skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working with bespoke VOIP/asterisk systems for a decade, I have one bit of advice to add - consider toll fraud. Especially for a system accessible from the internet. If an attacker can figure out how to make calls through your PBX, they can rack up tens of thousands of dollars in tolls over the course of a night.

Most of the integrated FOSS solutions come with fail2ban already configured, it is essential. If you want more peace of mind, a prepaid trunk helps. That means you charge up your sip trunk account, and if someone drains it, it just stops working instead of continuing to drain your bank account.

You can also limit international calling on your trunks, which effectively nullifies the financial drain of this kind of attack (though it's still obviously bad if an attacker can access your system in any way)
I don't have a full answer but what I observed is that there is always someone that is nearby and "in control".

The base I think works like this:

- you scan the passport

- you look at the camera

- your passport details & photo are sent to the control room with your live feed

- a guy looks at everything those details plus your immigration history and other info

- same guy decides to let you in or send you to a desk

This was particularly obvious in the old Gibraltar border where you could easily be the only person going through and so the agent had to do the routine just to let you pass.
MicroSCOPE is a software program developed through the Go programming language that allows for the detection of a precise category of malicious software. The program is designed specifically for a class of malicious programs called ransomware whose operation consists of data encryption and ransom demand in order to gain access to the content again.

In particular, MicroSCOPE was developed to be able to support two of the mainly used formats: the PE (Portable Executable) format for Windows platforms and ELF (Executable and Linking Format) for Unix-based platforms. Through the application of certain heuristics, MicroSCOPE is able to assign a score that corresponds to the level of dangerousness of the file being analyzed. The higher the score, the more similar characteristics the software will exhibit to ransomware that has already been studied. The heuristics have been extrapolated from numerous case studies and will be improved over time.

README:
https://github.com/seekbytes/MicroSCOPE/blob/main/README.en....
The problem is that even windows isn’t a fully windows compatible operating system
AI Tools Generating Unrealistic Body Images
That makes sense to me. Now that I think about it there are a lot of mathematicians in the US doing maths in English who learned in some other language, and you never hear complaints about limitations of English. But I think the thrust of the article linked here was "are there ways it could be easier for children" rather than "are there ways it could be easier for grad students and professors". I'm not sure the answer to the first question is "yes" but it seems plausible at least.
A Man Who Invented the Trillion-Dollar Coin
Exactly.

Cloud is often viewed as if these don't exist:
- Dedicated servers
- Managed hosting
- VPS
- etc.

Most small to medium-sized enterprise could opt for such options instead of the cloud.
Thanks for this. The basis of many new apps, I suspect ;-)
It’s not as temporary as one would believe and was intended, especially in today’s environment where for all practical purposes it is irrelevant when a patent runs out when the technology itself is obsolete long before the patent even gets close to expiring, if it’s not effectively extended by several methods.

Patent duration today should maybe be measured in a function of the value it has produced measured in something relatively fixed like gold. It would be relative to the impact and would also throttle regulatory and market capture and wealth imbalances.

The current parent duration based on the celestial orbits around the closest star is dumb and blunt. My proposal would accelerate technology dissemination and prevent many of the overburden issues.
Investing in China seems terribly risky to me.

China's been telegraphing it will attack Taiwan pretty soon. When that happens, good luck not having your investments either destroyed or nationalized.
Aided in no small part by the NIMBYs
Disappointing that the article doesn't have any links to the original comments and discussions, even if archived.

Here's the full comment by Beowulf:

> Curiously enough Congress has already delegated to Tsy all the seignorage power authority it needs to mint a $1 trillion coin (even numismatic coins are legal tender at their face value and must be accepted by the Federal Reserve)– the catch is, its gotta be made of platinum (ditto the balls of any President who tried this). So for a 1 oz. coin, Tsy would net only $999.998 Billion :o)

> (k) The Secretary may mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may prescribe from time to time.

Here's the discussion that lead to it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100604051310/https://moslereco...
Thanks for sharing. You made me make my first paper airplane in years. Oh joy.
What does that table do?
That's the story of basketball greats, at least.
Eh? how can it be dead with daily commits? Just because there's not been a release in a while doesn't mean it's dead. They could probably be releasing more often but you can also build it yourself if required. https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commits/master
Those are in service of "getting things done" as Spolsky wrote, not navel gazing.
Yes indeed. Had a coworker at an old job who worked harder than me, but I'd always have to go back and fix his buggy code. For every feature he added, he'd cause a regression somewhere else. I legit felt bad for the guy. Also one of the few people I've known who was let go (after 3 months) for incompetence.
I am not reading any books, fuck that.

Two chicks at the same time. This is really what i'd do, once i break free of all responsibilities and stress.

