skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plausible deniability does not have to be just from shareholders. It can also be from the courts, or even other employees in the company. Also, the plausible deniability is for the person in the company doing the head rolling, so that they do not get caught up in it. Of course, some things can get so big that board members and CEO can get caught up in it, but not always.
AT&T to pay $23M fine for bribing lawmaker’s ally in exchange for vote
Well the recent leaked LA city council tape should dispel any notions that left wing politicians aren’t racist. In fact the race-essentialism of the left is laid bare in that tape. “He’s with the blacks” etc.
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Thanks! That's an excellent link.
The responsible thing is for the owner to log out of iCloud before selling the device or giving it away. Google Android works the same way AIUI: if your device is logged into Google and you reset from recovery or bootloader, you'll need to input these credentials due to FRP.
Name constraints allow it, if be happier if I could import a certificate and set my own constraints in the certificate manager - “I trust this for all *.bigcorp.com domains but not for mybank.com”
>It's constantly reminds me why compulsory voting in Australia is the best thing since sliced bread.

How about letting people decide if they wish, or not, to partake in a system that is rigged on either side? A choice of 'either pile of shit', is not necessarily a choice that is acceptable to those that would prefer their bread without.

I am horribly anti-brexit, it has caused me and so many I know so much grief. I hate everything about it, but you can take your 'actual F' and F yourself if you would like to force me to vote.
Feels a lot like a framework to me, albeit it more by convention and enforced by linters instead of skeletal code. And a fairly rigid one at that.

Has this been tested against a more traditional architecture to solve a similar business problem? And if so what were its cons?
I used to work in a large investment firm with billions in assets. We used Bloomberg API and Bloomberg terminals. It's near impossible to get rid of Bloomberg monopoly in this sector. It's not just data, it's access to data and chat early before something happens to the market. I remember there was a fire in California and before anyone (including major news networks) know who caused the fire they (Bloomberg chat) knew California energy company caused the fire. The companies that pay for Bloomberg terminals are making billions, paying $20k for one Bloomberg terminals is nothing for them.
This is a dumb comment. Being socially outcast is terrible for your mental and physical health.

And I wasn't saying he was canceled, I meant that he was bullied for 'defending' someone who was being bullied.
I just read through that article. Of the specific things it mentions, I think Twitter might no longer work without JavaScript, but everything else is true now just as it was then.

Nothing has changed.

Source: personal experience, as one who blocks JavaScript by default because it makes the web better more than it breaks things. Also very occasional observation of people browsing the web with very similarly-configured browsers apart from the disabling of JavaScript, and of people browsing the web without even uBlock Origin or similar (and that’s really painful to watch).
The practical answer is to simulate it. Even if you knew a bunch of queueing theory, you would end up simulating something like this.

If you want inspiration and some background, though, I can strongly recommend the book mentioned downthread: http://www.performancemodeling.org/

You're absolutely right that queueing theory would be helpful. A little part of me is wondering how on Earth you're doing your job without it!
There’s the small sensor board plugged into it and the LCD board that attaches to it also.
Recently, unless they changed something in the last week DLSS 2 is IMO not worth it to play in 4k vs 1440.

DLSS 3 still only looks fine on cherry picked screens: “It looks like DLSS 3's weakness lies in hidden geometry, where information is missing between two frames due to geometry overlapping another set of geometry while in motion. This can cause DLSS 3 to "shutter" and output ugly artifacts as it tries to fill in the void of missing detail.” https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dlss-3-early-review-rtx-40...
Given that they took skin cells, cultured them to pluripotent stem cells, then convinced the stem cells to grow neurons, I don't think they grew an interoceptive cortex, basal ganglia, or other brain areas necessary for emotional experience as we know it. "Exhibit sentience" is... well, let's call it a wordplay.
I can’t think of many examples that seemed legitimate, and also shouldn’t have involved criminal charges.

