skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Code from the book “Black Hat Python” refactored and ported to Python 3
Reason for this repo
I quite enjoyed the book, butit looks quite outdated, not just for the choice of using Python 2.7.

Deliberately, as expressed by the author, the scripts are written rought & dirty to simulate the approach he uses during a penetration testing.
However, this sometimes leads to code that is not very understandable, and not very efficient.

Since I had to convert all the source codes anyway, to run them on my machine (Kali Linux VM + Win10 OS + Win10 VM + Python 3.9) I decided to go extra-mile and save them in a repo, in the meantime trying to optimize the code and making it a little more elegant.

The code in the book does not always run flawlessy. It may depends on the local configuration on your machine, the test you are running, and also, outdated code presented in the book. So expect a bit of tweak here and there.

Further details are expressed in each folder, one for each chapter of the book.
The US has a better freight rail system than the EU. It’s why passenger trains suck. We inverted the priorities.
Writeup: AWS API Gateway header smuggling and cache confusion
Quake 2 soundtrack is up there with the angriest, cleanest metal albums in existence.
Ah yes, signing up to a dozen different forums. Don't want to go back to that, either.

Tbh we've kind of failed to unify software properly.

Hardware is semi unified, Apple's efforts besides, but things like Wifi/Ethernet TCP/IP, HDMI, USB C etc all tie things together decently well now (but it could still be better).

But when it comes to software...why don't we have a universal identity/login system that everyone & everything supports?

Why don't governments enforce/mandate hardware/software compatibility for (larger?) companies. It should be like "if you want to support your own custom login/identity you can but you must also support minimal x"

Wifi for example, as a standard isn't legally enforced, it's purely supported for business reasons. If Apple could get away with rolling their own that only works with iDevices I'm sure they would. But if the usage purely for economical reasons disappears, we need law to force companies to use a minimal standard for interoperability.
I agree in principal but it might not have happened in practice. The West gets a lot of blame for what happened in Russia in the 90s, and it's not unfair that it should get some of that blame. However, the plan wasn't that Russian companies and resource rights were sold at a knock off price to Russian oligarchs. The idea was that on the open market they would have been worth an enormous amount and that Russians would have benefited from both the injection of cash and the follow up investment to modernise their industry.

Of course, pretty easy for those in power in Russia to make a big deal to people there about their industry being bought by foreign powers, to make that unattractive or even illegal, and to then snap it all up for next to nothing. The West should have foreseen this and had an alternative plan, more like local partnerships or whatever.
It's notable how many influential scientists have had a playful attitude towards their work. Feynman emphasised his "playing" with ideas just because they were interesting or fun to him. John Conway was another example of having fun and enjoying his maths and games.

Edit: Einstein surely belongs here too
Just like AI people
I read The Road under similar circumstances (though the commute was more like ~30+ minutes on a stifling and oppressively densely packed underground train) - I felt numerous times that my vision, or my perception, or my perception of my vision, went from greyscale to vibrantly full colour when I looked away from my kindle to get ready to alight the train, and even in the grimy setting with the exhausted dejection of the commuters stuck where they didn't want to be, everything and everyone looked so optimistic and joyful and it all felt so, so happy to be in, compared to where I had been moments before.
Not really. I believe you are liable if the other person understands you are advising them based on your expertise in the specific field.

1. So if someone tells you they are a lawyer and then proceeds to tell you to do something illegal, they might be liable.

2. Some with engineers. If somebody tells you they make living wiring mains in houses and then proceeds to tell you to remove cover from a power supply and tweak it, they might be liable if you get shocked or your house burns down.

But I am not a lawyer.

For example, in Czech civil code there is something along the lines of:

> Section 5

> (1) Any person who publicly or in communication with another person presents themselves as a member of a certain profession or status, thereby indicating their ability to act with the knowledge and diligence associated with their profession or status, shall be held accountable if they act without the requisite professional care.
Almost all of Q1 gameplay is in quakec, which is a a simple c-like language targeting a little VM. Eventually they've opersourced all of the code making the community possible.

I recently started playing Q1 again and it's amazing: the community still supports a number of derivative engines, as well as numerous amazing mods and maps. Arcane Dimensions are insane!
> That the majority of comments under this article are looking at red-teaming as a containment protocol for rogue AGI (even though the actual text basically never talks about AGI at all) is a disturbing reminder of how uneducated developers are about boring, practical everyday risks that are present in everyday current models.

Yes, but it might also be a reminder of how many people comment on HN without reading an article :)
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> The breakthrough reveals that Enceladus is stocked with all right materials to support life as we know it, and hints that phosphorus may be present in other possible ocean worlds far from Earth, such as Neptune’s moon Triton or the dwarf planet Pluto. At this point, nobody knows if any of these places are actually inhabited by aliens, but the new results bolster the evidence that habitable conditions may be common in the solar system, and possibly beyond it.