I will also try to donate money and try to solve modern slavery. Slavery is at all time high right now, I would love to tackle that. I am talking about real slavery like on fishing boats and stuff, not tech employees complaining about RTO.
How does anyone start a company these days and not accidentally infringe on a bunch of nonsense patents?
I feel like it's just in an unfortunate valley of being slightly too techy, not quite old fashioned enough (e.g. if its that bad I'd add a backup radio), and too expensive (the most prolific user of Sonos products I've met bought probably 15 of them and would've had no qualms spending hundreds on the one that just outputs a signal with no speaker) for there to be much pressure to get it right architecturally.
Have you tried running Google Maps & Waze side by side in crowded area with lots of turns?
Never touch a computer ever again
It make total sense to me. You can always hope the talented become more industrious and hard working but not that the hard working become more talented. There is no upside.
If there is no legal way to obtain the game, or no practical way to obtain the system to play it on, then you can't enjoy it.

This is one of the most important purposes of emulation: it allows for digital archival of otherwise-obsolete hardware and software.
I keep seeing this. I don't get it. You are Swedish too, right?

One, why do you think startups are so good to the avarage person?

Two, Spotify, Ericsson, SAAB, Skype, Thepiratebay, our military in general (we are country of 10mil and we build 3 jet plane models, our subs, and cruisers are renowned) and ofc IKEA. :))

They were all startup mentality once.

Plus how many people really start their own companies. More importantly, WHEN they fail, and they WILL, how will you survive in the usa without massive private savings as there is no safteynet?
For the lazy:

(1) Proof read everything that comes out of ChatGPT.

(2) Verify all sources that come out of ChatGPT.

If you are not lazy and want to become a 10x employee, follow these steps to use ChatGPT:

1. Write a rough draft.

2. Ask ChatGPT to give you bullet points on how to improve it.

3. Improve your rough draft. Only implement the improvements you agree with.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed.

5. Ask ChatGPT to write it's own version from scratch.

6. Merge ChatGPT's version with your version.
I have really lost touch with common day to day life at this point, but Excel would be an excellent example. If you have a column with a million data points and do some basic calculation -- subtract or multiply another column -- whether or not the software you use can translate that into a vectorized operation under the hood using linear algebra can significantly speed up your operation.
Nitendo being nintendo then
Protein-based nano-‘computer’ evolves in ability to influence cell behavior
Then we will need to see these machines scale up over time like we see solar doing now.

I hope one day industry will be required to match their carbon capture with devices like this to their carbon output.

Perhaps someone will make a solar farm in tandem with these co2 capture devices with the fans from these devices cooling the solar panels as solar panels work more efficiently at cooler times (1).

1: https://www.solar.com/learn/do-solar-panels-work-less-effici...
I said "evil" for a reason.

That said, it seems like a _single_ actor is causing 300% cost increase compared to _every other actor combined_. Even if advertised as free, there's decency to be had.

If I lend someone my home without TOS and say "make yourself at home" there's a reasonable common sense expectation from both parties that visitors should not turn on every water tap and electric device full blast 24/7, because that would be damaging to me in the first place.

Given the scale of the purported app causing this it's very much abuse in its own right, whether intentional, misengineering, or an oversight. The author of jsonip.com seems to have taken every precautionary measure to limit damage and identify perpetrators to reach out, and these failed. Ethically I feel it would be only fair to displace damage from their infra to the app in order to protect themselves. The only alternative is to shutter the service as it's essentially experiencing a financial DDoS.
The best thing would be to split webpages and webapps. Webpages can keep using HTML with some minimalistic, gracefully degrading javascript, while webapps need something better than hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon ... on top of technology that was meant to display static interlinked documents.
So sqlite for nosql? That's super useful for prototyping. If it supports the same api as the major databases then this is a homerun.
Currently, in trade for publicly disclosing how their invention works, we give patent holders an exclusive right to make, sell, or use their invention for 20 years. A patent holder can say no one other than me can use my invention for 20 years. I think inventions are more important than songs, yet Congress decided there must be some way to force the author of a song to allow anyone to play that song - and we will decide how much you get in compensation. I am saying we do the same thing for inventions. Don't like the deal? You are free to keep your invention secret. The formula for Coke is a classic example of how they chose to protect their invention.
AI chips is just regular chips that do AI stuff faster

So dedicated hardware to do math stuff
Short of going all the way to banning private ownership of housing, there will always be an investment aspect to a significant financial asset like a house.

So if you are going to have private ownership of housing, the question is more about how policies should be structured. Should policy favor home ownership, should policy focus on housing affordability, etc.

