skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another use - generate pop quizzes for teaching/review - saving me 30 minutes every workday.

ChatGPT will take previous context and create reasonable quizzes (open prompt or multiple choice with answer key).

Sure you do need to know the problem domain as ChatGPT will have the occassional howler.

I am sure there are some students who will try to answer my pop quizzes with chatGPT and that is fine as long as they follow the train of thought themselves.

Then again I just had someone submit a homework where the top comment was

# Copilot comment the following code and explain how it works

... there were no comments besides that one
Good read from a few years ago: Langewiesche's conclusion is that the pilot probably crashed the plane on purpose.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-m...
Do cellphones qualify? They are very sophisticated and full of encryption...
Show HN: 3D FPS Boids
A fun little boids demo I wrote using threejs. Requires a mouse and keyboard. Feedback is welcome.
Title is "Battle Against Bias Waged on Shifting Legal Ground : Civil rights: Discrimination was banned in a 1964 law. But the prevailing view of the measure changed greatly."

Article is from 1995.
I didn't say that. Calendly took $350 million from investors. That isn't what their product is earning in the market; it's what they're using to build it. That's what's wild.
So make 'em include the tax amount and percentage in big print on the receipt or alongside the price on the price tag at some percentage the size & weight of the price itself. Both problems solved.

Paying a different price at checkout than what was on the tag is dumb and provides cover for exactly this kind of fiddling-with-the-price crap.
Every time I hear about the XBox's platform security, I think back to this talk [1] about how Microsoft protected the XBox One. A lot of it boils down to clear requirements and good engineering, and many of these technologies are now showing up via Project Pluton.

[1] https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
So, I once met a guy named Don.

We were hanging out in the garage of a mutual friend, chatting. Got to the "what do you do" section of the conversation, and he says he works in massively parallel stuff at XYZ corp. Something something, GPUs.

I make the obvious "can you make a Beowulf cluster?" joke, to which he responds (after a pregnant pause), "you... do know who I am?"

Yep. Donald Becker. A slightly awkward moment, I'll cherish forever.
They can decline to charge payment for anything other than the full figure leaving you with the ability to walk out or pay. If you opt not to pay you are dining and dashing and subject to prosecution the fact that you offered to partially pay notwithstanding.

Logically pay the bill then leave a negative review and never eat there again.
Much democracy...
Margins are low on retail drives. Drives MS was selling had _plenty_ of margin. Which is why MS went that way. Also, this saves you from "I bought shitty drive from NoName on alibaba and it doesn't work" support requests.

Still stupid though. Glad Sony out of all companies opened up PS3 they way they did.
Right! I think we might be the only two on this site who have more ideas than money haha.

How to get new ideas? How do I stop them coming?! My method is to scribble them on a piece of card and chuck that into a tub to get them out the way for now.

I know that tub is being emptied with nothing in there seeing the light of day. Simple fact is if I work on my own stuff I don't get to pay rent or eat this month.

One day. In the next lifetime if not this.
epic hq is literally a theme park
Right, one has to assume that a good vat for the brain looks pretty much like the body itself :)
I use this myself. Unfortunately you have to click a small "continue as guest" button to get to my calendar- not as pretty as Calendly. But like you said, part of the package
AI-Completeness
We do have borderless payments and the technology is here. You argue facts with feelings. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it isn’t there!
Walmart to Raise Starting Hourly Wages to $14 from $12
It's unlikely, since about 98% of the Earth has transponder coverage, so you at least have position and what the aircraft think's it's altitude is, with pretty good precision and sample rate. It's only in a few spots in the middle the ocean that this doesn't exist.

This was also relevant in that Airbus crash from maybe 15 years ago between South America and Africa.

This is not a problem on the main to/from North America routes because there are enough populated islands along the way (Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii, Guam, etc)
cal.com sounds rich... how much was it?

