skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might seem like an indictment of Brian's ethics, but I'd argue that having criminals as sources is an unfortunate inevitability if you're going to have up-to-date reporting on a topic that is so heavily entangled with cybercrime.

Besides, it's not like non-criminal sources never lie.
A post-dollar world is coming
Would you agree that you and I are "aware" of growth projects Apple is working on, but not necessarily aware of what growth projects Google is working on?
Why would anyone be forced to use Crypto? If the government forces you to use it, then at that point it's no longer crypto, it's fiat.
> Difficulty preventing it at much larger scale does not make them equivalent to Kiwi Farms.
Russia’s economy, from what I’ve read, is contracting much more with sanctions than without them. I think it’s clear and obvious that the EU did not impose sanctions on Russia for the purpose of increasing prices of food and fuel for poor people in the U.S. The EU and the U.S. have announced the reason for sanctions. There are secondary effects of the sanctions and I believe that food price increases are more a result of global supply chain issues and Russia preventing Ukraine from fully exporting its products.
You really think the war has more to do with it than global governments NOT handing out 50% of global GDP in free money anymore?
Both the pandemic (health crisis) in 2020 and the energy crisis 2022 in Europe cannot be understood without looking at the whole picture of cui bono on all sides.
When Trump warned Germany about the dependence on Russian gas he had first and foremost US interests in his mind.

Continental Europe (effectively Germany and France) failed to formulate and establish a distinctive stance regarding its foreign policy towards Russia with whom they share a continent.

Exactly this lack of own assertiveness is now leading to the self-inflicted energy crisis. The Russian and US interests where clear from the start way back in at least 2014 when irreversible actions (on boh sides) where made.

The US interests: when push comes to shove they don't mind the pawn sacrifices in Eurasia by defending its hegemony against - ultimatley - China.

After the fall of the Soviet Union Europe's interests were scattered (e.g. Balkanization, Brexit, North vs South etc.) and today are basically aligned with US interests even if they seem at odds purely from a strategic pov.

I once asked a friend of mine who grew up partly in China (who was always very cautious not to be drawn into political arguments) provocatively who his favourite (European) politician was, he answered: Charles de Gaulle.

At the time I thought what a weird answer that was, why such an old and partly forgotten statesman but after some years I came to realize that he probably admired his very demanding independent stance after WWII not shying away to challenge his uber-powerful ally overseas when his own national interests where at the line.

I can clearly identify the national interests of the US, Russia, China, India, South Africa, Turkey, Poland and even Hungary ... in the Ukraine war but I have a hard time understanding that of Germany or France from a self-perserving perspective. Quoting from Bertold Brecht's "Dreigroschenoper"[0]: Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral. [Food is the first thing, morals follow on].

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=xbUW0ZfnZbs&f...
On a related note the number of negative Ubiquti comments on HN appears to have fallen since this person was outted.
Ahh, realized I wasn’t clear about this. By definition a touring machine has finite internal states, that’s also changed to infinity.

Think of a machine that:

1 Knows it’s position on the tape
2 looks that position up on a table
3 writes the resulting cell to the tape
4 moves one position to the right
5 repeats from 1

With a finite table it’s going to run out of bounds, with an infinite table and the ability to store arbitrary position it’s always going to be possible to have a unique cell.
Well, they have the financials but the products that were shut down were the most unprofitable ventures?
Well, we don't know. How many times has he been either the willing accomplice or unwitting patsy in stock manipulation or corporate sabotage? Does he even know?
Ask HN: Is Russia winning the war in Ukraine?
I have noticed that lately, Ukraine is less frequently appearing in the headlines as this war continues. Judging by the latest update from the ISW [1], Russia is still controlling a large swathe of the southeast of the country. It may very well be that the longer this war goes on for, the more likely the US & NATO (who are providing materiel and logistical support to Ukraine) will gradually get more distracted and lose funding and interest. So it may be in Russia's favor to have a multi-year campaign in Ukraine. But can they really sustain it? And are tactical nuclear weapons still on the table? With someone as crazy and power-hungry as Putin, I assume that, sadly, they still are.

[1]: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-30
Hmm you may be right. I'll have to re-evaluate my perspective. Thanks for mentioning that.
I've dabbled in fasting and found my ability to do it comfortably varies a ton day-to-day. Some days I'm craving food by noon and/or am very tired and practically can't think at all by 3PM (this is pretty bad on work days, obviously, but not really great on any day). Other days I can go from wake-up to lie-down without a single bite of food, and hardly notice a thing. I can't tell in advance which it's going to be, so rather than sticking hard to a fasting schedule, when I'm in the mood to do it I'll pick days to try, and if at some point it becomes clear I'm gonna wreck my whole day if I persist, I bail and eat a meal. Ends up being about 50/50, days that work out and days that don't, if I try a couple days per week.

