skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firewalls from security vendors with L7 decryption (using MITM root certificates from a company-wide PKI) is pretty standard in any business that needs to care about "cyber security".

I always hear people cry and moan about this but having worked on that side of the fence I would like you to know that I know of instances where people have been downloading illegal material (involving children) and running tor. That's not to mention the 75% of staff who willing give details during phishing campaigns.

Saying that, I find 60%+ of cyber businesses to be a waste of time at best, and at worse just frauds. Core firewalls with L7 capabilities from vendors such as Palo Alto and CheckPoint are legitimate security devices, especially suited for enterprise networks.

I do think it's pretty pointless running those in the cloud though, unless you have admin VMs on vnets for your production resources. But that way lies madness anyway.
Why login to anything at all? Why use whatsapp, telegram, or signal when every phone already does this and has been doing this for years? I have all of my friends and family in specific groups devoid of any specific apps.

To be fair people were saying the same thing 20 years ago when AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messenger were the big thing. All messaging platforms will eventually die is my experience thus far.
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I got a few paragraphs into the article and realized that I feel weird about reading an article that oriented around sharing inconsequential private details he probably regrets divulging decades ago. I don't need to know about his private life to appreciate his books. I think it's fine for scholars to dig this stuff up and record it, but I don't need to read about it.
The money supply has expanded as much since the monetary policy shifts of 2020 as it did between 2011 and those shifts, and inflation is a lagging indicator. You can't use "oh, we've expanded the money supply before and it hasn't caused inflation" to dismiss the idea that expanding the money supply at several times the speed is going to have a much more dramatic inflationary effect.
> be confident you have good, usable, backups.

Oh dear god yes.
Maybe I'm mis-reading the paper, but my interpretation was that the algorithm discovered using a reward which scales with HW performance matches the theoretical complexity of Strassen, but is more performant on the HW.

They also identified algorithms which do fewer matrix multiplications than Strassen, improving the lower bound of matrix multiplies required (They highlight this in Fig 3).

In that light, I thought their claim was fair. They've discovered (different) algorithms which are both theoretically and practically better than Strassen's.
Scary tendency. Was interesting to read
I actually uninstalled instagram and shot my account yesterday because the ads were getting absolutely atrocious. Decided it was done for me. Looks like I was right.
Scanning your images and followong links in them without user consent is pretty malicious.
Of course the folks that hired those people are going to be like "we bring great talent to this company" when they get asked what their added value is
Do not let formal debt and improvements compete on the same ranking.

Either do 2 of this, 1 of that, or have separated time slots, or whatever. But separate them.
Prefetching is usually a function of a web-browser in response to navigating to a page which contains links. I think the concern is that Safari is not involved at all here. This is the OS doing the prefetch by examining just a file saved to the filesystem.
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This might be controversial, but I recommend picking up copies of:

- K&R

- Stroustrup's 'Tour of C++'

- Programming Practice and Principles

You don't have to do the exercises because your main goal isn't to become a programmer. But reading through these and getting an idea how data, types, memory, and files work at a low level will help add a LOT of context to using Unix-based operating systems. The first two books you can probably get through in a weekend or two, the latter is quite a bit more, but you'll go a long way with the first 8-10 chapters + the ones about I/O.

This has little to directly do with networking, but many of the resources on networking assume the knowledge that is contained in those books. Networking is a whole intimidating ocean and using high-level resources is like starting at the surface, looking down into an abyss. With these books, there's still a whole ocean to explore, but now you've got scuba gear and you're standing on the ocean floor looking up.
Predictive Monitoring for Infrastructure
I would posit that no matter what the economy looks like, CEOs are always considering job cuts in the next six months.
Been down this self-hosted route many times … from the ground up … as a local neighborhood IT dude. Don’t you hate being that guy? Not me, I get tons of free stuff from my neighbors.

For a simple default-deny-firewall IPv6 NAT gateway (zero HTTP3 support), I used Gentoo, no initramfs, all static (no kernel modules, eBPF JIT disabled, no strace/perfmon2) on 2013 Dell Optiplex 790 SFF. This is the extreme tinkerer mode a la Slackware/Linux 1.98 ramp up expert learning mode. Has Libvirt running Docker/LXD/QEMU. Virtual DNS/NTP/nextCloud/WireGuard/no-SSH. Stable, consistent, rock solid. Initial cost: $65.00 USD. Electric cost: $8.33/month.

Also a beast called Dell Precision T710 24U rack with a RAID5 having 12 hard drives at 2 TB each running Proxmox/Debian, half of RAID is encryptedFS, and NFSv4 (planned on CephFS upgrade next) for all my photo and important docs. Also an NVS (for storing video streams from doorbell and patio cameras). Also a Git repo (Gitea). And Backups too. Initial cost $100 + hard drives. Electric cost: $12.81/month.

