skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Microsoft successfully established "Windows" as a trademark, even though the term "window" was commonly used in graphical interface documentation for many years prior to their arrogating it.

Not "Microsoft Windows", but just "Windows". Disgraceful.
I feel like this is valid criticism for Dall-e, but not so much for stable diffusion.

Stable diffusion (and to a lesser extent midjourney) exposes a LOT more knobs to tune. Layer on controlnet and other extensions, and you can really iteratively refine an image to get closer and closer to what you want.

The key is to be able to 'lock in' a depth map, rough composition, seed, etc, and then tune the other parameters to refine what you're looking for.

It's definitely not a one-shot solution, but its still miles faster than learning how to do digital painting and manually rendering things. I don't feel like it matters if you have to generate 16 images to find one to start building off of when each image can be rendered in 1/1000th the time a human could.
> With this program, the NSA is able to reach directly into the servers of the participating companies and obtain both stored communications as well as perform real-time collection on targeted users.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

You're welcome to dispute these facts based on technical merit or other qualifying evidence, keeping in mind the obvious advancements in technology over the past decade, as well as societies' increased reliance on the proliferated devices.
maybe if you’re writing gradient descent, but not if you’re creating ETL pipelines.
It amazes me how features like this make it through to release and seemingly nobody considered this very basic experience of your home being hijacked
I have an iPhone 12 mini. I bought mine directly from Apple, and use it on the T-Mobile network.

I see “t-mobile” and “TMobileWingman” under managed networks. I disabled the auto join and it has not been switched back on after about an hour.
> If you make a report, and those reports are valid but ignored, they can be sued and the city or organization becomes liable because they were negligent. A judge decides damages which impact ongoing budgets.

It isn't just about legal liability, it is also about politics.

Suppose a child is abducted/murdered/etc. Turns out some concerned bystander saw something suspicious and called the police, but the police decided not to follow up. Even if the police aren't legally liable, once the media and politicians are done with the story, the general public will be so outraged, decent odds the chief of police will be forced to resign. You can say this is a very rare scenario and almost never happens, but government culture encourages risk-aversion – especially when it comes to children – so they'll worry about the risk, they'll overestimate it – and then they'll craft policies based on it.
My personal trainer says once you lose the fast twitch muscle, it’s gone for good and most people have lost it by age 70 or so.
What happens if someone spoofs the SSID though?
Are you ok man?
"Again I saw that under the sun the race was not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all." -- Ecclesiastes 9:11 (ESV)
maybe the resistance to switching away from british imperial measurement in usa is the work of organizational saboteurs using the opportunities to make faulty decisions and to adopt a noncooperative attitude, as suggested in the guide itself
> How would android be any better at protecting against that than apple/ios?

The AOSP is much easier to hold accountable than the iOS codebase. Apple has a convincing security model if you take their whitepapers at face value, but between the PRISM revelations and Apple's own Transparency page[0] it's hard to claim that they won't let anyone access your data.

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
Interesting to see that Model F keyboards have an ergodox-style build on offer. The pricing is "reverse Dutch auction"; so you'd have to know that you want it.
You could make the shortcut arbitrarily sophisticated.

Oh, and if it wasn’t clear, I don’t mean this as approving the design flaw. It’s not “look how easy it is to work around!”, but “well, here’s something you can do while we’re stuck with this terrible idea”.
I wish I had an extension allowing me to upvote/downvote websites and showing the karma ratio of the website when I navigate to one of their article.

It might not change anything but at least I would feel that I was able to sanction the website for their misleading title.
Your markdown for links needs fixing.
> The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms

This is the least credible genre of "study says" article. You can't make claims about the real world based on some of researcher's guesswork simulation of society.
I have a Windows 7 Professional system with my startup's software in some boxes and, since now my office is functional enough, am about to get that system powered up and running again.

So, here's a piece of information relevant to security and versions of Windows, I'd like to give exact and really clear references instead of working just from memory, but for such references just now I'd have to do a lot of digging.

From memory, I discovered that one of the security updates to Windows 7 Professional, as I recall, the last one,
was the same as for a version of Windows Server.

So I guess: Since that version of Windows Server was intended for some of the most serious business computing on the planet, that security update should be pretty good, maybe good enough to be pretty good now!

I've been intending to use Windows 7 Professional as my server for my startup, but ... I'm also considering some version of Windows Server. I do notice that it appears that the versions of Windows Server go much longer, years longer, before "end of life" or "end of support" than the versions of Windows not Windows Server.