People complaining about treating housing as an investment vehicle are often referring to policy choices in the US that treat home ownership as a good result in itself, regardless of the impact on affordability. So we have things like long term mortgages backed by quasi-government entities or local policy choices that focus on maintaining real estate prices (vs things like quality, availability and affordability).
If Nintendo had a ROM store where I could buy game ROMs and play them on whatever system I wanted to, I would spend a lot of money.

In fact, Nintendo more or less did this with the Wii U, which was a commercial failure. I bought an incredible amount of games from the virtual console and oftentimes on sale for a few dollars. Then with a modded Wii U, you can extract the ROMs. Now I am playing GBA games on an actual GBA (with an upgraded screen extracted from a DSi) and SNES games on a MiSTer FPGA connected to a PVM with an original SNES controller. Ever since they shut down the Wii U online shop, there’s been no new legal way to acquire these ROMs. What a bummer and too bad the market didn’t appreciate the Wii U for what it was: the ultimate collection of past Nintendo games.
Just finished HOL, this was a nice video to watch!
Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (a.k.a. Stylo)
Another idea: if you've already done the hard work of fanning out a synchronized audio stream to multiple speakers, you don't need any distributed logic to manipulate the audio stream itself. So just encode the volume change directly into the stream before fanning it out. I hope the Sonos lawyers don't come after me for this.
Did he continue collecting scrap metal though? Maybe this was his true passion.
These actually exist. My kids’ local grammar school rented one out for a sort of field-day event where parents could come too. A staff person from the rental outfit operated it. It was a single camera that rapidly spun around a small central platform, and at the end you entered your cell # and received a text message to view & download the result.
It’s extremely stable. And it raises 2%/year, and gets reset when property changes hands.
You license the patents as applicable, if that's an option. Otherwise, you go and make+patent your own invention. Maybe have a good legal team to research patents too.
Ah yes the same people who run that "more welcoming place" dog piled and harassed the guy on Reddit leading to two of them getting permabanned from Reddit for violating the content policies regarding harassment, doxxing and more.

Sometimes, people are bad the whole way round. Lesser of two evils may be necessary.
The UK is one of the least forested countries in Europe. It is very doable.
If or when messaging platforms catch on and block long contiguous strings would the base64 be broken up into random lengths? What other ways might this be blocked and then unblocked?
Nvidia exists because linear algebra is essential for 3D graphics. They got a second boost from crypto-currency, which isn't strictly about linear algebra but it can put those computation units to good use. Now Nvidia is riding high again because neural nets are all about linear algebra, and LLMs are big neural nets.
Why? There is no guarantee give to victimize that service for free forever.
This is far less than nonsense: Google partnered with Sonos explicitly to get access to their internal designs, and then copied them. This is closer to industrial espionage than inadvertently stumbling across patent infringement.
A lot of UK government IT is like this and has been forever.

There was a short period under the coalition where GDS was set up and they created a consistent framework for people to work with and would open a portion of the market up to smaller players.

Now it's mostly large bodyshop middlemen like the prime minister's wife's company taking a 70% cut for the work of a cheap offshore developer.
Maybe it is tricky, considering that Sonos can’t even get the volume adjustment of a single speaker to work, but unless they used specific technology/code developed by Sonos, how is affecting several volume controls/levels simultaneously at relative rates using rather basic math patentable to you?

Sure, maybe the rotten patent system allows it and the rotten court system validates the corruption, but that won’t change if people keep just referring to the corrupt methods implored. And I’m no fan of these corporations that are way too big and way too despotic.
Oh I totally agree with you on that. It's just that "just add syntax" is incredibly difficult even as a greenfield effort, much less trying to fix an existing language, especially one as old and used as Python.

If the (studied) metric that "if over 20% to 25% of a thing needs to be redone, restart it from scratch" is true, then a new language altogether is probably the way and let Python just be Python.
You are positing that the UN weather agency is manufacturing abusive tweets towards meteorologist, who they ostensibly represent, to give western countries an excuse to refuse sharing weather data with countries they don't like?

...That doesn't make any sense. Among other things, the article doesn't mention tweets are coming from specific countries, in fact the context seems more local.
What would be the way to do yaml?
Ok, wow, 183 people in 2022. Consider me corrected. At least they aren’t giving them open bus tickets.
> rolled out an update to hundreds of thousands of millions of devices with simply emailing me if that's ok.

If it's malware, they don't care if it's ok, they are malware authors. Contact your hosting provider which 100% has the ability to offload traffic from malware and ddos. They are responsible for the network and will not want malicious traffic anywhere on it, esp if it's tying up bandwidth for paying customers or premium bandwidth. If it was a large amount of bandwidth they would have contacted you long before you contacted them. I'd still reach out, they will move on it quick if it's an issue, and at the least can examine the traffic to determine if it's bad or not.

