skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they had internal teams that were working on a new social network app and are now divesting from that (not working on it, not releasing it). Maybe they had a lot of smaller teams who were iterating on the experience to increase engagement, lower friction etc which they will now not pursue etc. "Bloat" is a bit naive that somehow they are just paid to look at the left corner of their office or something. The company built out teams to look into new experiences or to make the experience better and they are going to be doing less of that at least for a while
Couple ways (on Linux):

* You can set a read watchpoint using debugging APIs (ptrace);

* You could place the honeypot in a memory page(s) that has its read permission revoked. An attempt to read the page(s) causes a signal to fire. In order to not crash the application, the code would then handle the signal by making the mapping readable, before continuing execution as normal.

Other approaches probably exist too, these are just the two options I would personally try first.
This is news to me. Do you have any example devices? Cursory internet search isn’t turning anything up.

Verizon, the ILEC where I am, provides a text-to-voice service if you pay for it. Basically converts an SMS to voicemail.

I guess IP phones can do SMS though.
It sucks and I suppose things will only get worse as AI improves. The unfortunate thing with computers is once easy automation is available and there is a reward for winning, then these systems will attract cheaters, spammers, etc. Spam email, online game cheaters and the most recent example Clarkesworld Magazine that had to close submissions because so many people were using AI systems to generate low quality stories.

The only positive thing is maybe gamers will push for more local multiplayer options.
You can bet F2P games generally aren’t playable without buying virtual currency and DLC.
Maybe treating an essential good as an investment was the wrong way to go about it.
If your money isn't in either cash in your hand or in a fully regulated bank somewhere then you're probably fucked.

When doing business I expect to be paid by direct bank to bank transfer, regardless of how small the amount is. Even between friends, we send bank transfers. No cheques, no 3rd parties, no escrow.
> suing someone, especially someone with deep pockets, is a clusterfuck nightmare.

Absolutely correct.

Even worse, winning the lawsuit does not mean you'll see the money. It only gives you the right to do things like attach liens onto their assets. You have to actually do all that footwork (and pay the associated expenses) yourself.

So suing is a clusterfuck nightmare, and after winning, collecting what you're owed is a second clusterfuck nightmare.
"Upholding the law" also includes prosecuting criminals for violating laws. A flood of frivolous litigation against police that overloads the courts would impair that objective. You can't project your own value judgments about which of those priorities is the "highest and most important."
I think of cloud platforms as less complex than managing your own systems. It's trivial to go from zero to functional product on GCP or AWS, and it's honestly not very expensive to get started either. GCP and AWS very clearly subsidize costs for early-stage startups in an effort to lock them in. A tiny startup might have a cloud hosting cost of 3 figures a year until they really take off.

And when your product does take off, scaling is often trivial.
Ah yes, you're part of the "exclusive club" of people who own an iPhone; they only added 200M members to their ranks last year. Only the smartest, tech Rockstars... or anyone with a piece of government issue id and enough credit to get a 2-year cell plan.
Ask HN: Is Beta Wave generation possible by continuous movement during sleep?
> It will have to be bought with “incident packs” costing thousands of euros; because yes, paying for a product and a maintenance contract does not mean they will fix bugs, and you will have to pay for each of them.

This is something the author made up on the spot. They will most definitely fix the bugs regardless if you have support contract.
Seems promising. Doesn’t have a CSS/XPath selector API but I guess I can try to walk the tree manually.

EDIT: never mind, there IS an XPath API
> Right but certificates of authenticity do not prevent fraud, theft, or illegal copies either.

Exactly, so what exactly is NFT trying to solve here?

> My understanding is that nobody really cares if you have a copy of a photograph or digital art. What people care about is if you pretend to own it.

It's hard to sell a painting without having possession of it, and I'd imagine, independent authentication in these high value markets.

> Well no, the NFT contains the signature of the artist that created it.

Which is absolutely worthless unless you know the signature of the artist. If you already know this, then you don't need the NFT.

Or in other words, a NFT cannot say 'this is an artwork by x' instead, x can say 'this NFT represents my artwork.'

> There is nothing to unwind on a blockchain, because you cannot create incoherent ledgers. That is why blockchains are perfect settlement systems.

What is it about blockchains that mean perfect ledgers, that cannot be solved more simply by using a ledger/database?

Either this is an easy problem - in which case this should be technically simple to solve, ormits a hard problem, in which case how are Blockchain solving it?

> Imagine the following typical simple settlement scenario:

I see and understand problem is how does Blockchain solve any of this?

That's the problem - yes it would be nice for certain use-case if this stuff was instantaneous, but that is a business problem not a technical one.