Obligatory example of bullshit cancellation:

Fantasy writer attends panel on role of race in fantasy authorship. She accidentally uses the word colored. Now she is professionally shunned. Her husband later issued a statement pointing out she didn’t mean to offend anyone by using a term that the NAACP uses on a regular basis.

As someone who got repeatedly lectured about how we must all use the word “African American” now instead of “black” back in to 90’s (But most of my African friends are white!?!), I can sympathize with the gaffe. Anyway, she’s been kicked out of a bunch of professional associations.

Based on her invitation to speak at the panel, I’m assuming she’s not exactly a card carrying member of the KKK, Trump voter, etc..
> Why anyone competent would work there I have no idea.

The closest I’ve seen are fresh college grads getting a year or two of experience before moving on.
French perspective here : everybody uses centimeters and millimeters are common. I just came from a hair cut and the girl doing it asked for my clipper size in millimeters. I have an intuition, and it's usually pretty close, for how much à millimeter, centimeter, meter and kilometer are. All that to say it's got everything to do with habit and not random size body parts.
Colonizing the Cosmos
Because that is what new frameworks are doing.
> Opinion certainly varies, but it’s ridiculous to suggest I’m a Russian propagandist for disagreeing with you. I don’t have to like Russia to be more fearful of the US. Especially if you go to Eastern Europe you will encounter this view.

I never said you where a Russian propagandist I said you where using the same talking points a Russian propagandist, which is a fact.

> This “Russia did it” story is also getting more and more convoluted. The EU already sanctioned Russia and is avoiding buying their gas. Russia can simply not send gas if that’s what they want, what is the EU going to do, sanction them more?

It's been simple from day one, Russia is trying to send a message to Europe and avoid contract issues. The message is "your critical infrastructure is not safe", I wonder why we keep finding Russians with drones in Western European countries.

It's never gotten 'more complicated'.

> The US didn’t already have a way to stop the flow of gas besides sanctions. Since that may not be enough over winter, further discipline has now been administered.
This protects LNG profits and strengthens the US’s proxy in the area, Poland.

Sanctions are more than enough, it's clear that European countries see Russia for the terroristic regime they are.

I don't think LNG would change in Europe there aren't enough terminals for there to be any distinct difference.

> It shouldn’t be surprising that this happened after a pipeline from Norway to Poland was completed or that a Polish diplomat thanked the US after the blasts.

I don't think this is the evidence you think it is, if anything this is evidence that the US wasn't involved. You think a US - Polish joint super secret operation was leaked by a politician?.

Why do you think that one of the Nordstream 2 pipes was left undamaged if you think it was America?. Does it not benefit America to take out every pipe?.
One problem is that it's likely very personal. I save links and used to publish them with a line or two of commentary on my blog. But what catches my eye is probably different from what catches your eye. You can't come close to reading everything and you're certainly not wrong to decide you just don't care about some topic even if others think it's incredibly important to follow carefully.
I had a chance to use Bro a few years back in a network traffic analysis software and the code was fairly bad - global states, no multithreading, weird scripting language (because of which everything was dynamically allocated with measurable overhead). We ended up implementing our own traffic analyzer, during which we found that major protocols implementations in Bro had bugs or failed to detect or parse valid traffic.

I hope they got better over the years, if they want to integrate into such major products...
Training a neural net to spot misinformation and fake news from a single image
I remember I found setting up remote connections for VSCode harder than emacs.

isnt emacs just M-x ssh … and ure done?
So what sort of interpretation are we talking about here? Welding quality? Concrete qualities?
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Espionage?
Saying "you can google it" and "it is well known" is not a sufficient source to someone challenging your claims.

I'll take that to mean that these are your personal opinions and you have no data to back them up.
Yes absolutely. I work in big telco and I can assure you that any decent ISP reads those abuse reports and acts on them.

