skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can debate whether this is a legitimate point of view, that for example Crimea was given to Ukraine after 1922 and therefore they are not entitled to it after the desolution of the USSR. I do not know and have no opinion at the moment either.

But no matter what, this passage is a far cry from Russia wants to grab land left and right and conquer everyone.
I grew up in a car dependent area and moved to a walkable big city in my teenage years, and only then became aware that cobblers were still a thing -- in fact, in NYC, they're not an obscure thing, but as common as bank branches.

I think that's why there's a lot of people online who think cobblers aren't a thing anymore. They're from car dependent areas. If you drive everywhere, shoe soles don't wear out much faster than shoe uppers anyway, so it doesn't make sense to care. But if you move to a walkable city, you'll suddenly find it quite economical, since the soles wear out far faster, and the cost of a sole replacement is less than a new pair of shoes, so you might replace the sole a couple times before discarding the shoe.
Oh, what willful ignorance. KF is the kind of "technically legal" operation that the charge of racketeering was invented for. Everyone knows what's happening and why things are laid out as they are, but nobody immediately responsible for the illegal act can be found.
Modern sea level is the highest it's been in over 100k years. Central valley hasn't been anything close to an inland sea for about 1.5m years, but that has more to do with deposited sediment than sea level.
> What is Krebs' false positive rate?

What's more important is how those false positives are handled.

In this case, it feels like it was swept under the rug and he avoided addressing for as long as possible. If he had simply addressed the problem head-on as the news came out and the FBI information became public, it would have been a different story.

The way he rushed to report accusations from an anonymous source (who was actually the perpetrator) felt asymmetric relative to the minimal reporting on the extortion scandal and ensuing FBI investigation. IMO, the story about someone extorting their employer and then abusing security reporters as leverage was more interesting than the original story. Yet Krebs did very little reporting on the latter, likely because he knew he was central to making it all happen in the first place.
Of course but to make an intelligent decision, one needs to be aware of the costs.
You’re thinking of known_hosts, not authorized_keys.
SCP-173 "The Sculpture" is the one about the neck-snapper. The pic that accompanies it does add to the atmosphere of the story.

The official site seems to be:
https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-173

It's very short though. I read a much longer version where they gave the inner monologue of the creature. I can't find it, though. I'm not sure what the deal is.

SCP-052 Time-Travelling Train
https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-052
seems more complete.
Why would you list the .NET version on your CV? Why would anyone hiring care about whether you have experience with .NET 6 vs .NET 3

Do you also list all the library versions you've worked with?

This is pretty absurd.
> You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists.

It is definitely whisteblowing to reveal that a country has been secretely wiretapping the communications of its (supposed) allies – one can blow the whistle on things which are "legal" especially when their legality has been surreptitiously pushed through the back door.
So many chronic diseases in first world countries these days are downstream consequences of metabolic disorders. That is why it's so commonly recommended.
Twenty one years ago, there was announcement that service pack 7 for windows NT 4.0 had been installed on computers on the ISS.

NT users on earth had to install service pack 6a then manually install a load of hotfixes to be up to date. NT 4.0 did not have the automatic updates that we are used to.

Microsoft never released SP7. It is my opinion that they chose not to because they wanted everyone to buy windows 2000. I'm still pissy about it.

https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/27/nt_4_0_sp7_available/
According to the historically accepted definition the US is already in a recession.
If they're actually infringing your copyright with the copied content then a DMCA takedown should be a more reasonable prospect. Most platforms have highly lubricated paths for that, and you won't need to provide the scammer with more than a contact information for your attorney.

Most likely they won't respond and will just be taken down. They might file a false counternotice but if so you'll get their contact information and shouldn't be worse off than if you'd done nothing.

If you're on the fence because you are concerned that the scammers might retaliate, keep in mind that if you knowingly allow scammers to defraud people under your name when you could do something to stop isn't the most moral choice-- even if its the easiest one.

Then again, I'm currently targeted by a multibillion dollar lawsuit because I called out a scammer in my former industry, so maybe don't take my moralizing at you too seriously. :)
> You can't give a free copy to the local library to drive sales

Nobody does that. The comparison doesn’t hold.
I played it and found it interesting.

FYI - get rid of those green tractors in your images. Any other color is probably fine ;)
Crypto as currency is basically worthless if you cannot find someone to take some and convert it to things with normal values.
It sure looks to me like this new development is hailed as a leap, rather than incremental improvement. Although I'm judging just by reading the comments in the HN bubble.

Either way, I think the current "AI" is fundamentally limited by the statistical approach to problem solving. Without any reasoning capabilities, no amount of incremental improvements will change the fact that neural networks are simply making guesses based on existing data sets. Nothing magical or revolutionary, it's the same thing we've known for many decades.
> Is ycombinator's failure to delete the posts of me and others in this thread also indicative of an intent to "use violence as a means of enforcing social order, by encouraging stochastic and opportunistic terrorism against trans people"?

