skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LinPEAS was extremly helpful for me when I started out doing security related stuff and had no idea where to start. I simply looked at what the script is doing and checked these things manually to get an understanding for what can be misconfigured.

These days I always run it for privesc when I do hackthebox or something similar.
SD doesn't default to creating black people, but it understands the n-word. Should AI understand racial slurs?
> If you have the property deed, are you the house owner?

That's a great question.

Riddle me this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564
> The family had lived on the farm for so many generations, they adopted the place name as their own.

Well, it didn't take that many generations, necessarily. People in Norway used to use patronyms (like Olsen, son of Ole, Sjursdatter, daughter of Sjur), and tack on the name of the farm they lived on if there was need for further differentiation. The farm names could easily change several times through a lifetime, and you didn't necessarily even own the farm you were named after.

There was a push for fixed last names, with various legal requirements starting in 1920. Whatever name people used around then, stuck.
a laptop DAC & an external DAC

I have heard some godawful laptop DACs. We're not talking splitting audiophile hairs here, I'm talking night and day. I've also heard some great ones. In my experience Apple has always nailed this.

Compared to a competent onboard laptop design (e.g. Apple) the audible difference with an external one will be more power, which is something a lot of pricy headphones benefit from. But for most normal headphones no, no huge difference.

Do expensive amplifiers have noticeably lower white-noise than the standard amp?

Speaker amps? A lot of expensive audiophile crap measures pretty poorly! However if you shop carefully you can get something like this, with objectively insanely good performance: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

Is 0.000225% THD audibly better than 0.01% THD? Honestly, generally not in my experience. Your average room has probably 40dB of noise floor if not more and your speakers are distortion machines too.

Do high-impedance headphones actually achieve anything ?

I've never seen a solid case in favor of them.

Do frequency response graphs mean anything if you can digitally EQ

For headphones? If the flaws of the headphone aren't too wild, then yeah they can be fixed pretty well with EQ. The bigger the flaws the more efficiency/output you sacrifice so there are limits. And some flaws like a lack of deep bass can't be compensated for.

For speakers? Yeah and no. With speakers most sound that reaches your ears is reflected. If your speaker's off-axis sound is markedly different from the on-axis sound, this severely limits what can be accomplished with EQ because we can't EQ them separately. You fix one and the other breaks.

is digital-EQ fully lossless

Depends on the implementation. Obviously, you could certainly screw it up. But I think popular implementations like EqualizerAPO and Apple's built in Audio Units seem to get it right within any reasonable definition of audibility.

Are planar magnetic headphones a scam

I dunno, they sound really detailed to me. I don't think they're a must-have, but I've been impressed by them.

Is FLAC practically overkill for a human ?

Very difficult to tell from e.g. 320kbps audio. However consider that your audio may be lossily compressed later on, e.g. for Bluetooth transmission. I think even 320kbps kind of sounds like ass once you lossy compress it again for Bluetooth -- like a JPG that's been recompressed multiple times. So considering that lossless audio isn't much bigger than 256kbps-320kbps lossy anyway, I think it has a lot of value.
Ok, so whilst I have some experience with US cities, this post is about the British regulation on autonomous driving. I can assure you that any substantial increase in local public transport (substantial being 25% or more, this is not a huge amount due to how much has been cut in the past decade.

Intercity transport really needs HS2 pushing through and increase electrification of other routes. This will speed up commuter routes and increase freight capacity.
New Report “State of Cloud Threat Detection and Response”
the aunt of a friend promised sick people to talk to angels about their issues for only a modest sum. i'm sure those people felt at least a bit better afterwards, because they were of options otherwise.

on the other hand, they spent hundreds of dollars for nothing and if they eventually recovered they'd tell other sufferers about it, dragging them down too.

does the victims glimmer of hope justify her scam?

background: she herself suffered from an "incurable" illness for months, where she paid other angel conjurers (that's where she got the idea from). turns out it was just iron deficiency and easily cured with iron supplements. at that point she'd already paid several hundred dollars to those charlatans.
I want vending machines on every street corner that cut vegetables for you, and spit premeasured sauces / spices into a cup. Upload a recipe ahead of time and pick it up on way home. I also just want more vending machines in general.
Sorry, yes that wasn't clear. Scott Alexander coined most of them in "I can tolerate anything except the outgroup" [1]

Red & blue are exactly what a U.S reader would think they are. "Grey" is an attempt by Scott to define something else, loosely hacker-ish / rationalist (you can tell who he thinks the cool people are). "Rainbow tribe" I just made up, but I think you can guess what I mean now based on context.

