skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are interesting theoretical examples of phishing or backdoors and they have probably occurred at some point. I've moved away from trying to mitigate theoretical threats and instead I prefer to focus on risk ranking by feasibility or probability based on the potential impact. I believe the onus is on me to review a script and understand it prior to execution and report malicious scripts.

If my job was to mitigate theoretical attacks then I would require everyone to run scripts in highly restricted sandboxes that log the obfuscated behavior. This is probably something that build automation systems should be doing regardless for all scripts and compiled code to detect things like backdoored NPM packages which is all the rage these days. I would also like to see multipurpose repository systems like Github and Gitlab perform these sandboxed tests, rating scripts and compiled code with behavioral risk scores.

I am mostly content with the current status of Bash security and the toggles it gives me to control behavior. There are some things I would prefer defaulted on but I understand why they do not.
I used it for a long time and eventually quit because sync isn't good enough -- it just writes to an opaque binary file you have to sync yourself (with Syncthing, Dropbox, Onedrive, etc.). I had my password database on multiple devices (phone, several computers) and wound up with conflicts once or twice a month.
this is such a fantasy, what do yoy expect them to do next, launch thieir own communication network?
Wait until they see 2026. 10-14% mortgage (my prediction)
>You can actually deduce the vendors that have influence on the big box buyers if you look carefully enough.

How? I'm coming up blank. Is there a way to compare prices or quantity against other big box stores?
AMD will gladly take that up
Still waiting for OVH or Scaleway to be really multi AZ (>2) with a network that cannot be cut by anyone...
Have you ever played Prey (2006)? It used the same tech, had some extra capabilities like walking on walls and ceilings, and was probably even more intense in the body horror department
Maybe I should have been more specific: cyber-crime. Ransomware is a perfect use case for crypto.
In offense to apps that do not get updated, notably on Apple App Store:

You must update the software to show what the privacy levels are.

Apple App Store mandates spelling out how the users’ data are being used starting in 2021. Sadly, this only applies toward new updates.

Hiding behind how our data are being used … by the virtue of not updating your app … is not a defense.
It's interesting to see that what some companies like Apple are doing nowadays has such historic precedence. And it ties in with the current state of affairs - fewer and fewer people understand electronics. Children are less computer-literate than ever.
Would higher taxes be destabilising?
> Isn’t prostitution essentially porn without the cameras? Why ostracize legal prostitution? If porn is allowed, prostitution should be too.

IIRC, porn would be illegal, except the performance aspect gave it First Amendment cover. It might also be significant that porn seems to have traditionally involved a 3rd party paying two people to have sex, so that's arguably not prostitution. It's probably arguably illegal prostitution if one person pays another to sex with them and films it. You can't videotape an illegal act to make it legal.
I would assume they also do not include in the cost of 200k - electricity, maintenance and human resources for managing their infrastrucure.
Curses don't try to be true, they are to express frustration, or to hurt someone's feelings.
... i have no use for one; but i want it.
I'm all for it. If this edges out the razor thin margins that Redfin et. al. were making on the US housing market, let's go. As a first time homebuyer who would like to purchase a place to live, a few points of interest are not going to dissuade my decision. But I have a strong feeling that the REIT market will pop like the bubble that it is once the financials start looking unfavorable.
Tangental, but the physical mechanisms of electronic controls are often worth study. Ingenious mechanisms move little slivers of metal around in carefully engineered enclosures. It's a more accessible magic that's easy to disregard.

The "channel dial" switch on old TV's was awesome.
Also in Lexington doing remote work - don't know too much about the local tech scene. Seems rather limited and the best option is to work remotely for a higher wage and take advantage of the lower COL in the area.
Nreal’s $379 AR glasses launch in the US today
I'm behind your typical non-CGNAT residential NAT, for v4. (Was v4 only for the longest time, but Verizon just recently rolled out a v6… so we'll see if that changes anything, I guess.)
Spring cloud ecosystem is headed in this direction. Most of the common needs for micro service development such as Service mesh, service discovery, circuit breakers are getting incorporated into the ecosystem so as to reduce repetitive development. Not sure how many devs are actually using this.

They are building upon Netflix offerings.

https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-netflix
Ah - thank you. The comments here make a lot more sense now. Anyone care to explain why it doesn't show up anywhere for desktop users? Html has this:

<footer id="footer">
<img id="footer-image" src="/img/niconiconi.png" width="0%" />
</footer>
Covid Still Kills, but the Demographics of Its Victims Are Shifting
Can we stop with the normal HN cynicism? Let people try stuff. If you don't like it, that's ok, keep scrolling.
> "positive shamelessness" (am I just trying to say "self-acceptence"?).

