skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is technically correct but this video is at least 4 days old and was pretty clearly a Ukrainian fighting position. Obviously the Ukrainians can fight from anywhere they please though.
I would really like to know what bank this is.
"If you’re to do anything reasonable in this world, you must have a class of people who are secure, safe from public opinion, safe from poverty, leisured, not compelled to waste their time in the imbecile routines that go by the name of Honest Work. You must have a class of which the members can think and, within the obvious limits, do what they please. You must have a class in which people who have eccentricities can indulge them and in which eccentricity in general will be tolerated and understood. That’s the important thing about an aristocracy. Not only is it eccentric itself—often grandiosely so; it also tolerates and even encourages eccentricity in others." - Aldous Huxley
If that's the only problem with this outcome, then it's definitely a good outcome.
Or alternately raise taxes in the good times (rather than interest rates) and pay down that debt... which at least in the US we've got one political party dead set against at all costs.
Raft Engine: A persistent storage engine for Multi-Raft log
Ukranian artist uses captured Russian BTRs as street style canvas
That's an argument for making GUI libraries more ergonomic, not to keep making TUIs. And TUIs made by "just printing VT codes" will break when you resize the terminal, change the font size, or more.
> everyone acts surprised how come Putin calls the Ukrainians as being nazis

I mean, they should. Calling an entire country of 44 million people Nazis is ridiculous regardless of whether a boulevard in a capital city is named after Bandera.
Off-topic but the name reminded me:

Whatever happened to the Mill CPU architecture / Mill Computing? I've just realised I haven't heard anything about it for a while, and just looking on The Mill forum the last post was nearly two months ago.
What we need is an ABI-level IDL [1] to specify library interfaces, that every programming language could use for imports and would translate to implicit declarations, both for calls to the interface and/or for implementing the interface. Currently, C header files poorly serve that purpose, and at the same time, that use impedes the evolution of C itself. Such an IDL wouldn't necessarily solve C's own compatibility issues with its evolution, but it could dramatically improve the FFI situation if widely adopted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language
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>> "Conspiracy theorists can at least be entertaining sometimes"

Very true. We got some of the best TV in history in the form of the Stargate franchise from goofy '90s conspiracies.
Why would you bring this to your manager instead of trying to find a way to report it directly to the competitor, anonymously or not? If a bug bounty seems like a conflict of interest, refuse it. From the perspective of the competitor, this was an unreported security vulnerability. Of course they were going to find out; if I logged in one morning and the DB table that's supposed to be nearly empty suddenly wasn't nearly empty anymore, that's alarming!

So much here is just an absolute wild failure of judgement.
This comment, which doesn't reference any of the very powerful bits evidence, and merely spouts a lot of ad hominem, probably belongs on YouTube.

I see very compelling evidence for an argument, which makes your comment seem even more 'unhinged'.

"he analyses these videos with a baked-in assumption that it's "fake", not from an unbiased view"

The balance of 'unbiased view' of either it's 'aliens or something mundane' is going to almost always land on 'something mundane'.

"I suggest thinking for yourself instead."

This is the statement of the true conspiracy theorist:

"Don't believe the evidence in front of you! 'Think for yourself' and 'Make up your own reality!'"
> many people travel to cities where sports matches, concerts, and other events (e.g., conventions, auto shows, etc.) are held in the stadiums. This also affects other businesses in the city that benefit from the spending done by those that travel into the cities.

So what if City X gets some revenue from away-team fans when the City X Team has a home game? That only evens out with the revenue lost when the local fans go spend their money elsewhere on away games.
>It could be a drone (either ours - another branch of DoD/govt - or another nation's) etc

Pilot Chad Underwood gave private testimony to the senate congressional committee on this gimbal video stating the object did rotate without changing direction or altitude - a feat which is impossible by our current understanding of physics. So assuming the "drone" in gimbal belongs to something of terrestrial origin, either our government his hiding ground breaking physics capabilities or some other country on this planet has - both of which are terrifying.

>In the case of relying on Christopher Mellon's credentials, I'd point out that he has a commercial interest of some kind with To The Stars Academy, the production company which seems to be behind all of these videos' presence on the History channel.

I agree TTSA has sketchy origins, I've looked quite a bit into it. Chris Mellon comes from one of the wealthiest families in America, so I would have to assume that this venture could not have netted him enough money to make it worth while for him to lie to congress about this. He was the major architect to the Gillibrand amendment in last year's NDAA creating the new UAP office, and he and Lue Elizondo been regularly meeting with the Senate Intelligence committee to further pursue this topic. And to go on that, Lue Elizondo (former head of AATIP) made no money from his time at TTSA or the Unidentified TV show. If someone needed money, it would have been him imo.
Also sup-mail, which I found much more usable than mutt, neomutt, or alpine.
> Couldn’t help myself but do one more request changing the ID. Brought another card number and name.

