skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you were probably illegally accessing another person or companies systems.

Nice you got something out of it, I'm not judging you either, but it was probably not the correct way to operate. What you should've done was notify the owners of the incorrectly configured system and left it at that.

You're also not a massive international conglomerate who should know better than to read every ones code and use it to turn a profit without first asking for permission.

I use Github like a bank, not a public library (unless I'm working on open source). I never would've allowed them to read through all my code and use it for profits without at least asking.
> Yet the tracker was apparently already nuked off the internet as What.cd and reappeared later as Redacted.

You imply there is some continuity in the operation between these two trackers, but I don’t believe that’s the case. What.cd shut down. Subsequently, redacted (passtheheadphones) and apollo started, appealing to the same userbase. Neither of those trackers were privy to what.cd’s databases.
Not really:

- All FSD miles put together are still only 1/3 of the average miles needed to generate a fatal crash using a human driver.

- The vast majority of those miles are in ideal conditions.

- A cursory glance indicates there have been 15 FSD-induced fatalities.
Awesome, I'd love this for VHS covers too
After doing some research I agree with you. It is known that tether was buying Chinese trash paper.

Read the tweet again. What they wrote is perfectly true if they rolled off 30B and are sitting on 10B of trash that needs a huge loss provision. They never say they liquidated all their CP holdings. I suspect that tweet is truthful but completely misleading.
The modeling of convenience yield looks way off. Some actors get way more utility; there’s an impact cost to purchasing large amounts; bounding utility by r makes no sense in real-world markets.
Man, if they're rising up against Epic, then I can't fathom how they'd react to other EMRs.
Grit or Quit? Tactical Advice for Founders Facing Tough Decisions
> I can't think of a single person I would be happy to welcome in my home/business with high explosives or a firearm, but would refuse to take $20 from in my ordinary course of business offered to the general public.

A person feeling safe around another person does not satisfy the government ID requirements for anything. Does it work when you show up at the DMV asking for a license? Are you upset that it doesn't?

Opening a bank account is not a trivial matter. A bank account has the potential to do a lot more damage to society than a single firearm.

> you are not part of the audience which I expect to benefit from my comment.

What is the benefit of your comment? In my opinion false equivalencies and over-the-top rhetoric are rarely beneficial.
that will be supported for security updates too
With how bad things are climate-wise, I feel like anything below a full-throat defence of nuclear power is in favour of global warming.
You can't give someone a dime (that they could have easily picked up from any of your competitors too) and then break into their house claiming they had been compensated. In this case they even steal code authored by people who never used GitHub at all, but had someone else mirror it or publish it on GitHub.
Given that for non-city dwellers, interactions with transgenders are rarer than rare. Given that the assumption that anything non explicitly female is male is still very common. I suspect foone will be dealing with this issue for longer than they’d like.
This is one of my favorite features in snowflake (I’m assuming they didn’t invent it) and am happy to see it in Postgres now.
Parler, Gab, Gettr, Truth... So many to choose from. Where should I take my free speech? Are there any recommendations?
It’s not the fact that the government owes you that makes USD valuable. It’s you owing the government (taxes) that makes USD desirable for you - or go to jail.
No, as long as you respect the original authors' terms of use of that "knowledge"
Fair enough. I'm a bit of a Peirce fanboy, so there's that. Contemporary Philosophy has more or less utterly abandoned Peirce's chief aims, which were to achieve clarity and distinctness for our conceptions of things. So much so that I'd consider calling someone a philosopher to be at best a back-handed compliment. Don't get me wrong, I'm aware there are philosophers working today who hope for more than the approbation of their fellows, but they're rare and they're not who most people think of when they hear the word.

Peirce is probably the greatest American-born logician to live, and probably deserves to be on the short list of great American-born scientists (broadly construed in the 19th century and earlier sense) like Franklin and Gibbs, but yeah I agree that he's an odd choice for the first name on a mathematics landing page.

Maybe one day I'll write a graphical Prolog dialect based on his existential graphs[1].

[1] http://www.jfsowa.com/peirce/ms514.htm
a lot of people confuse popular with monopoly.
You have a choice to filter out #city tagged items or not. And you can debate that a tag is incorrect as a matter of fact, much as you can debate if a food good does have sodium in it or not. And also tags are not singular, you can tag something #city #redteamblueteampolitics #highlyemotional #inflammatory and YOU get to choose if you want to see #highlyemotional content or not, not the platform. You get to choose if you want to follow the #rude #crazy person on Server Y, not your mastodon instance admin.

