skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about galactic distances and timescales I don't see why we couldn't safely assume enough technological advancement for either aliens or humans to modify their own biology to the point where centuries would be a small fraction of your total lifespan. I think the bigger question is why any significant number of people would travel to more than a few star systems if you had to do it slowly. If the system is uninhabited then you would be isolating yourself from the rest of society for a long time. If it's inhabited then you would have the excitement of discovery and contact but it would still be difficult being separated from your own civilization and you would want to return at some point even if just to share what you've learnt.

How many people today travel to places that are completely uninhabited and have no infrastructure in place for getting there? I'm talking end of the road, getting on a bush plane and landing in the middle of an open field kind of isolated. How long do they stay? Same for contacting the few remaining hunter gatherers on the planet. What if those trips took thousands of years instead of a few weeks?

I think there's a big stretch of time for the development of any technological civilization where they spend most of their effort on developing their own solar system and only send small flyby probes to their nearest neighbours. After that there may be an even longer period during which they colonize those near by stars but each colony likely takes an extremely long time to fully develop. The civilization may send out automated probes to look and listen and maybe the occasional explorer or anthropologist but I doubt there are any galaxy conquering civilizations out there.

So I think I do agree that if anything visits us it is likely to be an automated probe. Bracewell probes would be well suited to any chatty civilization that is seeking contact. Von Neumann probes are more suited to brute force exploration.

This is all assuming that the speed of light is the fastest you can travel and communicate. If it isn't, then I'd say all bets are off.
Well the colonizers didn't know that Native Americans existed before landing in America, and look what happened. We must prevent any and all such occurrences in our interplanetary future by only using a non-specieist vocabulary.
I've seen a lot of your tweets about those bounties :)

As someone who has done bug bounties and also has certifications, I can suggest a few things.

1. College - Like others said, it helps a lot not just careerwise but socially as well.

2. Try joining big security groups/org - You have a lot of knowledge, especially in RE/PWN fields so maybe try joining organizations that do security research full-time example Google Project Zero or there are loads of other organizations that does that kind of work. This will make life easier in sense of what you wanna do. By joining such groups/organizations you can choose to work on game engine/cheat-anti-cheat hacking or browser/OS security basically choose what you wanna hack.

You might think why would you need a job in any org to do so? Well, simply because a stable income(the reason I stopped doing bug bounties) and association with a good org/group improve your network. Not sure if you know this or not but having a good network of people really helps, professionally.

3. I saw someone mentions that you should think of getting certifications. Believe me, when I say it, certificates do nothing. I got my OSCP because people said it would help me get a job, but it didn't. Certificates are only for people who don't really have anything else to show or beginners in the fields trying to get their foot in the door. You already have an amazing profile showing that you are capable of doing RE/PWN stuff.
Go for certifications only if you actually want to have fun and take on the challenge. Don't expect much change in your professional life from those certifications.

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You already know this but I'd state it again, literally every program lowballs, and no one wants to pay up. So if you get 10k for RCE but expected 100k, just stop reporting to that program. If you like working on their services then maybe try talking to the program managers about it. In the end, if you feel like the program isn't giving back as you expected just move on to a different program.

All the above stuff was what came to mind to help your professional/bug-bounty career. To answer the question

> I've been told many times that I am low-balling myself and should get into smart contract or browser security. Please let me know what you think and feel free to ask any questions.

If you just want big money, yes smart-contract seems to be the big hot thing. If you are looking to make a big name in the security field along with a decent(sometimes really good) amount of money then browser/OS security is definitely a good thing. In the just try them for 1 week/month and stick with something that you enjoy :)

Happy hunting!
> whether the Templars picked it up by learning and adapting Islamic Hawala during the crusades

Doubtful. Money lenders/changers existed long before Islam (something about Jesus flipping their tables over in the Temple), and Hawala from my understanding is a flat commission based service (not interest based), since usury is forbidden.
Clipboard history can also be helpful in this context (I use Unclutter on macOS, YMMV), tho it has its pros and cons.

But I have a use case where I really do not want this: when I sign up for multiple accounts in the same browser session, I expect a different password when I've logged out. I use Bitwarden and a text file in this use-case though; not Firefox. Because Bitwarden allows password sentence and I'm supposed to hand over the account to someone else.
Spray also seems to me much less deleterious for the biosphere and such. Apex predators are crucial low-quantity members of food chains and it seems possible that a grizzly sprayed by humans one or more times will take the hint and avoid close human interaction. Or maybe they just learn to fight through it and we're double effed... I'm not signing up for that research program.
Already I disagree with their re-interpretation of the first word (addict). Have they ever actually interacted with, or been addicted to something? Your life revolves around the substance. If "addict" is dehumanizing then so is "carpenter".