Sometimes I can approach 48 hours before I start to feel bad, other times I can't even make it one day before I'm a mess and can hardly function. I'm sure the difference has to do with blood sugar timing and/or what I ate the day before or something.
Keffals brags about sending hrt to minors without their parent's knowledge.
> This is the thing: cutting off diplomatic routes is almost never the right approach, even during a hot war.

The analogous approach would be to speed-limit outbound connections.
Oh no, not the location data sales market.
>we need the ability to persist a design

isn't that Textual Inversion (https://textual-inversion.github.io/ ) ?

It's more or less implemented in some forks (e.g. https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion#personalizing-tex... or https://github.com/hlky/sd-enable-textual-inversion (discussed previously ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643564 ) )
Automation of manual processes is generally useful.
It was about time they started thinking as a public company. Looking after shareholders value (s)
True. I think it's also fair to say it's more of an ecosystem than a single product. The switching costs to another similar ecosystem are high.
I would be interested in knowing what percentage of the users of this website agree with that statement, I doubt it's particularly high.
Is Google trying to be anything other than an ads company?

If so, what? I know they are famous for spinning up projects and killing them super quickly.

If not, what are they doing? They have 140k+ employees worldwide. Is that what is needed to maintain their core ad business without focusing on growth of any kind (ad related or not)? If not... how many engineers/managers/whatever positions could they afford to "layoff" if we were to see US recessionary pressures/consumer spending pullback?
hmm science.

I wonder what happens if someone overdosed in anti-ageing drug, do they turn into baby.
I appreciate the condolences. I have no idea if I'm affected or not, but I don't expect to be since I work in payments. I'm waiting to see who will be affected and how I can help them.

edit: I've received notification that I'm not affected by the layoffs. Part of me thinks having 4 months full compensation would've been nice to have. Part of me is glad to not need to do the interview process again (at least not immediately).
What kind of GPU are you running this on? My 3080 seems to take about 30 seconds per image with 50 passes. I'm wondering if I'm missing out on some optimizations. Could just be the quality of Linux NVidia drivers.
I already live in an EU country - as do many of the people with threads on KF. I don't even have the minuscule amount of control voters in the US would have over this, and Cloudflare only cares about US legislation (as with the anti sex work legislation in the article).

If you would stop derailing the conversation with unfeasible solutions.
IDK if y'all know this, but this is 100% due to kiwifarms/keffals. Of course the doxxing and swatting on kiwifarms is not limited to keffals.
This single fact explains most of Armenian politics. Russian wings Armenia like a dog wings its tail.
Ubiquiti got krebbed: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=krebbed
Europe doesn't only use Russian gas, large parts of it hardly rely on Russian gas at all. For example the UK only gets ~5% of gas from Russia. Europe is dotted with LNG import terminals that can import gas via ship from anywhere.

The reason there's a price spike across Europe is that Germany is suddenly trying to buy the supplies it needs from elsewhere, and gas is a (mostly) fungible commodity. So there's effectively less supply now in Europe, but with same or greater demand (to fill storage), which means the global LNG price goes up for everyone.

"The point of sanctions is a combination of two things. One is to punish a country and the other is to make a moral stance."

For as long as any country is willing to arbitrage gas it simply punishes the buyer, not the seller. From this whole thread it seems the basic economics of this seem to have got lost somewhere so let's do a worked example:

1. Russia sells $1000 worth of gas per day to Europe and $500 worth to China (or India, or wherever).

2. Europe says to Russia we don't want to buy your gas anymore. Russia is now $1000/day poorer, but has lots of spare gas. Now Europe needs to buy $1000 worth from somewhere else like China.

3. China looks at its natural reserves and thinks, well, we don't really have much more to sell from local production. But hey, we have pipelines and LNG terminals and gas is the same no matter where it comes from. Russia, would you be willing to sell us all your spare gas?

4. Russia says sure, that'll be $1000/day. China says OK, we'll take it.

5. Now China turns around to Europe and says sure, we can sell you gas. That'll be $1200/day. Europe is desperate for gas and so says yes; they don't have many other options because most sellers can't meet such a huge block of demand.

Result: Russia makes the same money as before and doesn't care, China takes a profit off the top, Europe ends up shooting itself in the foot. But at least its politicians can feel virtuous.

What's happening isn't as pure cut as that example. Obviously, Europe is trying to get gas from lots of alternative locations, only some is being arbitraged via third party countries. And in reality the arbitrageurs would pay less because there's greater supply, pushing down the price. But in any situation where you're trying to buy something that is a fungible commodity sanctions like that only make sense if there are no groups that break them. The moment someone does they make huge profits. So it doesn't make sense in an international market, it'd be like trying to sanction oil or grain. Someone will just buy it at the new lower price, relabel it and sell it back to you.

