skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing not mentioned is that the TrustCor VP (Rachel McPherson) spent the entire discussion trying to distance TrustCor from MsgSafe, the product that was coming under scrutiny for bundling the malware and engaging in false advertising about its encryption. She repeatedly categorized MsgSafe as a distinct business unit "operated separately and independently from TrustCor CA" to try to insulate the CA from getting damaged by MsgSafe's obvious problems.

One of the key factors in Mozilla's decision was that this supposed operational independence was a lie, because Rachel herself was the Director/VP of Operations for both business units [0]:

> The same individual was responsible for the day to day operation of both TrustCor’s CA business and MsgSafe. They are listed on TrustCor’s website as the VP of TrustCor’s CA operations and the Director of Operations for MsgSafe. [2]

> ...

> [2] Rachel McPherson is listed as the Vice President of Operations, having “access-to and control-over the CA and CA Business Operations” in a company document submitted privately by Rachel to Mozilla. Press releases on TrustCor’s website list Rachel McPherson as MsgSafe.io’s Director of Operations, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20221108224150/https://trustcor.....

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...
He doesn’t own all the shares. There is a slightly credible theory that he’s tanking the value so the debt value will fall and he can potentially buy it up on the cheap. The problem for Elon is that bankers aren’t idiots. If he tries to buy his own debt, they will absolute charge a premium or just push for bankruptcy wiping out the shareholders anyway.
The FEA images seem to show that the best place is to huddle right below or beside the window/door, and the blast will largely pass you by.

Considering it is a shock wave, best to be sure to open your mouth slightly and not hold your breath, so as to not trap pressure differentials

This is a good thing to publish, because most people seem to casually think nuke=dead, period. But the fact it that the simple geometry means that the areas of medium and lower damage are more than 10X the area of extreme damage, so any random location is much more likely to see effects that are survivable depending on your actions.

Lets hope it never comes to that
I heard of one program for the C-64 with two drives. You load the code into the drives, and it would copy a disk without the C-64 being on.
"They" has been used as a singular pronoun as far back as the late 1300s, but for the case where you didn't know the gender of the person or the gender was not relevant. Using it for someone whose gender is gender is known but is not male or female is much newer.

Here's an article with details [1].

The problem of what pronoun to use for someone who is neither male or female is not new, of course. That article says:

> There have always been people who didn’t conform to an expected gender expression, or who seemed to be neither male nor female. But we’ve struggled to find the right language to describe these people—and in particular, the right pronouns. In the 17th century, English laws concerning inheritance sometimes referred to people who didn’t fit a gender binary using the pronoun it, which, while dehumanizing, was conceived of as being the most grammatically fit answer to gendered pronouns around then

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
They are just a bit glossier alternative to dealers and vuzix though which have been in this market for ages. There's nothing special about the Enterprise glass compared to those except the sightly cooler looking design.
He fled Russia's draft, now he's stranded in a South Korean airport
Seems like GitHub, Stack Overflow and Outlook have all been having problems/flakiness/short outages today. Common thread - Microsoft? Azure having issues, or some such thing?

Edit: actually, maybe it was this (Fastly) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446883 And maybe the GH Actions issues from ~7 hrs ago vs. the more general GH, Stack Overflow and Outlook outage/flakiness from ~1 hr ago are different outages/different root cause.
I wish we just used “they” always. I am fine with people not wanting certain pronouns but I find it very tedious to track different pronouns in my head. Especially in a professional setting gender shouldn’t matter at all.
> the nofly csv is almost 80mb in size and contains over 1.56 million rows of data. this HAS to be the real deal (we later get confirmation that it is indeed a copy of the nofly list from 2019).
Aren’t most apps just spreadsheets?
It makes no sense to use these bots for anything other than carrying supplies in limited scenarios. Like the pack mule they tested in Afghanistan. Why lose a bunch of these bipedal robots from small arms fire from a distance - when something like the MQ-9 Reaper armed with hellfires or cheap switchblade 300 style loitering missiles can do the job from high above. The latter has already been proven to be very effective in Ukraine.
You mean use it
gawk's FPAT is sufficent for any CSV file without newlines in the fields. I've never run into a CSV with newlines in the fields in the wild.
There is a passage in 1984, I think in one of the chapters from Goldstein's book, that mentions cars, and takes about how a person looking forward to 1984 from early in the century was optimistic and imagined owning a car and maybe an airplane, and how the life even of an inner party member is austere by comparison.

He also mentions trucks when Winston was young and had to scrounge for food and would get some grain that fell off a truck driving on bumpy roads.

They do talk about tubes and Winston takes the train to the country.

