skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in their case... They reported excess heat in a cell containing 4 elements. They couldn't explain it chemically and said "must be nuclear". The arrogant physics community said "it can't be physics, it's chemistry" without offering an explanation or reaction with those 4 elements.

And now LENR is still a thing, as is theoretical research on nuclear reactions in a lattice and other related stuff.

I'm still a bit of a believer, largely because of the arrogance displayed by physicists at the time.
> > In my personal opinion, when apple began these scans, they effectively became an agent of the state.

> [I think you mean] it's illegal in the US for private services to conduct mass scanning for CSAM and notify the government

Nearly. If the government is requiring this then it becomes improper.

Not that Apple would be breaking the law, but that the search would be by a government proxy and thus inadmissible.

imho with the FBI's past pressure on Apple it doesn't seem unlikely that this is somewhat coerced.

> I would have expected it to have been brought up by the defense in a trial and stopped as a result. That it still happens is a strong indicator that it is, in fact, not illegal.

If their lawyer doesn't feel they could win with this argument they won't waste time bringing it up. Their job is defense not legal correctness.

> Frankly, it sounds like the same nonsense "sovereign citizens" get up to.

SovCits argue about stuff like that they don't belong to the government because they spell their name in all-caps, not about actual constitutional principles.
A few questions that come to mind off the bat:

Do you have a sitemap.xml file? Does it include accurate last updated dates or suggest realistic crawl schedules (eg: only index static pages every month, but frequently updated pages every day)?

Have you run your site through an SEO checker (or at least some of the ignored pages) to make sure that they are accessible and not being blocked/ignored by a crawler? Any server responses or canonical links that may signal the wrong thing to a bot?

Do you have any deep links to your more overlooked pages on the homepage (or at least on your more popular pages)?

Do you have backlinks in the wild that point to the pages that you want to have crawled? Are they marked as nofollow? Do you post links to these pages on any social media accounts?
ChatGPT and Reasoning about Programs
I was able to get ChatGPT to reason about a simple program.
I find that quite interesting. Has anyone else found anything
similar or as interesting?

def main():
i=0
while i>0:
i = i + 1

The given code defines a function named "main" that contains a while loop that will never execute. In Python, the "while" statement is used to create a loop that repeats the statements in the loop body as long as the given condition is true. In this case, the condition of the while loop is "i > 0", which means that the loop will only execute if the value of "i" is greater than 0. However, the initial value of "i" is 0, so the condition will never be true, and the loop will never execute. Here is an example of how the function could be modified to make the loop execute:

Copy code
def main():
i=1
while i>0:
i = i + 1
In this revised version of the function, the initial value of "i" is set to 1, so the condition "i > 0" is satisfied, and the loop will execute. The loop body contains a single statement, "i = i + 1", which increases the value of "i" by 1 on each iteration. This means that the loop will continue to execute indefinitely, increasing the value of "i" by 1 on each iteration. In order to make the loop stop executing at some point, you would need to add additional code to the loop body to check for a certain condition and break out of the loop when that condition is met. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Sorry :(

I feel for you; I wish I had a trigger warning on existential questions this AM too.
What if Sheryl Sandberg had convinced Mark Zuckerberg to commit some sort of fraud at Facebook and they both got convicted. Can you possibly imagine Sandberg serving more time than Zuckerberg? The ages and age differences are very similar.
No it won't!

They may feel bad about less yachts and luxury, but they are absolutely not hurting. No one is starving, no one is losing their housing, no one is unable to pay the heating bill.

Not even close to hurting. Lets not pity the $100mn-aires that just laid off 260+ people.
Researchers developed cancer testing that makes regular monitoring affordable
> This is such a bullcrap take on the GrayZone, which does great work (that yes, goes often against the mainstream views as force-shoved down peoples mind-throats).

I noted the site's history of publishing stories that aligned with Kremlin and Beijing interests - which is not any kind of comment of the quality of the content. It is interesting that you felt it was.

> The fact that you then link Muckrack tells me you are not an honest actor, or interested in the truth.

I keyworded the author's name on DDG and the Muckrack result popped up. That's my history with Muckrack. Their bio page had lots of sites where the author published; it listed more sites of publication than anyone else. That's why I linked it.

Based on this, you assert that I am dishonest and infer I am untruthful. Did you come to this conclusion because I failed to signal in a way that makes you feel safe?
Hey all... unquietwiki from r/ipv6; been lead-mod there for a while now (though the rest of the folks are really amazing on the mod-side).

IPv6 has saved my bacon more times in the past 15 years, than IPv4 has fought with me. No clashing of IPv4 ranges. No fighting with NAT. Ability to easily have concurrent networks, for different purposes. Ability to assign multiple network addresses. Internally, it "just works" on basically anything not an older licensing server, or LAN game. Microsoft is using it internally. Apple has been mandating MacOS and iOS apps to support it for several years now. Usage over the Internet is exceeding 50% in major countries.