Do you think your comments and this forum increase stochastic and opportunistic terrorism against trans people? Probably you don't think Kiwi Farms does either. But you chose a different argument.
I think the panopticon is unavoidable (I'll expand below) so the question is how to harness it to get a humane techno-totalitarian system?

People have pointed out that "humane totalitarian" is an oxymoron, and I agree, but I think it's the challenge we face.

It seems to me that we can and should ensure that the people in power are themselves subject to the panopticon. Literally politicians should be 24/7 live streaming their lives. (This is in the context where we are all live-streaming 24/7 whether we want to or not, which is pretty much the case today at least in high-tech nations.) Police badges should be integrated with cameras, the badge IS the camera, the camera IS the badge, and if the camera is off the officer is off-duty.

Thoughts?

- - - -

I think the panopticon is unavoidable due to technological and economic considerations. The technology is only getting smaller, cheaper, lower-power, etc. and it's already ubiquitous. (See "sensing for WiFi if you really want to freak out!) Our phones already monitor and report our location in near realtime. Smart cars and traffic systems are a de facto surveillance system even for people who don't carry phones. The economic benefits are inarguable, and only going to get better.

And really, if you could trade your privacy for an end to almost all crime, isn't that worth it? Considering that you wouldn't be alone, that everyone else's privacy is gone too, it's not so bad?
Behold Salesforce+ https://www.salesforce.com/plus/
Investing in stuff like self driving cars should be independent of current market conditions due to the size of their war chest.

The profitable parts of the business are so profitable that would would take massive drops in advertising to really impact the bottom line.
Someone correct me, but, isn't a journalist supposed to have independent corroborating source/evidence no matter how solid one sole source is? Is that basically where he missed the "mark"?
For Snap? Probably. For Apple? Steve Jobs was never sitting on $100+ billion in cash. Though, Apple's buy backs + dividends made more sense given how profitable they were and how much cash they had on hand. Snap has never had positive operating income.
Paparazzi are typically tipped off if not outright paid to show up at the right time.
This was already possible with DALL-E using the inpainting feature going from defined image to transparent edge; this just automates what was a manual process before. Do wish the inpainting tool had more options, for example to fade a transparency in, since my understanding is it makes a difference; not to mention magic wand selection/deselection tool.

In case it is not obvious, every time a user generates an additional section of an image using the outpainting feature, it costs a credit.
This wouldn't matter anyway because the server can just give you access regardless of the auth provided.
No - that's way too narrow of a view of his overall assessment which is basically that a couple of things matter to a country:

1. Access to key resources (food, energy, other products/services). That includes being able to manufacture

2. Demographics

His general position is that the current state of the global economy for #1 is due to risk free global trade due to American guarantees on shipping safety post-WWII. He thinks this is unlikely to continue forever, and he works through the scenarios for individual countries if supply chains have to become more regional/local.

He basically says some countries are in good positions (France, Norway, Sweden, US, most of Southeast Asia) because they have decent demographics, enough military (mostly naval) power, and enough access to critical resources. Other countries are in bad positions (China, Korea, a bunch of others I'm forgetting)

He's "pro-America" mainly because the US is energy independent, food independent, capable of manufacturing anything (and if they can't, they already have alliances with the rest of the Americas to do it), with decent demographics, geographic isolation from other countries that have issues, and a good military to protect shipping. He's "anti-China (and Korea)" because they have rapidly aging demographics, limited access to a bunch of supplies, and no naval power (and in Korea's case, they are stuck in the middle of a bunch of other potentially hostile powers).

I think the US audience is definitely more likely to accept his messages, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong. He could be completely wrong, but it's at least a very interesting perspective (and I think the basis for some of Elon's recent comments).
Google still is an ads company. It’s not as well diversified as apple (hardware, services, ads) and amazon (cloud, retail, consumer electronics, logistics, healthcare,…etc)
Yeah that was us. int13 production was a non-profit in 2004-2006 before we started a real studio in 2008.
Assuming PRs and associated feature branches are substantial[0], I'm a proponent of merging w/o squashing commits. When running `git bisect` or simply doing archaeology on a code base where the previous author(s) left the organization, I've never regretted reading granular commits--only too coarse.

[0] Largely depends on the team's workflow and the functional size of feature branches. If there are a lot of smaller commits made to develop/main/etc., then you can probably get away with squashing.
German power consumption is around 500 TWh
https://www.enerdata.net/estore/energy-market/germany/

If 40% of that was renewable, that puts renewables' portion at around 200 TWh

It's hard to find consolidated recent figures for German electricity storage capacity, but everything I can find lists it in double digit GWh at most, including battery and pumped storage capacity.
https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany
https://www.energy-storage.news/germany-growth-in-home-and-i...
https://www.energy-storage.news/residential-segement-continu...

