skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reverse engineered a sketchy link I got in an SMS. I opened up Tor Browser Bundle (with JS disabled), then went to a URL 'un-shortener' service[0]. Furthermore, I saw an interstitial page with a JavaScript payload in it, and it was all obfuscated and obviously coded to hide what it was doing.

I could have gone further and unpacked the code, beautifying it to see what 0 day it was leveraging, but I didn't proceed further. Obviously, this was designed to take over my device. Luckily, my default browser on my phone is Firefox with JavaScript turned off, so it wouldn't have been able to execute if I did click on the link.

[0] https://urlex.org/
> That's surely nice, but ultimately inconsequential

This is a great quote to describe engineer-minded approach to user experience and convenience.
From an author’s perspective, why split their posts between platforms depending on their length?

Twitter isn’t perfect, but it’s where the readers are, so they publish there, even if it doesn’t have the best UI for them or their readers.
Exhibit A: "Daemon" is just an archaic spelling of "demon" and we already have a common pronunciation for that.

Exhibit B: In Old English, "æ" was a vowel that did not survive to modern English. There is no direct equivalent sound or letter for it today. Other words that contiained æ have generally taken the long E pronunciation instead, e.g. encylopaedia -> encyclopedia and aether -> ether.

So people can say what they want but in my opinion, the "dee-mon" pronunciation is the most correct. :)
What's the story here? This is normal market dynamics for collectibles where people paying what they perceive the value to be.

I'm sure there are plenty of Beanie Babies (and other Collectibles) that are nearly worthless compared to what someone payed for them previously.

Note: I'm not for or against NFTs. I'm just trying to point out the dynamics of the Collectibles market.
Or the counterparty.
I'm glad you came to your senses on this one. You were probably never properly experiencing both things. Giving each your full attention should result in a higher quality and more meaningful experience. I think it's more respectful to the media you're watching to give it your proper attention as well.

In the past I watched shows with a friend occasionally, and he had a nasty habit of whipping out an iPad mid-episode to look something up. He didn't even pause. Sometimes he'd fall asleep as well. Then he had the nerve to say things about how the show didn't make sense or he thought there were plot holes. I didn't agree, and I assume he just missed major bits by splitting his attention. It's always bothered me when people put on shows (not broadcast TV, but things watched intentionally) in the background or on a second monitor and then claim later that they've "watched" it. The way I see it, if you don't want to really watch it, then don't. Go do that other thing that's on your mind. Come back to the show later. Or if it really can't hold your attention, don't make yourself watch it at all.
As I tell my teams, the actual points don't matter and getting the points "right" doesn't matter. What really matters is that we apply a consistent rubric to estimating the magnitude of the work. If there's anything more than 10 seconds of discussion on a lower vs. higher number, err on the higher side. Estimating does at least make everyone consider confidence that product/behavior questions are answered, and risk & complexity of building/testing/shipping.

As a pointy-haired boss, I want these things so I can roughly ascertain how much work big things are relative to each other, and get an idea of roughly how much work can get done in some sufficiently large window that average velocity for a team has meetings. Velocity and points are never, ever, ever compared across teams, set as a target, or reported as some performance metric.

That said, if a team was averaging 30 points a sprint, with a standard deviation of 20 (not even sure that's possible, but you get the gist) that'd be a sign to me that something is amiss. When I have seen this, it's usually be a sign that stories weren't truly "ready" to work, due to unclear requirements, underestimating technical complexity, unexpected absences, etc.
Im with you on this.
You make enough money that it doesn't matter.

When you're buying $60 of groceries a week that now cost $80 and you're buying $30 of gas a week that now costs $40, you're spending an extra $30 a week.

You probably don't even notice an extra $30 a week, but that's breaking the budget for a lot of people.
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don't forget the State mandated haircuts

https://youtu.be/2BO83Ig-E8E
This is sort of a sequel to a piece about the ancient Mediterranean megaflood that did really well on here last month - so, with my fingers crossed it's not too obnoxiously self-promotional of me to do it, I thought I'd give this one a punt as well.