Raspberry Pi 2B is UPS-backed Devuan (systemd-free Debian) (systemd has an open network socket for PID 1, my big no-no as a security analyst) for DNS PiHole serving, Home Assistance serving and cron jobs. Self-hosted home alarm system with Zig devices . Has a cellular GPIO adapter in which to call my phone of any home event. Maximum availability, maximum reliability, maximum uptime. Electric cost: unmeasured. Cellular cost: pay-as-you-go cell time. Filled it with $100. It has been a year, down to ~$45.

Workstation is Debian because maximum packages available for maximum experimentation. Has virt-manager for QEMU/containers hosting macOS, various Windows desktop/server, and Linux distros. ~$4.00/month.

I always start with the workstation, the Raspberry Pi, the gateway, then the file server.

Once gateway is up, is when I do full cut-over from ISP-supplied gateway to mine directly by configuring ISP gateway to bridge mode.

Also I run a $4/month 256MB-RAM 1-CPU Hosted VPS running customed module-less Debian/Linux kernel for my WireGuard and DNS proxy needs for maximum privacy.

Of course my firewall blocks all DNS and any DNS proxy attempt via my custom iCAP server adding to my transparent Squid (also on the gateway).
I'm also unable to reproduce this. I saw no activity whatsoever in Little Snitch Network Monitor.
He also mentions he's on a corp-to-corp arrangement, which means the "employer" is invoiced by the "employee"'s company.

The pay is likely going to an LLC via its EIN rather than to a person (him/her) via his/her SSN.
Friends, please don't consider this spam. I would be unrealistically grateful for help in testing this service. Metrasensor is a self-learning neural network that can predict problems in your infrastructure up to several hours in advance based on your data.
Previous studies have only shown that tin foil works. After WWII and the rise of the current global system, they substituted aluminum for the tin to reduce efficacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil).
That doesn’t prove they weren’t just image building. It proves they chose it as a topic to build an image around earlier than Gates.
This is not a correct summary of the results of the paper.

First, you cut out the initial part of the sentence about improving on Strassen's two-level algorithm. Here is the complete sentence:

> Particularly relevant is the case of 4 × 4 matrices in a finite field, where AlphaTensor’s algorithm improves on Strassen’s two-level algorithm for the first time, to our knowledge, since its discovery 50 years ago.

That is, note that the improvement cited in the latter part of the sentence is for the 4 x 4 matrix case.

But then your next quote is not in reference to 4 x 4 matrices. That is, for larger matrix sizes, the best algorithm AlphaTensor discovered had the same theoretical complexity as Strassen-square, but better performance.

EDIT: my next comments are confused and best ignored. See reply from pxx below.

For the 4 x 4 matrix case, the theoretical complexity of AlphaTensor's algorithm was O(N^2.778) compared with the Strassen algorithm's complexity of O(N^2.8074), which is an improvement.
This.

Hopefully they really think about this before doing something so stupid
> you can't incorporate this common logic by reference, then it's a deficiency of the tool(s).

If that's the case, then I know of zero languages/ecosystems with tools that are not deficient in this manner.
I teach OOP at a large reputable university, and I use UML every step of the way. For all the hate it gets, it's still the best thing for documenting and describing relationships in OO systems.
They have a web app but it's only for collab and comments. Not edit like Figma
US National Debt Tops $31T
It’s been 17 years, they aren’t IBM quality, but they’re still very sturdy.
For real evidence of Humanity's cruelty: Read Pinker's "Better Angels". Luckily, we're trending upward.
The difference is violence advocating nutters. It’s a whole nother ball game.
Depends how many coworkers are willing to upvote it.
Their $9.99/mo sub tier is pretty reasonable, I think. It's 40% less if you're a student.

Course, we have the family plan, and UK prices, so I get ruined. But now I have Netflix I hate ads with a passion, so there we go.
What’s the difference between nextcloud hub and the good old nextcloud server?
Yeah.. That's possible, but sadly no editing and stuff.
An Invitation to Rust Maintainers
Sounds like any smartphone.
An excellent tool for more pinpoint targets.
That ship has already sailed, they're not reclaiming time, it's just going somewhere else that's more effective at capturing time.
I felt the same. The most important thing for a new library or language to do in its introduction is to show meaningful examples that solve a problem in the target domain in the canonical way.
Honestly, any deep dive into the CP/M BIOS/BDOS architecture should suit you.

It's really quite basic.

The BDOS was common across platforms, with the machine specific BIOS acting as the interface layer between the BDOS and the raw hardware. The BIOS deals with all of the interrupts and shoving values in and out of I/O ports (or addresses) hoping the hardware behaves.

A better approach would be to compare things like CP/M, FLEX for the 6800, and even TRSDOS for the TRS-80. CP/M and FLEX are similar in that they're "generic" OSes for different hardware. TRSDOS is interesting because the DOS offered actual system services.