So there's clearly some creative accounting going on behind that 40% figure. Maybe it's 40% of raw power produced that then gets exported and pays for other sources or something, or maybe that 40% is strictly during the day and can't be replicated at night. But it's clear the storage necessary for a completely renewable grid is lacking by multiple orders of magnitude.
Sounds synonymous to "speech that could anger people". What a load of bollocks.
What makes me scared about this is that it's immunosuppressive. The immune system is a very important part of the human body, and I worry that taking it could have terrible health impact after years of acting on your body lines of defense.

What can you tell me about it?
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Yeah, at this point I'm taking Krebs off of any alert or recommendation lists. Appreciate the Mea Culpa, but it's not like he's been making stellar decisions before this problem.

It also doesn't read as an apology, but an acknowledgment that he was given bad info from a source.
We decided to continue to use reliable and cheap supplier of gas for heating and industrial purposes, mostly chemicals if memory serves well. Sure, we could have moved to heat pumps faster. Believe me so, even for a consumer gas was just much cheaper than PV powered heat pumps. If heating goes renewable much faster it is a very good thing actually. Saying it was a mistake to not do so because of the war in Ukraine is hindsight. It was a mistake when it comes to climate change, one among a lot of mistakes and by no means the biggest ones. When it comes to climate change the botched Energiewende, closure of nuclear plants and increased coal plant capacity have much more impact.
Not "too expensive", just not prepared to pay that expense.

Obviously the USA had the wealth to continue the Apollo program and follow ons if the will had been there.
> wouldn't call protein breakdown in the muscle "wasting" without additional effects

Fair enough, given it's voluntary [1]. It's biologically identical to wasting, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasting
>Would you bet your life on the fact that it doesn't?

Yes, because that's not how it works.

If your friend is still upset, maybe they should consider the artists they "stole" their learning material from.
> Giving content to journalists is not the same as giving your content to Google to index in their search engine and caches.

It’s exactly the same. You give access to an entity that serves to promote your content. The fact that Google’s cache is accessible is a technical implementation detail; Google could remove access to that cache tomorrow and that wouldn’t change anything.
Just like you wouldn't grasp the incredibility of an acid trip unless you did one yourself.

Changes in one's perception of local stimuli and focus abilities are almost impossible to convey to others.
I’m responding to a comment on this thread, not sure why the hostility.
what % of the videos in the compilation involve an "unarmed police shooting" vs. a "swatting"? The original assertion by GP was that actually dying at the hands of police during such an event is extremely rare, an assertion that your link does not seem to refute.
> A huge amount of effort in .NET 7 went into making code gen for Arm64 as good or better than its x64 counterpart

Awesome. I was using an LSP server for F# (in Sublime Text) on an M2 Mac and it was always running at 500%+ CPU. I had to turn off the LSP server. Hopefully this version fixes it.
It's a nitpick, but a little bigger than that. It's as bad as including "bus driver" in the list. Cobblers just shouldn't be included in the category at all.

Cobblers are in just as much demand in most of the world as they always have been. They only fell out of demand in car-dependent areas, which is a small minority of the world population (but a vast majority of the HN commenting population since most of the USA outside of a few cities is car dependent)

I don't know if it has anything to do with construction but doubt it. If you actually walk everywhere shoes don't last very long these days, especially shoes under $100.

There are a lot of other urban services that exist in almost the entire populated world, but that most Americans think quaint because they are not relevant to a car dependent highway world.

All that said, this really is a nitpick and the original point stands very well. Some of us just don't like it when car-dependent people forget that they are a small minority worldwide and instead treat urban walkable people as the insignificant minority! Or rather, HN being a forum for all things interesting, we find it interesting to make it a teachable moment. What could be more interesting than finding out that something that has always seemed obvious to you is actually backwards?
It takes 3 seconds to generate 1 image with my GPU.

I can find a good prompt within 30 minutes to 1 hour.

My GPU can generate 100 images in 5 minutes.

Out of those 100 images, 10 is very close to what I exactly meant at professional concept artist level.

So, in this case Stable Diffusion only working 10% of the time is fine.

Future is already here, I’m already incorporating stable diffusion generated images to my professional work.
Modern Websites in a Raspberry Pi Zero with WebAssembly
They saw the light :)

I have an older device (first in 5 Ghz I think) and I was beginning to think I should upgrade it to <whatever the latest Wi-Fi standard is>.
What is the benefit?
Try this instead: https://www.getlago.com/blog/is-stripe-using-stripe ;)
Speaking from experience with these things (although in my case, the articles we were forced to remove were absolutely and completely 100% accurate -- but the company that acquired us wanted to settle all outstanding lawsuits and ended up caving so that the transaction could close), this might have been terms of the settlement or whatever it was he came to with Ubiquiti.

