skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We asked the SEC specifically to identify which assets on our platforms they believe may be securities, and they declined to do so."

Sums up the case quite well.
Tell HN: Sophisticated Google Phishing
The attacker registered for a domain identical to ours but with a different TLD. They created a Google Workspace and a Gmail address under that domain with the same email as our founder.

They then uploaded a malicious .zip file to Google Drive and shared it with our employees. The message that Google Drive delivered also included a spoofed Google login page hosted at the new domain.

Overall, it was the most convincing phishing email I've seen. We use Inky for phishing detection and it raised no flags. Luckily, nobody opened the file.
Screenshot of 4 relevant pages from the book: https://i.imgur.com/AwwdEc4.png

The most important part, for me, was this bit:

> What they discovered is there is one mechanism that can make this happen every time. You just have to flood the system with more information. The more information you pump in, the less time people can focus on any individual piece of it.
Maybe I'm imagining it but this letter seems a lot more direct than the other ones.

"People loosing jobs" instead of "Puffys getting the opportunity to move on.".

Also their yes/no mail has a clear title and they lay down policy that fired people get to use slack for a few days to "say goodbye to friends" etc.

Not great obviously (it's still kicking them out) but at least they are not adding insult to injury.
Consumer SSDs used to max out at about 550MB/s, some still do. You need a larger and more modern drive to do 1.25GB/s sustained write. Even then buffering can get you.
it's also just plain advertising. When the celebrities listed in these charges say that they're buying NFTs, a whole lot of people are going to see that and notice.

The number of people that buy an NFT because Soulja Boy bought one is probably pretty small. The number of people who buy NFTs because "everyone else is" is much much larger.
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> Any thoughts on the difference between using this vs DNS (e.g. nextdns) with blocklists?

Little Snitch is process-based, so you can block a specific process from connecting to a specific domain while allowing other processes to connect to the domain, whereas with DNS you have to block every process from the domain. And of course Little Snitch gives you process-level info too, which DNS doesn't.
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5 minute read of how to create a fined tuned model for your own use cases.
Maybe AI will make it more palatable but I just can't get into Rust.

I can probably easily understand borrowing. It's mostly an issue of controlling pointer aliasing wrt mutability, especially in a multithreaded context I guess.

But that gottdarn syntax...
And goroutines are too nice for the type of code I use.

I'm too spoiled with Go I guess.
You're introducing unrelated things. This thread is about human's attention span, ability to focus and memorize due to how we consume media as new technologies are developed.

It's not about a technology being able to displace power away from a specific organization or not. That's not an argument anyone was making here.
Beethoven: Tests on hair prove composer's genetic health woes
Being a crypto-focused bank carries most of the same risks as being a startup-focused bank (But worse), and in case anyone missed the news the other week, one of those just exploded with what could have been a much bigger hole on its balance sheet had the FDIC waited.
FCC chair proposes ban on deceptive “Broadcast TV” and “Regional Sports” fees
Wall Street is thirsty for its next big opportunity: The West’s vanishing water
Only that it’s banks falling this time. Damn crypto, ruining American economy.
You may think so, companies are notorious for rejecting middle aged applicants in favor of 20-somethings because the latter are considered more malleable and eager to prove themselves.
When Coinbase files for bankruptcy, crypto deposits will be at the back of the line. They are unsecured creditors. The company itself says that:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/coinbase-...

Coinbase executives will have enjoyed years of massive pay days selling stock pumped up with customer money. The customers who assumed the money in their accounts is protected like with a bank will be wiped out.
I agree. My role is software engineering, but in industrial healthcare automation - so I come in when I need to make stuff move in meatspace. Mostly a few days a week. We don’t really have standard offices though - it’s either a cube or in the lab 50/50 hoping the magic smoke doesn’t leak out because I coded that thing wrong…
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pick another source

No. If you insist on it, though, you can find countless other sources with information on the countless other atrocities that have been committed.

I have no stake in this. But "denialism"?

What are you talking about? Did you get lost in the comments?

Anyway, it's hilarious that you'll refuse to read one news source, ignore all the other articles, but latch on to one article trying to spin a weird narrative that, what, natives were burying their own en masse, coincidentally next to residential schools? Or that the abused women and children in Ireland just happened to be buried in the basement in astonishingly high numbers?

Finally, you seem to be hung up on the concept of wooden markers disintegrating while ignoring that so many children shouldn't be dying in the first place, and that there are first-hand accounts of intentionally starving babies that couldn't be "adopted" (i.e. sold) out of the Irish facilities.