Also, thank you to those who left comments saying you didn't like that former piece's introduction. I agree with you! It was rambling and a bit self-indulgent and I should have just got on with the story. This one does that (I think). Cheers.
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Well, to avoid stretching the metaphor too far, I'll just say that the movie/book/music equivalent of open source requires more than just the final product, which is essentially the compiled binary. Where you draw the line between between all production materials and the final output may vary. But if Avengers: Endgame was put under a permissive creative commons license, that would no more make it the equivalent of open source than if Microsoft allowed free distribution of MS Office & derivative works, but not the actual source code.

At this point though we're debating the analogy more than the issue, not always productive (though sometimes it is). Maybe we've (I) stretched it too far.
Isn't the reason that Unity/UE have crap performance because of the capabilities they offer? For example, you can run the app on multiple platforms.

This is the Electron or Hybrid app argument all over again. For 95% of the applications built, the ability to launch on Win, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS far outweighs the bloat and performance hit you have. But for the few AAA titles out there, then yes supporting native support might be worthwhile.

I mean, thats what modern software development is all about - tradeoffs.
I'm 53 and recently embarked on a complex self-guided mini-medical education to try to understand my son's rare condition.

I've pushed my way through a 400 page nursing textbook, dozens of scientific papers and a 900 page freshman neuroscience textbook (currently at page 90).

I never took any bioscience class after high school software chem.

There have been ups and downs. Mentally comparing myself to when I was in school and reading comparable material, I feel my ability to master it was at or above that - at its best. However the amount of time I spend "at my best" in general is MUCH lower than when I was that age.

Today I have trouble sleeping many nights. An old hip injury and also anxiety.

A night I don't sleep well is definitely not going to be followed by a day where I gain understanding of neuronal membrane chemistry.

Didn't have those issues when I was 17 - any time was study time.

So I guess this goes along with the thesis of the story. Mental powers are there, but other body systems aren't able to support the brain's demands at quite the same level.
I'd just assumed it was from that. Greek-tradition minor deities and helper spirits. Like "genius".
A lot of people are not in situations where they can be cavalier about basically not being reachable by phone from someone not in their contacts. To be sure, the idea that we're always reachable is quite a modern phenomenon. Nonetheless, it's something of an expectation in many circumstances and behavior patterns take it into account.

The good news I guess is that, while I'm sure people vary, spam phone calls and texts seem to have gone down quite a bit for me to the point where they're a very occasional annoyance.
Pardon me. I never understood NFTs and never planned to be on board. But from my nascent understanding of what NFTs comprise, I couldn't understand why first tweet ever is a real NFT.

The tweet is publicly available so there is no exclusivity. Anyone can look far enough & find it. The second being ownership. The tweet was always time stamped & in Jack Dorsey's name. Buying it as NFT will not really change its attribute. Then again, the copyright law also is contradictory to NFT ownership. It was written by Jack Dorsey, so he automatically has its copyright - unless he signs it away as a legal document (just as academics do for their journal papers. Even then, it doesn't change authorship). AFAICT, Jack Dorsey hasn't & a blockchain purchase doesn't really legally transfer copyright.

I am still confused how this will be a NFT. If there is a better explanation, I am glad to learn more about it.

Edit: It seems my understanding was not only nascent but incomplete. It makes more sense with the extra details.
Chomsky is amazing. Sharp and well spoken, still!

Remembers all dates of US wars at 90+!
I agree - I was using a specific example but in practice I think it's a number of a class of things like this that pile on and look a lot like executive dysfunction, and the label is put on these people by NTs, not by themselves. I had no problem showing up to work every day at 11am, fwiw, and was lucky enough to have a lot of jobs that didn't think too hard about schedules, but for folks not so lucky, not fitting the average in a number of ways will get you very crude labels. Those labels are to give their caretakers power over them in the eyes of society/legally.
I’ve generally straddled group 1 and 2. I’ll invest some effort into keeping a clean experience but have never gone all the way.

