skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A while back I was talking to a bunch of software developers and even they were not convinced that you can get hacked by running games from torrents.

Untrusted executable code that's expected to be a modified version of the real thing, making hash-based assurances impossible in most cases. Sounds secure to me. /s

It's kind of sad, in the days prior to torrents security used to be reputation-based. Not to mention a dynamic where reversers look at each other's work. Since the advent of torrents and with just the sheer amount of games now, I imagine that's suffered quite a bit.

Some forms of DRM are arguably malware in and of themselves, so it's ironic that attempts at bypassing that end up as a vector for serious malware.

What worries me is since Steam opened its floodgates, theoretically lesser-known titles could be vectors for malicious code. Or heck, even larger titles. What assurances are there, actually? Trust in the publisher and developer is about it.
> China's national security establishment has only bad effects

It has stopped the CIA from installing their own government, no?
I've seen it in person a lot in internal corporate presentations. Maybe they've all been wrong, but that's how language works.
my unsolicited advice: pick an X. what is the one best use case for this other than code? law? finance? focus on that vertical. if you have no idea what that could be or if that market is too small, you're already in trouble.

I don't use anticomplete at all. What I would like is something that can take my current, bad code and style transfer it into proper, modern code. best case, take code as I write it naturally and confirm it to the style guide of my organization.
Toy model train sets can be Turing complete: http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/trains/tt8_mech_logic.html

I also read a sci-fi book (forgot the title) that involved a pre -tech civilization that had invented computation, and executed code with large crowds of people standing in a grid following set rules to act as logic gates.
> Q: what if a teacher gets assigned a poorly performing cadre of students?

> A: assign the kids randomly to teachers. The ups and downs will average out.

This punishes students who can't get streamed to classes that challenge them at a degree appropriate for their aptitude.
I feel like Freeform is gonna be quite a setback for a lot of these infinite canvas drawing/notes apps.
Not sure how that would play out. Just not running the GC is an unsatisfactory answer. Otherwise what?
Note also that Canada does it this way: cryptos on an exchange are treated as a security, and the provincial regulators license the exchanges and tell them what cryptos they can even list. FTX repeatedly tried to get into Ontario and the OSC wouldn't let them. Well done OSC!
I use it in meetings when it's not allowed to have m wifi activated devices. The remarkable two works without problems when you remove the wifi chip.
Indeed, besides brake-checking cars behind you is also illegal. There are some limits to 'the car behind is automatically at fault'.
I don't see why businesses should be allowed to make political donations at all.

They're completely composed of citizens. Citizens can make political donations, because citizens vote. Businesses do not.
> You are visually moving the cursor around a graphically displayed keyboard

A bank in France, "Societe Generale de Banque" still shows me a little visual keyboard (with digits only). The digits are shuffled. Then it's similar: I need to hover the digit I want to pick, click, it blinks, then the hidden password entry increase by one. Repeat 5 more times.

I can then wire up to 100 K EUR if I want. Insanity.

Now, to be honest, all my other banks in Europe are using an actual hardware 2FA which they sent me.
Boom is "just" pure Doom + some static limits being raised, and a few new types of floors and lines (plus a few other smaller changes) :)
A good analogy I heard is that serverless uses servers as much as wireless uses wires. It does, but it's not part of your responsibility.
as I mentioned in another reply to this, there is a popular sci-fi book that includes computation with crowds… surely someone on here will mention the title
(edited) I just removed companies marked as "disappeared"! (10 of them) If you have more info to share, please do.

This list is also not exhaustive.
What's New in Playwright 1.29
if you think "cryptosporidium" every time you see the word "crypto", crypto reporting is still basically true.
> One thing is to not understand something and have an uneducated opinion but another is to appear in front of a congress to testify something as a verified professional. Do you really expect some proper closure on this when government is relying on such low quality input

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/
I am in the same boat as the author. I decided that I'll take an year off my job to actually pursue some of these dumb ideas I get. After that, either I'll be financial independent enough to pursue more of them or realize that this isn't worth it.

Hence, I'm working on a Stable Diffusion + Wordle game (https://diffudle.com/). I realize now that getting traction isn't easy as it looks. I'll work on this for 1-2 more weeks then jump onto my next stupid thing.
Simple but probably wrong solution; why not ban obfuscation libraries,
compressed and self-loading code within the PyPI ecosystem. Any
package that even refers to illegible non-source techniques gets
flagged and blocked? It seems the whole PyPI ecosystem is
undisciplined and could be tightened up. Why can't we progress here?
> The point is: the media rarely lies explicitly and directly. Reporters rarely say specific things they know to be false. When the media misinforms people, it does so by misinterpreting things, excluding context, or signal-boosting some events while ignoring others, not by participating in some bright-line category called “misinformation”.