As for being offensive, I don't care at all if you are offended by any of this. Your feelings about the atrocities mean nothing to me.
> I'd imagine these enterprises still need to find a way to make their payments on any related loans, but one wonders what happens to banking revenue if a bunch of them get caught in the same crunch.

I imagine the government will bail out commercial landlords.
Is Fuchsia any better for what the article is concerned about?

https://fuchsia.dev
Some of those jobs are already in lower cost countries but some can't be outsourced because they rely on military contracts (can only be worked on by US employees).

I once worked on an offshore company that did staff augmentation for american robotics companies, we did mostly software because the hardware was illegal to export.
The subreaper is also gonna have the same footprint as the pidns init, and is more complicated.

It's just as flawed a solution as the other flawed solutions. We can accept the subreaper being bug-free as a requirement for this workaround to be working, but we can't prevent it from being sigkilled.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass...
They're not affected, or at least less affected. The baseband doesn't have direct memory access like on other phones.
A rather refreshing take on the work from home topic.

When gas prices were at their peaks last summer I found it a little perplexing that the Biden administration wasn't advocating for more work from home policies, so that people didn't have to commute as much to get to the office. But they really can't advocate for it too much. There is a ton of money in commercial real estate and the commercial mortgage backed securities that have been spawned. End of the day, I think that is why we have the current atmosphere where "work from home bad" narratives are being pushed with such frequency and intensity.
Nope, their OpenCL support has been kind of stagnant for a while, especially on Windows. On top of that, part of why Blender dropped its OpenCL supporting renderer was that AMD's OpenCL was still pretty buggy, making the renderer a pain to maintain.

Lately their focus is ROCm and their CUDA equivalent language, but it also has limited official hardware support and AFAIK the Windows SDK for it is still not public.

Similar commitment issues have plagued their custom renderers.
I think what’s more shocking is they were still using Capistrano for the past ~17 years.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267
The Wells notice has nothing to do with their banking connections.

Edit: the parent comment previously made the claim that this was predicted by various unrelated claims in a linked blog post, and later modified it to make it appear they were not making that association.
The San Diego market is up? Anyone know why? Everyone I know in San Diego is WFH now. I thought we'd be closer to the San Francisco market.
This is the fiction that CTOs believe - "it's simply not practical to run your own computers, you need cloud".
I'm sitting just up the street right now, and -- hoping to buy a walkable nice home in town someday -- wholeheartedly counsel the East Cambridge biotech people and the Kendall MSFT/GOOG/etc. outpost people to make a luxurious and convenient commuter rail ride, between work and BFE part of their daily lifestyle.
I don't think there is a distinction.

The distinction you speak of was cleverly crafted by the rich to provide cover for them because they own most of those assets and wage earning people can no longer afford them.

In the end who gives a shit if you dissect inflation into categories or not if my standard of living keeps dropping, which is what inflation does. Robs purchasing power from the people.
Some people are writing alternative via WebAssembly.

For instance wazero which I'm really excited about.

https://tetrate.io/blog/introducing-wazero-from-tetrate/?utm...
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Yeah it almost makes me want to have an internet break. Because of the FOMO effect as I work on humble programming tasks.

ChatGPT has been useful at work but it hasn’t made me 10x as fast. Maybe 5% and in the area of searching for information. Generating code is terrible: it creates plausible looking code with subtle bugs. Probably OK for API call examples though but nothing algorithmic.
Large language models are totally unsuitable to autonomous vehicles. No one is going to write code to describe a dynamic driving situation as static text which could be used as an LLM prompt.

Some of the underlying core technology could theoretically be used in that way by taking input from multiple videocameras and other sensors. But that approach is a dead end for consumer product development until someone solves the testing and explainability problem. Current limited AI systems are too unpredictable for safety critical applications. Just because AI software seems to work in testing doesn't mean you can have any confidence that it won't do something wildly dangerous in a novel real world situation. Vehicle manufacturers and their insurers will not take on the high potential liability even if autonomous systems are on average safer than human drivers.
But you don't get connection blocking for free.

> The network monitoring functionality, including the real-time connection list, traffic diagrams and the animated map view can be used for free!

> The full feature set, including connection blocking, extended traffic history time ranges, advanced display and filtering options and more is available as an in-app purchase.
Since companies do need workers and working is mandatory in our society, it seems weird to expect people to always be ready (and able) to mold themselves into whatever a company wants at the snap of a finger just so they're "allowed" to work in the first place.
exactly they can on paper, but no one will care or be expected to care. that's what the ridicolous difference is
Google Engineering Leader Urs Hölzle Shares Plan on Efficiency
Not ones that threw away all their electronics.
You don't know me nor the men I've talked to. I have had deep meaningful conversations about fears and vulnerability with many men, and they almost never involved physical safety. Conversations about shame, and emotional pain, and fear of failure and being perceived as weak, yes. About being attacked on the street, almost never.