[edit: reading up a bit, I'm really rooting for you!]
Is there a formal spec for ReStructuredText? Not every project would want a dependency on the Python ecosystem.
> Similarly, when individuals are found in possession of such a device, it may not be possible to prove their knowledge or intent to the thresholds required to convict them, despite the difficulty of identifying legitimate uses for such technology.

Privacy is illegitimate, apparently.

Think before you post or you may receive a visit from us this weekend. Use the internet safely.

-Glasgow Police, https://twitter.com/GreaterGlasgPol/status/71586727326166220...
Lol, this is brilliant!
> Only nerds will ever use federated, decentralized systems, only nerds will ever accept the trade offs that come with them.

Yeah only nerds will ever use email :P
Google Workspace also have this built in now[0]. I've happily been using it for a while now.

0. https://support.google.com/google-workspace-individual/answe...
You’d need Microsoft’s private key to sign the system firmware with a changed HDD verification public key in it (or an exploit undermining the general security chain of the system).
There is even a better alternative; just use the Oberon+ toolchain (compatible with Oberon 87, Oberon-2 and Oberon-07), so you can benefit of a decent IDE with a source-level debugger and a C99 transpiler.
If by "SSH clients" you mean terminal emulators, the answer to

> but how many of them are also telnet and serial terminal clients as well?

is "all of them", and they all support way more such things than PuTTY too. I think what you're used to (e.g. the GUI rather than command line switches) is the only thing that counts here, as PuTTY is inferior in almost every other way.
I think we are talking about different things at this point, but I may be losing the thread of your argument here.

I love a code review to consist of lots of small commits. I'm mostly fine if even some of them from developers more junior than me are just named "commit" if they are small.

When I finish the code review I prefer to only `git merge --no-ff`. All those small commits stay in the code history in the exact form they were reviewed under.

If I'm looking at history I'm most often using something like `git log --first-parent`. In my --no-ff integration branch that just shows me an integrated change list (PR list). Git gives me a "straight line" view down the DAG and hides irrelevant information I don't want in that moment like all the small "commit" commits.

If for some reason I find a bug or issue in some code, I may need to drill down into specific small commits including the "commit" commits, and I have that ability because all those commits are still in the DAG.
Microsoft beats on earnings as cloud unit shows strong growth
One more from the new, independent Britain =)
> Harm reduction re: consumption of USP 99.9% ethanol

According to Ignition! by John Clark, high-purity ethanol used for rocket fuel undergoes a similar phenomenon when in storage tanks near rocket scientists and Navy personnel. Interesting to see that this also occurs in the proximity of undergrads. Study operators claimed that dissolving the ethanol in H2O, or, preferably, lime juice and/or soda water, merits further study.

But yes, I would also be interested in reading that continued series.
What's up with this?
https://vsl3.com/assets/v1/patient/files/FactSheetVSL3Jun202...

Just went to their site and it sketched me out a bit to read this.
sophisticated as in "we tried to decipher or wiretap it and failed at both"
To be fair, the oft cited “air travel is safer than cars” statistic is on a passenger mileage basis. When you pack an order of magnitude more people at a time going an order of magnitude faster than a cad it looks super safe.

If you compare it on an hourly basis it is still safer but not nearly as safe as people would like to think. Especially if you add in small commercial/charter planes
Some stuff I've successfully used on WINE (on Linux only...I've never owned a Mac):

SRIM/TRIM (http://srim.org/)
u-blox u-center (https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/u-center)
various other vendor software (e.g. power supply control GUI over serial, etc.)
Traffic Signals: The Vastflux Takedown
https://www.paulgrahamai.com/recERuX0piB0V6Xfa

I think I broke it? There's tons of repetition and then it fails.
If you use Google Workspace you have a booking page built in now:

https://support.google.com/google-workspace-individual/answe...
The biography of Richard Sorge "an impeccable spy" might make an interesting read for contrast. Sorge was part of a communist community which the central party distrusted intensely, and his information about Japanese war party trends was distrusted when he was known as the source, because he was in the wrong faction. His spymasters at times lied about him to avoid having to admit he was the source. His information about the impending attack in the west was discounted by Stalin.