However over the past six months or so I’ve seen a drastic shift in how bad the experience is. I think what shocks me most is how often a website will effectively crash mobile safari on an iPhone 13 pro.

That’s jolted me awake as to how terrible the default experience is for people that are squarely in your group 2.
That cost isn't saved, it's just shifted somewhere else, as demonstrated for example by the daily emptying of trash that op described.
I have been thinking this for a while. This is being called an 'attack' and a 'hack' although it seems pretty clear the user(s, probably) just understood the code well. It doesnt seem any of the steps in execution would have been illicit otherwise.
The Chrome/Firefox numbering system is “new number every month”. Most of those updates don’t bring any new notable features.
> IQ peaks in your 20's

Does that tell us more about intelligence or the testing?
It doesn't signify your heart slowing down because it doesn't have to digest food. A low heart rate suggests low metabolism (response of body to low amounts of carbohydrates available to it in order to be converted readily to ATP molecules and save them in case of emergencies)
Most of the criticisms of the technique revolve around false negatives, but you bring up an interesting point.

Still, "marked part of the animal is itching me" shows that the animal can identify a marked body part in the image (e.g. forehead) and indicate the corresponding part on it own body. The "self" concept has to be involved there to some degree even if not to the point of "the animal I see is actually me".
I empathize with this so hard. I have an early first-initial-last-name Gmail account as well. It's both very generic in the United States, and when combined, a common first name in Brazil. It's nearly unusable at this point, but I've had it since 2004 and it'd be very difficult to migrate away from it. I have a filter to delete any email from a .br domain, but just the amount of Brazilian spam that makes it through is torrential.
NFTs of jpegs are scams.

NFTs that are linked to real-world assets (through intermediaries that you have to trust, yes — unlike everybody else on the blockchain) like stock, real estate or anything else are not.
Sure. But bundle them into CDOs, give them the AAA rating, start selling options on them and suddenly that's a legit business. NFTs are missing this thick layer of complexity that obfuscates the nature of the core financial "product".
HOA actions seem like exactly the sort of thing I should be receiving by mail. I think this thread is referring to not wanting things like "To {YOUR_NAME} or Current Resident" or spam offers via mail, which are a waste.
Ironically, the instant I loaded that article I was confronted with an e-mail newsletter subscription pop-up.
It does: I've used RoboKiller (who provided the data from the article) since I switched to iPhone in 2020 and missed the Google Assistant stuff from my Pixel. It has a free and a $40/year tier both of which are good compared to the alternatives like Truecaller, and it does both call and SMS filtering.
Agreed. These labels work because for the most part the legal system allows them to, they are ways for caregivers/parents to maintain control over someone that they think should be different.
I would also be interested in this. I've been consulting for about 2 years but mostly thru my network. I'm a bit stuck as to how to branch out beyond that.
Yes, it was a story of political conflict, not a story about science.
CVE-2022-21907 Microsoft HTTP Protocol Stack DoS PoC
Up to now everything about "crypto" has just been a vehicle for speculation and get rich quick. There is no real world problem being solved. I have seen many possible uses proposed but none actually enacted and every case were blockchain may be used, something far more practical is already in place solving that problem and doing so without the impact to the environment or the electronics market.
NEC digital signage displays can split the screen in various ways and show things from different inputs. I've also seen some Dell monitors advertised as able to do it. There's probably some sort of box you could put between the screen and all the devices to handle this for you as well.
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of

It would be so nice if politicians could show us precisely what they're protecting our children from, so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples.
Vote for politicians who believe in global cooling. If we spread enough awareness of the idea, it will become reality
I also think a part of this is having enough experience to notice the cyclical nature of things also. Yes, that brand new thing is cool, and in my 20s I mighta jumped to learn it. But now, I see it's just a re-imagination of something from 10 years ago, that I learned back then, so it doesn't excite me in the same way. I might look at it to understand the parts that are different/re-imagined, but often not going to deep dive into items that fit that description.