Most likely illegal.

Don't do this.
“Kids these days” is wrong because it falsely posits that different generations are more or less moral or lazy or discerning when in fact kids are always dumb and then get smarter as they mature, which leads to an illusion of degeneracy. Your position appears to be that change itself is impossible even at an economic, technological, or political level? I don’t understand what you’re arguing for. Obviously things do change and quite a lot too. It’s just that human nature does not change on the scale of generations.
These are interesting questions. If you write instructions you have the copyright to them. A computer program is a set of instructions for the computer. So whoever wrote the program has the copyright, right?

But whoever performs those instructions should have the copyright to the "performance" I think. So in principle I could think that the computer performs the instructions and thus can have the copyright to the "performance" but not to the instructions.

I'm thinking about music, and "scores" written by composers, but performed by musicians.

An interesting special case is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3 .

Do the performers have a copyright to the performance when they are following the instructions/score which says "do nothing". :-)
Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's already been done in the best possible way. Finding and documenting flaws (or "venting") is a great step towards improving.

Seriously though what on earth is your point here? This is an incredibly thorough article on an interesting, difficult subject, with a lot of room for different technical choices. Do you just not like the tone?
But how would you link a library written in Rust to a Virgil program? Or vice versa?

That's the real problem the author is ranting about. If you've solved that, too, then I think that the author's article isn't the only Rust team member who'd like to talk to you.
They just don't all have a deep, cultural impact on the zeitgeist.

I think this is especially true in the sphere of art & culture. The enormous variety of work being churned out by artists and creators-- combined with such easy access-- means that something truly groundbreaking won't be seen by as many people because those other people are drawn to other content, equally incredible, that appeals more to their own interests, making it much harder for something to break through siloed interests to the zeitgeist.
Nice concept, very useful for some test cases
Well over ten years ago I had a phone interview with google. First time they didn't show up, so it got rescheduled. Then after the interview.. nothing.

More than a year later I get an email out of the blue from google saying they saw I did great on the phone interview, when would I like to come in for the next round! LOL.. no.

So it has been happening for a long time.
... or report it anonymously to a higher authority like the CERT for your location.
The most difficult part of C-headers-as-interfaces is the use of macros as part of the ABI.
This code has a bug that can cause the count to be overreported. The last `file.Read` may only partially fill the buffer, but this code will look for 1s in the entire buffer.

(This bug won't affect the performance comparison, but I was just reminded of how error prone these kinds APIs can be vs the PHP/Python route of having the library function just allocate a new buffer each time.)
The History of Metaverse
Good on him. I wrote fairly comprehensively about boundaries in open source recently: https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source

A lot of principles are familiar here. Love to see it. Open source is no cakewalk, especially without boundaries.
If you're going spelunking you'll take precautions to mitigate the risk of it being traced back to you.
I'm not sure an unprepared one can leak anonymously and safely.
This is cool. I have no idea what I would ever use it for, but its been bookmarked for me.
> There is absolutely no way this wasn't going to end in a lawsuit.

That’s what you call an inaccurate cynical view.
It's been my experience as well that exposing vulnerabilities, especially financial makes enemies, not friends.

So basically we learn do the minimum possible, to not do the right thing so as not to get fired, and ignore gaping holes leaving them for someone else to risk their neck on, all so we can pay bills for 50 years and then hopefully retire.

What a life.
Go on the dark web, sell the exploit, and move on.

Companies, this is what the rest of us recommend when YOU don't have a responsible disclosure program with $$$.
So, it sounds like, this guy worked for CorpCo, found a security issue with OtherCo's app, and explored their APIs (maybe from CorpCo's network?), including accessing at least one CC number that was not his.

Someone else later discovered the same issue with OtherCo and stole a bunch more card numbers, and used them to commit fraud.

OtherCo looked through their logs, saw the initial exploration coming from this guy at CorpCo, assumed he was also responsible for the subsequent fraud, and contacted CorpCo which ultimately fired him. The fraud was substantial enough for OtherCo to convince authorities to pursue criminal charges.

It's a sad story - but it's not unreasonable behavior from all involved.
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Which jurisdiction is this in? I'm fairly sure this wouldn't fly here, afaik you can't be fired if you are doing your job properly, you didn't do something like steal from your employer, and the company isn't in trouble and can't afford you anymore. This is just hearsay, plus they already knew the claim was nonsense because you up front disclosed the issue.