Cool findings. Calling life on a neighbouring planet "aliens" sounds weird to me. I suppose it's correct but I've always thought of "aliens" as life outside of our solar system.
Long form content analysis platform for students, bloggers and content marketers
Content analysis platform for students, bloggers and content marketers.
Reacting to his comment "However one thing that’s missing from all “alternatives to Heroku” is what I call life after deployment or Day-2 operations."

Since that's generic enough to also see vercel as a heroku alternative, be it for node and not rails
QuakeC looks like C on the surface but is a much, much simpler language. Modern dialects are quite a bit more advanced (while still targeting the same vm).
Compared to Hinkley Point, Flamanville or Olkiluoto, that’s actually pretty good…
It's exactly the right data if you want to make a realistic-looking chatbot, e.g. in order to astroturf.

It also likely contains information about you and your friends like holiday plans, medical conditions etc that can be used to more effectively avertise towards you.

But most of all, you are a captive audience that Discord can sell in the future.
They are for cars.

The strength requirements are similar to the US standard (resistance to point loads of 50kN at 1/8th of the horizontal member from the outside, 100kN at the centerline, and 50kN at 355~635mm from the centerline), but the EU has mandated front and side guards (as well as back which the US also mandates) since 1994.

Of note: a 2012 IIHS study indicated that only 15% of collisions between cars and large trucks were rear collisions , 22% are to the side of the truck, and 63 to the front.
What prejudices would these be?
That should be a known bug on a specific teleport that exists on the DM2 map. Not sure if it's also present on "regular" Quake but it's been on QuakeWorld for as long as I can remember.

On the backroom (where there is Red Armor and Mega Health) there is a teleport that goes to the main (BIG) room of the map.

If you jump just before the teleport and "aim" your jump so you go in the top left corner of the teleport, you'll get stuck inside the teleport but not go through until you move a bit.

Also, staying stuck for too long on that teleport during a game, will drown your player, which should definitely confuse your opponent as there is no water deep enough to drown players on DM2.

Good times! Long live QuakeWorld!
Possible, but not necessarily. I've just seen Romero playing a Doom mod this week for example: https://youtu.be/gIl_TqFJNO8
KEcoLab: Remote Energy Measurement Lab
Ah damn. I pasted in the wrong URL.

Supposed to be pointing to https://thething.streamlit.app/

... and I can no longer edit the post.
I know, the truth hurts
Strange - I interpret a lot of the far right movements to be very immature. MAGA enthusiasts would seem to fit a lot of those descriptions and there does seem to be a lot of childish opinions not anchored in reality spouted from far-right politicians (e.g. it conflicts with MY religion, so it should be banned).
No, it is not. I still play a few matches every now and then.

1. Movement is weird. Teleports suck immensely.

2. Weapons are slow to fire, and somehow, even slower to recharge/change. The 15km/h rocket projectiles don't make any sense.

3. Stock maps are crap. Thank God for ZTN

4. Has the worst community. Clients and mods are horrible. Zero quality of life stuff
Working with QA analysts has shown me that quality people are totally autonomous in adding disproportionate hurdles to the way of production without needing the help of any external lobbying.

It's very simple: the only way to 100% prevent an incident is the absence of production at all. If your incentive is to avoid incidents at all cost, you are incentivized to prevent production entirely.
Bill Of Materials. List of components used in a design.
Why should companies jump on the latest fad and join things that don't belong in the same repo?
Exactly. To those who think free will is real, what exactly are you claiming is true about a particular set of atoms (shaped like a human)? Are they atoms not doing what they should do? How can a box of atoms control themselves? What does that even mean? Is physics being defied when the atoms are arranged into the shape of a brain?

Free will is literally a non sensible concept and is plainly just a subjective illusion.
This is the key issue/dilemma. And commenting here so I can return later to read the advice you received.
To get PR metadata one have to go to github/gitlab but for many people (including me) it is more convenient to have all history in git locally. So I thankful when people put the same information both into commit messages and into PR descriptions and do the same myself. It can be automated to some degree.
At first I wondered why such a link, devoid of anything substantial, was so highly upvoted.

Then I saw who I wrote it.
The app is at https://thething.streamlit.app/

Apologies for the confusion. I blame my fumbling fingers.
Deepchecks snags $14M seed to continuously validate ML models
Worth noting it seems like didn't always used to be this way. My impression is researchers had much fewer distractions in the early 20th century. It's not surprising how much ground-breaking progress was made at the time when you see it this way.
The US government uses the term "alien" for foreigners too.