Also a big part of this is matter of scale and choice. I don't think people care that much about a small subreddit and their bullshit most of the time, or petty facebook group politics. It's when the platform itself does the censoring, and when the platform is where %95 of content exists due to network effects and has user counts that are in the billions that it starts having a duty of neutrality. It's much like city roads or housing or similar, the people you filter out from housing and city roads have to be filtered out for dangerous damage to the infrastructure or people itself and that is it, otherwise you get into really bad political and discriminatory territory when you say black people or people of opinion Y can't buy housing here or drive on the roads.

In this future system, you can also have alternative tagging systems, credit ratings for moderators, published AI models that tag client side, etc. I think it would be a very interesting marketplace of services!
I also wanted a Rust web server with no magic, that uses async internally, and lets me write threaded request handlers. None existed, so I wrote one:

https://crates.io/crates/servlin

Servlin contains no unsafe code. I picked dependencies to have as little unsafe code as possible. I wrote some unsafe-free deps: safina (async runtime), safe-regex, fixed-buffer, permit, temp-dir, and temp-file. I plan to replace other unsafe deps: url, async-net, and serde. Eventually Servlin's only unsafe will be in the standard library and `polling` crate.

Servlin supports single-file webapp deployments by including web assets in the binary. I plan to develop Servlin until it is as strong as nginx and can run reliably with no load balancer. And someday a good Rust unikernel will exist and we will run Servlin binaries directly on hardware. That will be the world's shortest, most secure, and most performant web stack.

Please contact me if you would like to help improve Servlin.
While continuing to represent individual rights? That sounds like a good compromise to me.
> You can't just paraphrase someones licensed work

Yes you can. That's exactly why you paraphrased it instead of copying verbatim.

At the fringes, your transformation may not be enough to overcome the requirements, but that's an exception. Nearly all paraphrasing is legal by default.
Good question.

IP addresses are used for routing, which requires them to be structured.

The basic idea here is that your ISP advertises a route that consists of a "prefix", i.e., a block of addresses it controls. So, for instance it might advertise 192.0.2/24 which means "Every address which starts with 192.0.2". That means it can only give its customers addresses in that block. So, it could randomize which customers have which addresses, but it can't give them anything in 192.0.3 because that's in some other block.

The question of why it doesn't shuffle the addresses is more complicated, but the TL;DR is that it's a pain for the ISP to do.

I'm using IPv4 addresses as an example here, but similar concepts apply to longer IPv6 addresses, except that customers are given a block of addresses themselves that they can allocate internally. They can randomize the low order bits but the customer's block (prefix) is routed the same way as I described earlier, and so that can be used for tracking if you just ignore those bits.
While probably a rhetorical question.

GT Metrix is a good site to answer - see the waterfall view: https://gtmetrix.com/

Also right click and inspect on your browser.
I've started to reduce my card usage as of late. This is not because I am annoyed by banks (though I am pretty annoyed of some banks) but because I think the root of all evils is MasterCard/Visa. They have a tight grip over the international/internet payments market.

I'm currently in Malaysia. They have a mobile ewallet/payment system (tng). It accepts foreigners with fairly large monthly limits (around $5500/month). I can buy TnG balance with Bitcoin/Crypto/Cash/Barter, and it's accepted almost everywhere (even more than MC/Visa).

I'm happy with this being an alternative to cash. The way I see it, companies can only be evil once they have leverage. But using multiple different systems, you take that leverage away from them. Cards have leverage on the day-to-day payments, online and international market. To take it away, use services that bypass them.

Banks still have leverage on the large transfer, wealth holding market. I'm yet to find an alternative to that (There is USDT/USDC but it's banks with extra steps. Crypto is an alternative but the volatility is too high).
Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal
>If human beings had much more accurate memories, copyright would be quite a bit more intrusive (and/or quite a bit less effective) because, following any exposure to some kinds of works, we could use our own memories to reproduce those entire works from scratch for our own use or pleasure without obtaining authorized copies from elsewhere.

I don't know the name, but I remember some sci-fi story about some academy where humans were trained from birth without exposure to music others had written and had to reinvent it on their own. Some would cheat and access the outside world's music, but they would always be caught by their later compositions all having obvious influence from conventional music.

<Insert obvious joke about how I'd remember the name if I had computer-like memory.>
There's nothing gray about it. The license requires attribution, and Copilot doesn't provide that attribution.
$30M Lottery Scam: How a Michigan real-estate broker cracked the lottery
> 1. I think if you don't want your code re-used in CoPilot you should have that right

People already have that right - all you have to do is not host your code on GitHub.
Being a hacker?
"Ai music already exists but people still support mainly real artists on streaming platforms and go to concerts, because provenance matters for artists"

I don't listen to my favorite music because of who made it but because I like it.

If music that I like started bring made by AI then it's listen to it without hesitation.