I'm not even sure which company I fault more here, OP's or the one with the security issue.
Leak anonymously and let nature take it's course. Never put your fate in the hands of beancounters.
> And is a Wordpress-hosted blog truly anonymous?

Would not be surprised if someone figured out how to register a free Wordpress account to the point where any disclosed information is a dead-end trail to any corporate investigators. Takes a dedicated discipline and tradecraft.

If I was in the shoes of OP I certainly would not be discussing anything related to my case until either its conclusion or with all publications reviewed by lawyers.

Then again I have not been in this situation but have seen how things can go south when certain advice is ignored.
I didn't realize DuckDuckGo had such a reputation.
Many moons ago we were scanning ourselves to test changes to our infrastructure, and when testing externally scanned /24 instead of the /29 range we had. We found two wide open SQL servers, listening in public addresses with blank sa passwords (the default on install at the time, oh those innocent days...). Out of curiosity we had a quick look and found one if them contained credit card details. We backed out very quickly... Not wanting to leave such a hole open but also not wanting to risk accusations of hacking we worked out who the companies were by other clues and forged emails warning then about the issue (sending them via a wide open SMTP server, again innocent times!). We never checked to see if anything changed.
The counterargument being the average person couldn't name any company from the 16th century.
Come up with a scientific hypothesis to test your claims. How does the position of the stars affect human personality and events? What is the physical process involved? Is this effect transmitted by light? By gravity, By quantum mechanics? Your hypothesis will need to stand up to the scrutiny of known modern science. How do you account for the speed of light being a hard limit on the transmission of information, and stars being many light years away? How do you account for relativity, precession, and other effects when determining the relevance of position? Is Earth the only relevant vantage point? If so, why, and what does this imply about relativity's thesis that the universe has no preferred reference frames? If your hypothesis involves constellations, you need to explain how stars which just happen to appear in groups from Earth, in the illusory 2D plane of the sky, correlate effects across their arbitrary positions in spacetime.

Since you claim to have enough knowledge to calculate the events created by astrology, an accurate list of future events would be a good place to start, as well as a formal proof of your method for such calculation, presented for peer review.

You will also need to explain how every experiment attempting to validate astrology has found that it does not actually work, and that there is no known scientific basis by which it could even possibly work, beyond psychological effects and fraud, and why all of those experiments were wrong, and no replicable proof of astrology was possible until you and your theories came along, despite people wanting and trying to prove it true for millennia. The principles of astrology were formed at a time when human societies had a wholly supernatural worldview, before people even knew what stars were. That's going to be the difficult part, proving that ancient wizards, alchemists and soothsayers had a more valid and accurate cosmological model than modern astronomers and physicists.

Once your results have been published, peer reviewed, experimentally replicated and validated through rigorous scientific consensus, then you can submit an article about it to Hacker News. Of course by then, having essentially overturned the fundamentals of known physics and proven the existence of the supernatural, everyone will probably already know about it.
Maybe someone committed card fraud, maybe an employee, and is pinning it on OP. Or vice versa.

The write up is pretty confusing and doesn't read like an expert.
Eh, I agree it was kind of a dumb move, but there's no reason he shouldn't be able to have a snoop around. This wasn't "hacking" in the exploit sense. Web scraping, poking and prodding at APIs (yes even "private" ones), indexing a user ID, looking at source code, injecting your own code (e.g. modifying client js), redirecting some requests, none of these are hacking or exploitation, they are literally how the technologies of TCP/IP, HTTP, the web, and web browsers are meant to work.

I'm not sure where the line of "trying to break security" it, but none of the above count. Even accidentally blasting some endpoint with automated garbage. Intent matters.
I don't expect (1). For (2), yes, it's essentially that; but you add some extra mechanisms around to make use of any entropy sources you can find, even if some of them are tainted.

Basically what /dev/random does in Linux: they still use the potentially tainted 'coins' despite having a CSPRNG.
Plank could provide a dock and iDesk can do desktop icons. It would probably take less than an hour to get the Aqua theme really close to the real deal.
Think of it like this, though. Suppose books were invented second to the computer, not first. They'd be the hottest thing. Everyone would be reading in public and giving up their unreliable and vulnerable smartphones, who could resist the atomic collateral of a book, it simply uses so many more atoms per bit than a chip. Books are so much more trustworthy! I've only witnessed one hack on a book whereas I've seen so so many on computers.

So then, someone would post exactly your comment, but in reverse, "I have given up 'teaching typography'." Why? Because nobody cared about subpixel rendering, rotating screens, SVGs versus rasters, because everyone would be exploring kerning tables and spring space.
> Let me repeat that: research, development and test.
>What an incredible coincidence. Alien trolls or Occam’s razor?