Cloudflare won't do much good here no? The requests still have to proxy back to your origin servers to spit back the ip. You can't utilize any caching on cloudflare due to the unique ip of each client. Their ddos prevention might not help because these are clients each with their own unique ip address, which is probably a cellular provider's ip space and not bad traffic. If it's the volume of clients hitting you, and not the volume of requests they make, it wouldn't trip cloudflare, or they'd be blocking major cellular address space across their entire network (which is a large portion of the internet these days)
Playing the Future
>A little-known board game of forecasting and the futures that might have been.
Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
Because, by definition, the most extraordinary achievements are only attainable by the small subset of people with the rare, innate ability to accomplish them — that's what makes those achievements literally extra-ordinary.

If anyone could have the athleticism of Michael Jordan or the intelligence of von Neumann or the musical ability of Mozart or the artistic ability of Michelangelo through hard work alone, there would be a lot more people with those respective skills, and the skills would no longer be considered extraordinary.
My experience too. I drive daily and trading in my old sometimes non-dependable car for a new (somewhat) high end luxury model worked great. It cheers me up to be in it every day even when I'm just running local errands. On the other hand, when I look at photos of past trips, and can't even recall being there or even where it was half the time.
Did something similar in the past: https://github.com/rehacktive/caffeine
> Google partnered with Sonos explicitly to get access to their internal designs, and then copied them

If anything this ought to be strong evidence that the patents failed to disclose the invention and are invalid. Patents are a deal where you publicly disclose your invention in exchange for a temporary monopoly. If someone has to get access to your internal designs to copy them, they shouldn't be protected by patent.

Edit: (Note I'm talking about how the law ought to work, I'm not claiming this is strong evidence under current US law that the patents actually are invalid)
Are the people gaming the system being rewarded for innate talent? Or is it hard work at gaming the system (presumably if it was easy to game the system everyone would do it)?
OPs right, and it's sort of immature to pretend its all broken and say wildly false things like "you're rewriting the same thing in a new framework every 2 years." Who is? That sounds like a management problem, not a...I don't even know, language problem? Package manager problem?
I own a tesla, im on fsd 14.2 though. maybe it's still an issue on auto-pilot. i have no had an issue with phantom breaking in over a year.
Probably Stoicism answers the question instead of the article.
Yeah and even getting into FAANG is often about gaming the interview system anyway. I don’t think FAANG really manages to select the top 1% of hard workers.
Could just be that both systems need to communicate to each other (when it comes to adjacent-country border control it's not a bad idea to share data about potential threats or intruders) and one system didn't properly handle failures to communicate with the other system.
Without a cloud it would take longer.

But, really how often do you need to do that and what % of users really need to?

Also, once on the cloud some business management take so long to "approve" new expenses that in reality it may not really be feasible to do things fast enough for it to be a benefit.

I've quite often seen the need for 5-10 meetings or 2-3 written documents to get approval for 10 new VMs for developers or new servers for backups.
two comments:
they claim to sequester 1000 tons (1e6 kg) vs 22kg, so the sequestration space difference is on the order of 200000 difference. They may include the solar panel area in their stated efficiency calculation.

Secondly, the solar panels are a bit more liquid than a comparable area of trees, when industrial demand is high, you can route it there, when it's low, it can be working on sequestration. There are some advantages there. Especially considering the atmosphere is fairly homogeneous, but soil in proper condition for forests is less so.
Do you know this for a fact?

Or are you speculating.
we should go back to hand written html and css, and php when needed. i'm not even ironic.
No, the real problems are obviously more important. I'm just pointing out the minor insult that echoes the major injury that would be this plan.
There's a real possibility that he could have advanced fields like AI and cryptography, and knowing his insatiable curiosity, it's quite plausible that entirely new, groundbreaking areas of study could have sparked his obsession.
At least the concept of property was feasible.
How come since Mozilla let this go, it gets so much engagement through opening of issues? Which types of people are using this?
> The other thing that drove me nuts is lack of care for low-res (aka full HD) displays, where rounding and thin borders leads to visible artifacts in common controls. A designer who uses high-end mac devices will never see these things. UI/UC Design isn’t meant for museums, it needs to be built in dialog with the real world application.

I can't quite picture what you're describing, but I'm curious. Do you have any references to this somewhere?
This is indeed the bread-and-butter, but there is use of all sorts of standard linear algebra algorithms. You can check various xla-related (accelerated linear algebra) folders in tensorflow or torch folders in pytorch to see the list of what is used [1],[2]

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/8d9b35f442045b...

[2] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/6e3e3dd477e0fb9768ee...