Alignment tends to be "rationalist panic" and ethics is a more traditional "moral panic". I believe both perspectives are valuable.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200219044501/https://slatestar...
Well the apps are better, but that's about it for incentives to use Uber/Bolt.
After the 1000th "last nail in the coffin" I gave up believing that this will end someday. I see it becoming one of those ever-lasting scams that go up and down in popularity, like piramid schemes, tourist scams, 419 scams etc.
When using GCC for example, there’s a macro one can define which adds bounds checking to all containers.

Integer overflow can be turned into defined behavior through a compiler switch.

Holding pointers to stack variables past the return is not as easy to inadvertently do as an off-by-one. Someone has to store the address into a variable and this kind of code should raise alarm bells.

A more indirect way is to pass an address of a local variable to a function which is typical. But then if a function takes arbitrary pointers it receives and stores them, this should also raise some alarm bells.
That's interesting; when searched there seems to be very little mainstream media coverage of the concept. What are some of the disadvantages of the insect feed approach for aquaculture?
the subreddit for "buttcoin" does a pretty good job lampooning cryptocurrency true believers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/
It's not just elderly people who need to sit down – I fractured my T11 vertebral body (amongst lots of other back-related woes) and find standing up for a prolonged period of time moderately excruciating.
Management of all sorts of that run companies into the ground usually make out with their salary and bonuses.

Unless we change the status quo about rewarding CXXs with huge amounts of stock AND giant salaries AND allow them to cash those stock grants out before retirement I don't see that changing.
I started working on this few days ago so havent had much time to think about paywalled content. Maybe this week i will try to find a solution.

There wont be much we could do If its behind captchas.

Thanks for giving it a try.
If you have functions that can compose from left to right, as a nice DSL, you're partway there.
I also was sad to see this. I'm guessing it has to do with the legal requirements for warranty length...? Last I heard, Spain was one of few countries requiring three years (I think EU requires two). I could be wrong though, as StarLabs offers to send me a StarFighter with only a one-year warranty.
All is this doomer-ing feels to be like it's missing a key piece of reflection - it operates under the assumption that we're not on track to destroy ourselves with or without AGI.

We have proliferated a cache capable of wiping out all life on earth.

One of the countries with such a cache is currently at war - and the last time powers of this nature were in such a territorial conflict things went very poorly.

Our institutions have become pathological in their pursuit of power and profit, to the point where the environment, other people, and the truth itself can all go get fucked so long as x gajillionare can buy a new yacht.

The planet's on a lot more fire than it used to be.

Police (the protect and serve kind) now, as a matter of course, own Mine Resistant Armored Personnel Carriers. This is not likely to cause the apocalypse, but it's not a great indicator that we're okay.

Maybe it's time for us to hand off the reins.
E2E encryption only protects the data while it is in transmission.

If there is a breach, all of your data is accessible because it is decrypted at the endpoint.
Actually they have delivered some vehicles and they are in production. It isn't full speed production but its in production.

500 miles is tough and you need the right conditions, see:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/11/watch-tesla-semis-500-m...

300 miles is no issue.
I think many people - me included - are complaining that it makes things hard period. Not in the sense of “rocket science” as this argument is sometimes smugly dismissed, but in the sense of extra friction which slows things down and decreases the pleasure of coding.
He also did not invent reusable rockets. (And that's beside the fact that these don't exist yet - it is but a dream at the moment.) He funneled a large amount of taxpayer money into SpaceX, while not really improving much on anything (he _promised_ costs savings, but did this really happen?).

What he did invent is the snake oil salesman pitch. Oh wait, actually... he did not invent that either.
> machines can grasp small patterns but not the unifying whole

that's actually true for all the art generated by (the current generation of) AI. With some things (like hands) it's more obvious than with others, but the closer you look, the more "wrong" things you notice...
You forget that this is £6k for the first 90 days. Let's be conservative and you can get 7k/year out of this book (author says it's more or less evergreen). Comparing it to an investment that gives a 7% return, that means it's comparable to about 100k invested.
Banks are a business and they invest deposits. It’s the very idea of a bank. What SVB did was not foolish nor crazy. Somewhat less conventional and more risky, sure. But all the strong adjectives flying around in the media do not describe the situation properly.
... in the 90s? It still happens today with my phone
Pardon if this is a stupid question, but I think I must be missing something. How is all of this different from turning WiFi off?
Some would say the most fertile ground for "business innovation" is a country with no labor protection laws.

I think innovation will happen regardless and I'm kinda tired of fear mongering around "throttling innovation" whenever people talk about making our world better for people.
Why print ? It's impossible to search.
Volkswagen picks Canada for first battery cell plant outside Europe
Interesting thought which also begs the question whether streaming mixes can be targeted at cheap (in ear) headphones.

It would make sense since this is the way most people listen to music these days.

