skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I realize that the original story got amplified but seeing that lawsuite is the last nail to the coffin of my view of ubnt.

Telemetry, declining quality, outdated software (log4j was so old it was hard to patch), NVR discontinued, and now this. It's over for me. I will never sell ubnt again.

I liked there positioning in the market, it was my goto solution for small to mid deployment, up to 20AP.

A few days ago, a customer got their nvr hacked and it started (well, it tried) to mine crypto. I had told him it would happen eventually so I limited the nvr user permissions and resources to the strict minimum, which mitigated the attack.

I ended up coding an in house solution, with a mix of ffmpeg rtsp->hsl bridges and motion for motion detection. Nothing fancy, a few scripts and a few html pages.
Who cares if you've never come across it before. It happens.

How else do they prove they are a real bank???

You are making the same dumb mistake this guy made.
> I had assumed that most of Canada would be later than the Northern tier of the US

It is, but you don't find much winter wheat outside of Southern Ontario, which is actually pretty far south in the grand scheme of things. The most southern end of the province is on the same plane as California.

The Canadian prairies, where most of the wheat is grown, are all about the spring wheat. That's typically a September harvest.

> Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming

Only one of those states is not contiguous with Canada. Given much of the same environment, they share a lot of the same farming practices as western Canada. In other words, your dates no doubt include spring wheat, despite what the opening section of the document says. This explains the wide variances (July - September) in some cases, with winter wheat being the early crop and spring wheat being later.
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There are spring samples that are vulnerable. There are bound to be vulnerable applications. However to equate it with log4shell is clickbait. This is no where near as bad because of the preconditions required.

At my company we are doing our due diligence as a java shop and in all the code we have been scouring we have not found anything exploitable.

The configuration in use here is not the most common for modern development practices and spring. This only affects non JSON APIs using the WebDataBinder.

The do not believe the point about tomcat is correct. Testing the most simple payload that directly interacts with the class loader is not triggering because the class loader in non-standalone tomcat does not allow accessing these fields.

In fact tomcat is patching this as well to prevent this from happening. This configuration of Tomcat is part of the problem. I'm open to seeing proof otherwise, but so far there has been nothing published that shows that other servlet configurations are exploitable.
Slightly OT but I swore off Reolink because as late as two years ago they still required a Flash plugin before you could view camera captures in a web browser. I think they've finally fixed that, but the utter cluelessness of requiring Flash in 2020 left a bad taste in my mouth.
Glamr: Global Occlusion-Aware Human Mesh Recovery with Dynamic Cameras
How do you send a message to someone on HN?
Say it's to a friend.
Nothing to brag about, sure, but still remarkably good in comparison with calls today. Latency aside, the quality of copper POTS was still capable of being much better than, for example, my new iPhone making cellular calls on AT&T’s network. (I prefer FaceTime Audio)
I pretty sure there would not be an "Singularity" event.
AGI will come in a form of many specific domain AIs integrating togheter step by step.
Eventually this AI might be able to improve itself, this might seems to be the moment when it colud get better rapidly, but the base techinology supporting it, the silicon chip, is now in the flat upper step of the S curve of improvement.
Till there is another form of technology that can increment some orders of magnitude the processing power, we will not see that AGI that can rival the smartest humans. My humble bet.
Most world grain is shipped short distances within countries (by rail, truck, canal, ..) and consumed locally. Only a small proportion is shipped internationally, and usually the shortest possible routes are picked (because that is cheaper).

Entirely taking out Ukrainian grain shipments is not a small sliver of the total amount of long-distance grain shipping, but instead requires a significant increase in the total deadweight-ton-miles. We are talking about taking 10%+ of international wheat/corn/barley trade and making it travel 3–6x further than it otherwise would, in an industry that usually runs on thin capacity margins. (Disclaimer: I am not an expert and have not done a detailed calculation.)

That is a potential logistical nightmare. Hopefully smart people with the power to make large temporary changes are working on ameliorating the pain and keeping everyone fed.
Unless you're Mozart or Pascal, age is a relevant factor. That's not an attack or anything, it's just an important fact.
Sounds like matrix would work.

But signal is a good choice. I don't understand the risk of giving out your phone number?
In terms of principles, I agree with you. In terms of power, your description is aspirational and not the functional process.

When I say the question of abuse of power of the President and his Cabinet if "political, not legal," I mean that the mechanism by which the things you are describing are Constitutionally enforced are the impeachment powers of Congress, not the judicial powers of the courts. There's no benefit to trying an acting Secretary of State when the president has the authority to just pardon them immediately and the authority to fire them if they have acted to his displeasure.