Excluding context is lying too.

John has said
John has not said
> the former poster boy for cryptocurrency

> What? Who ever thought that?

These kind of statements are usually meant tongue in cheek and should not be read in an absolutist manner. You can read this kind of intent in text when a normally serious publication like The New Yorker uses a whimsical statement like "poster boy".

Stripped of hyperbole, they mean he was head of one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, as a result of which many people in the crypto world looked up to him.

That's an accurate assessment - although if you're a crypto supporter, then I guess you would wish it not to be.
Ah, the John Daggett vs Bane fallacy.

What makes you think that getting paid by users will make them give up revenue from other sources?
Wait, so I've been lied to? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Why is the moon made out of green cheese?

The moon is not made out of green cheese. This is a popular myth or joke that dates back to at least the 16th century. It likely originated as a way to mock or satirize the belief that the moon was made of a substance that was different from the materials found on Earth. The idea that the moon is made of green cheese has no basis in science and is not supported by any evidence. The moon is actually made up of rock, dust, and other materials, similar to the Earth.

It's not falling for that. :-)
The moment he clarifies about his position on the AI market makes him another seller deeply trying to sell his product. It’s like those articles from 90’s and 00’s speculating the end of the C language with titles like “C is dead” or “C is going to be replaced in the near Future”. The year will be 2060 and C will still dominate the market.
> Not everything in crypto is a scam

but if you assume it is, you'll basically be correct
It's not clear how two lit inputs results in an unlit output or vice versa with that setup. How do you make that work?
Hands down Jabra Evolve 75 (or it's successor). Great noise cancellation for your voice to the benefit of the other end of the line. In a deliberate test, my colleague could hear me talk but couldn't hear music playing 5 feet from me.

https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Evolve-Wireless-Headset-Stereo/...
Bot detection isn't a simple problem.
This used to be an iconic machine on which countless pop hits from the 80s were composed, for example, the Pet Shop Boys or Kate Bush used it extensively to create a sound that at the time was reserved for the top of the top. Now it is a 15 meg download.
You are fully right. And only underlines my point.
> I lead Security in a quite large bank.

In most of my banks in Europe, all but one, I cannot log without using an actual physical 2FA device the bank sent me. One of them, Deutsche Bank, sent me a specific hardware 2FA which works "by itself" (and is protected by a PIN). No password to log in: only the user account ID and that 2FA device.

The others require my Java SmartCard / national ID card to be inserted in a 2FA reader they sent me (it's a standalone reader with its own display: it is not a Java SmartCard reader hooked to the computer).

Do you guys hand out your customers physical 2FA devices?
To give use some ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXaizglscw

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3314439A/en

And maybe some inspiration:

https://archive.org/details/ExhalationByTedChiang
Being on a mission like this, and finding people who are on a similar mission, or having written about their experience, is such a fantastic feeling.
The threat model of storing passwords in an encrypted file with live sync is gonna be smaller than only keeping it in one device. Yeah you are at more risk of getting pwnd but at almost no risk of losing your passwords. Your phone dies and you lose everything. And if you send your passfile through a convenient service like whatsapp or telegram you risk your data also getting leaked through them without the benefit of live sync.

But doing password saving and live sync through a third party service it's pretty crazy to me. Why not split the threat? One program to store your passwords and one service to sync them. I use keepass2android and keepassxc with my own file sync server as sync method. If you don't want your own server you can use a multitude of third party ones.

What should be taught in school is to store your passwords in a secure way just like any other important real life skills like doing your taxes, basic eating and physical health, etc.
It is limited to a purpose and informed. But the most surveiled country left EU some time ago (and the survelliance was entirely due to their own laws, not EUs) and it's not as bad, and better since GDPR.

So for example if you want to have cameras in your shop you have to write on the doors that you have it, who is processing that data and for what purpose.

If say you as owner wanted to give that data to police, that's within the usage and fine. If you decided to make compilation of funny people in supermarket from it, or decide to train your AI models on it, that would be illegal. There is also limitation on storage period (3 months) that can be longer only if there is some crime being investigated related to that.

More IT related example: we can log IP and stuff for security purposes but they can be used only for that; we don't need to get consent to save that for purpose of say preventing DDoS or spotting out attacks but we can't use that to do analytics without anonymizing data or consent.

There are other laws that require storing data for longer, mostly tax and money related, can't exactly use GDPR to tell bank to stop storing your financial data.

Most importantly that puts the burden of handling it on corporations; with GDPR the PII is basically "radioactive".

I think it is in pretty good compromise between "freedom to do whatever you want" and "freedom for whoever else to fuck you without consequences because they can do whatever they want" althought EU is definitely overreaching in places (like the hard-on on EVs before infrastructure is ready)
> She said Bitcoin can be easily controlled by a few core devs and mining pool operators

I think the only contentious part here is how you quantify "easily".