And yes, not everything is just repeated, but it was an aspect I hadn't seen anyone else talk about.
> I work in designing simple "closure models"

What is the order of the turbulence closure models used in modern work? 1.5? 2? 2.5?
In this case, it's different than lift. We can run CFD simulations of wings and get accurate estimations of lift/drag etc. We cannot do that for Hall thrusters without already having run the thruster, as we need to calibrate the anomalous transport parameters to make the simulation match experiment. This makes the simulations much less useful in design than they are in other fields, which is a real drawback.

Another point to make is that testing these devices is expensive. They are low thrust propulsion systems that are designed for thousands of hours of continuous operation. They need to be run in very high vacuum, and for higher power devices there are only a handful of vacuum chambers in the world sufficient for the task. Additionally, Xenon is expensive (dramatically moreso since the Russian invasion of Ukraine), so developing better predictive simulations is critical.
There’s an active market, but it’s mostly winner takes all and ones that establish a brand/community (helped by the tokens gating access to merchandise or events). Also good when token includes IP.

BAYC/MAYC is the biggest, milady seems to be getting traction (not sure why).

These specific ones are also easy to liquidate for now because of opensea bots willing to sell ~10% below “floor” so they can flip later.

I made this bet with a MAYC a while back to play with and understand what was going on (bet was MAYC price would climb because of BAYC community and future ape token). It worked out, but it can be a bit stressful for sure.

The interesting bit is gated community access/easily verifiable ownership of membership. The art is a meme-ish way to signal this status, but the ability to verify easily is the new capability (urbit uses it well imo - costs can be low, but verification and non-zero cost make spam no longer economical)

The Jack tweet style nft and ones like that seemed like a dumb bet to me. The value is in the community, access, or (maybe) in IP rights for a certain sports clip or something. NFTs of stuff like Jack’s tweet or a meme without IP rights have no real value beyond hype imo.

This topic is also squarely in the class of things the median HN comment is dumb about so it’s rare to find info here, usually just sneering dismissals.
Jack Dorsey sold it; it's not like some random made a jpeg and tried to sell it.
This is the only way a blockchain based social network could work, and it would be interesting if Twitter somehow did that in the future.

The only way you can have both censorship free content, but also various levels of moderation as selected by entrepreneurs or users, is to have permanent records of everything but then build filters on top of it. Of course you’d have to be ok with the blockchain storing everything from child porn to gore to spam potentially.

What many people also miss is that teams or entrepreneurs are needed to create good user facing products. Linux is good for B2B but will never be able to compete with apple for end users, because distributed development just doesn’t work for that. So for any social network you need a team or an entrepreneur too. What Ben is talking about is that, competing apps built for the Twitter protocol.

I run a small social network and I’ve had quite a few disagreements about blockchain based networks, they can’t work by themselves.
The spec got a version bump from 3.0 to 3.1 and the new version of the spec added an additional transfer mode called "Gen 2".

From that point of view it makes a lot of sense. You need to differentiate the spec version from the features talked about in the spec.

From a marketing standpoint, it's terrible as most people need a simpler name and are incorrectly choosing the spec version. Marketing labels should just be "USB Gen 1" and "USB Gen 2". If you see "Gen 2" you know the spec version was at least 3.1, though that shouldn't even matter.
You’ll be excited then to learn that I’ve both bought art and sold art I’ve made, and it was all actually used for decoration and priced reasonably for that utility - no scam involved!
A NFT is not a collectible, it's a pure vehicle for financial speculation. The object being collected no longer exists in any meaningful sense.
>> the system has to be rearchitected to solve

> If it was obvious how to, we'd be talking about that, but it's not even obvious how to

We're in agreement, both on that and on your points on how innovation does happen. Basically all of the decentralization projects in the past ten years, from federation to p2p to blockchains, have been taking a stab at the greenfield approach. None of them have worked in the sense that they displace existing approaches, but I remain hopeful that something useful can come out of it all.