So, I'm considering getting a version of Windows Server 2019. I've done the shopping and am intending to buy.

Also I'm thinking of using my computer with Windows 7 Professional as my general purpose and software development computer (it is where I wrote the 100,000 lines of code for my startup) and plug together a new computer for the server for the Web site, etc. That computer would run Windows Server 2019.

I would like to know more about Windows Server, e.g., version 2019, as in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35212144
Do you think it’s okay to allow children to gamble?
I generally see experienced players manage to at least scrape out a mediocre starting spot, no matter how bad their turn is. But new players can pick a bad spot, which is like the worst possibility because it leads to a bad first experience for someone who doesn’t even know how to mitigate it or why their pick was bad (I mean you try to coach them but sometimes people don’t listen, etc).
He's a plant. And this will eventually help putin to explain his decisions to Russian people - that he was misled by his inner circle
The article is great in giving no scientific context and not even linking to a reference.

I assume they talk about Dsup (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dsup), an enzyme preventing DNA breaks by stabilization. DNA breaks are caused by radiation and are what causes mutations (increased cancer risk) and in the extreme case cell death.
> I own every Apple device there is.

I'm not sure anyone really ever "owned" an apple device, at least since the first iPhone or so, it seems to me we kind of redefined what ownership means. Apple owns every device they make, you are allowed to pay for limited and revokable usage rights. You have very limited knowledge or control over most of its proprietary hardware and software. Apple, the phone carrier, the apps you install, all have more, varying control over your device. The kind of freedom Stallman talked about for example has been lost for a very long time.
I wonder if there is a market for new fabs for old processes. Make them cheap, modular, easy to setup. Then use them for the embedded market. Maybe promise long lifetimes or multiple proceses to support legacy. Or force everyone on one process with huge supply.

Basically, the screws and washers of semiconductors.
Nah, it is an interplay of two factors: who needs to be slowed down the most, and who is most willing to bribe me.
What is the infrastructure difference?
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Completely agree, the author is describing frugality, not the experience of being dirt poor.

> Each month the very generous Swedish government gives us no less than 600 dollars in child allowance. We also have some other incomes from book sales and irregular jobs. And we do have savings, larger than we like to admit, which in good years give capital income and in less good years give a cushion to take from. All in all our seven-person family has around 1400-1500 dollars in monthly expenditure

Author does not get it whatsoever. Being dirt poor means having no savings, or being in debt in which case you have negative savings. You have no or barely any money coming in from the government, not $600 a month just in child benefits. You don't have passive income in book sales or investments. If anything is broken, you cannot afford to fix it, including things like your utilities and appliances. You are one wrong decision from ending up homeless, which in turn is one wrong decision away from death. Subsequently, every decision you make is run through a lens of extreme anxiety. Your entire life is a fight for survival and you have no-one to turn to. That is dirt poor.

"Still you'll never get it right

Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching roaches climb the walls

You can call your Dad and he'll stop it all, yeah."

This author has multiple safety nets. Until they're stripped away, he has no idea what dirt poor looks like.
What i find interesting are the discussions around good vs bad prompts and being adept at “prompt engineering”

We’ve had this in the engineering world a long time in the form of Google and StackOverflow searches.

The great engineers i’ve worked with know most stuff they need day-to-day, but when they run into issues it’s their ability to search for and find the right answer that gives them advantage over others who don’t know where to look (or even start).
Someone has called this 'semantic bleeding' which I think is an amazing name. It also happens in text generated by large language models.
We're in same page. Me too constantly jump over code sections.
I realized in many solutions to this, most effective could be meta thinking.
Self awareness. I'm quick - like most of us - on editor, I'm quick at coding
why ? It is kind of conditioning with time management. Quick thinking - assume - make us jumps, just like a battle with many fronts, keep your eye on that, then that . In reality, the code part we wrote in an one hour, probably done in one spark of brain act. Rest is coordination.
Some things about Win95 are lost to nostalgia, as well. Like broken drivers, esp. in concert with up-to-date office, which came with issues of its own, like broken export formats. (It took more than a year for serious support for Postscript printers, etc.) Win95 became only somewhat functional with Windows 95B. (This one, however, started the IE integration.)
If I make a new SSID with the name of an xfinity/att/Verizon hotspot would that means every up to date iPhone user would automatically connect to it?
Won't a modern version of Chromium build for XP, with some tweaking?
Every Substack, Mapped
Detecting Rootless Docker
MIT Tech Review is pretty bad in general. This kind of flimsy speculation is common. I'm not sure why MIT allows it to be affiliated with them.
Thank you for posting this! I was talking about it recently with a friend, but couldn't remember the name or where I saw it.
saturating the air with [SSID] at high dB across all channels absolutely will work, it compels the operator of [SSID] to turn it off and buy another router.

the high dB signal is where the FCC Will care.
MITM I would assume
I'd happily pay ~$3 a month for HN or other social media; I already pay way more on average per creator on Patreon and I frequently don't get a monthly benefit from that.
If a friendship can get shattered by a board game, it is good to know that it isn’t really worth getting too invested in ASAP.
> This is exactly what we would expect from someone who was trying to hide a fraud.