So I'd say the world Orwell imagined didn't have many cars

(Edit, I see when I was typing, idlewords also remembered another passage about trucks)
The real reason is "our profit margins are currently spread too thin" but they can't say that because it'd make Amazon look really bad in terms of PR. Amazon is currently looking to cut stuff that costs Amazon money and something that reduces their tax liability is also bad for PR if it means that Amazon pays little or no taxes.
https://archive.is/nge3O
I took Japanese :S

ドイツ語はぜんぜんわからない
Good to see that; thanks for digging deeper. I hope he has done this behind the scenes and the holes are patched, because I'm sure that by now, someone with worse intent has already followed those footsteps...
I love the implication that this random person should be the authority on whether or not I can see the no-fly list.
You actually have most likely come across mentions of shodan if you use HN often. It is that search engine for insecure systems like exposed/insecure webcams.
Maybe not super relevant but people used to do that for translation with RNNs. They reversed the input so that the hidden states at the end would be close to what was needed to start translating. Nobody really did it enc-dec transformers but it'd be a funny thought to pretrain a dec only transformer with and without to see if it helped.
They can’t issue a refund, it’s not allowed by the App Store. Only customers can request refunds.
FTX Gamed Markets, Crypto Rivals Say
You don't have to use AI approaches to replace the actual scientific and engineering calculations, you can use them more as aides in the process. You can use them as yet another way to search the space of possibilities as to which simulations you may want to run and which seem most promising.

In the case of reducing compute demand where you might want to find efficient shortcuts to run high fidelity simulations faster, one could use these to create a candidate space of cases to then run the actual simulations against. This may still reduce the total space of simulations you need to run. Lots of potential here without having to make too many sacrifices.

The real issue we have in the simulation space though is overpromising. People give far too much credit to some of these models and simulations that, while sometimes rigorous, often don't fully capture the phenomena they intend to. At the end of the day, even the scientific and engineering simulations are just another pass/filter to narrow down the cases of experiments you want to try in reality.
Snowflake is a pretty amazing piece of engineering. I suspect that solutions to problems of this kind, resource allocation given conflicting constraints and objectives, will only get more sophisticated over time.
For me, it was just practice with whatever the problem that I was doing, and the book which was in front of me.
Why are the demos videos?
I’m surprised that the certificates can be worth more. I guess they are rare - it may be hard to sell them all for much more than a dollar on average.

In any case eight millions are several metric tons.
You were right though, just not on the time-scale that you assumed at the time.
California duplex law not yet working
Please give maia the respect she deserves and use the correct pronouns.
> purely functional transformation of the code, adding zero information

I mean, a human brain is arguably also a purely functional transformation adding zero information.
It would be such a shame if groups that pride themselves on inclusivity had a socially acceptable reason to exclude lower-class and neurodivergent people...
Sectigo might be required to revoke them, then? There doesn't seem to be a requirement for the compromise to be Sectigo's fault, according to my reading of the Baseline Requirements [1]:

> The CA SHOULD revoke a certificate within 24 hours and MUST revoke a Certificate
within 5 days if one or more of the following occurs: (...)

> 16. The CA is made aware of a demonstrated or proven method that exposes the
Subscriber’s Private Key to compromise or if there is clear evidence that the specific
method used to generate the Private Key was flawed.

[1] https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-BR-...
Maybe a better comparison is to 1975, the height of advanced socialism, when 0.8% of Soviet households owned a car.

Cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_the_Soviet_Union#...
I don't think the situation is comparable. The comment is redundant because typically you see the commented code right next to it, so reading the code is about as much effort as reading the comments.

In contrast, commit messages often stand alone: If you browse the history, you only see the messages, but now a large number of them; if a commit changes more than one file, the commit message has to sum up the changes from all files.

In all those contexts, a simple, high-level description of what has changed can be enormously helpful.
I am modestly underwhelmed by the scope here. They basically picked one symmetrical floor plan to simulate, sent a blast wave straight at it, and noted that in some areas, the forces involved could still fling people against walls hard enough to kill them. Okay, sure, ouch, but what about other floor plans? Could you simulate them at lesser fidelities? I feel like a few different real world house layouts with the blast from a few different angles would paint a more coherent picture. Maybe that’s a follow up paper?
If you don't know why you're making the change, you are not ready to commit the change.
From the article:

> [Google is a] company that also distributes spyware, because they don't check what their ad customers are doing very well and let them run random JavaScript on random web pages.

Is this true? While it's absolutely the case that websites have very little control over what ad content is displayed (see, for instance, the work of https://checkmyads.org/), I don't think I've ever seen evidence that ad publishers, or anyone in that massive ecosystem, can inject arbitrary code, running in the browser's context, into websites who monetize through Google AdSense script tags alone.