In our case, because our articles were in fact, factual, we were able to re-iterate and even quote, as part of the legal filings, aspects of the original reporting as part of a story that was in response to the removals themselves, but the content at those original URLs was replaced with a notice that the articles had been removed because of litigation with our former parent company.

The fact that he didn't (or hasn't) scrubbed the stories themselves from the Internet Archive is a good sign (I think we had to remove our stories from the Internet Archive, though I do know that individuals did make archives other ways).

I'm pretty opposed to suing journalists for the act of doing journalism and even though I'm a big fan of Ubiquiti products, I still don't love this sort of tactic. That said, it does seem clear that these stories were not correct and at the very least, flawed because of the single-source who was not a reliable narrator (and admitted to lying to the press), so in an ideal world, these stories would have been retracted anyway.
Thanks for the tip! I ended up buying a new toner, but I think I still have the old one somewhere so I'll see if I can find it and see if it works.
He was duped by a con man. Everyone is susceptible to SE, even smart guys like Brian. A case can be made that it is the most difficult challenge/vector in cyber security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
There's no reason that isn't testable..
As an perceived autist due to my nationality, it is hard to catch sarcasm without the /s at the end.

Seriously, since when is it ok to insult people, in your case autists and Germans, on HN?
That would involve handing off a lot of customer data, not to mention the technical handoff. Instead I just directed my customers to the other products, which I think were built by solo developers as well.
> C# also made a big mistake imo by going with async/await instead of lightweight threads which will add a ton of complexity in the future for if they decide to go the greenthread route like Goroutines/Project Loom.

Could you expand on this? Async/await is just syntax magic for Task continuations (in other words, Promises [0]), which have very little to do with the underlying threading model. This statement is equivalent to saying "Completable Futures add a ton of complexity to Project Loom."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises#List_of_i...
I don't care if they have policies. They have a huge amount of posts directly advocating violence and doxing that don't get removed.
> It no longer requires centralized login

Thanks for the update. I have a couple of UAP-AC-Lites and an EdgeRouter PoE, but the recent "cloudiness" began to set my teeth on edge, and I've been loath to upgrade my controller.
Since when are Google results 100% clearnet? This has never been the case, ever. Search "login" in Google and you'll get a lot of content that is not publicly accessible.
Yeah, this reflects my views too. He's using the veneer or pretext of journalism and reporting the truth in order for him to cover sloppy sourcing.
134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]
For AI to generate code for a test case we would need AGI.
Reads like a lawyer wrote this for him, and is still way too late. It was pretty clear early on that his source was a bad actor.

Even if he actually wrote this post himself, it feels like its a result of the ubnt defamation suit against him.
Anarcho-capitalism? Not to beat a dead horse, but there's no capitalism without a strong central state. The state is not organized in opposition to capitalism; the state is a central component of the capitalist system. It's not a coincidence that the modern state and modern market capitalism appear in the historical record at precisely the same moment.

I think our big problems are mostly due to inadequate control over capitalism due to globalization making it too easy for large companies to avoid oversight and become parasitic and attack their host. The need for short term profit then becomes the only thing that those companies optimize for, leading to a death spiral of short term thinking.

Anarcho-capitalism is certainly not going to help any of that.
Nobody competes with them as 'Apple for networking', but MikroTik is if anything a bit cheaper and better on the actual specs etc. - just without the snazzy UI and easy GUI (highly-G) config.

There's probably a lot of people who'd love Ubiquiti gear ('gadget nerds', Linus Tech Tips viewers, gamers, etc.) to whom I wouldn't recommend MikroTik, but to anyone who's.. idk, heard of iptables, I would.

All the gamer-marketed WAP/routers with a million antennae are somewhat competitors in the former category too I suppose.
For folks on AWS I highly recommend investing in SSH over SSM in combination with EC2 Instance Connect. You can generate temporary ssh keys, send it to EC2 Instance Connect, it'll be on the server for 60 seconds. Then you can use ssm start-session to connect to the server over SSM. This also allows you to disable SSH ingress, and doesn't need a bastion or VPN.
Then charge them with racketeering.

If that doesn't work make the part you don't like illegal. Enshrine something like the "right to be forgotten" stuff into law and make them take down threads if the people they refer to don't want them up.

I know it's hard to word something like a "right to be forgotten" without making it to broad and a tool for abuse of chilling speech but it seems worth the effort if the consequences are this dire.