It's also perfectly reasonable to not want to be made a spectacle of. And to reconsider later. Maybe she didn't think 100 was worthy of spectacle, but 110 was; maybe 10 years or missing out on spectacle drove her to change her mind.
The problem with the newer options is that they are not paid strictly with money anymore. Windows 10/11 use a ton of telemetry you can't turn off.

I use them anyway but only for gaming to limit my exposure.

> Many vendors of on-promise proprietary software do the same-databases, middleware, ERP suites, etc-most of them have a special program for customers who want to stay on really old versions

You can't really compare enterprise class software with something that is sold directly to consumers.
The more stories like this I read, the more I fear that there is some truly horrific, Unit 731-type program out in the western Chinese desert where they are using Uyghurs and political prisoners as laboratory models.
I visited India at the start of this year and attempted to pay for my accomodation with Wise (the business didn't have a credit card terminal that took foreign cards). The payment was accepted and marked as sent by Wise, then I went to reception and they said their bank doesn't allow them to receive foreign payments and it would be returned in a few days (which it was). So off to the ATM I went again...
What settings did you use to lock down your phone?
Doesn't seem to work at all in Safari. Click the button, hear the phone ring for a second or two and then the page refreshes back to the main page.
Brave is not so brave after all. It merely swaps other people’s ads for its own, like a thief in the night. A trick as old as AdBlock Plus.
There was a big push in the 20th century with government projects to promote the metric system and educate. People were confused because they knew the imperial system already. Op ed writers criticized it. Parents complained about schools teaching it to their children. After decades of effort, the Reagan administration killed funding for the projects
Honestly, I can't find the result referenced in the article, nor in a similar article posted to SCMP. It might be because I'm searching in English, didn't dig too deep. My guess is that they added a gene that codes for Dsup[^1]. I don't think Dsup is well characterized mechanistically. I think it probably mostly protects DNA from secondary damage from ionizing radiation[^2], so protection from radicals produced by ionizing radiation, rather than direct breaks to the DNA itself (though maybe, I'm not familiar with research in the field).

[^1]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12808 similar research noted in another comment as well. Note that most likely the novelty of the OP research is using CRISPR instead of the transfection method cited in the paper.

[^2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773438/
I‘m generally not a big fan of most consumer VPNs, but this is one scenario where they can really help.
That doesn’t seem likely to be true, or that it would even accomplish anything…
> Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

What’s the contemporary equivalent? I’d still like to bring a couple dozen moths to the theatre just for the hell of it.
This whole "social media bad" thing might be a "think of the children," argument the powers that be have been pushing for several years now to further invade our privacy.

We still have the Patriot Act 22 years later. Be very careful what rights you give up.
I think almost all compression systems are O(n). All the standard stream compressors are (gz, bz2, 7zip, zstd). I’d have to check png and jpg to make sure they don’t do any non-O(n) global reasoning, but I would be surprised.

I think the author is trying to capture an idea of “simple”, but has misidentified that as O(n). Any algorithm which operates in a single pass on a stream of data and has a fixed upper memory usage is O(n).
Yeah, the interesting thing is that we're doing it to ourselves despite our (ostensibly) global supremacy.

Having spent a lot of time looking at what unwinds a country – and I'm no sociologist or geopolitical expert – it generally seems to me that the institutions upon which we depend are unwinding. Pick any – government, business, the economy, the press, the concept of truth.

Maybe those weren't perfect to begin with, but I always tell folks that it's a great opportunity to rebuild those institutions better, instead of sitting around waiting for the apocalypse.