His spying on the Japanese preparedness to invade the USSR on the far east border was a critical component of the decision to transfer troops to the west and the war with germany.
one thing I applaud MS for, even though I hate the OS they forced on the world:

being able to grow revenues from acquired companies.
Deciding to end your life by committing mass murder is already hugely irrational, trying to analyse any further moves such a state of mind had planned out from the viewpoint of rationality is nonsensical.
But my lab manager did walk in at one point and immediately recoiled from the fumes (which we were nose-deaf to at that point).

I don't know whether it's true or not, but I remember a chemistry lecturer telling me that you don't need to worry about terrible smells in the lab, our noses are sensitive to extremely miniscule levels of chemicals. It's when the levels are so high that they have overpowered our senses and knocked out our sense of smell, that's when you need to worry! A wonderfully paradoxical piece of advice...
It’s really interesting, and for me personally unfortunate that it seems to be a “crunchy” topic that’s regularly the domain of crystal healers and anti vaxxers and people who blame their maladies on “toxins in the body” because the science behind a microbiome growing from the food we eat and how we evolved seems pretty sound.
Yeah that's certainly a wonky result. What do you think would cause that? My thoughts would be (i) the lack of content specifically related to 'herding' or 'cats' or (ii) the ratio of completions (~200) to completion-length (~2k words each) of the fine-tune data. I'm new to this so appreciate any feedback.
Yes! Well, Stormlight Archive anyway.
you have a biased and profoundly ignorant opinion on this subject.

In the future when tempted to comment on similar matters I encourage you to instead spend the time trying to make friends with someone outside your political bubble.
The title is “Two legislative measures to improve the law enforcement response to serious and organised crime” under the “government consultation” subheading. This is a request for comment. Not an act of Parliament.
At that level you're already hacking the console firmware. Easier then to just patch out the check as they've done.
> being able to grow revenues from acquired companies.

correction:

being able to inflate and cover up their losses by acquiring already successful companies
It might be deplorable but it's totally expected - the BBC is constantly starved of money by Murdoch-friendly governments, so it had to find alternative income streams.

I'd be happy to pay a TV license fee 100% higher than it is now, in exchange for a really-universal and non-profit BBC. I'd also be happy for Parliament to inject more money into it. Would you...?
Has anyone seen Mac malware that involves hyjacking accessibly/mouse input? I've come across several Macs in the last year with mysterious self moving cursors. I don't know what benefit there would be for malware to hyjack a mouse cursor so my assumption is they simply have hardware problems with their trackpads. Makes me paranoid tough.
Washington state might Nix mandatory single-family zoning
Not using an Xbox.. I didn’t know they sell storage upgrades.

That’s pretty toxic
If we had some super AI that couldn't get gamed, yes it would make sense at least from a financial standpoint. But once we have a singularity

Also we don't produce enough goods in the economy to make a 50k UBI possible.
Sounds like the system in Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo
The "fairtax" version includes a "prebate" so that the working poor don't get hammered.

However, that just shifts the problem up. The really rich still don't end up spending most of their money. So to be revenue neutral, the burden must go somewhere, and it ends up on the middle class. It's still regressive; it's just not completely so.

That's not the only problem with it, but it's the one that singles out the political motivation behind this. It's popular with the kinds of people who believe in trickle-down economics, in the hopes that the wealthy will spend their money on them.
Yes I need to take B-12 liquid orally or by shot, but my grandfather had pernicious anemia and it's hereditary, so I don't know whose fault it is. Other than that I have no major health problems, but I have neuropathic nerve pains that the doctor has never seen before so he blames the nitrous. It's not too bad. I was aware that I needed to take a lot of B-12 at the time. People ask me why I didn't get a tank instead of spending all the money on whippets. Because I would have died with a tank.

