skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s dual use, like Metasploit. It’s hard to predict whether black hats or white hats will use it more often or not. I think your conclusion is more intuitive, but let me play devil’s advocate.

LotL is too advanced for script kiddies to pull off. You’re already dealing with an adversary with some sophistication, who likely have the time, skill, and resources to create their own LOLbins (or buy them on darknet forums). Infosec is an asymmetric conflict: the adversary has a much easier job IMO. It’s always easier to break something than to build it.

Blue/purple teams have little incentive to build their own LOLbins. There is another asymmetry here: blue teams are developing these to target only their networks. Red teams are developing them to target every network. Open source is the way to resolve that asymmetry.

With these becoming public, blue teams can simulate a LotL attack, develop indicators of attack, and write rules to trigger alerts.

In general, adversaries prefer their tricks to remain trade secrets. Once they’re known, documented, and commodified, they become far less useful.
Boston Dynamics robots are still nowhere close to as dexterous, flexible, or capable as human laborers. Getting them to build houses is a massive and expensive R&D project, not a startup, for now.
This is signaling. Macron can't blame "the migrants" because that's not socially acceptable (without giving credit to his political rivals), but most of them are disgruntled younger (compared to native Frenchmen) men. This is how he can point the finger at their demographic without having to actually do so. Perhaps ironically, this IS a racist dog whistle.
These kids are still going to be on the bus, at recess, or at school functions. Not sure if you were ever bullied, but all three of those are prime locations due to lack of adult supervision.
I see supply/demand discussed here every day. For this crowd, it's as visible as can get.

Here is (IME) one of the more common blind spots when discussing housing prices (specifically rents): price fixing by corporate-run algorithmic cartels: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
I sign into my work Mac with my personal iCloud account. I use most of the Apple features, but don't sync files. My login account is attached to Active Directory, and admins would have to sign in with a standard local account or their own AD account to manage my device. AFAIK there's no way to access the Photos.app contents from the filesystem. I haven't tried that hard, but you can't look in the directory in ~/Photos. I'm sure at some level most of this stuff is possible, but only in some extreme situation would anyone go that deep to access any of it.

I'm much more concerned about accidentally syncing work things out to iCloud than syncing personal things into my work environment.
The economics on those robots is that they’ll be used for monitoring and controlling citizens and aliens by the state or employers, rather than be used to serve common folk for their problems including housing
Ask HN: Get decent at Python in 3 months
I’m a JS web developer/solidity dev.

I want to get good with Python as I’m interested in quant dev jobs in algo funds.

What resources do you rate for a 3 month sprint to get pretty decent ?
It’s beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I have an old idea of something similar and maybe I’ll use your project as inspiration
Yeah this is my take too. Chat bots are usually transparently obviously something the CTO bought, then Support dumped some basic configuration into it, and now it's a glorified redirect-provider to poorly map english questions to help articles. There's 0 vertical integration and it's purely to try to shunt traffic down cheaper support channels.

I've literally had 1 good experience with bot-based support. Exactly one. It was when I forgot I had used my Lowes' store card that month and they charged me a late fee for missing a payment. I went through the chatbot UI because I couldn't figure out how to even begin to contact human support.

And can you imagine my utter shock and disbelief when the bot offered to waive the late fee if I set up autopay? Holy shit! I'm still in awe. The chatbot waived my fee. It actually DID something. It genuinely saved them and me a support call that day instead of just feeling like they were trying to persuade me to give up by throwing friction into the process of getting to someone who could actually waive my fee.
ITER Dreams and the Practical Reality of Making Nuclear Fusion Work on Earth
This idea keeps coming up but the reality is that the per-person payouts would add up to such a small amount that it wouldn’t justify the administrative costs of implementing the program, from both a payout and an enforcement perspective.

I don’t think this is a good idea in the first place, but if we wanted to implement like this, it would be much simpler just to raise existing taxes for ‘big tech’ companies
> I'm very surprised. My experience with Amazon refunds and in general customer support is that they care more about upsetting a customer than fighting for pesky 10 bucks.

I'm not surprised at all. There have only been two times when I needed to return an item I got from Amazon, and both times Amazon stiffed me. One of those items was for around $10.

Amazon seems to care about petty dollar amounts more than avoiding upset customers.
Shameless plug: at Speckle[0] we have the same attitude (we even have Ralph, Plangrid cofounder, on the cap table).

Only difference is we deal in 3D rather than pdfs, and we're open source for too many reasons to type on a mobile phone, but happy to elaborate if needed.