For example yes it would be nice if credit cards were instant. Problem is credit cards have chargebacks built into the design to protect the user. Making it instant and irreversible would break that promise, essentially making them a completely different offering.

> Blockchains _are_ settlement machines.

Sure, but they're aren't the only settlement machines. One can quickly replicate this settlement logic with a database and basic API - that would be far more scalable and affordable than your typical Blockchain.

Looking for technical solutions to non-technical problems doesn't work.

> Why _not_ use them?

Because they are incredibly expensive, and probably don't solve the problem you want to solve.

For example, take the settlement use-case earlier - your user wants to pay via credit card. What Blockchain has customer protections (e.g. chargebacks), incredible scale, privacy, etc... and yet fits within your ideal settlement model?

Does such a product exist? Can it exist... or are the requirements simply contradictory?
Sort-of happened to me. Someone sent me a large amount of money unsolicited. (5 figures.) This wasn't a scam, just a very dumb woman who can't remember her teenage son's email address even though I've haf the address longer than he's been alive. I logged-in and canceled the erroneous transfer to return her funds to her, but unbeknownst to me a small automatic charge for a domain name had gone through since I received the money. Ordinarily I keep $0 in my Paypal account and Paypal automatically deducts the funds from my bank account. But apparently when reversing a transaction instead of covering any shortfall from my bank automatically, they charged me a $100 insufficient funds fee and THEN deducted the fee + shortfall from my account. Absolutely infuriating.
That sounds like just basic guesswork on your part. Replicating their infrastructure is not the trivial challenge you suggest.
I did a minuscule amount of app development for android back in the like 4.0 days, and recently tried again, using kotlin and jetpack or whatever their UI kit is. It was awful. Everything is so hard to use. Your UI framework requires you to define completely separate """magic""" functions to preview how it is rendered, as if that makes any sense. All documentation seems to make the classic blunder of assuming you already know the answer, already are an expert in the platform, and already know what you are doing. Every example either hides some magic that they had to add, or requires you already know everything that the example should be teaching you.

I literally feel like I understand the Windows Win32 dev ecosystem, and I've never written a Windows app in my life.
I had a pirated copy of WC3 available to me via a vulnerability in my school's AD setup which allowed me to access another student's directory where it was installed.

I would play it almost exclusively in a web design class I took. That class was where I learned HTML; that wasn't the focus of the class, not by a long shot, but it was the thing that captured my interest the most. I ignored everything else in that class in favor of the Wintermaul Tower Defense custom map.
Hah they can certainly afford to fund that delusion but I assure you if international logistics were to well and truly collapse they'd find out real fast the have-less native population in their bolt-hole country of choice 1. Aren't confused about where the canned goods are being hoarded 2. Are surprisingly adept at operating heavy equipment.
Don't really get the idea behind fighting cheating in SP games - you just destroy the game for yourself.
In MP on the other hand you destroy it for others. Maybe some kind of telemetry + ML analysis could help here as the current methods seem to have holes in them that get found out eventually.
I could see adding a nice GUI app for uploading/managing layers, editing the config, etc making waves on Steam.
No both Google Pay and Apple Pay directly work with the payment terminal as if they were cards. You need to add your card to the app so that your bank sends the necessary keys to your phone secure enclave but then it works perfectly fine offline. You just have to tap twice on a physical button and pass the biometric auth to pay.
Then what is it about? The poster claims it's about intelligence so i don't see how else it could be.
I'm no longer in the game, but circa counter-strike 1.1 or 1.3, the typical way was using windows hooking API to load your hack into the running process. You could then simply use the freely available half life modding sdk to use the same structs and things like that. Network related stuff also happened, but I never paid attention to it.
Yep. There’s no incentive to catch every cheater because it helps sell the “need” for advantages conferred by DLC and virtual currencies.
Bigfoot Is Probably Just a Black Bear, According to Recent Research
When flying accross europe, you spend so much more time in the terminals and going in and out of the airports you need to sometimes double or triple the time of the actual flight to get to your destination. This + the usual extorsion to buy drinks and a meal in and off the plane + potential need for a uber/taxi. It soon becomes less appealing, even more so when you can't get a direct flight.
I didn’t disbelieve you. You didn’t mention desktop browser, and that was only my guess. The link I posted also was just one example, image search yields more examples. What I provided is likely evidence that Ebay chats can indeed look like that.

Here is another example (about two thirds down the page): https://www.autods.com/blog/dropshipping-tips-strategies/inc... Why would that blog article fake an ebay chat? Why would all the examples fake the chat in the same way?
parameters that are important:

1. how fast can you charge it

2. how much power can it output?

3. how long does it last time wise, not just cycle wise

4. how much does it cost

5. how much space does it take up

6. what temperature ranges can it handle?

