skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in the cyber security/threat intelligence industry for a couple years now and noted that one problem I've had at every job I've worked at is how much of a pain it is to download malware, scan malicious infrastructure, and download certificate information from servers and domains controlled by hackers. You have to manage VPNs that you hope are secure and not compromised, constantly refresh your virtual machines and pay close attention to operational security so that you don't tip off the threat actors that you're onto them, or, worse, give them your identity. This is a pain, took tons of time out of my day and wasn't at all scalable.

So I built GrabbrApp.

GrabbrApp is a tool that puts a layer of ephemeral infrastructure, or infrastructure that disappears after some time, between you and the hackers and infrastructure you're researching. You make the request, it's routed through a VPS, the response is returned via the API and the VPS "detonates" after 2 hours, leaving hackers clueless as to who scanned their infrastructure and why.

Right now it's in public beta and only handles SSL certificate downloads, but next on the list of features is file downloads, giving you the ability to download malware from command-and-control (C2) servers securely, at scale.

Check it out and let me know what you think!
Going to add a slightly devil's advocate view here.

I used to be the conference directory for a college club sport (specifically, paintball).

Part of my job was to find paintball fields to host college events. It's important at to say that the organization that funded these events was 501(c)(3) aka "non-profit" and we therefore were trying to minimize costs.

Something we ran into was this scenario:

- Fields knew we were college focused and a non-profit

- They would generally, out of the goodness of their hearts, charge us at cost or even below cost for our events

- This would sometimes mean turning away hosting events or players with better margin. You could argue that the fields received great free advertising by hosting events so it wasn't a net loss for them.

- That being said, we sometimes saw events coming back the next year saying "it wasn't worth it to host your event"

- This was a problem given that there were only limited fields AND I had a full time job at the time so, ideally, we would use the same field every year

- I would therefore add 10% to whatever cost the fields proposed to us as a "tip"/"return fee" to make sure they were happy

Now, you could argue that my job was to make sure that we always received the lowest possible price given our constraints on field safety, size and location.

I would argue that was ignoring the long term cost to the organization (and my time) to having to keep finding fields that would host us if we tried to minimize cost.

I mention this b/c companies maxing out profit to whatever the customer can bear feels like an excellent short term strategy. If by doing so, they drive customers into debt and then bankruptcy etc, this seems like a net loss to everyone on the longer timescale.

To finalize and maybe clarify: these discussion always seem to end up in a "well, companies maximize profits!" while ignoring the negative long term implications of that strategy.
I know for a fact this is true. But, you can go to voip.ms and for 50c a month have all the burner numbers you want and hold them indefinitely. One thing he didn’t mention is that most numbers today are cellular devices constantly broadcasting your location. It’s a voluntary ankle bracelet
When we let "the industry" set our standards, we get a mess of crap that works for the specific use cases of the giant companies that created it. Meanwhile, actually using these things ourselves leaves out a lot of use cases, adds complexity, and becomes burdensome, to the point you don't even want to use it.

We need the international software development community to have its own standards body outside of massive corporations and creaking old institutions with outsized influence. Standards should represent the majority of people writing and using the code.
From the article:

“Do not throw out your tofu, soymilk, edamame, or soy sauce,” said Frances Sladek, a UC Riverside toxicologist and professor of cell biology. “Many soy products only contain small amounts of the oil, and large amounts of healthful compounds such as essential fatty acids and proteins.”
It actually did for a few short years as an independent city-state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%...
But as an app developer, I love using Objective-C because it lets me build beautiful things without worrying about making the compiler happy.
You are not wrong. Mandated shifts away from carbon-based energy systems always seem to fail to take into account the inherent increased demand on the power grid.
Those are human things, and they organize and act away from the direction of the rights claimed by the Constitution as much as towards them.
> I recall once reading that the cost of insurance on a self-service station isn't far off the cost of staff, and it's mostly a wash overall.

If this were true, then there would be gas stations with attendants in the other 48 states.
A rocket might have a factor of safety of around 1.1. This is because at 1.3, they’ll never leave the ground. This is why they are so carefully monitored and tested, and still fail.

It’s all relative. Good engineering doesn’t mean higher number.

No one knows what the FOS for this sub was. Given the information from the CEO, things like that were just slowing down innovation!

EDIT: Not all rockets, just using an example.
Well, as the first video in the submitted article points out, this move fast and braek things attitude, safety and professional standards be damned, is infecting the real world now. Besides my utter disdain for hype, that is the main problem I have with Musk, for me he is the main culprit in normalizing those otherwise unacceptable practices.

