kind of crazy about Sitepress: you can use it to compile static websites -- OR -- you can embed it in rails and do things dynamically like display a "Login" vs "Logout" button state. The choice of "static" vs "dynamic" just isn't a big deal with Sitepress, you can have it both ways.

Last thing: I'm currently working on making Sitepress serve up Notion and Webflow content. This can be really helpful for teams that need to deal with multiple CMS formats from large teams.
No new Apple Silicon 16" MacBook Pro announcement made me sad. Continuing to wait.
Not to be a prick but I doubt Go users will like this, they tend to prefer simple things to more complex things. Maybe retargeting this for Java/C++ users would be better.

Jokes (not really) aside, why does an IDE need to be designed for a language anyway?
Former Genius here. Apple's approach is to support hardware models up to 5 years old and anything past that is gravy but not guaranteed.

You'll find that in most places (except where the law says otherwise) Apple stops stocking replacement parts for models more than 5 years old.
egrep '(a|b)'
Show HN: Experiments for “Try Without Account”
Hi

I am doing some experiments to remove friction for the users that want to try the projects that I am working on.

I have been working on this editor:
https://landing.listws.com/landing/canvas

This is a single page editor, I am planning to shreds and reuse.
Since this have practically 0 cost for me(I never hit the backend), I will add a download button to get the modified html.

Please let me know any feedback, thank you!
Did you mean to reply to me?
A wise man knows when to remain silent.

Not that that's stopped Amjad from commenting anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27428400.
HOTR: “destinations” for Boom goes bust
As soon as I saw the screenshot, I instantly knew it was using Dear Imgui library [1] under the hood because of the familiar Imgui design cues. Dear Imgui is originally meant to be used in combination with game & graphics engines which support hardware acceleration. Thus, you get high framerates.

[1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
I'm probably going to buck how HN feels about it but I'm somewhat disappointed in this news. I get there's often valid use cases for this such as kiosks that need current version stability without sacrificing security. New APIs are something all iOS devs look forward to. Most companies have a current version -1 or a -2 policy. Those on a -2 policy are finally able to start using SwiftUI and Combine throughout their projects come this fall. However, if there's enough people out there who resist upgrading, it'll leave a sizable cohort on ever-older OS versions. This will make management decisions on dropping older iOS versions (which also means availability of newer APIs) harder.

I don't believe a there will be many personal devices that will have this setting enabled. It'll likely happen in these sectors:

1. Kiosks and public-facing usage.

2. Corporate/Enterprise world with company-owned devices.

3. Cultures that resist upgrading (I'm looking at you, Japan).
For desktop applications I just translate the monthly subscriptions into yearly. Most software right now is sold as either yearly subscription or "year of upgrades" so it is one and the same.
Give me the code. I'll host it on my GitHub.
Yeah, pretty much 11% per year:

0.89^30 = 0.030...
So your proof that he copied a source code in the project is you saying that “if you are not convinced by my accusation which I didn’t prove, then stop reading because nothing will convince you”. have you missed logic class? no one told you before that the burden of proof is on the accuser?
True, but prior to the world wars the general view of war was far more glamorous.

English poets today don't write how war is great for the spirit or whatever...

Sure, there's still plenty who don't quite get how bad armed conflict actually is.. but it's less romanticized today.
My team has also become good at that. We do "game days" where we push a simulated breakage and the team tries to fix it, but after a few "faulty" code pushes, everyone checks the rollout history for recent code or configuration changes and suggests a rollback as the first step. Having this log makes it very hard to break things!

This just means the breakers have to be more clever. My favorites are taking a global lock in Postgres (all reads and writes instantly stop, and someone has to figure out how to kill the session that holds the lock), and installing a service worker that blocked traffic to our domain. (You can roll back, but the service worker is still there!)
> VirnetX has been described as being a patent troll, accused of marketing no actual products or services and instead earning its revenue through licensing patents

I'm so glad we have the patent system around to promote innovation and protect creators!
> Which has led me to believe "right to repair" is a ruse, but for what?