Reminds me of a story from the Rooster Teeth podcast, Gus the host grew up in a border town and his dad/step dad was a game ranger, one time his neighbor was playing at his house and they could hear on his dad's radio someone radioing in saying he's spotted some illegal aliens. And the neighbor had a wide-eyed look on his face and said "Aliens are real?!".
Ah I had no idea about the Promenade DLC, thanks for pointing it out!
Effective monitoring requires easy access to pertinent information. Contract management solutions consolidate all of your contracts and their associated data into a single, safe area. It contributes to ensuring that all important stakeholders may readily view, search for, and find up-to-date information.
If you have good relations with your parents as a young/middle aged adult it's actually not a bad idea moving back; it doesn't necessarily mean freeloading off them. If you have kids they get to look after your kids and you get to look after them. After experiencing independence perhaps it isn't so bad learning interdependence with family.
The center of Frankfurt was extensively bombed during the war, what they had left in "downtown" was rubble heaps... So it got rebuilt in modernist architecture.
Have you seen US trucks? It's like being transported back 50 years. Not only is NHTSA captured by lobbyists, they have clearly carved out a well isolated competitive island where US truck manufacturers can forever rest on ancient designs.
When I was on a trip in the US for vacation, I found out that most of the review services can’t be trusted. Despite good or bad reviews it was a complete lottery. Meanwhile in Poland when a restaurant has a good review online you can actually expect reasonable service and food quality.
> The contractor said, when he was at the Clark Kerr job site, landscapers were using one of its buildings to store tools. But they did their best to steer clear of the area.

> "They don't go all the way inside," he said, recalling that they had told him why: "'This place is creepy. We see ghosts in there all the time.' And this is before we saw the body."

It is of course extremely improbable that they are seeing actual ghosts but still I would think that when you’ve got multiple people avoiding a place because they think they see ghosts there all the time someone would try to figure out what they are actually seeing.

Most things I can think of that might make people believe they are actually seeing ghosts are things you wouldn’t want happening in or to your unoccupied building.
> plan wasn't that Russian companies and resource rights were sold at a knock off price to Russian oligarchs

In the first century B.C.E., Julius Caesar implemented a series of redistributionist land reforms [1]. One component was a minimum-hold period to prevent the aristocrats from just going and buying it all back up again.

The re-concentration was absolutely foreseeable. Classical history is no longer fashionable in American elite education, so I get how this was overlooked by the bankers. But it points to a lack of a give-a-shit-factor which, in my agreement with you, does not confer responsibility, but does represent a massive missed opportunity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Triumvirate#Caesar’s_c... search Lex agraria
Or, even if you assume no disasters, how many QALYs can you buy with the cost difference between a renewables based grid and a nuclear based grid.

Enough that no one is building one of the latter (not France, not China, not South Korea), and everyone is building one of the former (including France, China and South Korea)
Oh my...wow. I never tried that link. I thought "comments" would be the one I wanted, but that just showed all comments, so didn't try the others.
And how much of that is utterly unnecessary? The evacuation was also costly -- and unnecessary...
> physical paper notices

What is this? Germany?
> From the point of view of the software, running a bunch of instructions in sequence, you do get stale values. You can have two threads wait for a signal, then both read a value, and both get different results. You can have a thread set a flag after it's done editing some values, have another thread wait for the flag, and then after waiting it sees the edits as still incomplete.

Isn't that implementation of semaphore? I would imagine that should already being done in the CPU implementation?
Are they also blazingly fast producing CVEs?

Given the current state of use-after-free and similar issues.
"I want actionable insights!"

so juvenile :)

it's important to understand the phenomenon, this is science. action is about politics.
> you for the most part CAN assume that the volume of heinously inappropriate content being foisted upon your unwitting 15 year old is a bit more limited, at least on these big platform sites

That very much depends on whether you agree with the curron popular opinion on what is appropriate for children.

Also, kids can just as easily find porn, gore, etc today as they could back when I was a kid. Hiding it on some platforms hardly matters.
Was the behavior of more relaxed operations fully formalized in the way it fits with the rest of the memory model?
The EPR was designed and sales contracts signed well before 2011. The bad decisions and designs didn't evaporate, it has taken all these years to complete the inherited projects. Olkiluoto 3 was supposed to be complete by 2010! You can read about everything that went wrong here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
Business genius lmao, he got lucky and made a huge chunk of money on crypto. After that, the money makes itself.

When they say it takes money to make money, that's pretty much it. Reach a certain threshold and the interest on it will pay off any failures you make.