I have two stories I can only tell on this anonymous account. First as a kid I was nmap scanning carelessly from my boyhood room, trying to learn. Got a letter home a few days later with a warning from my ISP and a little booklet about "netiquette". Class acts in the 90s.

And fast forward to just 8 or so years ago at my current job I decide to host a service that got abuse complaints on company servers and IPs. My boss asks me if I know what's running on this VM with this IP and I had to fess up that it was me trying to use free resources.

Both cases stem from an abuse report where the reporter only had the IP to report on.

And actually now that I think about it, running Tor exit nodes at Linode they regularly contacted me due to abuse reports and we had to resolve them together.

So yes abuse emails should work, but of course there will be exceptions.
I would very much like for HTML to incorporate concepts from htmx (particularly more flexible transclusion) so that more dynamic websites and applications can be built entirely in HTML.

JavaScript became popular because HTML stopped moving forward as a hypermedia, focusing instead on client-side features that, while certainly nice, didn't increase the expressive power of the format in terms of hypermedia.
I think a lot of people would be happy to put their feet up once they'd navigated onto a highway, or have their car go find a parking spot by itself, or come back from one. The sort of stuff Tesla is trying to do is in many ways far more practical except they keep diverting resources to FSD and end up not nailing thee more prosaic conveniences.
Yes, even the experts quickly go "pfff, this is getting too complicated, let's simulate"
> I'd bet that the majority of all apps that depend on Postgres would easily fit in RAM, forever. That could mean one could get rid of SQL, or could apply other simplifications.

My guess is you're correct, yet RAM stored DBs cannot guarantee persistence when things go wrong. Or at least they may introduce data loss if changes aren't fsync'd to durable storage or 2PC with replicas.
Yep, it's ridiculous. Mounting ski bindings myself -- it's all metric. Go to get fasteners... no luck. Have to order. But good luck buying them at a reasonable price online in consumer quantities. In "metric" Canada.
We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers
Crap like this makes me wish RISC-V was the dominant ISA. Unfortunately it seems like the big players really don’t have any incentive to switch once they get their architecture licenses, since the ARM ecosystem and toolchains are so much more mature. I know Intel is working to support RISC-V in their foundry play, I hope that takes off in a big way.

Not that I feel particularly bad for Qualcomm here, they’re about as litigious, if not more so, than Arm.
I seriously considered taking myself off the donor list when I learned that it might subject me to vivisection. But ultimately I decided I wouldn't be willing to turn down being the recipient of an organ donation, so it's a risk I now accept. Anesthetizing donors should be made standard practice though.
On Silence and the Inner Voice
Yes, I’ve heard Michael Bloomberg say the secret weapon was adding chat, which built the network effect.
> - Should not auto-close due to inactivity (I don’t expect to log in unless I need to recover an account)

Usually you need to login when you create an account, unfortunately.

Sorry I don't really your question, but for me:

What I would like is that all accounts that we create online make email and phone number optional, like news.yc and reddit.com do... I don't want to be able to recover my accounts.

What I do now for accounts that I don't care about, if they don't accept a fake email address, I use a temporary one: https://www.emailnator.com/ .
BB is an excellent and well-executed business model.

1. Do something that doesn't scale: provide clean, reliable feeds for everything + whatever new thing clients want

2. Package the above in a way that's easier to explain/sell: a device (and now, API)

3. Control the interface

It establishes and grows a moat by 1. It eased sales and prevented competitors from stepping in between them and the customer (and therefore eventually being able to cut Bloomberg out) via 2 & 3.

Consequently, it turns any potential competitor's value calculus into either (a) attempt to reimplement a subset of Bloomberg's offering, thus inviting the "Why not buy an integrated solution?" customer comparison and fighting against integrated pricing economies or (b) reimplement the entire Bloomberg offering from ground up, which is pretty much impossible.