I hope it changes, bacause as we have seen it kills people, litterally. Titan was actually worse than Titanic, because the engineering of Titanic was actually sound for the time, saftey procedures and seamanship were not. The latter changed significantly after the Titanic, lets hope that this SV stained engineering culture will, too, after Titan.
Yes, I agree -- but 'unionizing' might not take the conventional form of a formally organized group with leadership which can negotiate with corporations. I referenced the Budweiser case intentionally -- where there was certainly coordinated action among a large number of market participants, but it was kind of a disorganized and haphazard campaign, and it's not as though 'scabs' drank the beer that conservative activists spurned.
The entire world was (and still is, to some extent) horribly racist. Every nation, institution and venerable principle you hold sacred has horrible racism lurking in its very bones, if you dig deep enough. You can’t, therefore, dismiss anything on that basis alone. Argue with an issue on its merits alone; to attack the supposed secret origin of an issue is equivalent to an ad hominem argument.

Also, alternative explanation of the lizard people thing: <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8600>
To borrow a popular phrase:

Don’t Android my iPhone.

I left Android for an iPhone for a reason.
Check if you've got a local hackerspace! There are a lot of good ones out there. By and large you will find excellent people who want to enable you to do amazing things.
Seeing some pretty concerning NEET "battlestations" online I'd think the parents of the 90s were right for at least some of those kids. Doing anything all day to excess to the detriment of everything else is bad, whether it be TV or video games or social media or whatever distraction comes next.
Central banks can only affect interest rates. And they will take the same action whether prices are rising due to wages or profits.
I'm going to take a stab at this, but it's purely my opinion.

First, novels are generally solo ventures. Sometimes there are two people. So there's no corollary of novels written by hundreds of people in collaboration.

Second, novels are strictly in the art category. We're used to thinking of solo artists. Even in fields like filmmaking, which require massive amounts of collaboration, we still view it as an art form and gravitate to the "author", i.e. usually the director.

By contrast, software isn't commonly seen as an art form. There are aspects of art to it, but a lot of it is more like engineering and problem solving. We're used to thinking of teams coming together to solve problems.

Third, no one thinks they're going to strike it rich writing a novel. The odds are almost like winning the lottery. So we instinctively understand that writing a novel has some value outside of the revenue it might generate for the author.

By contrast, the popular story about developing apps is that the only reason to do so is to strike it rich. We don't commonly see the writing of apps as inherently valuable in it of itself. We tend to think if it doesn't make you a millionaire, it was a waste of time. On the flip-side, since many people can't conceive of why you would develop an app unless it's to get rich, they can derisively view the whole effort as a get-rich-quick scheme.

To be clear, I'm not saying these viewpoints are correct, simply that they exist and are common.
Oceangate Titan: analysis of an insultingly predictable failure [video]
He does like regressions into historical causes and effect chains... hell the whole system of the world trilogy is almost nothing BUT that (and contains some character/family crossovers with cryptonomicon)
Let's make a one lane tunnel underground to fix traffic. I am so smart.

underground traffic jam
Raising the financial transaction tax to 0.1%, 1$ per $1000 would eliminate the vast majority of unproductive and rent seeking HFT without negatively effecting liquidity. The US already has an FTT to fund the SEC, implementation should be straightforward. Currently the rate is very low, about 0.002%. Raising the rate would be minimally impactful for longer term investors and generate on the order of $50b a year for the government.

Hong Kong has an FTT of 0.13% currently, it was 0.1% from 1993-2021 so you can compare HFT impacts on these markets. Or compare dozens of other countries with similar rates, Switzerland, Taiwan, France, Italy, Japan.
One of the examples for Devanagari that is claimed to be broken is a nonsensical combination that really isn't supposed to work either as per any of the Devanagari script using languages or the Unicode standard.

Devanagari (roughly speaking) has Consonants (with an inherent vowel A), dependent vowels signs added to a consonant, and independent vowel letters. And a few other signs for aspiration, nasalization, and cancelling the inherent vowel to combine consonants.

न्हृे Starts with N (the consonant NA with the inherent vowel A cancelled and ends with the Devanagari Consonant HA with _two_ vowel signs added to it - DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R and DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E

CV is the standard for Devanagari "syllables". When you do want to write two vowels after each other, you would write CV, and then another independent Vowel letter, so it would look like

न्हृए (which would end with DEVANAGARI LETTER E instead of DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E)

*These are syllables as per the script definition rather than linguistic syllables.