And yes, she probably doesn't understand the dynamics.

That even if you round up the devs by government authority, the code will start forking like crazy.
Debezium 2.1 released, including a CDC connector for Google Cloud Spanner
Gave already up on meat because it fuels climate change
This. It also works without internet connection if you want push notifications within a LAN.

The vision is that you only need to implement support for 1 integration: UnifiedPush, possibly by embedding one of the libraries that manage it and fallbacks. You automatically gain support for compatible alternatives.

There's a variety of reasons why people can't or don't want to rely on Google services. Before UnifiedPush, one would have to "hardcode" an alternative, or more commonly implement a persistent connection within the app.

This also has some potential for more efficient push implementation: for instance, if you have access to an SMS gateway, you could use that to push notification without enabling data connection.

The specification also makes it easier to support third-party operating systems and clients.
Why not think of it this way: these tools free up our time and make it possible to spend the rest of it on more substantial pursuits.

I volunteer at an animal shelter. If AI tools can free up 10 hours/week from my schedule, that’s 10 extra hours I can potentially volunteer
I spent countless hours on Icy Tower and Operation Spacehog. Thanks for those. :)

I'll also have to admit I stole a sprite or two from Spacehog for my own little horizontal space shooter as a teenager, hehe...
Or perhaps they just want to build a thing for fun and not satisfy arbitrary demands for professionalism. It’s a hobby. Why would they want to create detailed reports for a board of directors?
You aren't alone. These influencers sell an unachievable dream that they themselves do not even live.

I wish you all the best in whatever it is that you choose to do.
For safety, the Internet has to be even dumber
Of course, lesson learned, I chose convenience over common sense. Self-hosted, encrypted passwords it is from now on. LastPass is luckily(?) the only counterparty I ever trusted to this degree except for maybe my banks.

(Great, after I fix this password mess, I will have to start looking into trustless banking)
AFAIK there was a legislative initiatives to do exactly that and the ad industry whined about it.

I think the result would have been similar to what happened when apple did it's Facebook nerf. Within the margin of error no one wants to be tracked and the ad industry knows this despite their fake "user-benefit" Spiel.

In the end it didn't happen and I can't recall what it was called.
Why do "indiehackers" want attention from and create products for other "indiehackers"? As a group they seem the people with the least amount of money to spend on products, and are some of the most cheapskate people on the planet.

Here's some advice: if you want to make money selling a software product, sell to people who are able and willing to spend money on it.
What I like the most is offline relative to the Internet but online when it comes to my LAN and when I want to. Like 1Password in the good old days.
There's a ton of white washing of Ukraine since the invasion. Just as with everything else, it's not enough to just think that one side is more correct, they must be completely exemplar.
That's an interesting thought, but currently the Server-Server specification is quite trivial, the more complicated part is the Android (and Linux) API, which I don't think the W3C would cover.

There's definitely room for adoption within the freedesktop.org umbrella for the Linux part, once this part is a bit more mature.
As a former poker player I can say it's quite stupid to use that kind of app at the table, because it's a massive tell. Any time somebody looks at that app the other people at the table know you have mid range hand. Cause your not gonna be looking at it if you have unsuited 2, 5, and you not gonna be looking at it when you have Pocket jacks. Reminds me of how one of the regulars I played with was one of the smartest people I knew, he always calculated the exact odds in his head while sitting at the table, but he was still a subpar player, because he had the most obvious tell, if he was staring kind of up and to the right it was because he was calculating his odds of hitting a range, meaning I could induce when I should bet to get him to leave the pool.
Welcome to the real world! There are millions of people out there with broken dreams and failed ambitions. Life for most of us is a succession of diminishing aspirations...

I want to be rich and famous and loved by the world... I want a private jet... I want to be successful and admired by many... I want a big house... I want to be recognised as the best amongst my peers... I want a nice car... I want to get promotion and a pay rise... I want a house... I want to keep this job... I want to rent somewhere better... I want a job I don't hate... I want to afford to have the heating on...

Unfortunately, as you point out, the internet makes your own perceived 'failure' seen like an outlier, rather than the norm that it actually is. It's infuriating when you've worked hard at something --like a product or a written piece or some art-- and got no interest at all. And you look at YouTube and see some vaccuous fuckwitt with a million views for a video of them opening a box.

I know. I've 'Been there. Done that. Bought the T-shirt ' so many times I could open a T-shirt shop... which, naturally, wouldn't get any customers.

I'm guessing you're pretty young, as you're taking this failure to become the next Elon Musk pretty personally. You also need to learn to separate you as a person from your crazy schemes and, when they come crashing down round your ears, just shrug and move on.