These are more interesting than the ROM based "OS" of things like the C64 and Atari. For example, the C64 doesn't really have a "DOS", it has a smart peripheral that you connect to over a serial interface and send commands. The "DOS" is actually implemented on the disk drive, not the host machine. Similarly with the Atari, it had a very nice device driver level abstraction, but that was as far as it went.

The novelty of this project is the relocatable binary loader. CP/M didn't have one of these (it didn't need one). The memory maps of the various 6502 machines are quite varied. Having large chunks of the RAM mapped to video displays didn't help matters much. And all of the systems were pretty fast and loose with low memory.

CP/M needs, like, 16 bytes of low memory "committed" for the OS, then everything else is shoved to the end in high memory. The 8080/Z80 used I/O ports compared to the 6502s memory mapped I/O (yet more holes in the 6502 memory map).

To be fair, the TRS-80 has a much different memory structure than a random CP/M machine. CP/M machines were designed FOR CP/M, but the BIOS let them have all sorts of flexibility for disk drives, I/O and other hardware. Out of the box, raw CP/M can not run on the early TRS-80s, lower memory simply isn't available.
I am, and so is the author of those tweets.
The real red flag here will be when they remove the ad impression cap and force their advertisers to fork over more money for less quality.

Facebook / IG ad performance dives hard as the number of impressions per ad / per person grows (ie. People scroll by ads they have seen on autopilot).

My guess is they have already accidentally introduced "a bug" which reduces the effectiveness of impression capping but I've got my popcorn ready for the full removal of impression capping.
Debt as percent GDP:

2000–55%

2008–68%

2016–105%

2020–129%

2022–123%
Can you explain a bit more what you mean?
There's been bugs like this in Windows and MacOS too. But they'll just blame the hardware vendor and it'll get warrantied...

Also spend some time reading product forums. Windows and MacOS have plenty of bugs...

Anyhow, a quick google search yields stuff like this: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-windows-10-screen-flashing...
Who said anything about scrum? The comment was about "agile," of which scrum is only one possible implementation[0]. Sprints are not only found in scrum, but also in other agile approaches, like kanban.

Two-week sprints seem to be the default in tech, although I've worked at a company that very successfully used one-week sprints. That's completely separate from how strictly companies try to follow "scrum," if at all. I've run into kanban more often than scrum, personally.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
What are you talking about? It sounds like you don’t understand what is going on here. Perhaps you think some data is going to Apple?
Which makes it useless the minute any of the compilation targets introduce a breaking change or significant additional UI functionality.
Link: https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-pivot-part-2/
Absolutely not. It's not politically stable enough and is too close to Europe, so there isn't a big enough ping time benefit.
I'm not surprised the neo bank idea was shut down. The profit margins are really low and moving forward, capital is going to be expensive.

In India, most neobank startups are bleeding money through rewards and incentives funded by VCs and they are all shutting down one by one.

There is no moat. Support is expensive. They are still tied up with a traditional bank because getting bank license is not an option for startups. This is the case almost everywhere, not confined to India. You would be working with a legacy bank and inherit all the limitations.

Banking is free for most people. UPI and rupay run by government agencies result in 0% charge for merchant and consumers. So you can forget about any transaction related fees.

This might not be common across the world but there is no lock in when investing in funds in India. You cannot lock in customers for mutual funds and related investment legally anymore as of last year, I believe. So not possible to make profit on investment management side.

It's really tough for a neobank.
hn works "okay" on TUI browsers
This HNer claims to have three such jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33089003
Help with pricing page and split testing
What do you guys think about a product that provides pricing page templates for your SaaS that easily hooks in with your stripe and you also can split test them.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
FCC to remove companies from robocall database for non-compliance [pdf]
I think the comment is actually completely on-point and tells that OP isn't just some random backend developer that rants about frontend development. If you're using something in a professional manner, you need to leverage the existing tooling, ecosystem and libraries.

Do you have time to rewrite things from scratch like react-testing-library, styled-components, Apollo GraphQL, DraftJS, react-hook-form, and various component libraries? If you want to actually focus on your business logic you don't have time to do this stuff, otherwise you'll spend two weeks making a dropdown.
I don't know if a game-theory optimal poker bot would work well - You'd really want a battle-tested psychologically optimal bot that can convincingly play like an amateur, except when it really counts, to give your victims a false sense of confidence. A hustler-bot, essentially.

I'm sure it'd be highly illegal.
Is your claim that data is being exfiltrated to Apple?
Fear is the mind-killer.