Two more cautions. Nitrous is an oxidant. I found out the hard way when I almost set myself on fire smoking and doing nitrous. Also, that whah whah you feel when inhaling is not nitrous. That's hypoxia which can cause serious brain damage. I learned to do nitrous in a continuous stream without the hypoxia like at the dentist office.

Edit: I remembered a third caution: nitrous is a hypnotic like kratom. You lose control, like an alcoholic or benzos blackout. One time after doing a bunch of kratom I "came to" riding my bike in my underwear at 2 am thinking I was going to find a swimming pool to take a swim. Fun times.
It is my default browser, so I guess not. That feels like less of a nag than the platform urging you to switch browsers without any indication that you'd like to do so.
> and I also self host Calendly)

Is the core of Calendly open-source?

I skimmed their repos but it looks like they don't include the "secret sauce" to self-hosting your own event+booking platform: https://github.com/orgs/calendly/repositories
The landing page is indeed very good design.

As an experienced web designer I can tell you the design and implementation are straightforward, but very competently done. There are many things like the typography and UX writing that suggest this is the work of a fellow experienced designer. There’s much more here than what can be captured in a “guide” - it’s just an overall high level of design competence.
I just want my vat to have a good hairline. Is that so much to ask of the future?
>Once this kind of AI search becomes the default way we look for information, there won't be a point to creating SEO spam anymore

What about creating new, relevant, interesting content that no-one will ever see because search no-longer exists? Will site owners continue to do it knowing AI will crawl it, and never send traffic? Probably....not?

How do LLMs of the future get better if website owners are no longer incentivized to create content?
To be clear - we were hosting on-premise, and being charged for our own RAM. Servers we had to buy, and then pay for the privilege of using with ELK.
https://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicop...
Sure. I'll give it a couple hundred years.
No. They state this quite clearly.

> "the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them"

They say they're going after bespoke devices whose "user base is assessed to be almost certainly criminal". Of course, that's very open to interpretation.

Also they go on to discuss how simply providing or possessing one of these devices should be crime in itself because of the "difficulty of identifying legitimate uses for such technology". It's the classic "If you're trying to hide something you must be a criminal" approach.
It’s not a great article in any dimension really
> at least $20 for a sit-in meal, around $4.50 for a coffee.

That's actually currently pretty much true of the USA too, especially after recent inflation. Unless exchange rates make the dollar-for-dollar comparison inapplicalble.

But either way, we're paying $20 for a sit-in meal too, but the servers are only being paid literally $3-$6 base rate plus tips, instead of your $24/hour. (Of course, depending on the restaurant, they may make $24 or more after tips... but it looks like median after tips is more like $16/hour, meaning half make more half make less...)
Terminal emulators, in my experience, are not sufficient to establish connections to serial devices on their own, especially not through the GUI. PuTTY does that without me having to look through a man page or --help dump or, as is more often the case, StackOverflow.

I mean SSH clients. Terminal emulators don't do SSH on their own either.

> PuTTY is inferior in almost every other way.

Not in any way that has ever mattered to me.
I have one friend who has a VR headset, and basically everyone who’s used it has gone “oh that’s neat” and enjoyed it for 30 mins, and then never had any further interest in it.

It’s fun enough, sure, but it’s heavy, sweaty, weirdly isolating and far too expensive for what it is. There aren’t enough games or utilities, and none of them are amazingly compelling. The controls are still janky. The idea of multiplayer is basically a no-go, as it requires everyone to have them (see price) and then have a computer powerful enough to drive it (see cost of GPU’s). A good chunk of my friends don’t have amazing GPU’s, let alone VR-compatible GPU’a plus a headset.
This is what I found on "Project Pluton" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/17/mee...
"the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them"
Alibaba Cloud isn't as cost-effective as it was in 2016. Also not sure how fast Alibaba's equivalent of S3 is.
>their actions show a great deal of respect towards the ingenuity of console hackers, because if they didn't, they would've never bothered to do such an effort thwarting them.

dude. The irony. They bricked our machines and joked about it. They had a fellowship with the FBI.