As I've got older, I've come to terms with the fact I'm never going to amount to anything, if my yardstick for success is internet likes or upvotes. But I'm a decent person and, in the real world, my family and friends think I'm a good bloke. So fuck all that fake internet popularity shite.
They are asking not for an AI to solve these problems, but to take the brains of those people who develop AIs and put them to use for other, more productive fields. Which is something I tend to agree with and would add advertising, finance/quant funds and cryptocurrencies into the mix - humanity doesn't need either of these for survival.

However, the core problem is that we have solutions for all these problems with technology that exists today:

- energy can be produced by solar, wind and for baseload geothermal and biogas. We might need to shift certain high-consumption industries such as smelters to seasonal and time-flexible production though, to accomodate a lack of solar power in winter and at night.

- pollution is a solved problem as well. Place filters on the exhaust stacks of industries that absolutely need some kind of burning stuff, transition ICE vehicles to electric vehicles and eventually, switch a lot of the traffic load of individual cars to a mesh of public transit (tramways and light rail), to remove the emissions caused by tires.

- affordable housing is a solved problem as well. Build socialized, community-owned housing like Vienna does, nationalize large landlords, improve infrastructure in rural areas to remove pressure on urban housing, and regulate where large employers can set up shop to avoid concentrations that cannot reasonably be supplied with workers and traffic.

- content moderation is a plain and simple matter of employing enough people

- "loneliness epidemic"... that's the only tough one. We do know what causes loneliness, and a part of that is that young people have to move across the country, often enough across continents, to find gainful employment. Fixing rural infrastructure should help a bit, as should better availability of decent affordable housing - IIRC, a contributing factor both in Japan and Italy was that young people can't afford to move out of their parents' homes or if, then only into essentially sheds, so neither is conductive to invite a potential partner to.

The problem is, politicians today are not driven by what science and history has shown to be successful, they are driven by party ideology and populist bullshit. That leads them to take decisions that make situations objectively worse.
Nice. If anybody has installed and operated an MLFlow server (open source, great product), but then switched to use a serverless platform like weights and biases, you would instinctively get the term serverless. DynamoDB is called a serverless database. Obviously there are servers, it's just somebody else's job to maintain them.
I agree with almost everything, except one thing. "It's okay to admit defeat".

Why would it be defeat? I understand you would like to have taken this path, but it not meant to be for you, so what?

I'm guessing you are under 30 and did not figure out everything life has to offer (as nobody ever can), but in the grand scheme of your life, you should be proud you tried and moved on, you probably won't regret it later. The things we always regret in life are the "what would have happened if"s, not the trying hards, so I consider this a win, not a failure.
Isn't this already possible with -XX:+UseEpsilonGC? (disables the GC) And then you manage memory manually in big (primitive) arrays.
Sounds like you need to think about working with other people, to learn from them but also to lean on their skills that you may be missing (marketing, community-building, and so on). From your post, it seems that you tried to do everything by yourself which requires you to be incredibly on-point in many different types of work.
Having lived in Paris, London, Tokyo, Amsterdam and San Francisco, it’s striking how quickly you go from urban to rural in the Randstad. It takes at least an hour of driving in Paris to get to the same as 5 minutes out of Amsterdam. And of course US cities are less densely populated because the country has land to spare, why would they?
Musk is what we call a dummy. He could have bought GM for close to what he paid for twitter.
Why not in parallel?
Why do people allow an app like TikTok to access their location? Is it obligatory?
Being an ex-mechanic I second this.
You HAVE to specialise otherwise you’ll be left with the simple competitive jobs like tyre replacement.

I specialised in new vehicles and then you have specialise in brand to actually know whats going on and how to fix said black boxes and systems.

My reason for training to become a software engineer was mainly because I felt like the knowledge and on-going training you need to retain/constantly learn was not worth the money earned.

Instead now I earn my bread from what was my hobby, essentially the same work ethic as far as knowledge is concerned just less back breaking to put into practice.
The world in which a LLM has destroyed the job market for software development is one in which most other knowledge work is in a similar state. The only safe knowledge workers will be those with a defensible regulatory moat (law, medicine, etc), and even then their jobs will be profoundly changed.
We do. At least for the part of the product I was responsible for I made sure that the tracking script is really only loaded if the user explicitly clicks yes.

It's sometimes hard to make marketing understand why this is an issue in the first place but then we are B2B in a mostly offline industry so it doesn't matter as much.
It is fundamental knowledge, but you can skip it thanks to higher levels of abstraction.

In the end everything is just bunch of ones and zeroes and clever hardware architectures.

Nand2tetris is great source for figuring out whether this is something you want to get in to.