Where it falls short... a lot of ISPs use equipment that don't handle it well, and/or don't have the staff to implement it properly; and the ISP buyouts and mergers here in the US of the past 15-20 years REALLY messed up the timeline on adoption. Cloud services, a lot of the stuff Google & Microsoft built up their public offerings on, they were designed largely on older virtualization setups that precluded how IPv6 works, until recently; same goes for Docker & Kubernetes. A lot of VPS hosts support it just fine; but a lot of businesses aren't leveraging those, as they could be. And lastly... a lot of IT guys still don't care for IPv6; as those biases show up in these & on Reddit; so that perpetuates the cycle.
With reasonable sensitivity, you should mention this story and ask.
Not if it’s depreciated to zero value. It’s considered worthless for tax purposes.
GameStop reports decline in revenue and sharp decrease in cash
Everyone uses Google Play because it's convenient. But as a notable example, Fortnite refused to use Google Play for a while precisely because of that 30% fee, and it worked out pretty well for them. Eventually they gave in and put Fortnite on Google Play. Although Google kicked them off later (they pushed an update which allowed users to bypass Google's 30% cut using their own payment system) so it's back to direct download from the website.
My company runs an API SaaS; my impressions come from a hobby I have of looking up the hosting providers behind our customer IPs as seen in our request logs (to find out what people think is a good idea for hosting a production web- or mobile-app service backend these days.)

By and large, our very-much "real world" customers are "self hosting" — usually on bare metal rather than a VPS, and usually with providers you've probably never heard of (ColoCrossing and ServerMania seem to come up fairly often among our US-based customers.) These hosting providers are all very much in the style of "you lease each machine as a separate contract; each machine gets one public IPv4 address included in the cost; private networking [i.e. an explicit VLAN] is an extra optional feature you can enable after the fact, and only works between higher-end machine types, rather than being a given, because our lower-end machines only have a single NIC in them [besides the one that's part of the BMC used for IPMI]."

What I assume is happening here isn't literal "self hosting" — these random non-IT-oriented customers wouldn't know the first thing about it — but rather that a given customer of ours has paid some "vertically-integrated IT consultancy" to both build and host their service for them; and said consultancy has chosen to use bare-metal hosting to host the resulting service, to minimize their own OpEx, and therefore maximize their margins. (In fact, I bet they're often packing several such customers onto a single box.)

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Also, in a more professional capacity, I investigate the hosts behind IP addresses behind bulk-registration / DDoS attacks against our platform, in order to create signatures for them. Given the way some of these attacks seem to work, a large number of machines on the Internet — especially in Russia and [some parts of] Africa — seemingly aren't only un-NATed, but in fact have a public /24 or even /22 directly attached to a single box! (If traffic was originating from a random subset of a /24, it could just be someone spinning up a hundred VMs on top of some small colo's OpenStack deployment, sure. But tandem traffic from every IP in a /24, and only exactly said /24? That looks pretty much exactly like the sort of tandem IPv6 traffic that is generated when a box has a /48 or /56 assigned to it.)
Discussion already unfolding here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33901663
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New Documents Shed Light on CIA's Connection to Lee Harvey Oswald
They have been saying most software devs will have no jobs soon since, at least as I have seen personally, since the 70s. AI, CASE, RAD, no-code etc. This time is the first time that I feel it might actually happen.

On HN the level of engineering is very high and many people here note that the code chatgpt provides is often subtly wrong and, like this article states, it cannot generate code for many problems or it is hard to describe the issue in a natural language like that. The thing is; most programmers I see have all the same issues however they cost money and cannot work as fast and tirelessly.

As an experiment, if you need to do one, just pick a random cheaper (although I have seen more expensive doing exactly the same; problem is, the amount of 5 stars pushed the rate up but might not mean good or competent code) coder from upwork/fiverr and give them a simple project; something CRUD, in Laravel or node; something chatgpt will come up with no problem. And check the screenshots (upwork 'spies' on devs to see if they are working) of them trying to 'solve the issues'; most of them will be google/SO searches and trying to fix pasted code so it works.

Of course I cannot say that this is most programmers, however, in my experience of 20+ years hiring devs from upwork (which was elance and something else before it was called upwork), it is most programmers. They now, if smart, will use chatgpt; but so can you... Saving time and money.