As for the moral stance argument, German politicians have no moral authority to bankrupt the poor throughout Europe or break down the electricity grid. They were not elected to do that, and it is deeply immoral to do that even if it worked which it does not. The working classes of Europe are not cannon fodder to freeze to death so Scholz can take a "moral stance".
The Yubikey PIV/X509 applet can be used for SSH (see [0]). Their link doesn't explain this but that key can be used as a CA instead of as a straight SSH key if you want. eg to add the CA to your authorized_keys files, generate a throwaway key, sign that with the CA and add it to your ssh-agent:

ssh-keygen -D opensc-pkcs11.so -e > cert-on-piv.ssh
( echo -n "cert-authority "; cat cert-on-piv.ssh ) >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
name="temp-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M)"
ssh-keygen -q -N '' -C "${name}" -t rsa-sha2-256 -f ${name}
ssh-keygen -t rsa-sha2-256 -s cert-on-piv.ssh -D opensc-pkcs11.so -V -1d:+1d -I ${name} ${name}.pub
ssh-add -t 1d ${name}
rm -f ${name} ${name}.pub ${name}-cert.pub

[0] https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/PIV_Walk-Through.ht...
Is that so true? I've seen that as they've become more popular, some of the rougher edges and complaints come out. Personally I've had no reliability/quality problems with my Ubiquiti equipment. But I do know several people who have moved away from their gear due to the breach and fallout from these Krebs articles.
Yes, it is a precursor to NAD
> Modern technology is mishandled most intensely by large organizations

Of course. There are more individuals in larger organizations :)
A start-up is unlikely to have things done right and can be the worst place to learn good practices.

Back in the days I knew people who were just working with startups and didn't know about testing or versioning.

Most startups have zero documentation.

In my experience you're as likely to find good people in startups or in established companies. It's luck, knowing someone who know someone.

Experience in the industry is useful. That said you can learn just as much if not even more just starting and failing.

Just never stop learning and eventually things will be alright
FTA: Then there is also calloc(), which allocates memory that has been zeroed. For whatever reason, it has a slightly different interface:

void* calloc(size_t num, size_t size);

Its interface is different because, historically, it was (more or less; prototypes didn’t exist yet and I’m not sure they used unsigned, for example):

void* alloc(unsigned int num);
void* calloc(unsigned int num, unsigned int size);

and ‘int’ was 16-bits, but pointers 32 bits. So, alloc could only allocate up to 65,535 bytes, calloc up to 65,535 items of size up to 65,535. So, it allowed you to allocate much larger arrays.
Amway is an interesting example because it has connections at the highest levels of government. Richard DeVos was a top GOP donor and co-founder of Amway and could get policies and regulations changed in its favor.
But how much revenue do they actually make from games and drones?
And if I lost 80lbs I would be on the low-side of "normal weight" by BMI.
>> Communism has a worse track record with environmentalism.

That doesn't have any relevance to a critique of capitalism. They both have problems. Also, even if we compare them on "environmentalism", that's only one criteria.
Did he just delete the previous articles?

IMO he should have linked to them from this post, and updated them with a big fat impossible to miss disclaimer on the top of the article because some other sites might still link to them and use wuotes which are not accurate any more.
Holy hell the pearl clutching in this thread. Wokeness is truly the new religion and HN is consistently filled with insecure unmasculine men.
> is Null telling people to harass people to death?

I'll treat you as though you're honest, but I might point out this is a dishonest person's favorite argument.

Here's the common answer in Twitter thread form: https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089253502461952...
Good general advice -- it's been good advice for a lot longer than the term "startup" has been around.

But the choice of company you work for is important, too. Startups are not all the same. You should choose one in the same field as your interest, and one that operates with similar goals as yours.
Yep -- in fact, this might be another facet of the same scam. From the ProPublica article:

> The source said they also worked to ensure a client’s Google search results would present them as a musician. Google itself proved helpful in this regard. Once articles and music profiles were indexed by Google’s search engine, the site generated a “knowledge panel” in search results for the person’s name.
Oh for sure. The possibilities are endless. Even with OS2/Warp and BeOS, there was a lot of competition brewing that could've either acquired Apple, Apple acquiring them, or some sort of merger.

I completely forgot about the AIM thing until you mentioned it! Damn those were the wild west days of computing.
If I were ubiquiti management or shareholder I would want a pound of flesh, and I expect their lawyers will be pursuing that.
22C is not summer temp. It's spring temp.