You doubt, and you suspect, and you believe. More than three-quarters of rapes and sexual assaults are not reported[0]. Violent crimes involving injury, or murder, are reported by the medical personnel involved. When you rely on one set of statistics to negate widespread fears, and ignore all reports or statistics that support them, you don't end up with a clear view of things.

The experiences I describe are 100% normal in suburbs all around America. It's not just once or twice, and I'm not the only man to have noticed this.

If you don't want condescension, base your opinions on facts rather than counter-factual beliefs and feelings. I'm linking to statistics and reports, and you're parroting stereotypical generalizations countered by comments from women on this very page.

I am taking your statements at face value, but at this point it is starting to honestly feel like you're trolling, so carry on.

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/251934/usa--percentage-o...
"Ok so you can either go to trial OR just be guilty now and get punished, what a deal right?"
The issue isn't whether proof of stake itself is a security, it's whether Coinbase's service of staking on behalf of its customers is a security.

Coinbase has argued that all they are doing is providing IT services to do what their customers could do on their own. How well that holds up in court really depends on the arguments that the SEC makes, and how the courts views Coinbase's response.
> 0. Literally, $19.96! https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-4-Slice-Toaster-Oven-Bl...

It's a really good toaster, surprisingly. Still going strong for me, even after 4 years.

There is an electric kettle in the same brand series, also very good. I still use it several times a day.
Use a touch of magic to schedule Trello tasks in Google Calendar
When you create tasks in Trello, the task planner will automatically schedule them in your calendar as time slots. It'll pick the perfect time for each task based on your workload and work schedule, making it super easy for you to stay on track.
Then why original Yandex founder is under EU sanctions?

Spoiler: because until June 22 (effectively until the sanctions hit) he was a Yandex CEO and owner of 8% shares (45% voting shares).

There is no "almighty Kremlin" that owns everything. There is, however, a set of rules you must comply to if you want to do multibillion dollar business in Russia. You either bend, or sell your business to more complacent oligarchs. Durov chose the latter, Volozh chose the first.
Maybe you haven’t been flung far enough.
Once you step outside of the system you can start to see the flaws it has.

My kids still get out. They are still taught by qualified professionals. It's just on our terms and in environments that feel healthier to us.

We're not with them all the time, but we definitely don't get as much free time as those that go to school.
Google apps/workspace -> zoho
I can't see anything wrong w this far-sighted analysis. After WW2 was fantastic for growth - a lot of competitive male pressure was gone to war deaths, society had been "hardened" by the comparative difficulty, and no infrastructure in NA was damaged.

If we're in the same financial situation now, we're megafucked - the cleansing fire didn't actually happen, and pressure is gonna keep rising.

Did the start of the great depression look anything like this? I heard a theory somewhere about 80 year cycles, and it makes intuitive sense that it takes a few generations to go from "fresh start" to "things are great" to "everyone expects things to be even better" to "burn it all down"
Thanks once again for the interesting discussion.

> Web Bundles seem like a purer collection-of-files effort

I didn't know about this, seems interesting but Chrome abandoned it in February. I guess the reason is that Safari and Firefox ignored it. Chrome seems to be bottlenecked by Firefox's engineering capacity and Apple's lack of interest.

Agree completely re: dark reader. I use it all the time. Still, a dark reader equivalent for other UI toolkits should be pretty easy to write (maybe not for C++/Rust stuff that tends to be less hookable). They all have some data structures that represent centralized style. And thinking about it ... the reason you don't need a dark reader extension for mobile or desktop apps is that the OS already can restyle UI on the fly, right? Dark mode seems to be automatic for apps using native toolkits (at least on Mac).

W.R.T. changes to tab management, I think that could be much easier with a more modular platform because the window management would be a separate app. Instead of writing an extension for a mega-monolithic browser, it'd be more like on Linux where you can write/use a separate window manager that can be independent of the content being displayed.
Apple Music Classical
Is there a Little Snitch alternative for Windows?
Hoping qdot76367 sees this
That's a whole field of study on its own, called perceptual hashing. I surveyed these a while for amusement and the TL;DR is that all immediately obvious approaches tend to have particularly bad corner cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing
I too am laughing at the suggestions to swap Google for Microsoft stuff.
I think they're great, and it's not much different from progressive image loading that's been around for decades. Images going from blurry to sharp was a big thing back in the 1990's over dial-up AOL and MSN.