Some of the big money making entrepreneural devs (usually marketers) I know don't understand code at all (their code is always very weird to read as they don't understand basic concepts), but are still coding and making good money providing solutions for their clients. Chatgpt is a dream come true for them: speeding up their work 1000x while everything else stays the same.
The same files would’ve been scanned anyway. What’s the problem?
you know your first two sentences aren't really honest. there's the secondary market, considering that apple keeps updating their devices past typical android equivalent you're getting same $/years of use value. there are SE models that are in line to cheaper android alternatives.

if you're poor you're probably not data hording TBs of data, because you've got other problems, so yes, this is all speaking from the point of the privilege, and you being here is also from the point of privilege.

and to answer your 3rd question -- i'll bite and say that this maybe true. but is it really apple's problem or the problem overall? where we're all mined for data and now when someone does offer security you scream that it's unfair. shouldn't you take the equivalent effort and write your legislator and ask them what they're doing about bringing the bar to the level that apple is bringing it to, for all of the poor people out there?
There is nothing overclever about it, the tech is obviously being abused by criminals. The question around whether it's worth it to enable some "freedom of the press" is apparently enough to evoke some anger within you.
SoftBank’s Son Quietly Lifts Stake to 34%, Edging Toward Buyout
>She also did the most lying to investors.

The reason Sunny got a longer sentence is that unlike Holmes, he was convicted of lying to patients, not just investors.
Terrible news. He will be missed.
My heart breaks for his wife and kid. RIP Chris.
First exposure: Commodore PET at school, 1982.

First computer at home: my dad brought home an IBM clone circa 1986. He had a buddy at work (he was an insurance agent) that was really into pirating games, who gave him one bankers box full of floppies, and another full of photocopied manuals.
Yeah, there are outlets for charitable non-profits, or educational publications, or just plain vanity projects (like The Nation magazine which has never turned a profit). So it's not as though you can't do something unprofitable at all.
I took their argument to be that scanning at all was the problem. I may have misunderstood. I've made way too many comments today on HN, and I should most probably step away from the keyboard. In fact, I'm going to do that for real, my daughter just got home from school and I need to remember priorities.
Try thinking of the "big bang" as more of phase change where there was something "before" that was not like the "now" at all. A black hole is also a phase change that expands, but we really can't experiment with either deep time or black holes... yet.
By being 10x, full-stack, and a ninja rockstar.
Kea is what we ended up with. It has a few feature differences from dnsmaq that we had to work around a bit. Not the end of the world, but not fun when you're under pressure.

Now that I've studied the source code of dnsmasq a bit more because of the issues we had, I have to agree with you. We had run it with about 3k blades and it was fine. It was fine at about 9k blades too... but once we hit around 10k, it just fell over.

The frustrating part was that it just didn't log what was up. We used netdata and discovered the UDP queues were filling up. Tried mucking with tuning the sysctls and that didn't work either.

Switched midstream to Kea, which was a giant pain because we had a hard time dealing with duplicate IP addresses (imagine rebooting 10k+ PXE booted blades during a UDP storm).
You can, though then you get errors when invoking the Lambda too much at the same time. Just letting it block on SQLite db opening should be good enough.
Is it possible to scan when user has E2EE enabled?

(The other announcement today)
Didn't work out so well for Osama Bin Laden.
So the computer that simulates the universe is likely a 512-bit machine.
> For many companies, you cannot be qualified to make this determination.

It’s hard but useful. If you know this, you will be more successful whether you’re in engineering or sales or whatever.

I research every business and organization I do business with. It’s not perfect, but it’s part of my decision making process.

In CircleCI’s case, this would be me looking at the financials (hard because they are private), talking to some friends who use them, and, since I know some tech, trying the product.

It’s not wise to trust every business as every business has people thinking and saying they are great. It’s wise for an individual to assess these for themself. Companies success isn’t entirely random.
That's possible, but my understanding is that NPTv6 is strongly discouraged. Part of the point of IPv6 is do away with NAT and the problems caused by it.

I was hoping there was a better way.
> In my experience, the vast majority of developers working with scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python or Rust, still use plain text editors such as Vim or Sublime Text.

Definitely not in my experience, most people I know use VSCode, which I wouldn't call a plain text editor (not necessarily an IDE either though). Most people will use the plugins for each language since those are auto-recommended when you open a new file in that language, such as Pylance for Python, and most people will click "install recommended plugins" and call it a day.

Vim users are few and far between in my experience, and Sublime Text even more so, most everyone has migrated to VSCode at this point that I know of.
In the past they've announced local scanning on the iPhone. They postponed it indefinitely after the public feedback, and now completely cancelled it.
I could believe the first statement (almost) but the second (unlikely to come back) has to be a paraphrase. He's old: it's unlikely to see significant return in his lifetime, in his field, which is highly subject to national-strategic interest.

I don't see any end to globalisation in the information economy up top: kids worldwide do tiktok, don't want to use the Licenced disney version in hypothesis...
I have to agree. I love imaginary numbers, the complex exponential, both the s-plane and the z-plane. Because, like yours, my hobby is electronics.