Of course, Google touches other parts of the pipeline, and I'm sure that in their trillions of transactions, they have unknowingly participated in or facilitated transactions that route/suggest malicious ads to other AdSense-like ad-embedding or tracking solutions that might have RCE vulnerabilities. But it seems a bit of a stretch to call this "distributing spyware," any more so that it is to call a customs official who misses an illegal package a smuggler.
Did you ever own a dial-up modem? Was its only purpose for being that you logged into your ISP with it? Did you consider trying to get a refund when your ISP stopped providing dial-up service?
yeah the metric/dimension we value people is not a simple one. programming involve many subfields that you all have to master more than the rest.
In the aforementioned Daily Dot article:

> CommuteAir added that the server, which was taken offline prior to publication after being flagged by the Daily Dot, did not expose any customer information based on an initial investigation.

As a side note, maia uses it/its pronouns.
OK. And so nothing has changed. We still have the exact same public safety system we did before May, 2020. MPD still employs many Derek Chauvins. I will cheer when MPD can't meet its staffing goals because that means fewer Derek Chauvins in my city. And I will continue to vote for local politicians who will try to reduce the harm MPD can inflict on my city by reducing MPD's budget and influence. It would be great if we could have something better. I will keep striving for that, against the conservatives who want to keep Derek Chauvin on my streets.
Wow TIL. That’s very interesting.
That time of year again already?

> The company said the API abused in this security breach did not allow the attacker to gain access to affected customers' driver's licenses or other government ID numbers, social security numbers/tax IDs, passwords/PINs, payment card information (PCI) or other financial account info.

In all seriousness this sounds like a relatively limited breach, so that's good at least.
Yes, Arthur Seaton from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning who worked at his bicycle factory in Nottingham as a machinist in the mid-1950's could afford a motorcycle "or perhaps an old car". He lived nearby with his family, in a terraced house, and would have had no need for a vehicle.

Winston Smith would be in a similar social class.
From a writing perspective… tackle one thing at a time? From an in universe perspective cars are a very individualistic concept, the type of totalitarian control in 1984 isn’t really compatible with everyone going where they want when they want. From a historical perspective, Britain was incredibly poor in the post war period, rationing went on well into the 50s, from this perspective it’s difficult to picture the average person owning a car- and we were very far off that in the 40s.
Option 0 (the default hypothesis for any question like this): It didn't come up in the plot, and wasn't deemed an important background detail, or Orwell just didn't think about it.

Option 1: In a world of severe rationing, cars are such a luxury item that they're rare or nonexistent.

Option 2: Personal transportation represents a level of freedom and autonomy that is not supportive of the goals of The Party, where employment and living space are centrally planned anyway. Thus they aren't part of the world. Trucks, rail, and so on serve the Party's interest, so they do exist.
Food is heavily subsidized by the government to avoid complete and total social instability. 100 years ago we realized that a underfed population made a terrible workforce and worked on remediating that. All the while farming automation and the green revolution made it so a large portion of our population working in farming/food became just a very tiny fraction. Meanwhile a pure capitalism based farming community would optimize for producing just in time and just enough to maximize profits which would lead to a complete fucking collapse next time a drought came around.

This ''socialism'' you're so seemingly afraid of was a foundation of the capitalistic growth we had in the last century.
I wonder what kind of engineering problems you’ve talked with ChatGPT. Because its limited understanding of spatial problems, I found it hard to use it for mechanical engineering.
How did you do it?
It simply isn’t possible for any third party client to offer that kind of guarantee. Doesn’t matter what agreements you negotiated. Any large enough platform will just do it anyway and deal with the litigation.

It was blatantly obvious to any buyer that these clients could only work so long as Twitter allowed it. This wasn’t a hidden risk, so anyone buying a subscription was implicitly accepting that risk as part of their purchase.
...and ask OpenAI to reimplement the entirety of ChatGPT to work with homomorphic encryption.
That’s exactly what I’ve started using. The website is almost sort-of usable with it.
Railroad History Shaped Internet History (2015)
The oldest airline in the world is more than 100 years old
Don't be snarky. It doesn't add to the discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The very last thing you should do is commit a GPT-3 generated commit message for a fairly simple reason: if GPT-3 can interpret and and explain the change as written, there is no reason to commit that message. You will always be able re-run the generator at any later date, over any range of changes, to get the same or (presumably, in future) improved results.

As pointed out by other comments, the commit message should be telling you facts about the change that are not evident from the change itself. GPT-3 can't tell readers why the change happened.
Switzerland has assisted the USA in going after them, unless I'm missing something.

(I am open to missing something here)
> If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No?

How would they know? How would they prove it?