> I kinda like it, and kinda wish it was just totally cool to have a waifu on my site too without having to lean into irony or identity to "justify" it against this cringe instinct.

it's only once you accept that you are cringe, that you are are free to become truly based.

"anime is trash... and so am I"
On Giving and Receiving Feedback
I think in some parts of US culture not that familiar with Japanese culture there is the misconception that anime is all tentacle porn or something and so you should be embarrassed for liking anime.
Thanks for this.

Also, I just checked that flickr.com still allows you to filter their searches by license.
Huh. Extending your distopian cartoon by reference to an earlier (today) HN thread about sex workers, and thinking of a society where ...
Hrmm, I tried reverse-searching for the last photo I took - of the USNS John Glenn at the port of Oakland - and both Yandex and Google return similar results, but the Google result returns instantly and Yandex took nearly a minute. What's an example of a search where Yandex does much better?
On some of the most fundamental questions (e.g. "What is of value?" and "What does it mean to live a good life?") many of the credible answers, were probably first posited, before history even started being written. Consider the Confucians, Mohists and Taoists of China. Or the Epicurians and the Stoics of Western antiquity. They all had attempts to answer such questions. Some of which would sound very similar to what you might hear people say today and some of which would sound very alien. We are still having many of the same debates they did.
That's a "problem" with GPL, it's immoral but it's not illegal, since the license grant you permission to distribute and charge. Quite concerning though...
Why is the heat thing even necessary? Turn on one switch, walk down, see which light is on, process of elimination for the other one. Am I missing something?
This is likely only true until they have enough lock-in on those cloud products to really turn the screws and extract maximum profits from people that are TOTALLY screwed by being completely locked into proprietary AWS services...

This is basically the natural progression of SaaS...
E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
I'm dumb. What exactly does this mean - memory enhancement, memory augmentation, just better mimicry, something else?
Interesting idea, but where do they plan to have batteries?

Right now normal hearing aids use tiny (but not microscopic) batteries (commonly type 312 zinc-air) that last roughly around a week (if the aids are used 12-16 hours/day).

For something in a dental implant, there will be the need for smaller batteries (and thus would need to be changed more often) that - one way or the other - will need to be inserted in the mouth, with a risk of ingesting them, maybe a "whole" denture, but a dental implant?
They need to just get to work on a proper sequel that fulfills the game's potential. Bought the game a few days before the 1.6 release and was pulled in by the story and world, finishing the game a week later. The art production in this game is tops, but the world is just so shallowly designed, nothing emergent going on in a game world whose own lore doesn't stop reminding you that emergent behavior should be happening near constantly.

I think a sequel should focus on being a sandbox built entirely around this dynamic especially since making different builds is a strength of the game, but enemies and their AI are pretty predictable and similar except for a few psychos and the end boss. Criminals should be pro-active and you should have bounties placed on you that're pursued by other mercs when you go after any particular faction too much; likewise faction relations and your standing with them should've been an obvious part of the game. Just a lot of potential left on the table cause CDPR had terrible project management and a desperate executive suite that panicked and went all in on building the game around Keanu Reeves.
There's a difference in finding a solution that works specifically for your case in your setup rather than finding something that is close but has to be adapted.

Sure, it's better for a new programmer to learn how to adapt solutions to fit their use case, and sometimes you will stumble across gold, but there's still a walled garden that decreases the likelihood that a new user will stay around long enough to be able to utilize the resources.

Not to mention the rampant elitism and dismissiveness of the current user base where new users are frequently spoken to rudely and condescendingly, in my experience. There is psychological punishment around every corner for incompetence even though many people try coming there in order to eliminate their incompetence.
Reading between the lines of his quote, my guess is he's angling for some cash from the government, by securitizing the tech sector. It won't work, because the treasury feels that spending money, like eating people, is always wrong. It won't cost any politicians anything when the bits and pieces of the UK tech sector go down the pipes, because their fortunes rest entirely on house prices, and the opinions of the fine people at Sky News. So expect another ten years of meaningless and toothless 'initiatives', sound and fury, signifying nothing, while the UK continues into another decade of death spiral.
The Extremely Promising State of Diabetes Tech in 2018 (2018)
Sophos fixes critical firewall hole exploited by miscreants
It sounds to me like he doesn't actually say that. In the article:

>The UK has “no chance in hell” of becoming technologically sovereign

Well which is it, having our own Tech champs or being technologically sovereign?