Had to get to #6 (committed suicide - I worked delivering technology for the blind and visually impaired, no one is offended by "I see" or "I'm going in blind") before thinking "ok, this makes sense" since that framing implies a crime. But that's not their re-interpretation, which again doesn't make sense.

I had an old British colleague who used to say "what you Yanks need is a good old land war to set you straight again". I think he might be right
I think the difference might be that in private life, you supposedly try to get to know and value or judge the other person, well, personally.

Government policy must be, for it to be possible to execute, more mechanical.
A Boss RC-505.
I've played synth for a few years with a punk-rock band. During lockdown, I tried to rehearse but without a bassist, a drummer and a guitarist, it was quite hard to practice. I recorded loops on a DAW and played over. I found out it was fun, so I went solo and did lot's of shows with live-loop-recording with my computer and my synth. More than unpractical, it sounded awful.

I wanted drop the laptop for live performances, so I bought a Boss RC-505. A cool loopstation where I could record my loops more freely with other functionnalities I couldn't think of before. It changed the way I played music and completely changed my identity as an artist.

I'll release a new tape in a month, I recorded two EPs, I started touring, fans are following me. It all stepped up when I decided to level my machines up.
>Isn't anyone in the media or government on the side of working people?

Definitely not. Here in the EU some newspapers published articles saying "the hyper inflation is caused by workers earning too high wages, pushing the prices up. So if we cut down on wage growth, and we cut down on unemployment benefits to force people to take any job, we can solve this"

It's definitely not caused by opportunistic companies and conglomerates that compete on who can raise prices the fastest, seeing massive profits and shareholder returns in this market, especially in the energy sector. /s
presumably the "programming language(s)" part of the stack never changes between front and back end (it's typescript)?
Ah, I think I had searched for it before I had expanded all the categories. Thanks for pointing that out!
The politicians who want to ban specific words for being violent are the same people who want to ban guns for being violent, and it doesn't effectively address the problem in either case.
Bridge Between Continents – Reykjanes Peninsula
This post pretty much encapsulates the problem with consumer Saas as a business model.

If you’re charging $1-2/month, you need thousands of paying customers to make it a worthwhile endeavor (vs just working for someone else).

With thousands of paid users, support requests are going to come in pretty much daily—-and you’ll be amazed how many people think you should be on-call 24/7 to provide support for them even if they’re only paying you $2!

Then the bad reviews start piling up, the codebase gets stale, competitors starting biting at your heels, your motivation wanes, etc.

The market developed the way it did for a reason. Google of the early 2000s wasn’t stupid. Consumers value their time at zero and don’t want to pay for anything, so they get invasive ads, trackers, and robot support.

Businesses value their time appropriately, so that’s why there’s still a robust paid B2B Saas market.
ISTM that if Microsoft had managed to add preemptive multitasking to Windows 3.x in a backward-compatible way, this would've given us as close to an Amiga-like OS as one could ever hope to run on 8086 and 286 hardware. Perhaps even more so, if hardware could be expected to have multimedia capabilities as a standard, without relying on 3rd-party drivers - PC had this on the PCjr, and later Tandy.
Nobody... someone here identified the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives official visit in Taiwan as "just an old lady off-boarding a plane".

I'm making a stupid comparison for an example but just because we don't know them publicly to the same extent, doesn't really correlate with them having less power then say Justin Bieber.

As most often happens there's people whom Musk is dependant upon and in all probability has never heard their name.
HEIC and AVIF are similar, similar like a Barbie toy and a monster truck toy placed in a similarly sized box, wrapped in the same Christmas wrapping, both with a red rosette clued on the box. Toy connoisseurs focus on what is inside.
Why do they notify tencent instead of the repo owner?
‘Fullertubes’ Join the Family of Carbon Crystals
Azure does bills on credit, IE: you spend and pay later. That's up to them, but it's far riskier than prepurchased credits.

I'd find a jury unwilling to believe that a similar real life scenario would raise no flags. It's only a flag raiser because tech companies have automated away all human interaction with billing. Imagine someone claiming to be bob, who regularly shops at the grocery store for 100 dollars a week, now wants to come in and spend, say, 10,000 dollars, on credit. This would be a red flag to any proprietor. Now imagine that proprietor going after bob, who was not there, and claim he is responsible.
The thing I noticed with most JS game libraries is their inability to display text without being slightly blurry. Is there a fix to the issue?

I noticed this in the game you linked as well.
Tesla Buyers Are Waiting for Discounts. The Purchase Subsidies List Is Delayed
We considered many options to use Markdown but came to the conclusion that Canvas is not something that can fit into a readable Markdown file. Either the Markdown file would so messy that it becomes pointless (i.e. you would never open it in Typora to edit), or it would severely limit the power of Canvas.