There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, making it easy for him to get divorced and keep the house.

(If she'd known what had happened, and been able to put her hands on enough money, she could maybe have flown to Canada/Mexico and entered overland; all she knew was she was denied boarding)
How many of them did though?
There's already research that tries to fix this problem with transformers in general, like Transformer-XL [1]. I'm a bit puzzled that I don't see much interest in getting a pre-trained model out that uses this architecture---it seems to give good results.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02860
It can be a lot slower too - but it's most dependent on how the kernel handles console logging. Serial consoles slow it down dramatically, which is why it's so much quicker on your typical GUI enabled setup.
Contrary to what the RAND corporation would have had us believe, there are significant steps that can be taken to improve survival odds. Oak Ridge published a nice handbook[1]. I strongly recommend getting a hard copy, because duh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills
I think anyone that is using a service for free by sidestepping the official client that has ads will eventually get a rude awakening. Especially if those 3rd party clients are making money from their users.
I mean, depending on the scale of the conflict and explosion, nuke generally does equal dead. The variable is just how proximate to the explosion your death is going to be.
> Is there even any suggestion that people are capable of self-understanding?

We certainly can improve at that, even if we never become perfect. Here is what I use to understand myself better:

* Reflecting on my past behavior. No matter how much I may hate to admit it, if in situation X I repeatedly did Y, it is fair to describe me as a person who "in situation X does Y". This is probably too humiliating for most people to do properly.

* Related: noticing long-term trends in my thoughts and behavior. What I feel today may be strongly influenced by what happened to me recently; tomorrow I can feel differently. But if I feel the same way or do the same things as I did 20 years ago, that probably means something important about me.

* Comparing my past behavior to other people's observed behavior. This is important, because many traits are relative to the population. Like, if you were the only person alive, you couldn't really classify yourself as "tall" or "short", even if you knew your height precisely to a millimeter; it is the comparison of your height to other people's heights that makes you "tall" or "short". By reflecting on my past behavior, I know what I am, but by comparing it to other people, I know what I am in the context of the society I live in. The context is important, if I want to communicate who I am to other people.
>Firstly, multiple states have been preparing for the overturning of Roe v Wade, the court case which specified the right to an abortion was privacy and therefore protected. There are multiple decades-old laws on the books that says if Roe v Wade is overturned abortion is automatically outlawed in the entire state. There's no ballot-box here.

That's precisely the ballot-box. Elected officials did that.

>The Supreme Court has outright stated they will now refuse to take up any more cases about gerrymandering, which is a process where politicians get to choose who votes for them basically.

I'm sorry but gerrymandering is orders of magnitude more complex than this. There is not even a widely agreed upon position on what would constitute fair voting districts.

If you truly believe the country simply isn't democratic then its problems are simply so large in comparison I can't imagine caring about abortion at all.
The truth of the matter, I believe, is that the national divide on abortion simply isn't solved yet, SCOTUS delayed it, but even after being established as legal in the entirety of the US for a long while a good bunch of US citizens still don't agree with the legality of the practice.

"Only" about 6 in 10 US citizens are pro-choice.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/07/15/key-facts-a...
Orwell was an ardent critic of the Soviet system and neither Animal Farm nor 1984 are examples of a "socialist paradise".

It's a trait of the midriff of Mexico and Canada to blindly conflate Soviet Authoritarianism, Communism, Socialism, the Nazi NDP, etc with near zero understanding of the differences .. which leads to a region wide confusion between their system and free market capitalism.

Political education and civics in the US could use a shake up.
Back in 2010s in my first job I've seen a bug caused by too many files in one directory. I don't remember the exact details, but it was making me crazy.

Basically we wrote temporary files into one big directory and later printed them. And sometimes our code returned "File not found" errors despite the fact that ls filename had showed the file is there and has correct permissions.

And when I tried to cat filename from shell - it also caused the same error :) But if you created another file with a different name in the same directory - it worked correctly :) There was also space on the disk, and the number of files was high, but not crazy high (a few hundred thousand I think)?

It turns out this particular filesystem (it was ext2 or ext3 with specific parameters IIRC) can behave like that when there's too many similarly-named files in one directory, because there's some metadata with hash of filenames in the filesystem and there can be collisions and it only can handle so many of them before failing.

The solution was to remove the files after printing them of course, so that they don't accumulate forever.
This is the ANSII standard critique of socialism, that it will invariably assume an oligarchal form no matter how lofty the ideals of the founders. The "no true Scotsman" arguments about what does and doesn't constitute real socialism always seem miss this point.
HN thread from that time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33813660
If Amazon cannot grow, then yes, it's stock price will go down losing you more than you bought the shares for.