Because they're totally different things. To be honest I'm not sure any country apart from China stands any chance of becoming technologically sovereign. Like what does that mean? Do we need to mine our own Lithium, do we need to build our own foundries, are we planning on building a competitor to ASML to source machines to build our foundries? And look at Oil prices, the UK isn't massively dependent on Oil and we have our own resources but we still got absolutely slammed by the war in Russia because we operate in a global market. So do we need our own Lithium mines and export controls to stop them being bid up on the international market when there's some exogenous event?
They’d mean less disposable income and less spending. Lowering taxes even further is the only way forward.
yes im sure there are, for example offer a product that primarily serves the user. some people are so pathological, they will take big negatives to preserve "my way or the highway"
consider the legendary chair brandishing executive for example.
NFT Sales Have Lost Nearly All Their Allure
The Tumblr de-porning was the single most SMH business moment I may have heard of since Yahoo’s previous worst business move ever of not buying Google. I mean - my God…

Yahoo may very well be the single dumbest major tech company in history.

Just…blunder after blunder after shitty decision. Watching its history is almost the definition of seeing a slow motion train wreck. It’s almost impressive.

With regards to Tumblr - I can’t imagine what potential business decision could’ve been worth what they had to know was suicide. Why make the acquisition and then kill your user base? It’s not like they didn’t know. That’s probably one of the single biggest wastes of $1b I’ve seen. Why buy it to knowingly, fully intentionally, throw it down the toilet? So baffling.
I don't know, I see a lot of energy spent that's for sure but a lot of running in circles too. I miss centralization a bit (just a bit)
I'm probably drawing on the distinction between "making knowledge" and "using knowledge", which is generally done by different people, and with the implied assertion that the added value for any field is only to the extent that it enables the latter.

The people who make new physics and the people who learn and apply physics (e.g. engineers) are two separate groups, and physics is valuable mostly because it provides knowledge that enables the latter group of people to do stuff, and we want that knowledge to be packaged in a useful, usable way for those who don't do physics research.

In a similar manner, there are the distinct groups of people who do philosophy and people who apply (or should apply) philosophy, including most scientists of other fields, and in my opinion the value of philosophy as a field is highly contingent on those who do philosophy being able to package the conclusions in a way that is useful and usable for people who are not going to "do philosophy".

Sure, at some point dogmas need to be reviewed and changed - but until they are (by the people who "do philosophy") there should be some reasonable set of the current understanding of philosophy ("current dogma"?) available for the "users of philosophy", and we should be able to compare and see that the current state of this philosophical understanding is better than some centuries ago, that an "user of philosophy" who reads the "content of philosophy" from the era of Nietzsche will be worse off than reading the current "content of philosophy".

It does not need to imply that it's the absolute truth forever, but there needs to be a clear understanding of what is the "closest thing to the truth as far as humanity knows right now"; like in physics we clearly know that the current theories are not the final complete truth (for example, due to incompatibilities of general relativity and quantum physics) and the truth has to be slightly different, but we can and do have an effective dogma which physicists can teach to non-physicists about how physics is to the best of our current understanding - and I'd expect the same from philosophy.
This always comes up in these discussions, my impression is that there is some kind of a split when it comes to understanding the concept of embarrassment. It is not about the individual judgement of people and being upset is the wrong word, but it is difficult to find the right words to explain it. When thinking to myself why I'd never do these kinds of things, setting aside the lack of interest, I wouldn't want a kind of general perception that people have of me to be associated with these cultural symbols. It is an interesting question, especially because it appears obvious until I reflect on it. I guess I am not the only one who feels like this, and some people get upset because it is difficult to articulate these "unwritten rules of behaviour in polite society".
I wouldn't say i'm intelligent. :D But i think this "US did it" theory doesn't make any sense. The only party that has interest in a broken pipeline is Russia. Why? Because it would release them from their obligation to deliver. There is an "act of god" clause in the contract. They know we won't accept any further delivery from them anyway. The sanctions won't go away anytime soon, and i think they may be planning for a full scale war in Ukraine.
I might be in the minority, I liked Redfin as a broker / NAR competitor. Seeing houses was super easy, lower fees, etc. I'm well aware of tradeoffs in the industry and connections.
For Google I just use Googles Takeout[1] on a regular basis.

[1]: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
I remember playing around with the Serious Sam level editor. A buddy of mine made a map that was just a small hut in the middle and monster generators scattered over the next hill. Endless mindless hordes of monsters came over that hill and you and your buddies just needed to hold out as long as you could. Pretty amazing for, what, 1999?
MEV bot earns $1M but loses everything to a hacker an hour later
The nature of communication on the internet makes for some very weird signifiers - I remember getting into fountain pens and finding out that a pretty undesirable group was into them as well and it was on the cusp of being a signifier for politics I don't agree with. Luckily it never got to that threshold, but basically something can become a signifier for something else just by virtue of volume - Pepe is probably the best, clearest cut example, with different groups literally mass posting pepes as much as possible in a battle to "own" that signifier.