7. can it handle vibrations

just a few
Right, but for everyone of those people, there are 1,000 other people just as smart also working on good ideas that are going nowhere fast.

I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing or neither.

But I think the "why didn't I think of that guy" is mostly luck.

Lots of people are smart and work hard and don't really get anywhere.
Create a second account with your bank that is only for PayPal withdrawals.
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Is there any decent tool to determine areas where symmetric broadband coverage in a given area is available? From what I can see on the FCC map it just using their "broadband" definition of 25down/3up which is akin to dial-up for most of the folks on HN.
Pretty much everything you get from Apple is trackable. That's both good and bad; depending on who you ask, but they know where every device is, as soon as it's turned on.

That's why I wonder at folks stealing iPhones and iPads. They are basically unsellable.
The article says ByteDance has “1,00,000 employees,” a number I initially read (understandably, I think) as one million.

Other sources say they have around 150k employees. With 10k laid off, that would indeed be about 7%
Anytime you see a "battery breakthrough" article, a way to save yourself some time is just to check if they've patented it. If they haven't, they have zero expectation that it has commercial potential.
I had to find the god damn CTO's email address to spam him a couple of times before my issue was fixed.

I'm out of the country, I complete 4x $20 payments to a friend I'm visiting. I try to do the 5th and it wants to me to "Add a Mobile Number" to verify my identity.

Brilliant PayPal. You already have my email+mobile on file. It says confirmed. I have 2FA enabled. And now, to verify my identity, you need me to enroll a "new" phone number. How in the **, exactly, is that going to verify my identity. And how screwed up are your systems that your left brain and right brain are out of sync.

Granted, I basically have to call them every 2 years for some similar sort of "your website just told me to go F myself, can you press the magic buttons to fix it since you can't, you know, actually fix your systems.".

EDIT: The clencher to this story is calling PayPal and getting the sweetest older lady from Texas that, without asking me any further verification questions, pressed a button and said "okay, try again", and wouldn't tell me anything else. Only to hit the same issue ~24 hours later.

I have a story like this for Schwab. I have a story like this for both my credit unions. Capitalism driven banking baby. What a joy.
please no one say crypto ;-)

but I definitely have the same question, I always deposit anything sent to me via paypal, venmo, whatever right away so there's zero balance.

good luck telling a bank to un-authorize someone from being able to deposit or remove money from your account though, I had to call them up and they didn't even seem to know how to do it.

somehow it isn't just a checkbox, it seems to me like revoking that permission should be vastly easier than providing it...
Seems interesting, may you share more details ?
Most AI companies won't want to offer that. They want to know if someone is using their service to instigate the next mass shooting or ethic genocide.
Ward - object placed somewhere to give you vision around it
Gank - suprise attack basically, usually when a guy from one lane go to another one to suprise kill an enemy player
Sure. Chief among those dimensions is the fact that it's not used as a serious production technology, so the manufacturing of these systems doesn't benefit from economy of scale.

E-beam certainly does provide a bounding limit on how expensive EUV can get, but we're not in danger of hitting that limit anytime soon.

I expect that EUV will become cheaper/more productive per dollar in the medium term, unless ASML starts acting uncomfortably monopolistically (and it's probably in their interest to drive EUV adoption to starve out Nikon and Canon, anyway)
Why did you decide to use a closed-source vector database if you do open-source?
There are plenty of open-source solutions to choose from: Weaviate, Milvus, or Qdrant. https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
Disclaimer: I'm from the Qdrant team.
The comment I responded to stated:

> but cannot copyright the output of mathematical algorithms.

I was pointing out that CGI can be described that way - so taking the argument to its logical conclusion we would have to remove copyright from cgi.
The human mind is engineered to be lazy though; we're hard-wired to look for short cuts and proof reading === quality isn't a terrible one. Why do you think we still have resumes, or equate a university degree with ability to program computers?
OT: Anyone know what the status on Mermaid Timeline is?

FYI, There is an alternative called Markwhen.
Milk is a generic term that has long referred to non-dairy milk. cf milkweed, other milky plant saps are also called milks.

Also milk of magnesia and similar substances.
There is no noping out of the eternal torment machine. Back when the world was large, yea, maybe it can happen. But now any escapist type of communities could be attacked by some 4chan trolls drone swarm looking for a bitcoin payment to stop.

In the future I see people creating AI 'friends' that are long time companions. I also see malicious attackers encrypting them for ransom much like a real human, or destroying them out of spite.
Not parent but presumably they mean WFH.
Very long cars are going to make a comeback. Parking lots will never be the same again! Wonder how well the batteries tolerate deformation and if they could be molded into crumble zones.
Maybe one catch is that the weight of the discharged battery is much higher than the weight of the fully charged one. So, as you travel, the battery becomes heavier and heavier

> This new solid enables chemical reactions that produce lithium oxide (Li2O) on discharge.