In fact a lot of music bring made today is already a collaboration between humans and machines and had been so for a long time.
In other words: "you can write this down by hand, copy paste or browser plugins but you cannot automate this". I wonder if this stood up in any other context and I can't imagine of a similar scenario from the top of my head where automation would be forbidden. I could totally hire a part time student from a developing country to do data entry for me and that would be alright? Strange world - somehow these corporations have people brainwashed.
I believe you're referring to Eric Migicovsky's "I want a small Anroid phone!"

https://smallandroidphone.com/

Sign up to help pressure OEMs to build something reasonably sized!
The paper is surreal.

An AI paper that starts with experiments on drowning cats and religious chimpanzees.

Then it talks about making the system by cutting up a large wire mesh and assembling it back randomly.

Then it talks about simulating the system on a computer, and coding it in a programming language called YAWN that is like English.

Then it says that they could not obtain the machine that runs YAWN programs, so they emulated that machine on another computer (IBM 704).

Then it says (excitedly) that the machine printed gibberish when presented with a certain input and on another run ejected the input punched card twice.

I'm not sure if this is real or a joke.

I'm not sure if the experiment itself was designed as a joke to waste US military's computer time.

I'm not sure if this has some deep lessons.

To me, it felt like when Dumbledore set the chicken on fire in HPMOR.
In this case we'd be sending subpoenas to those people to make sure they hadn't been instructed to disregard licenses or copy large pieces of code verbatim.
Has anyone been concerned about the inverse problem—hiding your IP address as a server instead of as a client? If so, what approaches have you considered for addressing that concern?
Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
FWIW, https://forums.swift.org/t/a-possible-vision-for-macros-in-s...
if you're using all valid characters (numbers, punctuation, upper and lowercase, etc) then every extra character grows the set of possible passwords exponentially, not linearly. 24 characters is a huge problem space, i don't know exactly how many possible characters there are but let's say it's 50, so that's 50^24 which is 41 digit number, a number so big I don't know what to call it and still in the realm of a password that would take so long to crack you would die before it was finished cracking.
Ask HN: What'd be your preferable syntax style for a modern embeddable language?
What would be your favorite syntax style for a modern embeddable language - a.k.a. a 2022 Lua or elisp?
Really had to laugh at this one...
OP can correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't seem particularly interested in solving anything. They literally said "I don't care that it reproduces copyrighted content." So the problem, as I see it, is the people who see the laundering of open source and proprietary code as a draw, rather than a drawback.
Microsoft employee here. Haven't heard anything. There has been hiring slow down recently, but revenue/customer acquisition is going strong. It's a large company, so probably nothing in my division (azure / backups and disaster recovery).
First thing that comes to mind is using a TOR hidden service
Inabe No Suminawa: Master Craftsman of Hida
> It learns the same way a human does by learning patterns. It is not illegal to comprehend how to accomplish tasks by reading other people's source code.

It remains to be seen whether ML is true "learning" in the sense of developing a skill the way a human does over time.

It is however irrelevant to the manner in which this model operates today.
They’re clearly producing derivative works.
What an incredibly stupid way to run a company.
Principles for dealing with the changing world order
But you typed this message 7 days ago.
Humans do violate copyright if they use copyrighted passages directly in their work and pass it off as their own without any attribution, which is what copilot has been show to sometimes do, though not always. Copilot will sometimes offer chunks of code that can be found verbatim in open source code bases and passes it off to users without attribution. I agree it is ok to learn from copyrighted work and reproduce new different work from a human or a machine learning algorithm, but it isn't ok to pass along exact copies as your own without attribution. Microsoft will likely need to add checks to prevent copilot from offering verbatim copies of code going forward to try to avoid copyright violations here.
It's never about what someone said. Proof of that is completely unnecessary. Everything will be internalized as long as it's from your side, no questions asked.
Deep fakes won't make that much worse.
Eh music sampling is a unique case because of the dual intellectual property concerns (the composition and the recording).

I can’t use a snippet from a recording no matter how short but I can use a tiny snippet of a composition. You can’t copyright a single note.
I was part of the much bigger proportioned layoff back in 2009 shortly after my second child was born, back when MiniMicrosoft was still posting. I was so upset! BUT! It was actually a great thing that happened to me. I got a big severance, and almost immediately started somewhere else I've been considering with 30% raise and pretty quickly arriving great bonuses. I wish the same to the people laid off, looks like at least a couple of people in that twitter thread are awesome people!

ALSO!