The ODNI specifically stated in the 144 cases of UAP they were not able to identify that exactly none of them were from testing US Special Access Programs technology. This is in the official report http://dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-As...

>“Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He is a private equity investor and an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for Arts and Science”
> Equity investor. No conflicts there!

He left TTSA in 2021 and he's still a national security advisor to the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's also from one of the wealthiest families in the world, being a direct line from Carnegie Mellon. Typically when you are born wealthy you are naturally an investor in things you believe in.
"What you quoted is the copyright office's policy from 1966, not something new ruled for this case."

So what? Nowhere in the article or my post is there a "sudden new policy has appeared" statement. Why is this comment section filled with weird tangential claims parading as arguments?

A work generated by a human-created algorithm with a human name on the application will still be accepted.

Sure, getting a copyright requires virtually nothing, nothing gets checked, what would they check? It's content you say you created - stamp! Yes, the only way that policy appears is if you say loudly "hey, give me a copyright for my computer generated thing."

However, the main way it would appear in practice would be if someone attempted to assert copyright on a vast store of computer-generated content. And this is the situation where it would matter.
If the company founders are here - can I ask how did you get such great design? Do you do it in house or use and external designer?
It's already on HN now and the Wayback Machine is a thing. Once it's on the internet, it's pretty much there forever.
The author failed to prove that the current way isn't sufficiently good, or even that C is particularly bad in its role. They've only maligned its use and failed to appropriately consider why it's used.
Respondent's public reaction on the decision[0].

0. https://danielpocock.com/harassment-decision-victory-for-vol...
if you had any written documentation when reporting (at your ex-employer), it might have played out differently i feel (they would have been on hook for any legal notice)
"Shalosh B Ekhad" is Hebrew for 3.1 (as in π).
The car repair industry has been doing something similar for many years.
That's encouraging. BTW where do you get information like that? I'd probably love to read more
If you look into Lue Elizondo's, former head of AATIP, comments on this, you will come to find that he believes these things are testing are doing reconnaissance to test our military capabilities - which is scary to me.

The technology they are displaying is awesome, but it is something we should be very wary of.
Any civilization sophisticated enough to make a boat that can cross the Atlantic Ocean has got to have its stuff together or else they would have just mutinied on the journey over, right?
Tell HN: Stripe Took Our $159k
We created a marketplace called bringshopper.com where we bring shoppers to newly started businesses. We had a call with their sales team and as they suggested we used Stripe Standard Connect and direct charges. When we bring shoppers successfully we charged higher application fees to cover our costs and there was no upfront costs
We even built feature to cover negative balances of connected accounts by cutting their ad budget

And one day Stripe blocked our account, and disabled all our connected accounts and said they WILL NOT RELEASE OUR FUNDS AND WILL USE TO REFUND ALL CUSTOMERS. Now there are multiple things: 1) They didn't refund anyone as we are a platform account we have no charges under us to refund 2) They didn't release funds either

They TOOK OUR FUNDS, $159k to be exact They can't refund customers of all connected accounts and use our funds as they advertise in stripe.com/connect/pricing that Stripe Standard Connect is not responsible for losses, disputes, refunds of connected accounts

There is no charges to be refunded or disputed and they simply took our funds

How is this even legal? Anyone had similar experience or anyone can help? Our company is struggling here due to this

Our account id is acct_1K7t9JC4s1I9dR5f

Updates:
Edwin reached out in other thread I shared saying they can't support our business but still didn't say anything about release of our funds

I want to know when will we receive our money
The kinds of assignments involved with GPZ also shy away from server-side applications ran by other companies.

Maybe doing approved bug-bounty research in a competitors webapp is a safer proposition.
The creator of the algorithm is the inventor of the algorithms results.
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What’s the problem with including property? Ever heard of a cash-out refinance?
Get into freelance writing, the gigs are all over the place. But mostly they're terrible — writing for <$1.00/word is an unsustainable grind unless you live overseas where the dollar goes a lot further. As with consulting, landing the high-ticket contracts is usually more about who you know (and who knows you / knows of you).
I expect it's years of money printing to avoid a dip in the middle of the largest demand drop we've had in a very long time, following by a resurgence in demand as folks get out and try to get moving again (resulting in them spending a bunch of that money all the sudden).

It's pretty predictable IMO.

Either we'd have to drop the economy during the demand slackening during COVID (which would have caused a severe recession, because it WAS a recession in activity, and then there would be a bunch of panicked people in the middle of a pandemic who also lost all their income running around and maybe setting even MORE things on fire), or inflate our way out of it.

Hopefully we don't see some crazy 25% inflation like the 80's, but I wouldn't rule it out.

I'd expect that in a few years it'll flatten out though.