Lithium has an atomic mass of 7 and Oxygen of 16. The reaction starts with only Lithium (2 atoms = 14 mass) and ends with Li2O, with a mass of 30.
I develop and support DXLab, a suite of interoperating, free (but not open-source) applications for the worldwide amateur radio community; these applications continuously populate databases with realtime information, and interact with many other applications and physical devices (radios, antenna rotators) via serial ports, DDE, UDP, and TCP links. Since the first public release 22 years ago, my policy has been "all reported defects are corrected within 24 hours". Interaction with the user community is direct - via an online group. I typically make public releases bearing new functionality 2-3 times per month.

This policy's results have been excellent: users are focused on learning to better exploit the applications and suggesting new functionality rather than complaining about long-deferred defect repairs; even minor, easily worked-around defects create a negative user community mindset that can snowball. The absence of defects increases user confidence, and reduces user-perceived complexity.
I'm no reverse engineering expert but I doubt cheats would actually call getters when they have access to the raw memory underneath.

Maybe lazy cheats do use that mechanism, but it's hardly a foolproof system. If this is how detection was done, I imagine Valve has targeted this detection system for a specific cheat tool/framework.
I assumed the same too, but there didn't seem to be any activity on the account and the password was just a randomly generated password. It never showed up on Have I Been Pwned.

Granted, still absolutely could have been a breach, but not like i can find out.
Google's South Lake Union campus cost $802 million[1].

Google's parent company, Alphabet, spent $70 billion on stock buybacks[2].

I know I'm drastically oversimplifying the complexities of accounting required for a trillion-dollar empire, but this comes across as more of a punitive measure than a cost-saving measure.

I acknowledge that being able to take the force of money and apply in a direction that results in growth at Google's scale is arguably one of the most difficult problems in business at the moment. But how does downsizing your offices do anything but make the hard times for Googlers a bit more uncomfortable? How does this news attract the talent that could help Google grow?

It feels as though Sundar and the board decide stray away from doing things that keep their employees at the happiest (and most loyal to the company) because that doesn't help the company grow at a rate that would please shareholders. The Lindy effect[4] suggests that Google will probably be around for another twenty years. To his credit, Sundar has spent the last 3 years navigating one of the largest companies in the history of mankind through an event that society hadn't seen in 100 years. So, Sundar, when do we start thinking about where Google will be in 20 years instead of the next quarter?

Google was revered in the media for decades as being one of the best places in the world to work at, you can look Xooglers talking as far back as 2008 and see stories of people who went to work there and left disappointed because of the homogeneous mindset and work benefits failing to match the competition[3].

1: https://curiocity.com/seattle-google-lake-union-campus-sold-...

2: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/alphabet-announces-70-billio...

3: https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
More from Qualys: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/109

More from OpenBSD: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167715187212393&w=2
Show HN: Google's New ML Algorithm for Unlabeled Data
Has Microsoft considered not making Bing so incredibly slow?
Scales well to large unlabeled datasets and outperforms existing methods.

Uses a simple non-constrastive method that doesn't rely on explicit positives and negatives.
As an MIS undergrad student I had "that 1 semester" where I would work myself delirious. It was not a good time. However that was followed by 3 years of taking the minimum number of hours per semester to maintain scholarship and carefully selected schedules that never again required me to be in a classroom before 2pm.
At first, I was actually surprised by how much faster it was to do schoolwork when not crushed under sleep debt. It turned out only having scheduled classes when I was actually awake made things a lot easier.
AI has actually been working against cheaters. Using server side measurements fed into an AI like OSRS does has drastically cut down on the number of cheaters. Mass amounts of data can be collected of users mouse movements that when fed in can detect cheaters using aim botting in FPS. Valve actually does some of this already as well to reduce the number of blatent cheating overwatch candidates in CS:GO.
What's hidden in Ukraine? Dutch intel says cyber attacks “not yet” public
Does the federal government hold patents? This is from a DoE national laboratory, not a university.
You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.

That’s the difference. The stakes are way higher in video games. People pour thousands and thousands of hours into these games. They dream of going pro and joining one of the big teams. They dream of winning the big tournament for real money. They dream of having a popular Twitch stream with many thousands of viewers throwing even more money at them.

Most fall far short of those dreams. Instead they throw temper tantrums and rage at their teammates over voice chat. Some get so frustrated about their lack of progress that they search for alternative means. That’s where cheating begins. It’s really no different from sports.
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