I was originally going to say "Hey, just do you" but then I totally get that feeling of "I'm into X just because I like it but for some stupid reason X signifies Y which I really don't care for" and it sucks.
Grotesque Russian disinfo campaign mimicks Western news websites to sow dissent
Why root for the downfall of Redfin and the like? They were finally a lower cost alternative to the stranglehold that RE agents have had on sellers for decades.

Why should it cost 6% to sell a house?
Sorry for the late reply, I had to collect my thoughts a bit and I'm quite busy.

First, I have not invalidated the discipline, I have said not to trust statisticians who are clearly acting outside the bounds of the fundamental assumptions of statistics, and that statistical methods DO NOT function on adversaries. Consider the following two scenarios:

1) Alice and Bob are sending messages to each other in a lanugage I don't understand, and I, using statistical methods, wish to find out what they are saying.

2) Alice and Bob are sending messages to each other and don't want me to gain any information about this messages. I, using statistical methods, wish to find out what they are saying.

In scenario 1, I am likely to succeed. In scenario 2, the consensus is that I'm fucked. In just about every way. I can't tell what they're saying, I can't tell that any message that I have discerned is meant to mislead me, or doesn't carry some additional message hidden in the entropy of the message that was meant to mislead me. I can't tell if the communication is just noise meant to distract me, and if we want to talk practically, I can't even tell if they can communicate. Basically the only inference that I can draw is that they can't communicate faster than the speed of light.

Here's another example: Gerrymandering. The scenario is that one party has a clear advantage in terms of number of representatives vs proportion of population. We must establish whether that number was arrived at fairly, or by cheating. We assume that the party in charge of drawing the borders knows what tests we can perform, because that is always the assumption that you give to an adversary.

The adversary has a very simple (though potentially computationally expensive) algorithm to run. Check all possible border configurations for both advantage and your cheat detection. Pick the one which maximizes advantage which does not pass the cheat threshold, or just whatever your utility is.

Statistics needs the assumption of good faith in order to operate. Anyone who uses statistical methods when that assumption that cannot be made is at best a bad statistician.
Just wait until people hear about colocation.
Lexica's $5M Seed Round
Lexica has raised a $5M seed round led by Daniel Gross, and is also joining AI Grant.
IIRC, TVFool was not kept up to date with the FCC repack station moves. I wouldn't recommend using it as its predictions are likely to be inaccurate. This is a better tool that is continuously updated:

https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php
extra people? no because I hire generalists actually capable of building software, not overpaid kids only capable of gluing aws services together.
But do you verify your backups?
"and thats ok"????
> a few points of interest are not going to dissuade my decision

Perhaps not, but if you run the math you'll see a "few points" very quickly means you'll have to buy much less house than you may have desired.
Critical take: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1572223690863149058.html

This is of low value, because (1) it is more about playing to prevailing Twitter threads (ooooh he dissed the founders as old white men!) rather than legal analysis; and (2) the legal analysis, such as it is, starts from the presumption that social media companies are press rather than another business ("The opinion reaches this conclusion by treating the owners of companies in the biz of speech as identical to the owners of other businesses."). I don't think that presumption is well-established.

Critical take: https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-circuits-social-media-deci...

This one is much better. For example, it rightfully points out that the Fifth Circuit opinion does a poor job connecting its analysis of editorial discretion to First Amendment jurisprudence ("the court never explains why public acceptance of responsibility is necessary as a matter of constitutional law, for First Amendment protection"). In my gut, I still don't agree, but I may come around after digesting this more. This critical piece is of high quality.

Supportive take (summarized): https://reason.com/volokh/2022/09/23/another-commentary-on-t...

I can't find the original source, but the pulled quotes seem insightful. "The opinion's critics argue that the First Amendment protects the act of exercising 'editorial discretion': the right of platforms to control what content they transmit. But, critics forget that the First Amendment protects only expressive acts—a point made clear in the two Supreme Court case on which Big Tech (and Judge Oldham's critics) base all their critique: Miami Herald v. Tornillo and Hurley v. Irish American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston. In Miami Herald, the Supreme Court held that when newspaper editors decide to include a particular op-ed in their pages, they convey the editors' message that the article is insightful or otherwise valuable. Similarly, the St. Patrick Day's Parade organizers in Hurley, expressed a message, attributable to them, of general support for each group it approved to march, communicating with the various groups a discrete set of ideas and positions. In contrast, most platform acts of content moderation are not expressive under the Supreme Court tests. Most obviously, they are not expressive because most are never communicated and therefore cannot convey a message. For instance, shadow banning, by which a platform renders a user's posts invisible to all but that user, cannot convey a message because no one knows, except the platform, that it is happening."
As a long time keepass _format_ user, I find it the "best" client for me in terms of UX and user QOL. Mainly the autosaving and auto-re-reading (since I use a p2p syncthing to keep my db in sync across machines) features.

I use it on windows, linux, and mac.