You what? Being able to repair and control your hardware is good in itself. It doesn't need to be justified, except as a means to counteract the much stronger lobby that is trying to destroy it.

Your point about this maybe being a ruse is like the one that maybe climate change is a ruse: so what if it is? The measures we introduced to combat the (perceived?) threat will result in a net benefit to society, the environment and individual freedoms. Boo, hoo I'm living in a better world unnecessarily. Very tragic.
> Now if you are feeling very magnanimous, you could argue that the editor is a freemium tool, and that added links are how you pay for the free version.

This unknown exchange of value for “free” products and services is what everyone from Facebook and Google down to malware-like browser extensions do to extract difficult-to-acquire resources.

People don’t understand how their personal data, internet connection (residential proxy network node), or in this case, publicly displayed website are being monetized or used indirectly for monetization.

People don’t know or are tricked into allowing themselves or their resources to serve as an ugly cost externality to some other clean-looking business endeavor.
The US Judicial system which tries to flex its "unlimited" reach.
> as a response they don't think of a way to build a system without losers

Which system is that?
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/join-the-us-digital-service/

wow that's amazing, I guess I sort of quit reading blogs like this when all the RSS readers died.
I wonder if these performance issues apply to all language extensions that rely on a language server (implemented in VSCode or otherwise). From what I understand, since JSON [0] is used over the wire between the editor and the language server process, there's a lot of serialisation/deserialisation overhead.

Microsoft used to maintain a log inspector [1] which you could use to see the chatter between the server and client, and there was a _lot_ of chatter with a _lot_ of JSON.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/overvie...

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol-inspec...
Andre Yang just want UBI without him have to pay income or wealth tax.
One of the few consensus in economics is that taxes on consumption penalize the poor and the middle class more than the rich, and that we should instead tax income, inheritance and even wealth if our goal is equity.
But somehow we are going to ignore it, because a rich entrepreneur who would be penalized by income, wealth and inheritance taxes come out with some badly hashed theory on how VAT is a superior choice, and then we would have to come out with an absurdly complex system of different tax rates, just moving things a little up in the scale for the middle-class, that is not doing that great in the last 30 years to start.
Google video engineers gotta justify that promo to Senior Staff
There's been some reporting of basically a new version of that for the modern "as a service" times, like here https://www.zdnet.com/article/darkside-the-ransomware-group-...

> According to FireEye, affiliates are required to pay up to 25% of ransom payments under $500,000, and 10% of any successful extortion attempts over $5 million.

So the ransomware authors might not always be the people collecting the initial payments. Although according to the press release here, it was siezed from the DarkSide group itself? So it's still a bit confusing.
It copied even unique, invisible aspects of Replit's architecture that I consider to be flaws. That's the hallmark of copying versus merely writing one's own program to solve the same problem.

Or the hallmark of having experience working in a particular domain, and simply favoring techniques and approaches that are familiar. Is there any particular reason why anybody should believe that any of these "unique, invisible aspects of Replit's architecture" constitute any kind of genuine "intellectual property" in either a legal OR moral sense??

I mean, if you're arguing that he literally copied copyrighted code, then sure, OK, maybe you have something. But nebulous appeals to "design decisions?" Don't expect many people to have sympathy for that. At some point you're treading into "anybody who ever worked for a company making cars can never work for another car company" or "A guy who makes a new chair owes money to everyone who ever built a chair" territory.
Also phone problems: Google a problem with a phone and the top hit will be a whole bunch of churned out articles with generic copy on the cause (sometimes there are bugs in the software, so reboot your phone).
Original Doge meme to be auctioned as an NFT
In the US, if you don't show up, you lose by default. Sometimes you can get that default judgement vacated if you show up later, but only if you can show good a good reason, such as you weren't aware of the case because the plantiff did not properly serve notice, etc.
60kWh for 4k then? What about 120kWh for 8k?

Point being you could target your outage range based on what you want to prep for at a fairly low cost (assuming $50/kWh).

Add on a solar system to any of these and you'd have indefinite power without a reliance on surrounding infrastructure.

For my home, 30kWh would give me ~24hr of power.