I'm very happy, for instance, to see all the new thinking around the institution education. We all knew it was going to become undone with the democratization of information via the internet, but thanks to COVID, a lot of people are reflecting on the value of sending their kids to (globally underperforming) public schools, or going into debt for college.
Gambling in all forms - day trading, crypto, sports betting (in the name of fantasy sports), is becoming all too pervasive. It's everywhere and in your face. And the target are the most vulnerable who can least afford to lose money on it.
The gambling aspect has become part of NHL hockey broadcasts now in Canada. On HNIC on a Saturday night, I watched Ron Maclean hand over the broadcast to some guy from a gambling company for a ~10 second segment on the current odds of each team winning. It wasn't like cutting to a commercial break where there's a clear separation between the broadcast and the advertiser.

It's terrible.
This totally ignores the concept of "zero-days", vulnerabilities discovered that are only known by bad actors or known but not patched yet.

This is very common, and these vulnerabilities are sold for a lot of money and the buyers make sure to protect their investment as long as possible. Of course that also means they go exclusively for high-value targets which means end users are most likely fine (see Pegasus as an example). But that's not the same as being actually secure.
Catan was my intro to modern board games. I haven't played it in 15 years or so, but it is the reason I now have nearly 400 boardgames. I prefer many other games over it now, but it will always have a fond place in my heart.
Russian agencies are not capable of these 3D chess anymore, and even if they were they would not take down Russian TV (the main method of public influence) the way this article does and reveal tons of details about special comms for a very questionable win. Everyone already knows Putin is a recluse so the "our spies lied to me" card can be played without this extra carnival
It seems like the hottest new programming language is the English language.
Organizations, large and small, are all pathological. It isn't an epidemic of terrible social accidents, it's inherent to organizations as a method of grouping humans.

Essentially, people (and AFAIK, all primates) have a built in behavioural system to take excess credit for wins and minimize blame for losses. The details are a nasty tangle of evolutionary psychology but the consequences, in groups, are blame deficits. These deficits typically manifest as a simultaneous doublethink mix of low morale and unrealistic optimism. That's the pathology.

Good personnel management is about leveraging this instead of fighting it. I recommend The Organization Man (1956) and Moral Mazes (1988) if you want to read on the topic and/or fall asleep fast but if somebody knows a more recent text on the topic, please suggest it.
Good point, security researchers often simply don't mention obsolete versions in security bulletins.
It works well on chrome.

This is a great implementation. Really feels like I'm looking at the future. One of the coolest demos I've seen in awhile.
I think "teases" is a bit of a stretch given that there is no information provided about the system.

They tweeted an unfinished sheet of aluminum. This is not by itself related to a laptop at all.
Thanks. Doesn't seem to have happened yet but I have no confidence it'll remain that way.
As some dangerous warmongering entity, sure, it has to be considered: just look at Russia trying to get a better foothold for another confrontation with it.

What I am talking about is how everyone outside Europe starts rolling their eyes as Europeans claim that the mere reason why their super advanced, super civilized society has bad blood with someone else is because Europeans just too advanced and democratic and only bad boys don't like good boys.
At work we tunnel WoL payloads inside DHCP packets (https://github.com/eait-itig/wolod) so we can use the DHCP relays on the edge network to push the packets out for us. The bootp procotol has a handy flag that indicates whether the last dhcp relay should broadcast or unicast the message being relayed, which is very useful in this situation.
If you don't want the service, why did you buy it, even if the discount was 100%?
Whenever I visit YouTube or Reddit on a new browser where I haven't logged in it's like I'm seeing an entirely different site it's so jarring. Instead of seeing a page off mostly educational and technical content they're filled with click bait. I'm embarrassed to even tell others I use them for fear they don't understand the extent to which the experiences can be curated.
Not if Microsoft can pull off some Secure Boot shenanigans. For your safety.
Might be the same reason China doesn't like satellite phones: the lack of government control over information available to its citizens.

I watched a documentary about the 2008 earthquake in China; one city was completely cut off from the outside world in, and only one person in the whole city had a satellite phone—the mayor.
> Even worse, it is unclear to me how to change the prompt to move the image towards the image I want.

An image program I use has sliders for things called "High", "Low
", and "Gamma". I don't know what these mean, but I can immediately see the effects they have when I use them. I can also reverse the effects back to the original image by putting them back.

I don't know if AI could easily reverse back changes, at least over a couple of iterations. But I wonder if things like sliders or knobs could be added to AI interfaces to allow more gradual iteration of a text or image, or idea of a text or image, than having the AI generate an iteration based on a new plain text prompt, or even "conversational interface".

You could have a ton of sliders with names that the user doesn't understand. You could link sliders together so that moving one moves them all, and then unlink individual ones as desired to see what they do. This would provide more immediate and tailorable feedback than trying to get your words just right.