Knowing almost nothing about DSP is this something you can do?
That's true - and then there's pregnant women... and sometimes having a seat can make managing young children that little bit easier!

A lot of the new hostile architecture does a great job at making ordinary people suffer.
Any system of regulation that depends on end users to police for violations and fill out government forms en masse to get results is a bad system.

"We only enforce if notified, and only if we are notified a lot by many different people of the same violations" is extreme negligence, in my view.
I’m making 2 apps. One is notion inspired note taking app plus blog generator

The other one is a vocabulary book / flash card app using chatgpt as its dictionary engine.

Both use git for storage
The most important part, which I missed at first because I rushed to the graphs:

>> We started using SSDs as boot drives beginning in Q4 of 2018. Since that time, all new storage servers and any with failed HDD boot drives have had SSDs installed. Boot drives in our environment do much more than boot the storage servers. Each day they also read, write, and delete log files and temporary files produced by the storage server itself

IMO it's very light load which usually doesn't wear the drive much. [0]

It would be more interesting if they provided wear (as reported by the drive) and TBW values.

[0] Anecdata: a pair of Samsung 860 Pro 512Gb SSDs, apparently running LUKS, still had 45% endurance after 4 years (of unknown load though).
It’s been tried. Laws against paying just make people not report to the police at all.
> Not filing a complaint guarantees no action will be taken.

What a lousy system of regulation, then.

I feel like you'd be more effective finding someone (or twenty someones) that work in their IT department on LinkedIn and explaining to them that working to enrich such an outfit is a scumbag move.

Hit them where it hurts. Government regulators are not it for these fully integrated parasites.
Yes I've had that in the past too, the concept is still around
> Of course it doesn't eliminate the need. Who's going to enter those records and enforce them?

The staff still does what they do today, but they no longer need to maintain their own database and IT application.

> Just because it's on blockchain doesn't mean it's standardised, or interoperable.

Once it is on a blockchain it is conforming to a published standard for NFTs for that particular blockchain and others can interact with it and build additional systems that interoperate more easily.

> Yup. Until a corrupt government official puts his friend as the owner of your house and evicts you. Look, the proof is in the blockchain, and it's irrefutable, and cannot be amended.

Because corrupt government officials have never doctored official records that weren't on the blockchain?

> This is just a string off made-up terms that make no sense

No, it's not. A Dapp stands for a "decentralized application" and posting property deeds as collateral is a real thing. Further, being able to do that digitally will likely lower processing costs.
It was news to me until recently, but the shifting of blame for destructive business practices onto the consumer is extremely well documented to be greenwashing. i.e.:

https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobi...

It's not inconsistent to boycott destructive products as an individual, but political pressure should focus on flat out banning destructive business practices. The electoral system failed to prevent another oil-drilling president from entering office, but it's still possible his administration will be successfully sued in court under USA's (admittedly weak looking) version of Duty of Care laws. The TLDR is that ~some democracies have it baked into the constitution that the government must act in the interests of the citizens, and are getting successfully sued in court to do so, despite regulatory capture and corrupt politicians.
I think a lot of people elsewhere in this thread are confusing a simple majority of the whole population, with a large minority which obviously does care enough about audio but is nevertheless a minority.

25% of US adults, say, spending on audio gear may be a huge market segment, but it's still a minority!
I didn't think flat-earthers existed for real. Then I came across them on the good old internet. At first I thought most of them would have to be trolls, not really believing it.. but then you realize that so many of them get extremely angry when you try to debate them. They truly exist.

But then again I actually met a person who believed the moon landings were fake.. brilliant guy otherwise, but too young to (unlike myself) having lived through the time period. He (and some others) seemed to believe that it was all CGI, not realizing or grasping that the watch he was wearing had way more computing power than the whole space program at that time. And that every illustration of the moon surface before Apollo 8 (they didn't land, they just took photos) were so very different from the real thing.
Bad parenting is like water flowing, it doesn't need any particular justification in order to be enabled and find a way to manifest itself
I understand, but my point is that most people don't need it -- they either use proxy for that or already accept startup-level risks. So bankruptcy of a startup due to poor bank choice is just one of many failure modes for startups.

"we have bigger problems as a whole"
I don't think so, at least based on Russia's experience. In the previous decade plenty of banks got closed with businesses losing money, but economy was ok and the banking ecosystem got healthier.
I just wish that Rust’s enum Variants were types… maybe someday! :)
If you know of an Emacs extension that does these, I would be very happy to know about it. These days I'm programming 100% in Emacs for various reasons, so I looked quite a bit (though it's true that was a few years ago now, so maybe some have turned up).