Just stay professional and keep an open mind and rest assured that by now all our economies inherently depend on all these more or less complex information systems FWIW.
> even if you're in a flat behind a gateway

Perfect example: to my ears, this could be (1) networking jargon, (2) American football jargon, (3) puerile sex euphemisms
In Z_2 - modular matrix multiplication, not conventional matrix multiplication. And in this case, modular over what I assume is GF(2), i.e., single bits.
Maybe it's one of those things that they saw 20+ years ago and barely remembers it, and didn't bother looking anything up?

I'm certainly guilty of doing that, so I can't judge.
Get a modified youtube app with adblock and background play.
It looks like a simple bash wrapper around inotifywait to provide a simpler interface for a subset of the functionality. You don’t have to remember any
flags.

Not super useful, but not useless.
If there’s no growth forecasted investors are less likely to bid the stock up, as other investments may do better.

Note that “reasonable” may not be Buffet’s desired p/e.
Why do you have to open the camera in order to use the flashlight on an android phone? The button to turn the flashlight on is in the quick settings panel which can also be opened from the lock screen.
In other words, they're going to kill instagram next. Meta is over. Now we all get to watch it die an extremely slow death.
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What if there is platform which can be performed as video content platform for video creators as well as a audio platform for singers?
We don’t need to guess, the article says:

> Working with Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, the agents studied thousands of Helix transactions, subpoenaed emails, and ultimately found one involving a website that allows users to buy gift cards with Bitcoin. An email associated with Larry was used to open the account.

If you’ve got an email address associated with a Google account, it’s a plain old warrant.
Is there a similar tool that can trigger a command when the output of command changes or the stdout has some kind of string?

I understand this is shell script territory, but a cross-platform tool would be ideal.
I'm glad I didn't drink the GitOps koolaid that some agencies were trying to sell us.
"Linode VPS": this isn't self hosting 8-(
You're still on someone else's computer.

However, self hosting is easy!!! Follow these 3 steps:

1. Get a computer
2. Install freebsd or linux
3. Install apache or nginx

Enjoy self hosting!!

Maybe that's 4 steps?
This issue also persisted in public school where students were passed along. That has nothing to do with tuition.
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I'd say humans themselves will definitely lead to human extinction. But probably not from climate change, we'll come up with something much faster.
On top of that it's even being taught to Maya schoolchildren, marking the first time a culture has ever lost their writing, then gotten it back.
When you're about to drop $1B on a data center, you better make damn sure it's somewhere where the government won't hassle you or raid it.
If you don't mind working with software emulation, nand2tetris takes you from logic gates up to a CPU, assembler, compiler. I'm working through the book: https://www.nand2tetris.org/book. It doesn't focus on an existing architecture like 6502 but focuses on simplicity instead to make the ideas really clear.

If you'd like to work with real hardware, +1 to the Ben Eater suggestion. He sells kits for all the components for an 6502 machine so you don't get bogged down in sourcing them. Great videos too.

(Quick edit, not 8086, showing my inexperience with hardware!)
On the other hand, real world performance is really the only useful metric for matrix multiplication. I don’t really care about the theoretical performance, or the number of operations. Not disagreeing with your take that the claim is grandiose, just pointing out that finding a generalizable way to automate the improvement of what is almost certainly the most important mathematical operation a computer can do is worth some attention. It also suggests other mathematical operations could be improved this way as well - potentially algorithms that haven’t gotten as much theoretical or practical attention as matrix multiplication.
With all that said, they even point out that other people have worked on this before using other optimization strategies. I’d guess they got into Nature either by using the Deepmind name, because Nature really loves reinforcement learning because it’s a cool topic that draws views, or because they’re the first group to find their algorithm leads to real improvements. (Probably a mixture of all three, I’d guess)
Having read the article I entirely understand what is going on here.

Do you expect your images to be scanned on disk and the links in them to be opened, leaking your ip? What if you do something as simple as screenshot an address bar in a browser? Save a menu QR code?

Now you are sending out traffic, accidentally, with your full ip to random places due to a service Apple inserted that you have no knowledge of.
Child of God is an easier read than Blood Meridian, and acts as a pretty good way to get used to his minimalist punctuation
This is why everyone hates libertarians, it's an extremely modest ideology. The presumption of knowledge & power (hubris) is the basis for so much human suffering. Unfortunately it will never be defeated.
Mrs. Jobs' news publication should stick to doing what it does best:

Confirming the biases of the most privileged class of humans in the US as they sneer at the rest of the country.
Good source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
Huh, I never thought to ask. Never been offered that though. I'll give this a shot and report back the next time HN discourses on therapy.
this is cool. edge and decentralized applications are going to be a topic of focus (IMO) in the next 5 years.
It’s not going to hit you if you work in “tech” and have both a professional mindset and regimen in place.

Software is still and ever increasingly eating the world FWIW…

Don’t fall for the doomsday folks, they either don’t understand the dynamics and/or are just in it for the drama.

It’s actually still a great time to negotiate for premiums. Keep calm and carry on.