[0] https://github.com/specklesystems/
I have separate accounts for work and home.

I have my work account as a member of the family group, and that seems to work well.
The Rich Are Crazier Than You and Me
Thank you! That's a unique idea tho, I'll consider it.

Despite the fact that DAW recording is technically more difficult to do, sometimes it looks really cool - when you open a bunch of VST visualizers (like iZotope Insight, Minimeters and others), and also people use custom themes for their DAW (for example in the case of Abeton. I often see this), which distinguishes the artist and the video and captures attention.

Here's a camera setup that I really like: https://twitter.com/RichardDevine/status/1676377851468103681...
We live-streamed the binlogs (what MySQL calls its WAL) to the backup infrastructure, check out the ORC article I posted elsewhere.
Chat bots and automated phone customer service suffer from the same problem - they don't solve the exact problem/questions I'm running into and it requires a real human to get me the answer I need.
If somebody can't afford let's say $20 per year for a service that they enjoy, then it's because that person has decided she doesn't want to afford it. I understand the argument that "It's not worth it", that's for each individual to decide. But then those people shouldn't ask for somebody else to provide it to them for free or without ads. You can have it if you want it, and if you don't want it that much, then do something else with your time, no?

I have never heard any argument about classism or blocking out poor people applied to the devices needed to get online, the computers, the phones. Strange, isn't it?
these are cool
> Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.

Why? So randos on the Internet can make a snap judgement as to what kind of person I am?

This seems like an intermediate step between no knowledge and a machine-readable personality profile.

I enjoy reading blogs and visiting their websites but it’s not for everyone.
You’re going to need to try harder to know people.
That to me sounds like a difference of degree or heap problem, rather than a categorically different condition.

Sure, welding back on a hardpoint that broke off a plow is concrete and obvious (maybe that's analogous to fixing a broken dependency that got renamed), but there are other fixes that definitely fall under "I don't know why it works but it works". I've had electrical gremlins and fixed them by grounding something that looked like it ought to be grounded, and was grounded when I tested for continuity, but nonetheless was acting floaty. It was probably a loose connection elsewhere in the system, but I didn't know that for sure, nor do I even know that it was the problem in the first place.

Software definitely reaches insane depths of complexity, but again, if you can dig down and understand the abstraction well enough to attempt a fix, and the problem goes away, isn't that good enough? The real difference is mechanical systems typically only have a few layers of abstraction, while software has dozens to thousands of layers of abstraction.
PC Gamers != gamers with PCs

Or to put it another way - people with PCs are not a monolithic block with a single profile.
The callousness of the HN commentariat towards those who "don't behave according to the rules" is off the charts these days.

We're talking about children here. They don't know how to behave like adults yet. Cutting them out of society where they fail to meet expectations is cruelty.
Such a good quote. Worth remembering.
>> I went to public school as a kid and the disruptive kids were expelled. Not just kicked out of class - totally kicked out of school and told to find a new one! One reason I send my kids to private school is if you don’t want to learn they will kick you out. In public schools today you get a few bad kids and it ruins the whole class.

> The causes and solutions are not as simple as "these kids are bad, kick them out of school", but any solution needs to involve kids who aren't disruptive and WANT to learn getting an environment conducive to that.

But it might not be that much more complicated. It's been a long time since I've been in school, but in our district there was an "alternative" high school, which had a reputation among the kids as the place you'd end up if you were too much of a behavior problem.

That said, the kids at my schools were well-behaved in class and I never knew of anyone specific who was expelled.

If behavior problems are getting more widespread, maybe embracing more of an explicit containment strategy is appropriate.
It's invisible because we like to talk about freedom and free market. But there are so many regulations and policies that essentially funnel money and power into the hands of a few. It makes the notion of freedom and free market somewhat farcical. However, any discussion of the above is considered unpatriotic, so it's always better to blame the individual.
> Perhaps there is so much regulation because builders built deadly shitboxes that killed their occupants at the first moments notice.

The problem is not just the regulations, but that these regulations differ a lot from place to place. This makes an economy of scale nigh impossible.
No the problem is the sun has to hit the earth's atmosphere at a certain angle in order for the correct wavelengths of light to pass through the earth's atmosphere. The amount of Vitamin D your body can generate from sunlight is based on your skin tone, where you are, the time of day, the day of the year, and the angle of the sun at that time and place.

Above/Below a certain latitude (N/S) there is a window of time where the sun never hits that angle at any point during the day, so you could sit outside naked all day long and still get zero vitamin D.