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/UnicodeStanda... section 12.1 has more details on the specifics of implementing Devanagari script, but not necessarily all of the conjunct forms between consonants, which are used especially when rendering Sanskrit.
That's funny, I was just thinking this the other day, because there was another
HN thread that seemed largely critical of UML's legacy. I remember being a
little surprised (with all the GPT craze) that no one had suggested a possible
resurgence of UML (or something with similar features) for directing code
generation.
Given that he was just a month shy of 101, it still ought to be (with leap years) 365 * 101 + 25 - 30.
It's not "revisionist history", it's what happened. I was on Reddit for 3-4 hours each day and watched the entire thing very close. It was a way to show reddit admins who they're giving the middle finger to, and what reddit will look like when those people are gone. There's a reason it was called a "blackout" and not a "protest"... The protest wording only came up once the blackout had already started.

So really, the "protest" is your revisionist history.
This answer is much better than mine.
Argos was originally a promotional scheme called "Green Shield Stamps", whereby you could only buy things from them via stamps, which were a perk of buying other things at other retailers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shield_Stamps
> It was previously stated by the CEO that each time he descended to that depth, the viewport deformed several inches inward.

It takes an incredible level of density to ignore this once, but multiple times?

Can someone tell me what happens to a human body when suddenly exposed to ~5000 psi?

Edit: I looked it up. The human body almost instantly incinerates. It takes a matter of milliseconds.
>It is not a dichotomy, as the saying doesn't say "it must be either malice or stupidity"

It doesn't need to. The false dichotomy is presented in the phrasing.

>what third reason would be relevant in this case, exactly?

It's not a third reason, which is why you are confused. It is a third possibility, not a third reason. That third possibility is that both malice and stupidity are present. In such a case, if stupidity could adequately explain the action, the saying suggests ruling out malice, which would be incorrect. That is precisely why it is a false dichotomy.

It's not a strawman, you just haven't thought about it correctly.
in case it isn't loading for you too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230625182521/http://james-iry....

my favorite part:

> Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
> There's absolutely no "I was in the neighborhood and thought I'd pop in and see what you're up to".

we used the side door for informal visits

the front door was only for parties
Harvesting implies he killed and ate it. Whether you see that as a euphemism or more graphic probably depends on your dietary philosophy.
> It was previously stated by the CEO that each time he descended to that depth, the viewport deformed several inches inward.

Dear lord even if it is/was supposed to do that, this would be disturbing to look at.
You might be right. I still think adverse is an improvement over toxic but yes, it would be better to find an alternative to "masculinity". Which is pretty ambiguous itself; whether a behaviour is deemed masculine or feminine leans heavily on central vs noncentral examples of men or women, despite the fact that just about any such behaviour (toxic or not) can be expressed in both men and women, just like how both men and women can become bodybuilders or ballet dancers. So the terminology itself paradoxically leans on stereotypes of which toxic behaviours are associated with masculinity, even while encouraging men to move away from those behaviours and stop perceiving them as an essential part of being a man.

Maybe it would be better to call specific behaviours "toxic stoicism", "toxic domineering", "toxic aggression", or things like that.
CEO sized hubris.

The kind that would scrap ASICs for a Walmart PC using 100% Python because "those damned quant geeks don't know REAL innovation".
If we accept this and are told the right thing to do is to spend less - then all that’s happening is the victim is being blamed and the burden of regulation is put on those most at risk.

It’s like companies shifting the burden of their plastic waste onto consumers by telling them to recycle rather than providing a better, less polluting product.
> since the 70s

Is part of the problem that we think the 70s was normal and not the outlier?

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

Certainly there have been a couple recent bubbles, but even as recently as 2012 we were basically within the bounds of the long-term normal.

I'd like to say it's a supply problem, and demographics does support that argument to some extent, but the fact that it involves most of the western world makes me think it may have to do with monetary policy.
It's an interesting distinction but perhaps a distinction without a difference. They are allowed to have a security check point and to have rules about who can pass. An identification card is a common way of reasonably establishing identity to cross the checkpoint but not the only way. Trying the "you can't legally my ID card" route will likely have you miss your flight while they are establishing your ID another way.

So, listing that a read-id identity card is needed seems reasonable because if you listed every alternative it would give the perception that all are equal in the amount of time it takes to establish who you are. This isn't just a TSA thing either, police do this as well. It's very dependent on the state laws but but they'll ask for your license or an ID but the law doesn't always allow them to require that. Some will either lie or be mistaken and tell you it's required when it's not. Some states it is required to surrender ID prior to arrest, others you can totally refuse, others you might be required to provide a name, etc...

The police demands without a legal requirement are far more problematic to me than the TSA where you've already you've already had to surrender a great amount of personal information just to get the airline ticket. Because the purpose of the TSA doing this is not in regards to a criminal investigation and fits in the "narrowly tailored" generally allowed by the courts.
Well, it really does work that way. The classification stems from a series of executive orders [1] which long post-date things such as the Espionage Act.