As a fun aside, one of the more interesting semi-adversarial approaches I've seen was Delta Chat [1] which basically put a chat interface on top of email.

1. https://delta.chat/en/
I'm looking at a map! The eastern border of Spain is the pyrenees, and Catalonia lies at the south end of the pyrenees; it as far south as you can go, down the eastern border. North-east Spain lies on the Bay of Biscay; South-east Spain lies on the Mediteranean.

The north-east portion of Spain is the Basque country. That does lie on the Bay of Biscay.

I agree that Catlunya is north of e.g. Madrid, or Grenada, or whatever. But Catalunya is certainly the southernmost part of eastern Spain. Saying it is "the northeast of Spain" is just wrong. Hell, look at the wikipedia link that sibling posted: it's as clear as daylight. You can't go further east without arriving in France; but you can leave Catalunya through it's northern border, without leaving Spain.

Catalunya is therefore not "the northeast of Spain".
It certainly doesn't seem like they expected this.
Hahah. Some stories like these.

My elderly parents were on google forever. Forgot password because they'd just stayed logged in.

What was weird is even though they had a recovery email (mine) that we were able to get a code too google had a second check - a requirement to TEXT a code to the phone number on the account. Unfortunately my elderly parents had put a landline phone down - which doesn't accept text messages.

I gave google the benefit of the doubt on that, because they'd actually forgotten the password.

More seriously, I was doing an apps setup (way way back) for a nonprofit. They give you a weird temp email domain, then you port in your domain etc etc. Some issue (no fault of ours) got the state stuck in a doomloop. Even though it was a paid service, there was no support.

I contrast that with AWS. Fine support on store side and on compute side in my experience.
I had never gotten a spam text, and only a handful of spam calls, until a couple of months ago. Then, it was like a switch had been flipped -- all of a sudden, I started getting multiple calls a day, every day. I started getting spam texts every few days.

I ended up installing and starting to use TMobile's Scam Shield app (on iOS), which uses some algorithm/data to block suspected spam calls before they get to your phone, and that's basically solved the call problem (it seems to do a good job, and hasn't yet blocked any legitimate calls. On the other hand, I don't get a lot of legitimate calls from random numbers in general, so I'm probably not a representative sample). I started forwarding any spam texts to 7726, and that at least seems to have slowed down that aspect as well, though I still get them once in a while.

Recently, I received a few spam iMessage group texts, with ~18 numbers in a group. It's happened 4 times over the past month, and each time I've blocked every number on that list. I presume that iMessage spam is some cutting-edge development and will only get worse as more spammers figure it out.
You can get by sure, but more lighting can help reduce crime. We have a few streets nearby which have non-standard street lighting. It's less bright and the lights alternate on each side of the street. It's great for the people sleeping in the houses on that street but people feel much less safe walking down it at night and if I were to decide to steal a car or burgle a house, I'd pick that street. At least from what I hear politicians discuss when streets are having new/more modern lighting installed the discussion is always around crime and personal safety and never around cars.
The way forward isn't filtering spam.

It's stopping it at the source. Severe punishments for instigators and technology to catch these people.

I would happily sign up for a communication system on top of email, texts and phones that require identity to be transferred with texts. Some system that unfortunately allows big brother to track all activities. That will effectively stop spammers and scammers.

I get the big brother aspect is bad. So that's why I want this to exist on top of standard communication systems. Though the bad thing is... If it gets to popular people might end up eventually fully switching.
Reply All did a fantastic episode on this, https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8ho3a

AFAIK that case is still unsolved