If this seems counterintuitive consider if you keep going far enough away from the equator and get into the arctic/antarctic the winter has no sunlight at all, and you clearly can't produce Vitamin D from sunlight if the sun never rises.
The most ironic part is that the vast majority of diesel trains are already diesel-electric and could trivially make use of overhead wires.

But instead the rail companies have actually been tearing down existing electrification. There were 3100 miles of electrified rails in the 1930s, but now it is down to a tiny fraction of that.
They see new builds hitting the market and look at the (aspirational) price put there by the builder. It's a borderline conspiracy that Zillow lists certain high-end new developments for a year (before they're built) which pollutes the "for sale" housing inventory. Whereas the "recently sold" is the best metric of how things actually are, the search options don't allow you to get an accurate market sense from these. After all, the app's purpose is not to give you an accurate sense of the market.
Furthermore, non-residents aren't able to vote for policies and politicians seek to reform the zoning laws of a district they don't live in.
It's just the same "I figured out something complicated so I'm smart and something I consider a problem in a completely unrelated area of knowledge must be because the people involved are too dumb to fix it so I will" mentality that seems to infect so many people that learn a programming language.
> Even though I could sell and get a lot more than I paid for either, the fact is that unless I wanted to put that money into something other than a house I'm not going to turn a profit.

You’re already profiting simply by having a higher net worth.
Agreed. I don't really have time to play PC games anymore, but when I did, I fell into the demographic you described.

(Maybe not 4k 60fps—after all, one does have to compromise sometimes...)
Windows only:

Minimum PC specifications
Your PC will need to meet these requirements to play.
• OS: Windows 10 (v2004)
• Storage: Solid state drive (SSD) with 10 GB of available storage space
• Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable
• Processor: 4 CPU physical cores (some games require an Intel CPU)
• Memory: 8 GB of RAM
• Windows admin account
• Hardware virtualization must be turned on
Boston Dynamic robots aren't free. They're far from cheap. Do you think making and sending them out sites would be cheaper than just hiring someone local?
They must be playing Ubisoft games, their loader is such a rage starter, just read some comments on Steam.
Nope, there used to be a lot more airlines, all now absorbed or merged to a few select ones. It’s not a profit issue, but their ability to survive.
Because people can tell if the victim is a real person or a video game character. Being desensitized to depictions of violence is not the same as being desensitized to human suffering. It's really elitist and condescending to pretend that regular people somehow can't tell the difference.
The demographic trend (age curve) is a real problem, difficult to solve without immigration.
See clause 2 of both BSD licenses.
The cause is mostly rabies infections acquired from either strays or village/communal dogs (not quite pets, but not strays either).
So I asked and she said it seems sane, but academically the answer is basically "no idea".

Her advice:

- Remove standing water anywhere you can

- Use nets/screens on open windows/doors to reduce access

- Avoid outdoor activities at dawn/dusk when they are most likely to feed

- Don't plant bushes near outdoor seating (apparently they hide there during the day, but will choose to feed outside normal hours if it's convenient)
US plans to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine- reports
I’m sad that I’m not more surprised than I am.

I hypothesize that the negative response of a surprising number of readers is due to tripping some kind of pro-LGBTQ+ support mental programming rather than their taking a principled stand in favor of advocating the rape of little boys. Nevertheless whether it’s a principled stand or a knee jerk reaction, anyone who experiences a negative emotional response to opposing child rape, same sex or otherwise, has a serious problem and should get help.
We used to sell opium to China, now they sell us Fentanyl.

This is a pretty sloppy use of "we". The United Kingdom is a separate country on a different continent with a seperate history of wrongdoing. It is like justifying a trade war with China on Pearl Harbor.
As a note: lots of sauerkraut sold in stores (at least in America) isn't actually fermented but just cabbage soaked in vinegar which is shelf stable. If you want the fermented kind, make sure you get it from the refrigerated section and check the ingredients and it should not have vinegar.
If only there was something for xorg that worked. Mate Desktop is not yet Wayland compatible.
It hasn’t been reproduced and does not offer any mechanism for deterministic prediction of future reproduction.
It probably correlates with reduced mortality, because people exposed to sunlight tend to get out of the house more often and actually do some physical activity (that happens to be under the sun, sometimes).
the latter. I can make note changes on my phone and a few seconds later sit down at my desktop and everything is updated.
Two weeks before leaving home for six months, I bought two suitcases. They were delayed/lost and Amazon suggested I reorder.

I reordered and they still were going to be delayed until the day after we left.

I went to a local store and bought one.

I started a chat and told them that even if the suitcases did arrive that evening, I wouldn’t be able to send them back for a refund.