And the entire time a competitor is spending time and effort on (a) or (b), Bloomberg is collecting use patterns and new feature requests from its actual, day-to-day users.
Zlib-ng doesn't contain the same code, but it appears that their equivalent inflate() when used with their inflateGetHeader() implementation was affected by a similar problem: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/pull/1328

Also similarly, most client code will be unaffected because `state->head` will be NULL, because they (most client code) won't have used inflateGetHeader() at all.
Correct, in real life queued objects (or people) are "agents" that exhibit imperfect behavior that doesn't really adhere to a perfect queuing equation. Classic example is motor vehicle throughput: queuing equations might be helpful in broad strokes for coarse estimates but need agent level simulation to accurately predict outcome.
For scanning, you may want to check out COLMAP if you have a good GPU, CloudCompare, and MeshLab.
Of public airports?

Reminds me a lot of the post-9/11 hysteria. There was likewise a panic about photographing public infrastructure, particularly if the photographer was of a feared ethnicity. E.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/14/nyregion/man-arrested-ove... ("Man Arrested Over Photos After 9/11 Is Deported")

These stories didn't age well.
100 lines of JavaScript and a backend consisting of stored procedures that output HTML does not sound like a ‘boring’ technology choice. It sounds very exciting - anyone approaching this codebase to do things to it will likely have lots of very interesting questions about how this system handles lots of things.

The solution might have good answers to all of those questions! It is perfectly possible to build a well-engineered system using those technologies!

But on almost every level the answers to those questions are going to be surprising.

Whereas the same thing built using webpack and a Ruby on Rails to Postgres backend will be much more legible.

‘Boring’ technology does not mean no technology.
Remote Work and Urban Wages: Benefits of urban agglomeration fell post-pandemic
It even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
We also know people behave differently in mobs than they do in individual one-on-one relations. The answer could be putting more stress on personal relationships regardless of anyone else. This also would help when the mob does come after you, because you have more support from people who know the real you.
>The vast majority of farming in the USA and Britain is industrialised

Where I grew up farming was not industrial to the extent it has become, and I never met any single person with allergies until I moved to the city, neither did we experience pandemics. I known this is not just my experience. Isn't there some value, to see how children grew up with access to grass and dirt, yet also to sanitary conditions inside the home, hospitals and schools? Perhaps it was due to the period of my childhood and the smaller nature of farming, plus it was a fairly wealthy part of the world considering.
Denmark's suicide rate is falling, so that is indeed evidence that they're doing something right.
Exactly. I could fix any complex bug. I just choose not to.
You can make a self-signed CA certificate any time you want, and anything with a browser will let you import it AFAIK. This can be locked down on corporate Windows machines via Group Policy, so this really only affects computers already behind myriad layers of HTTP security layer gunk. You'll just have to access your home streaming server from your phone over the guest Wi-Fi.
Zeek can produce a lot of data especially with so many endpoints. If you want an open source low cost way to actually analyze all that data in your own cloud data lake, check out/follow https://github.com/matanolabs/matano.

We're gonna be launching managed support for Zeek soon, where you can just dump Zeek logs in S3 and get out normalized Apache Iceberg tables for all ~43 Zeek logs.
> If it's a core activity, and you can't do it yourself, what are you even doing in business?

The most value I’ve ever seen was at a large, well-known organization where the 24 year-olds in $2k suits met with the actual staff and gave the C-level an honest report about all of the problems which had been getting buried for years by the mid-level management.

That worked but so many things are just broken for that to be useful. Nobody wanted to deal with that, so unsurprisingly a lot of people left after a year or two.
I don’t think this is good for her in the end. Sure, she’s got a lot of media coverage, but what about her career as a documentary filmmaker? Surely the better outcome would be the film screened at Sundance.
I have done the math, and that's why I think that nuclear will only be a niche, and expensive, form of energy for a few countries that do not have good renewable resources.