And functionally, in the realpolitik sense, a failure on Congress's part to impeach any of the Presidents that allowed their secretaries of state to be as lax as they were is a tacit agreement that the current interpretation of these laws is acceptable. Congress has the authority to write these laws. And if Congress is unhappy with how they are enforced, they have the authority to impeach the executive. If the President or the Secretaries are in violation of the law, that's how we stop them. That's what rule of law looks like in the United States... The Constitution is very clear on who has the authority to remove the President from office (and, perhaps, slightly less clear on whether the president's broad pardon power extends to himself; it obviously extends to his cabinet).

You mentioned bribes and banana republics in a peer thread; I recommend reflection on the Iran-Contra scandal on that topic.

... and this is what I mean when I say "People get so bent out of shape about their perception the rules are violated when they don't even put the time in to know what the rules are." I mean that people get angry with the president, or the courts, or demand a Secretary of State be thrown in jail... And incredibly few people ask why Congress allows this to continue. Because ultimately, they have the power to stop it.
A short introduction to Approximation Theory
Brennan dissects a female coachwhip snake in her lab at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts in September 2021. “This is my happy place,” she says.

Brennan really love science. And genitals. And vivisections.
the 3D filter nearly blinded me and I was fuming that the biggest feature they've added in years was useless filters. then i remembered april fools day.... they got me so good
Or 2 could be a "carrot" to prevent people from connecting their personal devices to 1.
To gain share of the social media market
I pointed my MX records to iCloud and quickly forgot about it soon after. It works for my needs, which are really not that complex. I can receive and send email, have a 'family' calendar shared with my wife, and it's all included in the price of what I was already paying for iCloud storage. To me, it's a good deal.
> a space shuttle weighed 2,040,000kg

It's common sense that a space shuttle would be heavy, but this heavy? The thrust needed to lift the damn thing must be weight x 9.8m/s^2 = 19,992,000 Newtons.

Why can't it be lighter?
Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros
This was a thing a few years ago.

There were alleged leaks from a whistle-blower from the CCP regarding developing bio-weapons that targeted specific gene sequences attributed to certain ethnicities.
I didn't realize you suggested gold. I thought you meant "runescape gold". Yes gold is durable.

I suspect cryptocurrency will be a store of value far further into the future than gold. Gold becomes plentiful once extracting resources from asteroids becomes economically viable.
The imagery and jokes in that article are pretty repulsive. And funny.

> "...there is a huge gaping hole in our knowledge of this very fundamental part of bird biology"

> Brennan’s husband is used to these kind of excursions: “He brings me roadkill as a nuptial gift,” she says.
wacom has more than a thousand employees and had nearly a billion dollars in revenue last year

their market cap is $150 billion

https://craft.co/wacom
In 2000, AI could barely pluralize nouns. Now it can write pages of comprehensible text.
What's the situation with Wayland? The post mentions X driver, but I suppose Wayland compositors need to handle styluses and drawing tablets in some different way?

UPDATE:

I found some info here: https://developer-docs.wacom.com/intuos-cintiq-business-tabl...

> A tablet should work as long as both the system compositor and the application you are using both support the Wayland Tablet Protocol.

> The Wayland Tablet Protocol is supported by the most common compositors in Linux: Mutter (GNOME), KWin (KDE Plasma), and compositors based on wlroots (e.g. Sway).
> but 5ghz surely not, with over a hundred channels

On which planet do you reside in which this is remotely true?

Many devices (clients and APs alike) do not properly implement DFS. Which leaves the number of usable channels around a dozen or so. And that's in 20 MHz mode. In his quest for more speed, my neighbor runs his network in 40 MHz or 80 MHz mode (can't remember which) which cuts the amount of usable channels in half / quarters. So the rest of the neighborhood deals with interference while he binges 4K Netflix with his Y-fronts around his ankles on the toilet.
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We need to also consider Russia's wheat exports. They've threatened protection measures on their wheat.
AGI sounds terrible. There's a reason it's mostly (only?) portrayed in distopias. I feel sorry for whoever thinks it's a good idea.

Humanity is screwing itself just fine without AGI though. We're already well down the road of automating most human activities, seldom for the better, most times for the worse. Soon enough we'll be left only doing white collar busywork like in that movie where the guy falls in love with his phone.
Ask HN: Is there a technical writeup on the implementation of Hacker News?
I've gathered it's written in Arc lisp, and I've found various threads where people ask specific questions about it which are then answered by pg or dang, but I'm curious if there's been a comprehensive write-up somewhere. If nothing else, I'd be curious just to see what a non-toy lisp website looks like under the hood.
I work at a VFX company where all production is done in Linux and many of my colleagues prefer a Wacom. It's especially important for texture artists who actually have to paint textures. I mainly use Houdini and edit code so I don't use a Wacom, but we have had them at the company for many years and they do indeed work very well in Linux! (And now I know why!)
There's not been a run on banks since the Fed's existence. The country needed a "Fed" - you can only say that they're unneeded because you have not experienced a time when they didn't exist and bank deposits couldn't be secured.