They said keep all of the suitcases and I would still get my refund.

They did come later that evening.
If it's not too much to ask, what was his name?
It irritates me a bit that many comments on HN are like a Yelp review of the linked article instead of adding to the discussion of their comments. Maybe you see HN primarily as a community-curated list of links while I see it as a place of discussions?

In this thread, for example, wccrawford gave an interesting perspective on choices in life. While they used the linked article as a reference point, the contents of their comment stand entirely on their own. The information value in the linked article is not that important, the value of the discussion is much more important. To me, that is.
Also, builders want to build high-margin houses, not low-margin houses.
Also, high-margin housing gets advertised, low-margin housing does not.
> uninterested in solidarity

They always pitch the union as a way for you to get better pay and benefits. But the talk can suddenly shift to how you are a greedy opportunist if you actually take steps to increase your value.
Everyone acts as if Twitter pre-Musk was a well oiled machine that shit the bed overnight after he took over; it wasn't. The truth slowly emerged, their infrastructure was built on a cavalcade of cruft held together with duct tape. How everyone conveniently forgot the fail whale and memory holed it for all time. I remember they failed their security audit so badly didn't the CISO quit?

I give the guy credit for at least trying new things and fixing long standing bugs and absent features.
Telegram has become a window into war
Listening to Lex Fridman's podcast with tech bros and billionaires, kind of easy to see what Paul Krugman is talking about.
They don’t have enough workers period. In 1960, most European countries had about 5 working age people per retiree. By 2050, there will be less than 2 workers per retiree in France, and just over 1 in Spain.
Well, it seems people are still posting here, so here's mine:

http://johnj.com

"I post things here related to programming and art..... You can also find many blog posts written during ten trips to Antarctica here."
Or murder/kill. The novel verb unalive is used for “kill” to evade filters regardless of whether the agent and patient of that action are the same or different individuals.
I think one hour a day of walk is not even a bare minimum if you don't do any other exercises or physical work
I think it is more for your average preteen to play on the computer family to their favorite games when their phone are out for whatever reason. Also addict adult can play at work while being less suspect.

I don't think they are aiming to the hardcore gamerz on a 3k rig playing Cyberpunk in 8k.
L-arginine might be better
https://github.com/LOLBAS-Project/LOLBAS/tree/master

The associated github is much more informative about what the project does. Basically they document "undocumented" capabilities of signed microsoft binaries that can be used for red team work.
What sort of question is that? Why do you assume that Russia and Romania should rank low in civic honesty?
I talked to someone who created a startup in this space, specifically a two sided network for a type of construction material. She said it's all hyperlocal (no one is ordering from a supplier 3 hours away), most orders and planning are done on the fly and over the phone, and there are lots of local quirks that frustrate attempts to provide a one-size-fits-all solution.

Another example: I recently learned from someone who specializes in foundations in a rural area that he only has two options for ordering large volumes of concrete: a quarry 5 miles away, or a quarry 15 miles away. Any further, and there is a risk of the concrete drying out before it arrives at the site. He prefers the nearest quarry, even though it's smaller, because the owner hasn't yet moved to computer-controlled mixing and errs on the side of caution when creating a new batch, which leads to a better grade of concrete than its supposed rating.

ETA: concrete, not cement per @gtfoutttt
I mean yeah, while wasting a lot of energy and brainpower...

Kinda like crypto but on smaller scale.
I'm not seeing how is that the takeaway btw, mind elaborating?

I'd think the same or bigger performance benefits can be reaped if you just start with stuff like OCaml / Haskell / Golang / Rust from the get go.
Aren’t these games already free with IAP? Did I miss an actual paid game?

Also this makes more sense for Mac , or even Linux (even though proton is changing things), where there is a dearth of games. Windows has plenty of high quality games courtesy of Steam, GOG, and Epic to name a few platforms
If only more people understood that. Almost all homeowners think that rising prices is a good thing for them. Try convincing your average homeowner that the whole market going up by 10% makes no difference to them unless they plan on being homeless.

There's something about money that brings out the worst in people, whether that be malice or simply stupidity.
That's OK, as 3D printed houses do not normally have pipes/conduits in the 3d printed concrete walls (just like you normally don't have them in traditionally built concrete walls).
I sometimes really wish my house was pier and beam construction instead of slab; having a crawl space seems really handy when wanting to rework things. Everything is just right there!

A single story home does make some things simple, but it is still a pain with the insulation. On top of that, all the old plumbing goes through the slab making access difficult.