Even if you want a fossil fuel generator, you could have an auto switch to battery for the short outages so you don't have to go crank on the generator.
Phone number authentication is pretty nasty but it seems to be the only somewhat reliable method of spam prevention. It seems to be next to impossible to get extra phone numbers without government ID and large costs.

These days even most email providers require phone number authentication to register.
> I think you are assigning too much “us vs them” to the ransomware marketplace.

Attacking things in a foreign jurisdiction is massively appealing from a "what will get me thrown in jail by my own government if things go wrong" perspective. You don't need any political loyalty for that calculation.
> Llvm regularly breaks the API

As opposed to the stable GCC API?

> cannot be bootstrapped

Say what now?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmapos9Grk

I love this, thanks for sharing.
Altium's revenue is roughly $200 million USD. MBA standard valuation on that is 10-year revenue--$2 gigabucks. $4 gigabucks is a significant premium for a company that basically has no growth.

My guess is that Adobe didn't want to pay enough cash and was going to be using too much stock in the deal.

Altium would be a bunch of fools for not cashing out right now, though. KiCAD is right about at the level where it is going to start eating the bottom tier of customers. Even 1000 users lost would be a big hit to their revenue.

We'll probably buy one last set of Altium licenses to support current designs, but KiCAD 6 will probably become our default PCB software in the next year.
Bubbles Whiting – Using Punch Cards – Hollerith and IBM
It's also a very old technique to proxy attacks through countries without extradition treaties.
> "Script kiddies" got their name because 20 years ago any kid could download some code and create a DDoS attack by running a pre-written script. Ransomware hacks seem a bit more sophisticated, even with today's highly modular malware.

They're downloadable and leased out.

This allows people to focus on choosing targets instead of the entire vertical integration and liability at each step.
Colonial paid $4.4M in BTC around May 6th.
Coindesk shows BTC/USD around $58K on May 6th.

FBI recovers $2.3M in BTC today.
Current BTC/USD around $34K today.

34 / 58 = .58

4.4 * .58 = 2.552

Looks like they recovered more or less all of it?

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin
As an American, it seems like a perfectly reasonable creative decision to me. The film quite consciously is focused not on the moon landing specifically, or even the space program more broadly, but on Neil Armstrong as an individual. In this context having a lot of fanfare about the flag would distract from the focus of the movie and feel out of place, IMO. The idea that the only explanation for this omission is meddling by the Chinese is ludicrous to me.
I don't think you read the article closely enough. You only need "red state" (aka Debug mode) if you are using the instructions with unsigned microcode updates. But if you have a way to pop the machine into redstate you can exfiltrate the secret key and actually sign microcode changes that will be accepted as legit. All of those things are well within the capability of an APT, especially if you don't need the EXACT target system[1].

Personally I thought IME was a huge problem when Intel announced it, and I haven't changed that opinion.

[1] Open question I don't know the answer too is whether all CPU SKUs share the same secret key. (which would be logical if you wanted to push a microcode change for a particular SKU).
My mental health is honestly a lot better now than it's been for most of my life. Two reasons why:

#1) Diet change.

I cut out all sugar, vegetable oils, fried food, and dairy. I prioritize grass fed beef, but I'm not fully carnivore. I'm a lot less angry, a lot more emotionally stable, and I'm able to focus a lot more. (And I lost 10 pounds!)

#2) My work ethic

I realized just how much of my anxiety came from not doing things I knew in the back of my mind I should be doing. My productivity has increased tenfold, and my future is a lot more hopeful because of it.

If a good diet and work ethic are mental health solutions, then no I don't suppose solutions need to be more individualized. Those are two things every person should have.
Do we have reason to believe they don’t have that capability? There are very few who have escaped the long arm of the DOJ.
The shortest, regex breaking website-domain possible: http://pn/
Unfortunately, I can not add the domain directly to HN. Here it is:

http://pn/

It indeed runs a webserver.
Sweet, I'll check it out! I had heard of it but never dove too deeply into it. I have used a lot more of the semantic primes framework, which may yield similar results by parsing phrases into very simple, irreducible concepts. If you like E-Prime, you may like semantic primes :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_primes