After much internal debate we chose the JSON format. We stay committed to keep it as open and easy to work with as possible. Plugin developers are already parsing and modifying the JSON file to programmatically change a Canvas view, and I think that's a fantastic start!
I wonder whether an airbag enveloping the whole car would have been advantageous in the case of Romain Grosjean’s crash in Bahrain in 2020.

He might have bounced off the guard rail or be stuck in it just the same with extra material surrounding him and catching fire.

There have been also at least two cases I remember of race cars becoming airborne after touching wheels and being able to continue the race. This usually happens when the field is packed after (re)starts. Deploying airbags in such cases would probably entail a chain reaction that might resemble corn being popped.
I'm using both Obsidian and Apple Notes, both on my iPhone and MacBook, and that's also the main thing I'm missing in Obsidian and keeps me partly on Apple Notes: it's faster and easier to create a note in Apple Notes, retrieve it (as they as are sorted from most recent by default, and also I can pin some notes), search, and navigate in folders (especially on mobile, navigating across folders is so much better with Apple Notes than Obsidian). I'd really like to see Obsidian takes some inspiration from Apple Notes there and improve his. Otherwise, it is fantastic tool and it's really good to know that everything is stored locally in plain text.
Humor may apply here since the best way to kill this is to pronounce it la-tinks instead of Latin X. My parents are from Central America so feel free to say a latinks person told you it's pronounced that way.
Obviously you’re wrong or the article is wrong… I’m gonna lean on you being wrong as the article is coming from GitHub and you’re not GitHub.
> The final version of the bill received rare bipartisan support, passing the state assembly 147–2 and the senate 59–4. The bill was delivered to the governor Friday, according to the New York Senate's bill tracker, though she has been considering it since late June.

With such a majority surely they can override a veto? So the problem is more that it will need to happen in a new session from scratch (for some definition of scratch)?
I honestly cannot grasp how is it possible for the Obsidian team to consistently release such high quality software on a regular basis, almost for free and with such a small team.

Just incredible, and if anybody from Obsidian reads that, you have my utmost respect.
Economies of Speed • Dave Farley
How did you get compensation? Thank goodness for monzo and revolut being so quick to set up but I had money trapped in TSB for some time. I thought it would only last a day or two at most. The services and ability to get support were non-existent during that time I totally stopped trying to call. I closed my TSB account shortly after
Opportunity to innovate. Phase out that VGA connector. Storage unit plug and play over networking to the datacenter-dashboard and on the spot iphone or ipad, interoperates with orchestration toolchain over voice assistant.
Human ends in “man” and has already been regarded as offensive to “people” or “persons”. Being when referenced to an organism is only used in context of “human” (offensive) or an “alien” (offensive). Anything that is referential to an offensive word must be struck as well.

No word should ever create a mental reference to a banned word nor should a substitute word create a mental suspicion or guess of what the original offensive word was. A new vocabulary must be formed -newspeak if you will.
Many people don’t own cars, myself included, i think my yearly travel costs would equate to a couple of months of car ownership.

I’m a member of a car share scheme for the few times i do need a car, moving large stuff around etc.

It’s not always practical, costs with families can quickly rack up, more remote places are less well served (but still served).

The half tax card is not just for citizens, but it isn’t so widely known about that not having one is a bit of a tourist tax, you just have to work out if your length of stay and travel costs will be reduced enough to cover the upfront cost of the pass
This is my question too… why not just let the owner of the repo know, why notify Tencent at all?
I’ll second the charger. I recently bought the Shargeek Storm 2 battery and bought their recommended charger (100w GaN) on a lark. This turned out to be much more useful than the battery itself (although the battery has been great too).

I’m able to charge MacBook, iPhone, Watch, AirPods all from one brick at the same time, which means I only have to carry one brick.

I will say, I don’t believe it will charge at 100w on the main port when other ports are in use, 100w is the max across all ports. Still, I’m considering purchasing their new 140w option now to take full advantage of MagSafe.
Rewriting all of Rails to a different language would be a humongous effort. And as you've mentioned it's been done tons of time already: almost every language has a "Rails-y" framework. Some are good, some a bit less so, but they exist. Rails in $other_language would also no longer be Rails, because other languages have different ways of doing things.

In short, if you don't want to use Ruby, then don't use Rails.

Also, many large Rails services have some performance-critical parts written in $other_language such as Elixer, Go, Rust, etc. "Using Rails" doesn't mean you need to use it for every last bit.
I strongly recommend using colab or a crappy gpu for experimentation and just paying for compute when you want to run jobs that need it. Most tinkering doesn't need any special gpu, so whatever you buy is going to mostly sit idle. Paying for cloud GPUs obviously costs more per hour, but you then only pay for what you need and can scale however you want
Australia Passes Privacy Legislation Amendment
Perhaps because they view the people using the device as their primary (or perhaps only) customers?