LSP itself certainly doesn't support this, though they can probably be built on top of it with some effort. For that matter, I also don't think VSCode supports them, though I have used Emacs far far more than that.
I'm not sure how you made that jump in logic. The chain is absolutely needed as it stores and establishes cryptographic proof of ownership. This is the entire premise behind validity rollups for layer 2 networks.
It can be done without cookies. I built a simple visitor stats module for my website package, based on the solution of Simple Analytics. They explained that they make a difference between unique and non-unique visitors by checking if the referrer is your own site. If so, it's not a unique visitor. Of course there are edge cases, but for my case it works more than good enough. I thought it was a brilliant solution from Simple Analytics and I figured I could build something like that myself. It was also fun and I learned a lot.
There are a few others - https://pynecone.io/docs/library/forms/slider for example
>a bonanza created by the authorities

Are most people here too young to remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008?
Would an AI that doesn't understand racial slurs be more useful?

I don't think we should hamper the usefulness of a tool to please someones sensibilities. For most people in most of the world such words aren't relevant.

I get it, these models are made in the US and they think these models should preserve and further their values but the rest of the world doesn't care. Most likely each of them have their own batch of words they would prefer the AI didn't understand for whatever uncomfortable reason. Reality is that censoring it on any axis won't please everyone.
Contextualise, a tool to manage projects and/or activities with lots of unstructured data: a personal knowledge management tool of sorts. The link is here: (https://contextualise.dev/).

It's a MIT-licensed open source project: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
Why is the frontend state stored on the backend?
On a tech forum one would expect the reasons to be more centered upon tech rather than (what I think you're referring to anyway) politics.
Twitter sucks because it's full of JavaScript and tracking that you don't need, so I would imagine that most on HN would find it burdensome to even view the content, since many in tech whittle the content down to only getting the packets necessary - which Twitter/Facebook make very difficult.
Nitter has a much better user interface and makes it much easier to see what is happening on your device.
Other than that, the content is mostly just low quality as well, so there's little reason to use it.
You need to work on your grindset - Washing is cheap when there's a 5% sales commission.
Vinyl requires compression within a certain range - too little or too much is no good.

Digital allows for far higher compression - historically digital released have been compressed to hell into a "brick" with very little actual dynamic range. This is so that when they're played on radio they're going to sound louder than anything else. Vinyl doesn't allow for this same amount of compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Modern streaming services will recompress songs to a common standard, negating all of the loudness war stuff, but I haven't looked at new releases to see if heavy compression is still common practice on the master releases but I'd assume they still do it because practices change slowly. In that case they're just throwing away bit depth for no reason.
Creating isolated userland Python virtualenvs in TrueNAS
Could we test that by training a small model on nothing but hands?
I am not saying that people should ride on pavements, I am saying that you complaining about cyclists not following the same rules as cars when they are on the road is based on fallacious reasoning.

To your straw man, as people have pointed, out there are many mixed use pathways where pedestrians and bicycles share the same path. In rural Germany it is incredibly common for cyclists and pedestrians to share a single path. Your argument that bicycles and pedestrians sharing a single path leads to unacceptable risk to pedestrians is simply not true.

Some numbers:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...

Per passenger mile:

~200 pedestrians killed by cars

~4 pedestrians killed by bicycles

Please don’t make assumption about my behaviour. I ride in the road and not on the pavement, but I regularly have a near-death experience.

In Germany and across norther Europe, bicycles and pedestrians share a (slightly) segregated space on the pavement and cars are in a completely separate space.
>More intelligent AI consuming us

It's quite possible the eventual AI ends up unintelligent (self-optimizes into grey goo or something).

>could be unethical and immoral in your view

Hmph.
There might be something to this.

Sometimes I noticed older people going into tech discussion about things which were super important once but no longer is relevant.

Most are able to recognize their nostalgia as such and are willing to accept it (e.g. by doing cb radio or retro game development on deliberately limited hardware).
> I’m a bit concerned about what happens when it freezes. Can the outdoor unit still I operate?

Yes as long as the parts where chosen by someone with a bare minimum of competence. The efficiency will be lower than ideal but still better than electric radiators. Norway has very high heat-pump installation rates.
Sure but he grew up in river oaks, the local rich neighborhood to me, and his family had a massive ranch. So his rich parents made him work for spending money, dude grew up in a rich family. Didn't his family also invest a couple hundred thousand in Amazon's early days?

Ugh, I'll be honest, I'm kinda tired of this "debate." We're really going to keep peddling the myth that any hard working joe can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become a billionaire? That's the tale we're telling with a straight face in 2023?
As much as I have problems with Apple's software lately, the touchpad is one of these things that Apple just does better on their laptops by default compared to all other brands.
Thanks for nipping scams in the bud, and thanks for crushing Flash, Apple!