> I'd much rather see engineers spending more time making the thumbnails load faster

Generally it's a client-side bandwidth/latency issue, not something on the server. Think particularly on mobile and congested wi-fi, or just local bandwidth saturation.

> The blurry thumbnails have 2 issues 1) trick person into thinking they're loaded

I've never found myself thinking that -- a blurry-gradient image seems to be generally understood as "loading". Which goes all the way back to the 90's.

> 2) have a meaning that content is blocked from viewing

In that case there's almost always a message on top ("you must subscribe"), or at least a "locked" icon or something.

These blurry images are designed for use in photos that accompany an article, grids of product images, etc. I don't think there's generally any confusion as to what's going on, except "the photo hasn't loaded yet", which it hasn't. I find they work great.
> WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out".

Source?
Blaming open source for your shortcomings isn't professional at all.
And you seem to think it's every human's moral obligation to not only spend the majority of their waking hours at work, but also their free time on making themselves more valuable to corporations. And that's not a moral presumption? Where does that leave time for anything else in life?
>But it's a trivial observation, and one that isn't actionable or testable

Yes. But if they make a bold claim that "contamination can be ruled out", it's worth it to say to folks ready to take them for their word that, "it's still a possibility", even if it's not a testable finding but a suggestion.

Sure 'we can confidently say about every paper ever published that "I'm not so sure."'. But that doesn't mean we do say it for every paper ever published, or that we say it with equal weight.

The alternative is taking every research announcement at its word, and acting like it's true until it's taken down by another paper. And even then, why'd we trust the second paper refuting the first got it right?

In the end, it amounts to "if you didn't do the work or the review yourself, and din't find any specific actionable issue with it, then you should have no opinion about the probability of it being true or not".

Which is quite problematic. In the end, we often need and should be able to make a summary assessment of the possibility of a paper's conclusions being right or not (as based on our layman experience), even without working with the data, going through it with a fine comb or trying to replicate it, but based on a sense of probability of the conclusion, our knowledge of past assurances in similar statements being ultimately proven wrong, potential conflicts of interest, and so on.
We can split hairs all day regarding exactly who brings charges or whatever - but it doesn't matter. In basic terms:

If the SEC says you are liable or guilty in any way for anything, you can contest it via the legal system. That's what the legal system is for...

Again, this "non admission of guilt" sidesteps everything and cuts straight to the end result.

In this specific case, it literally means the SEC either felt their case wasn't strong enough to guarantee an outcome, or litigating the case would become exceedingly costly and unproductive - again without a guarantee of an outcome.

"Non admission of guilt" payments guarantee a speedy outcome. That is the entire point.
If my goal is murder, but I only render you completely brain dead, or maybe only paralyzed from the neck down, have I failed? Yeah, in some sense. But in terms of the grievous harm rendered, I've succeeded to a pretty serious degree.
The flip side is there is an entirely new skillset required to successfully leverage the cloud.

I suspect those cloud skills are also higher demand and therefore more expensive than hiring for people to handle hardware issues.

Personally, I appreciate the contrarian view because I think many businesses have been naive in their decision to move some of their workloads into the cloud. I'd like to see a broader industry study that shows what benefits are actually realized in the cloud.
I find it very interesting that the WFH crowd is advocating for what works for them, and is not demanding that everyone work from home. The RTO crowd, however, is demanding that everyone conform to their own preferences and work from the office.
Is SEC enforcement even revenue positive/profitable? The "result for the impacted parties" is a pretext, especially if we intentionally and carefully preserve the ability to continue to reoffend in the exact same way.
Would it be innocuous of me o say that because we disagreed on something, you are a bad person? To say that I'm prepared to combat and destroy you to protect my worldview? To say you are not human?

You might say, "Of course it's innocuous, you're just a person on the internet who doesn't mean it." Well, imagine I'm your neighbor, and you can tell I do mean it (or in the case of AI: it is not possible for you to know what I do and don't mean). Would you be concerned at all?

Sydney has said all of the above to people who were acting pretty normally. Sydney itself may not pose any danger to anyone. But the ideas expressed are dangerous ones. If they were expressed by a more powerful AI, they would be extremely worrying. It doesn't even have to know what it's saying if it knows that calling someone nonhuman is frequently followed by crushing their skull. If it knows that angry behavior is often associated with violent or even genocidal behavior.

People do this shit, and we know how they work pretty well. I am not saying that AI will do these things, I'm saying that there are more possibilities where it does do these things than ones where it somehow avoids them without our control.
I think they should siply use four patches of BC1 (DXT1) texture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

It allows storing a full 8x8 pixel image in 32 Bytes (4 bits per RGB pixel).
Ah, I get you. Apologies.