They (MS and EA) threw OP, the author of this fkn submission, in jail.

Their own Terms of Service and Policy Enforcement page still brags about "pwning the pwnrs" - to this day.

Make no mistake, MS and Xbox still hate us. It's just from a capitalist perspective, its hard to compete with losing PC audience.

Their only selling point is itself, an unhackable console.

They did have restraint. There is a list of console ID's hardcoded in every NAND because originally a few souls had reversed the NAND enough to RSA-sign CON files - they were just gonna ban everyone who had made modified content, but didnt... because of Halo3's File Share incidentally preserving personal RSA keys, making it difficult to reconcile modified content, once spread.

Regarding hacked DVD drives....they did the math and banned millions when it was profitable, ironically.
Strictly speaking, the logo bit wasn't about copyright, but trademark. Specifically there was certain territories that Japan had trademark treaties with, but not copyright treaties. Taiwan if I remember correctly.

So you could legally make unlicensed copies of Super Mario Bros but they couldn't be called Super Mario Bros. This is why a lot of old bootleg games change the titlescreen to say, say, "7 GRAND DAD[0]" instead of "Super Mario Bros". This behavior actually seems to persist to the present day despite these copyright loopholes having long since been fixed.

Of course there were companies that got around the logo check with custom hardware[1]. And Nintendo themselves got lazy and didn't check the whole logo on the Color. So it's possible to change the boot logo on basically every Game Boy.

The court case you're thinking of has to do with SEGA's Trademark Security System (TMSS) for the Genesis. Sega v. Accolade to be specific. The broad strokes are similar, though - small bits of copying to sell an original unlicensed work are acceptable because console hardware is not copyrightable just because you worked on it real hard.

[0] Fleenstones? Aaaaugh...

[1] The Game Boy BIOS has a TOCTOU bug. AFAIK this is also how Argonaut Software managed to get an in with Nintendo to publish X in Japan.
>=501. Coincidentally that's the exact number I'm on now, and just like GP said due to my fat thumb I'm always guessing whether I've up- or downvoted a comment.
The name, logo and all of the other parts of the project are up for discussion, see [1].

I'm not a huge fan of the name either at the moment, but that's the best I was able to come up with. I trust that out there there is someone more creative than me to find a better name that also avoids clashing with already existing software (like KDE's Dolphin as you pointed out).

Thanks for the tips on the other possible fediverse softwares - I knew some of them you mentioned but not all of them. I'll check them out too!

[1]: https://github.com/OpenDolphin/brand/issues/2
Airbnb should set standards. Some places make me do absolutely nothing like a hotel room. And some places make you wash the linens, dishes and sweep/vacuum the floors while paying $300+ for a cleaning fee. Probably why I now prefer hotels because i know what i am getting.
The main goal is to provide similar levels of security at a significantly reduced learning curve. These services can all be replaced with Infisical.

When we spoke with engineers that work in companies of all sizes - most of them have mentioned how complicated Hashicorp Vault is. And indeed, while Vault has a lot of features, it is pretty overwhelming to setup and maintain.

With Infisical, we want to take a modern approach to secret management by simplifying the whole process of configuring secrets to injecting them into your stack with little friction as possible. We invested a lot in the UI/UX in order to make everything more intuitive for developers when compared to Hashicorp Vault or any other alternative.

Also, Infisical is meant to be multi-cloud unlike the cloud-specific secret managers/vaults. Give it a go and let me know what you think
“ Sophisticated encrypted communication devices have been used extensively by criminals to facilitate organised crime. We’re targeting the modified and bespoke devices that enable access to platforms, similar to Encro Chat, where the software/ hardware has been developed to anonymise its users and their communications and its user base is assessed to be almost certainly criminal. Under Option 1 where articles will be specified, we will be targeting those that supply, modify, and possess these bespoke devices; the
provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them.”

Seems to suggest that handsets explicitly made for anonymous encryption could be banned, but not messaging apps on normal phones.