& because the general masses adore and love to watch rich people dance around screen, ofc his YT does well, he's got the money to do some crazy stuff. Everyone watches "who wants to be a millionaire", nobody watches "who wants to win 10 bucks".
Took Redact 9 hours to overwrite & delete my 17,000 comments. But watching them scroll by, most weren't worth keeping.
Quantum Computing Progress and Prospects
Lots of US cities also have designated truck routes but no one enforces them and if a truck happens to kill someone on them, they collectively throw up their hands and go "unlucky".
> I have to agree with those who call this a waste of money and brainpower in our times.

They're looking at a cost of $200 Million, funded out of pocket by one billionaire philanthropist. That's his pocket money. The cost is negligible on a global scale. 0.00019% of GDP.
Rebuilding a comment component with modern CSS
There are production examples of both, written in Go.

Besides, is writing compilers and linkers, systems programming?
Pretty disappointing that simply shorting two pins at the right time is sufficient to bypass security on a modern machine by a reputable vendor.

This eeprom, being security relevant, should be signed by the TPM, read into RAM, and if the signature check fails then the machine should consider itself stolen.

The only recovery method should be to replace the EEPROM contents with another valid image, also signed by the TPM. And that image should be available from the manufacturer for anyone able to show they are the device owner.
"You can’t open the application “FFMPEG UI” because this application is not supported on this Mac."

I use MacBook Air 2017 running Monterey. Hmmm...

Update:
Just noticed the app name after running the dmg:
"FFMPEG UI 1.0.0-arm64"
Looks somewhat similar to https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-enforcing-bounds-safety-in-....
Holy shit that's more than I expected for your type of business. I'm running a SaaS too with half a million users and a lot of data processing, but my hosting costs are way lower... under $10k/mo
I agree, almost all of far * movements are immature. The antiquated left-right political dimension is a circle with a very small gap between the extremes
What would be a better alternative? Pay once, access all, forever? I don't think there is a big enough pool of customers who would be willing to pay a price that would make it at least a bit profitable for the provider. (Especially if I think about new users, who never tried these services yet)
You express very many strong opinions (and some presented as facts) here. I don't know where to begin, so I won't.
I miss old internet ... it was awesome till circa 2010 aka FB boom ... full of knowledges ... full of communities

it's just full of shits nowdays ... google captcha is more like social credits
I see Ruzzian apologists are in force here, deploying ROCKWELL WHATABOUTER 9000 at full power. Imagine employing an "imperialist" label in attempt to defend Ruzzia in 2023, lol. I wonder if they believe the stuff they write or is it just a mega prank which got out of hand.
The thing with humanity progress, is that you have to start a lot of completely different efforts in parallel, because history has proven that there is no way to know what will play the biggest role in the future.

"No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years." — G. H. Hardy (1941)
There is a category of sms that won't show up in your inbox. Think of them as messages for your baseband/ system. But they will result in delivery messages. They used to be quite well used in the Nokia era.
Ha, I've also used Nim on the ESP32! Are you using Nesper? The author posts on here regularly.
Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product
Technically yours (<Shift>, :, 1, 0, 0, <Enter>) is one more keystroke than his (1, 0, 0, g, g) if you count shift and enter. If you don't count shift, you can also do 100G. I personally prefer :100 even though its technically the most keystrokes
Forums still exist. They may be less visible but they are still many of them around, especially for computer-adjacent hobbies.
Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me
I created this throwaway account to talk completely openly. I am an engineer with 20 years in, working mostly on web development. I have a pretty high salary in the top %5 band of my area and sector.

I don't know where to start this. So let's just jump right into it.

I can't tell what will happen immediately next year. This has never happened to me before professionally. I was born a nerd, started programming early, and jobs just came to me.

AI scares me for job security. My entire pitch to get to top %5 of salary band has been that I have many years of experience in my specialty. Thus securing me high roles in my field along with high salary.

I have been already working nearly at a burn-out level for many years to reach this comp.

Rent is sky high. I don't feel comfortable taking on mortgage despite having multiples of needed deposit, because I am not sure how much longer I can maintain my comp. with AI automating everything.

Many people share the comforting stories, that there will be other jobs for engineers/programmers.

How am I supposed to retain my TC if I have to switch to another field from web?

I am unable to enjoy any content, movie, tv show anymore. Even the SciFi from last year, feels outdated. Reddit comments feel like they're all AI-generated. I made an AI reddit bot myself. None noticed.

I use ChatGPT on a daily basis to build projects, and the more I use it, the more scared I get. It is just too powerful. The more I use it, the less proud I feel for my output. It just feels like anyone could do it.

Where are we really going? Can we just stop the optimistic techie talk and accept UBI is not happening... They don't give you healthcare, do you think they will give you CASH like that???

I hope this doesn't get flagged, because I really need your inputs.