Complaining about not sleeping well in the middle of a hot summer is very different from not being able to sleep at all in the middle of spring without an AC.
Hackers hide malware in James Webb Telescope images
In which it wont help a single bit in the short term. Like masks and vaccines during Covid, you need short term fixes until something mid to long term is put in place.
Snap had very high salaries for engineers. On Blind, many times I saw TC offers of $500K-700k.
>>Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things

I've been thinking about this for a few days, in regards to all the Kiwi Farms stuff.

Where do we want censorship to happen? It seems like most people agree that "bullying people to suicide" is something we shouldn't tolerate, but where do we stop it? No DNS hosting for them? No CDN, no DDOS protection? Go after their hosting directly? Alternatively, we could start at the other side, build a great firewall and have ISPs route everything through it. Make Apple/Microsoft/etc build "safety" filters that check packets as they leave your computer. Or hell, we're nearly at the stage where a keyboard could have enough processing power to real-time censor what you write. Why not do that?

I wish Kiwi Farms didn't exist, it sounds like a terrible place. I'm not convinced Cloudflare should be in charge of deciding that.
Are these people getting shot and killed on their stream? This is not related to the topic.
Why is it "interesting" that two people have different opinions? It sounds like you're doing that thing where somebody points at one ostensible counterexample with a bit of snideness ("You say global warming is real, but there's a historic snowstorm outside. How interesting."), but I could be misinterpreting.
Interestingly NFLX is up today on this news, partly because one piece of this is two of SNAPs ad execs are moving to NFLX.
> 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.

By construction, I mean the material and design of shoes people tend to wear. I can't say I've ever met someone who takes sneakers or running shoes to a cobbler and these shoes are more common nowadays.
To be perfectly clear about my own bias: I think Kiwifarms is among the worst Web sites on the Internet, I think it's caused immeasurable harm, and I don't want it to exist.

However, I am (probably) talking to people who aren't convinced of this as well as people like you and I, and I also strongly understand the desire to form general principles above and beyond a single person making decisions, so I wanted to come at it from a relatively neutral direction.
Seems more like he was willfully played and that Ubiquiti lawyers can show negligence on his part which would not be a good look for a security researcher.
Kreb's article specifically alleged malfeasance on Ubiquiti's part - that they were deliberately covering up a huge data breach.

This turned out to be untrue on three levels:
1) There was no cover-up. Ubiquiti disclosed the attack, and was working with the FBI, working to identify what had happened, and in fact where already onto Sharp as a insider attack.
2) There was no large scale data breach.
3) The claim that there was a huge cover up was part of a extortion scheme, that Krebs was (unwittingly) assisting in.

Yes, this is a standard insider attack - and Ubiquti's security needed to be significantly better - but it doesn't change the fact that Brian Krebs reported false information - including information that he should have been in a position to know was untrue at the very least in the second article, if not the first.

Ironically enough, the person at Ubiquiti that introduced the wider GITHUB access to production secrets and new policies that allowed Nick Sharp to get production access was - according to former Ubiquiti employees - Nick Sharp.

Who watches the watchers?
What is your point?
A Marxian analysis doesn't inherently mean the person you're replying to is endorsing communism.
They're just saying that Marx correctly understood this particular issue with capitalism.
> real artists / illustrators will have to use NFTs. For the timestamps. To fight in court essentially.

Cryptographic timestamp services are older than even Bitcoin. RFC 3161 is from 2001.
Your concern is correct. Suppressing the immune system is a 2-edged sword - a little suppression in the right setting, is extremely beneficial, but go overboard and it is harmful. That's why in a perfect world, we would have large human trials with different dosages and iterate until we can get the maximum benefit and the least harm.

The problem is, no one wants to do those trials because rapamycin is cheap and generic. Why would Pharma spend money on something that they can't patent? Also, these kind of trials have to go on for 10+ years at a minimum - which is cost-prohibitive even if it is patentable (not to go in the weeds, but long trials count in the period of exclusivity given to pharma patents).

I believe the right approach is to use it off-label, be upfront about the potential risks, and collect lots of data so you can improve as you go. Practical anti-aging so to speak.

Another approach is through the NIH grant pathway, but that has a lot of road-blocks as well.
There are real cases where this is true and it's the responsibility of a news organization to weigh the public good against the consequences of sharing information and being very selective about what secrets to publish.

You should not want a news organization to err on either extreme by publishing literally everything they get their hands on (Wikileaks) or acting as a de facto arm of the state (state media outlet of choice).

I would argue that neither extreme count as journalists.

>I don't think that's much of a revelation.

Absolutely, they basically wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't ask. Asking is a lot different than many other tactics.
HNLondon was my absolute favorite meetup. Maybe it was where I was at the time in my career, or the state of the London tech community in the early 2010s, but it was such an exciting time. The talks were interesting, and the post-event drinks were fun. Met some great people. I live in the US now, but if this will be a regular event, I'm sure I could attend at least one event a year.