As for CAES, if it can scale and be cheap, great. But there isn't nearly as much evidence of that for CAES as there is for batteries, which are being deployed by the GWh on the grid now, and which have massive plans for expansion in areas where the grid is market based and profit driven, instead of a regulated monopoly that can rest on its laurels.

I occasionally hear about liquid air too, and though everybody I have encountered that works on it is a bit nuts, I am more optimistic about liquid air than CAES for massive scale, as liquid air can be deployed many many places.
The idea that these entirely ordinary uses of DNS constitute as "DNS abuse" is ridiculous.

Sure, maybe phishing and botnets are bad. (Just like maybe daily stormer, kiwifarms and reddit are bad). They're still all perfectly ordinary DNS users, they're not "abusing" DNS.

A botnet using botnet.com to find the IP address of the C&C server is no different than everyone else using google.com to find the IP address of the search engine.
At what point was I talking about controversial opinions?
Your only mistake, then, was that unlike a consultancy based solution, not enough people were able to take credit for it. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but to sell an idea, it's best to make every buyer think it was theirs all along, then only will it stay in place.
We can already do this legally. And some places do. This is just a distraction, red meat for idiots.
> I can't be the only one here who is both skeptical and a little turned off by someone who says "You can stick any user input into a database query and you'll be fine", with a condesending pat on my head.

Like how Google has worked the past 2 decades? OP said snippets then you gloriously paraphrased it into a completely different statement.
I like Epoxy putty if I need a custom cable plug anchor in 5 minutes. =)
This summer, DailyMail, one of the biggest newspapers:

> Title: Britain goes into meltdown over 106F hottest day EVER that is set to hit on Monday and Tuesday

> Subtitle: Parts of London set to hit 41C (106F) next Monday and Tuesday - smashing all-time UK record of 38.7C (101.6F)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11019683/Britain-en...

> Summer is officially here! North East braces for sweltering 96F heatwave after Memorial Day as revelers flock to the beaches and parks to cool down

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10868043/North-East...
We’ll phages present their own issues. Antibiotics were cheap and easy to mass produce.
> The official ways of this society is that fun is what your free time is for, and work is for getting things done and make money. Why is this different for software development?

Two reasons. 1) Because devs generally have other employment options. 2) Management has no idea how to judge what devs do.

1 is important, because devs can often go work somewhere that lets them work on fun technologies. This is usually at a smaller company and often comes with lower pay, but not so low that anyone would consider it suffering (still easily into the 6 figures).

2 means that the manager only sees the following option: Tell the dev they can't play with fun tech, risk them leaving, and spend many thousands of dollars on recruiting a replacement (who may also leave). OR Tell the dev they can play with the fun tech, and nothing immediately breaks (and the manager can go back to worrying about their day to day problems).

Taking the second option is not necessarily an irrational choice for the manager. Especially if that manager is using an "up or out" strategy (their plan is to be promoted or leave before the long term effects of these decisions can bite them).

Such is the realpolitik of the business world.
Any acceptable phone has to have a webbrowser, and that one will always have to work with everything, especially porn sites.

We should be damm glad that the web got invented when it did, because nobody would accept the web if it was invented today.
I wonder what brain activity data they collected during this. I’ve been wanting to analyze intercranial EEG of people listening to music to understand the degree to which the brain directly resonates to the frequencies and envelopes of music.
Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem
Thanks for the follow up. It sounds like you built in the 90s? The houses I was talking about were in the 60s-80s.

I think it's possible to build houses like yours, and I think it's possible for them to be economically feasible at scale, but it takes more early investment and competence, and that extra X% is hard for people to justify.

I think about how people will look for a feature list because quality is hard to determine.
I run a publicly accessible web service, and get this stuff all the time.

My service happens to be fronted by nginx, so over time I accumulate config to match these and drop connections and drop from the logs entirely:

location /wp-admin {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
}

(444 is a nonstandard error code that tells nginx to just close the connection, don't respond at all; if you want to be more mischievous you could return 301 "https://nsa.gov")