As opposed to a lot of other hardware manufacturers, where the end-user is 'part of the ecosystem', along with advertisers, and other 3rd parties.

Microsoft and Sony certainly look at Xbox end users (aka gamers) a bit differently than Valve does. They need to keep publishers and advertisers happy. Valve has one audience...others have three (maybe more!?).
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They will not help him, nor fix it, there is nothing to fix. He broke the Terms of Service and GitHub certainly wont reinstate him and risk a fine of up to $43,280
The concept of DRM was initially created on general purpose open computers. No TPM, no code signing, no remote attestation. Just plain old proprietary software running on open systems was enough to create something with DRM functionality, and put blood in the water for the control freaks.

Having a device be able to store and use secure keying material that cannot be read back out seems like a very useful basic property. A basic property which directly implies being able to store keys for decrypting media content, thus making for a better DRM scheme than could be achieved with a fully-debugger-able processor.

Of course, I could missing a way that this property could tweaked to neutralize some of its downsides - akin to how my original comment laid out slight modifications to the usual TPM/SE requirements that would prevent much abuse of TPMs/SEs by centralizing entities.
That's not how anyone else defines shortage, though. It literally contradicts the meaning of shortage. So, when the message is spread to the people they are going to take from it that they aren't charging enough, even if that wasn't the original intent of the message. And, indeed, claims of a labour shortage do end up met with higher labour prices.
I see a list like this potentially being more harmful than helpful in a few respects:

1. By saying certain phrases could be understood to be harmful, even when they aren't commonly understood to be and explicitly don't have racist or sexist etymologies, the list is actually reinforcing the threads of harmful stereotypes in our language. Black box is not a racist term; adding it to a list like this just associates black=bad, which is not something we should want at all.

2. Lists like this encourage black-and-white thinking about language that ignores context. It's the same sort of thinking that leads to your white uncle complaining that rappers use the n word, so why can't he? Words don't hurt; how words are used hurt.

3. Lists like this are ripe for abuse. While I have heard interesting discussions about how certain language can be harmful (The Allusionist podcast recently had an interesting discussion over terms like neuro-divergent, neuro-typical, autism and so on), it is often used in a bullying way to dismiss and discredit someone who is trying to engage in good faith rather than to educate. Consider "rule of thumb". The etymology presented is wrong, but wide spread. Maybe the fact that many people believe this is enough to avoid it, but the list doesn't present this nuance and instead perpetuates the myth.
I'm curious where you get the idea that there are zero people involved with moderating Mastodon? Moderation is probably the main workload of people involved with running instances.
Exercise keeps your brain healthy and protects it against depression (2021)
I'm working on a sync tool specifically for ReMarkable to Obsidian.

https://scrybble.ink

It's still in beta for now, so it's definitely not flawless, but it does work! You can choose which files from your tree to sync, they will appear as pdf files in your vault.
When stuff like this lands on front page, I start to think either HN's being botted or we're all just upvoting cute titles.
If you look at the Quick Switch view on desktop or mobile it will show you most recent.

Also, if you use a 3rd party storage solution instead of Obsidian Sync, you can view recently modified/created notes in the Recents on there.

If you wanted to see the content of all recent notes, you can write a custom query for the dataview extension that attempts it.
That is a fair comment. I did not mean to imply that is your conclusion or intent, and if I did, I apologize. I changed the wording to make it more clear that I am vigorously attacking the argument in the linked video and that I have no business or right making any personal attacks.
True enough. My Dad, who is 101 and does video editing and animation as a hobby, seems to suffer from long rendering and other processing bottlenecks. I have mentioned using cloud resources, and he doesn' want the hassle. He does buy whatever best Pro box Apple has about every 3 years.
> What you mean for “an app”? You will have to run a Grafana instance with the grafan-image-rendered service anyway.

Just that the grafan-image-rendered service seems to be doing double duty instead of just being a headless browser.

Yes, you need grafana running somewhere :)
Above statements are proving my point. Despite its many flaws human civilization is stronger than ever and is on the verge of expanding beyond the home planet.
The words themselves are never harmful. Its in their context of use where the potential "harm" lies.

What has led academia in particular to drive decontextualization of language like this? How have we, in just a few years, completely started to disregard contextual meaning of languange? Surely this has to be an active research field as well.
The tools can _answer_, but they tend to hallucinate functions and arguments that seem plausible but are wrong upon closer inspection.

This output is an example: the generator made up an option for Macro.escape and completely misunderstood what Macro.to_string does:

https://elixirforum.com/t/chatgpt-generated-code-for-eval-st...
Anecdotally, I've had better luck reading Amiga and ST floppies from the 80s and 90s than floppies from the 2000s. I'm guessing disk quality took a nosedive somewhere around 2000..?