Neither as a low level system programmer, nor in any of my high level programming jobs a long long time ago, have I ever needed imaginary numbers. Privately yes, but that's just when writing code for my hobby.
The current tech industry really needs a big change, I'm dead tired of all these companies putting profitability as "some VC's problem down the line". We keep seeing companies offering products at a loss, then dying and leaving their users in the mud as they scramble to raise prices above reason.

Why do I, as a customer, need to worry if the company providing me a service is making enough money?

The average person doesn't care about this ofc, or how they're being emotionally manipulated to reach some engagement metric.
Yes, it's 2TB per user AFAIK.
If you asked both of them who’d they rather be in this scenario, they’d give you the same answer.
Bad title.

The article clearly says : Abstraction *misalignment* is expensive.
They know on average. How else would they project how big of a hospital to build?

It’s a massive shit show because they don’t care. There’s no cost incentive to be efficient. And many healthcare providers are cost plus so if they have higher costs it actually results in higher absolute pay.
Google's helpful content update prioritises content written by people
I wanted to like Julia, but have been unable to. If I want fast numerical/scientific code, I have Rust. If I want to prototype numerical algorithms, plot things, prototype, REPL etc, I have Python. I was hoping Julia could replace the latter, but it's too slow-to-compile; need fast iteration.

Julia's numerical syntax is unbeaten. I wish other languages would adopt it.
1) From the outside, you wouldn't see anything, because that matter is already emitting maybe one enormous radio wave-sized photon per year. But from the view of someone falling in, you might get an imperceptible jump like you had gotten slightly closer. Remember, if you dropped something Earth-massed into a black hole (say on the other side), the black hole wouldn't grow even a full centimeter in radius. This would be very difficult to notice in practice. "Kind of a "stutter" as you approach, maybe.

2) No. What's physically possible is the ridiculousness of a neutron star's core. If you surrounded an event horizon with something of that density with the snap of your fingers (say one hemisphere), well, just as suddenly you would have a local amount of mass that would be quite formidable and the event horizon would seamlessly expand in that direction. You wouldn't see it, just watch your half-neutron-star shell wink out as you have "too great" a concentration of mass in a particular volume. See #1.
A 1960s 4 terabyte portable hard drive, you say?
Well, obliterate which part of the tech industry? The EU based or the overseas? And which other industries were obliterated by the tech industry?
you're not alone. i think the pandemic has made people more solitary, to the point of being anxious and/or annoyed around other humans.

a noisy theater was just something that happened in normal life before, it happened, and then we had a little story to gripe to our friends about. but now it seems an intolerable ordeal. the same goes for restaurants vs. take out, visiting friend's/family's house vs. just staying home, etc.

i'm noticing the trend more and more. i'm not sure where it will end up. it doesn't seem as if theaters will ever hold their old place in the cultural zeitgeist again, and maybe the same goes for all other "third places" where other humans will be a bother. that seems kind of sad.

it will keep the behavioral scientists busy for a few decades though.
> It took 4 to do a bug. Bugs were surprisingly heavy.

Note to self. I looked up the curb weight and bugs & pintos weigh about the same.

Maybe the bug was weighed down with all our sobriety.
The first credit card company that allows me to cancel a service through a their billing website has my immediate business.

The flow would go something like this:

I want to cancel my WSJ subscription so I look for my latest WSJ charge on my online credit card statement. On the right hand side there would be an option that allows you to "cancel subscription". Once cancelled, WSJ is notified by the credit card company the customer has cancelled their subscription and WSJ no longer can charge the particular credit card.

If there are contracts involved you might be still on the hook for payment but in this case the provider (WSJ) can no longer charge your the card they had on file for you.
That's a deliberate over simplification of what that comment said.
Oops. Meant to reply to parent. Now I can't delete the comment.
For me, my first "exposure" was my big brother coming home from college during fall break, and raving about his programming class. It was another three years before I got to touch a computer, at my high school, for a class in BASIC that one of the math teachers decided to offer.
Who do you see as biggest competition (Eg Just-JS, Deno, etc)

Thanks for all you do to make the ecosystem better, btw.
I think we're underestimating just how many very skilled folks are willing to lend a great deal of discretion for the right price.

Just look at the recent Carlos Ghosn[1] situation. Former USASF operators working as Private Security Contractors smuggled him out of the country. The plot involved what appears to be close to a dozen people too, and included falsifying passenger records on multiple international flights and more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn
Parabolas have a nicely defined axis. Non-rotating, uncharged black holes are spherically symmetrical, so no parabola.

The lensing happens in all directions.
The default is 'yes'. For awhile Fedora overrode it no, but then abandoned that: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KillUserProcesses_by_...