The thing is that Biden is the president not Trump so Biden could declassify everything at Mar-a-lago but Trump can't.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_...
Yep. Since the 80's up to the 10's Japan has printed almost enough to cover for the reduction on private credits, just a bit less, so they got deflation.

I believe this is a well accepted thing, with basically everybody that accepts that private credits are impactful enough to be important accepting it (what is not universal, but nobody else has an explanation).

The lack of inflation on the US between 08 and 20 is much harder to explain.
Being able to display whatever you want on an ATM machine is absolutely a security problem. I could put a fake PIN prompt, a prompt to enter the card number because the reader is broken, whatever. This comment sections is blowing my mind, and is a great example of why dedicated security teams are required, in the world of software.
I spent a good portion of this weekend tracking down a minor text rendering issue I was having in WebKit. It is mind-boggling just the mountains of code that go into text rendering, and pretty amazing that they have managed to keep such a complex system so performant.

(the issue ended up involving harfbuzz, but it wasn't clear initially since it dealt with HTML whitespace collapse)
It's because novels are an older and more established and prestigious medium. There are "old masters" solo novelists like Dickens or Tolstoy or Jane Austen or whatever. There aren't such analogous dead indie devs and the medium is not as venerated. For example John Carmack isn't even dead yet, and who knows if he will be known in the same way. He must be one of the OG game devs but I mean Commander Keen is any normie seriously going to compare that to War and Peace. Maybe it will happen but it's not going to happen any time soon.

EDIT: I feel like I'm getting downvoted so much because I wrote Jane Austen as an "old master" novelist and it's triggering hacker news dwellers who hate Jane Austen novels. Or maybe they think I'm channeling Roger Ebert to say that their favorite video games aren't art. I'm not saying that guys.
> It was previously stated by the CEO that each time he descended to that depth, the viewport deformed several inches inward.

Is that normal for a submersible viewport? I feel like that's probably not normal.
Just to be clear, it's half a second for 256x256, where Stable Diffusion takes 3.2 seconds. Still a great speed-up, but not producing the big hi-res images people might be thinking of.
Delphine Software founder Paul de Senneville died at age 89
[1] https://wccftech.com/starlink-turns-on-laser-satellites-for-...

Judging from [1], lasers are used not for inter-satellite links, but for downstream or upstream links - from satellites to the ground.

Intersatellite links require precise machinery, such as picometer-precise positioning systems [2].

[2] https://www.pi-usa.us/fileadmin/user_upload/pi_us/files/prod...

Also, there should be compensation for satellite rotation, initial targeting and tracking. At ~12km between satellites (~4000 on 550 km orbit), the (possible) target of laser signal receiver which, say, is one meter in diameter will be one third of an angular minute. It is not impossible to target that initially, but keep in mind that laser beam is very focused and its power drops significantly with the angular distance.

I really do not know how to even target satellites' receivers initially, let alone compensate for rotation and track these targets afterwards.
Happened to me too, on a roller coaster funny enough.

I was at Busch Gardens in VA, riding their new coaster (Pantheon [1] for those curious). It's a fast, launched coaster and I guess the way I was sitting with the restraints hit the power button of my pixel 5 times and toggled the emergency call feature. I felt my smart watch vibrating with the ongoing call as we went up the top hat spike of the ride. Thankfully I was able to stop the call from my wrist before it connected. But that was the last time I didn't turn my phone off or put it in a locker before I got on a ride.

[1] https://rcdb.com/16812.htm
There was a poll posted on HN within the last week or two showing the expected slide rightward for your demo. I can’t comment on how it compares to previous generations.
Serial trust is definitely an interesting one.

I've been acquainted with a CEO/founder who -- for all intents and purposes -- was just not that bright but he came from a fairly well off family and his LinkedIn tagline proudly had "3-time exit" even though those exits didn't yield any significant (if any) financial gain for him personally.
The first rule of D is...
WinPopup LAN messenger!
Seems kinda cool but I'm stuck on "Loading results... (0%, 0 of 19 done)"
My point is that the FDIC DIF premiums and assessments are mandated by law and are thus a tax levied on banks. So the you’re trying to make it seem like the banks are managing the risk themselves but another way of looking at it is that all FDIC operations are funded via tax revenue, just like everything else the government does. Ultimately, the FDIC is backed by the full faith and credit of the US.
I'm hesitant to take the Max in Portland because of the homeless/drug problem and I'm a fairly big guy in the prime of life. Definitely not taking my family. I LOVE being able to cart my kids around in my perfectly sized and designed mini-van.
In the GIS space there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri It's like the Microsoft Office of creating and analysing spatial data. 1 billion USD revenue, 3000 employees and private owned, making the owner a billionaire (net worth estimated 8 billion USD).