It's like people who ask why they need to be vaccinated for polio now that there's very few cases of it.
thank you for letting me know I hate to use words incorrectly
It is hard for humans to visualize in their heads the difference between 1 billion and 10 billion. Our brains weren't created to think of such massive amounts of objects. I don't think it is too big of a social problem though.

It's probably because cavemen had to carry 10 rocks at a time, 15 max. We didn't have to use such large numbers until recently in human history.
Architects sometimes feel like the Mac users of the engineering world. Maybe it's not fashionable anymore to have headphone jack, but the utility of it is immeasurable and you'll really miss it when you need it.
> always assumed it was an inevitability.

Why? We don’t know how to build it, even in theory, so shouldn’t the default be to say there’s no way of knowing it’s possible or not?

After all, some things from sci-fi have become reality (computers, the Internet) or haven’t but are obviously feasible (human travel to Mars) and some haven’t and seem unlikely ever to (faster-than-light travel, flying cars).

With no evidence in either direction, why assume that AGI is in the second category, rather than the third? There’s no natural law saying that everything that can be imagined is possible.

> GI is a real thing.

Yes, but GI isn’t AGI. AGI would require us to either use completely different materials with completely different efficiency characteristics and somehow achieve the same results, or learn to precisely manipulate organic materials (proteins, etc.). It’s not obvious to me why either of these is possible (or impossible — I’m not taking a stance either way).

Furthermore, even if it is possible to build AGI, there’s no a priori reason to believe that humans are smart enough to discover how.
An interesting thing about these trackpads, the hardware was actually pretty bad. It can only move the cursor in the X or the Y axis at any given time, i.e. the hardware does not support diagonal cursor movement.

Apple's driver did a great job of masking that with fuzzing and (I believe) predictive movement, that's the reason it seemed good in Mac OS X. But you can even tell in OS X if you're really looking for it!

https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-813884.html
I think a lot of this is that ships have gotten massively larger quite recently. Just to focus on the Evergreen Marine fleet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine_Corporation) you can see that until 2013 the largest ships they operated were about 8000 TEU. Then in 2013 the Thalassa class came online at 13k TEU, and more came in that general size (including Ever Forward, the ship in this case), then in 2018 came the G class (including Ever Given) at 20k TEU, then the A class at an even larger 23k TEU is just starting to come online. But you can see that ships of this size are less than a decade old, so you can understand why the edge cases aren't fully worked out- channels and ports can handle them in perfect conditions, but when things degrade they are more likely to have problems because they are so much bigger.
> beating Go surely would mean human level intelligence

With the benefit of hindsight, this just seems like a bad goalpost. Go is hard for computers, but why did anyone think the smarts required to beat a human at it would transfer to understanding or generating text, or anything else a human can do?
Maybe I should put it this way: "2022 is the year of linux desktop!"
It seems pretty clear, and reasonably engaging. Plain, at worst. Are you sure you're not just a fan of flowery language? Also, what cultural revolution is the grade level of this writing related to? That's a pretty cryptic implication.
But wouldn't that have the same issue then? Developers decide to update their dependencies to patch any security vulnerabilities, and wind up adding installing node-ipc's malicious update
I am really curious about the search algorithm. I love the palette hack, how did you find candidates to then start searching through the possible palettes?

I can sort of think of:

1) Collapse the colours in the palette to the minimum necessary to be seen as "Waldo". The more slack in the gif palette the better - 24bit colour vs 16 colours (or fewer) in the starting image?

2) For each substring in Pi, map the hex value to a colour (or close to the colour) to match the expected image.

3) find best match - how?

How to backtrack though?

Perhaps pin important fragments?

The glasses and chin seem more important?
Dualism is simply an ivory tower God of the gaps. To these sophists, anything we can't explain now can be decomposed into a physical and metaphysical part.
I’m talking about evolutionary selection in the context of pressure for some genes to propagate, that is the jargon yes? I’m also acknowledging that an individual can influence that when many individuals are doing the same thing
What is the material evidence for numbers? What is the material evidence for logic? What is the material evidence for persistence of identity over time? What is the material evidence for math? What is the material evidence for categories? What is the material evidence for grammar? What is the material evidence for a mayor (not the mayor qua person, but the mayor qua office)? What is the material evidence for marriage? According to empirical evidence, which knife is the best knife? There is no "best" without purpose. And materialism has nothing to say about purposes. Empiricism can only work when an agent in the world has a specific purpose. There are vast swathes of human experience that don't fit tidily in the box of materialism or empiricism.
I agree, it isn't as bad as Log4J if only for the fact that it's JDK 9+ specific. A lot of our deployments are still on Java 8. So even if they are vulnerable we're sort of protected by being slow.