I went back to Microsoft consulting as a both orange and a purple badge for a number of years, and In 2011 I worked on a super secret project with Microsoft HR helping tune a badly implemented upgrade to the system tracking layoffs, so secret I had to sign a ton of docs just to know it existed. It was eye opening. In organization that size there are always layoffs, some small (like 10 people), some slightly bigger (like 100 people). They were in the height of the Skype integration (aka ripping it to pieces) and so several hundred of scandinavians/estoninans were getting an axe. I fixed the system's perf issues and got out of there asap
Really? That seems weird to me. Do you know of one?
Not really - if Meta was so sure that The Wire has been fooled by fabricated evidence, the logical course would be to file a suit against The Wire to take down the "fake" news. Note that they don't even need to identify who "fabricated" the evidence - all they have to show is proof of how the evidence was fabricated, which they technically can:

If The Wire is wrong, then Meta has all the evidence they need. While you could create a whole fake Workplace, the easier move is to just create a free trial instance, meaning those fake notes are sitting in Meta's databases along with the metadata of whomever created them.

Source: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1581357055893327872
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is setting up a VPS with wireguard kind of like a Tor gateway but without having the “incriminating” Tor traffic being interesting to the NSA or whoever cares about those sorts of things. All the traffic between me and the VPS is wireguard while everything leaving is tor.

Not that I need it but it sounds like an interesting way to spend an afternoon.
This sounds so sad.
I got to the end of the paper before I noticed that it was published in the April issue of Communications of the ACM. I have a hard time believing that this is not an April Fool's Day joke.

I provide as evidence this line from near the end of the paper: "Thanks are due ... to Mr. V. A. Vyssotsky for manually simulating the 704 simulating STRETCH simulating Chaostron"
> when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow appears dull.

My understanding of this article is that it’s a detailed study of a composition the author likes.
I pay for Github because I thought it was a nice, reputable service who wouldn't go through my stuff without asking me first.
I agree. Willpower requires rational thinking. If you are able to think nationally regarding food then you won’t need any of tricks suggested in the article. In my case, my reason is blinded during overeating and I become aware of it only afterward. Even I try to be aware of overeating I can’t. None of the suggestions in the article will work in practice.

In other animals, like cats, what to eat is decided by smell only. An algorithm inside evalutes the smell and sends feedback: eat or do not eat. Another algorithm stops the eating process. But for humans reason must enter to choose food. There is packaged food for instance and our judgment is influenced by marketing. For humans eating has become too complex.
So they turned around and started buying everyone else. GitHub, Nokia, Activision. They're back to their old shit.
Flint tools found in cave among the oldest ever discovered in Poland
If by "your system" you mean the one PC upon which you are typing your comments right now, the provided you have used a unique password for that system, and only that system, then yes, by the time they have the hash and salt, they've already gained access.

That's a targeted attack, and that is usually not the direction these GPU Hashcat rigs are aimed.

Instead the attacker is merely playing the odds. Those odds being that a rather good number of users of system X (gmail, for example) will reuse their gmail password at another website (Experian, for example).

So they will target that other website (Experian) and when they find a breach, will hoover out the user names, password hashes, salts, and will know the algorithm Experian used (because somewhere in the data trove they hoovered up, the algorithm was indicated).

They will then set their GPU Hashcat rig upon the Experian breach data, looking for input strings that hash to stored hashes from their data. They don't care which individuals, they care that they will find working password inputs for, say, 15% of their breach data. If their experian dataset was for 50M users, a 15% success rate gives them 7.5M pairs to use further.

Then, armed with user names and working passwords from their Experian breach data they set out trying those users and passwords against gmail. They don't trip any "ten tries and you are out" traps because they only do one try per cracked user/password pair. It the user/password pair fails they simply move on to the next user/password pair. But, if the user/password pair works, then they have now breached someone's gmail account, and can now set out about taking over their other accounts (because gmail is often their recovery email for those other accounts). Some of those other accounts will be the crackers real target, those userss banking/financial accounts.

But the crackers don't care who they are targeting, just that 15% of their Experian data will yield useful pairs, and that 15% of those pairs will work when tested on gmail (15% of 7.5M is 1.125M working gmail accounts they can take over). And that 15% of the gmail accounts they breach will have banking/financial accounts they can do a password reset upon (15% of 1.125M 168,750 users). And even if each user yields merely an average of $1k, that works out to a very nice take of $168M for the crackers.
spot on, thanks for your input
Does the phrase "successive waves of 28 drones" mean "28 drones in successive waves"? A total of 4 killed doesn't give the impression of a powerful weapon. With a long range but seemingly small payload, the Geran drones look like more of a political than tactical weapon.
Good to know. Looks like about the same capacity per mol too. Looking up production, 15GWh/yr before hitting a substantial portion of current production is nothing to sniff at, but isn't really a global solution so scratch that of the list of hopefuls.

There's still SIB, AlS, LiS (4x the capacity per mol of lithium), Fe-air and Al-air
Stability AI Raises $101M at $1B valuation
> Even just the idea that GitHub should be allowed to train their proprietary AI on other people's work is insane.

You explicitly agree to this when you upload code to GitHub.

FOSS folks shouldn’t have sold their soul to the proprietary devil but they did and now they have to deal with it.