Since a typical Spring application has a lot of dependencies I'm sure some 3rd party library somewhere could be susceptible. Embedded Tomcat which is pretty common might have an exploit we can't imagine at this moment.
I see, I did find it slightly suspicious that they loaded the file using Image.open instead of just reading the bytes directly. Thanks!
> If you believe humans/life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, then AGI is not possible.

How does that follow?

> What are the common secular arguments against AGI?

Having infinite time and resources, and pointing to the existence of intelligent humans is a fairly weak argument IMO. It's not really saying anything much that can be refuted. Sure there exists some physical process from which intelligence arises. That doesn't mean we'll be able to create the same thing. Can we create a heart? Or a hand? Even a patch of skin is cut from one part of a person's body and grafted elsewhere. All things far simpler than the brain. And the best hope we'll probably ever have of creating them is to grow biological ones rather than actually design and build our own. Let's go one step further - we are incapable of creating anything even approaching the functionality of the simplest single-celled life-form. The "it exists therefore we must be able to create it" argument doesn't have a lot of legs.

And there is no real "trajectory" to general intelligence that I can see. Velocity is sitting around a flat zero. Recognizing pictures of cats on the internet is about where we are at the moment. Even self-driving cars or doing a half-decent job at predicting what people might like to buy are not a step along the road to intelligence, they are an entirely different roads altogether. We don't even know what that road looks like, don't know where it is, and don't know where we are in relation to it. The only vaguely plausible lead people have to go on is to try to do what biological brains do, but seeing as we don't even know how they work it's a bit like the blind leading the blind.

I think it's quite possible, certainly over an infinite time scale. Not an inevitability though, definitely not inevitable (or even very likely) within our lifetimes.
Is there anywhere one could see an example of these tools being used together in and end-to-end workflow to get a quick sense of what VFX tools are capable of these days? It's a total black box to me, and I have no interest in it beyond the sheer curiosity of how far the tools have advanced and how much one can do with those with enough experience and effort.
As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain
Your mom does not have to know what it is hosted on. Just give her url or use some shortage like jump by daledavies.
And what was her answer?
World That’s More Expensive Is Starting to Destroy Demand
How to Buy Rice for Korean Cooking
Just for laughs someone should make a 39 inch drive with modern technology. Looks like a PMR drive would get 338 TB per platter, so a 25 platter arrangement like in the photo would be 9.7 PB.
With python backend plus Python lib support no sofeare can beat excel
until he got to the payload of the scam, it was honestly a smoother and more positive and helpful call than any legitimate interaction I've ever had with Wells Fargo (which, in and of itself, probably should have registered as suspiciously too good to be true

lol
Why would it cook itself if it was replicated in silicon?

I think it's a lot less likely humanity just happens to be at some natural limit of intelligence rather than being bounded by other unrelated constraints.

AGI tradeoffs would be different because it'd be unconstrained from biological natural selection. If you're interested in this stuff it's worth checking out the work that specifies the AGI goal alignment problem more specifically.

The most commonly recommended book is Bostrom's Superintelligence, but it's fairly dry. Tegmark's Life 3.0 is on the other extreme of too pop-sci like. I think Yudkowsky's writing is the best for explaining the issue (specifically AGI goal alignment and what the specific problem is) in a way that's accessible, but not dumbed down.
10k+ TEU ships need to be made illegal.
go modules is one of the hardest things about learning go as a new learner. most of the documentation talks of gopath. the go mod error messages are extremely cryptic. why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?

the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code. some projects have a version number in the package name. do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?

i can’t think of another build system that has so much variation just in declaring and importing dependencies
I never understood this point of view, teachers are just people doing a regular job, just like basically everyone else. Assuming that teachers should have the same level of engagement as a good parent is just ignorant, very few teachers are like that. Most don't care more about your kids future than technical support cares about your struggles with their product. You can't expect technical support to solve your problem, it is better to learn to solve them yourself, and even if you don't do everything yourself the more engaged you are the easier it will be for the technical support to help you.
Snapchat is biiiiiig among gen z
They are more limited than C++ moves for sure, whether that is a good or a bad thing I am not so sure of!

I am curious if there are any examples of things you wanted to do but couldn't with Rusts move semantics.

After using both C++ and Rust I personally feel that the way Rust handles moves makes a lot more sense and ends up being much more ergonomic. In C++ moves feel messy and complex due to them being added on rather than having the language built around them from the start. It's also not ideal that C++ moves must leave values hanging around in an unspecified state rather than destroying them immediately, even if there are a few cases where that is useful, most of the time it's not.

Rust also doesn't have any of the crazy `&&T` rvalue reference stuff or require explicitly defining move constructors since everything is movable and all moves are bitwise copies.