skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux has both a huge stack surface and a huge focus on the malware and TA sphere. I worry about my Linux environment far more than my Windows environment. properly securing, monitoring and responding in a Linux environment is much harder than a windows environment for a SOC. the enterprise tool set lags in this space by a lot, and the TAs targeting Linux are generally FAR more sophisticated.
> Linux has a wider attack vector

Nit but you probably mean attack surface. A vector doesn't have a width.
As opposed to the Linux security best practices of curl | bash? I have no choice but to set up my computer to run untrusted code, on a CPU which itself might be spying on me -- I don't feel like my environment is inherently more secure than Windows at all. Just less popular.
There might be complexity under the hood, but on a fresh Fedora install I can do, out of the box:

$ podman run -it myimage bash

Fuse is rather irrelevant since I will mount volumes if I need to do IO. And slirp has been benchmarked to 9+ Gbps. So sure there's always room for improvement but the current situation is pretty sweet imo.
> And yet Imperial Japan did not surrender after that. The IJA and IJN were mostly finished by then. They were unable to hold their conquered territory, and were being pushed back and defeated at sea. What was it going to take for the war council to agree to surrender?

Destruction of their capability to wage war and/or the removal of the people refusing to surrender. A nuclear weapon was one answer to that question, but I suspect that there were other motives in play e.g. testing the destructiveness of the bombs and to send a message to other nations.
> You can smooth things out with quality teaching, but there is a human hardware limit, and you reach it sooner with those two.

Shmaybe. But I doubt many people ever approach it. What they hit is, instead, a "software lockout" - a limit of the kind that some hardware vendors (such as those making oscilloscopes or farming machines) put in their products, where the hardware is already there, but its capability is restricted in software, and you need to pay to have the restrictions lifted.

If you'd seen me as a kid, you'd say I am one of those people with rather low "hardware limit" when it comes to math. But then, when I was around 13, that limit suddenly shot up so high and so fast, it may as well have disappeared. What happened? I started to learn to code, with an intent to make videgames. Eventually I reached the point when I was trying to figure out how to rotate some sprites, and made a mental connection between what I want (understanding how to implement rotating images) and what I was taught at school (trigonometry). Immediately, math switched from being something I had to learn, and became something I wanted to learn. So, what you'd think was a severe hardware limit, was actually a purely software one - and it went away the moment I found the magic unlock code (which, in my case, was "find something that makes math seem relevant and exciting, instead of a bullshit chore").

And yes, I'll admit that I do have a hardware limit relevant here - most kids do well at math without having to find a motivational "cheat code", but people like me, with impaired executive functions, can't naturally power through bullshit, and need workarounds to keep up. But this is a different kind of limit. It's also one we're getting increasingly good at understanding, recognizing and overcoming, and it teaches us that what you see as hardware skill limit, may just be a software limit induced by another problem.

Or, in short, if someone told the twelve year old me the things you wrote here today, it would have derailed my life. Fortunately, nobody did, and this lazy and dumb-ish kid ended up handling undergrad-level math perfectly fine.
...good luck asking companies that are no longer in business to maintain their software
Nitpicking but they really need to have someone proofread their copy.
Can anyone recommend a nice peer to peer social media thing?

Hey https://getaether.net/
No, unfortunately not - the TH1520 SoC comes with some Vector extension support - but rev 0.7 (IIRC), not 1.0 which one would rather want.
It is, but only because those with power are abusing it to keep it this way.
Well, 'Day after tomorrow' and 'Snow Priecers' are perhaps distorting science a bit too much ;).

'Don't look up' is a bit more on topic, but it's a comedy about our handling of a prediction of a catastrophe, not our handling of the catastrophe itself.

> Isn't it amazing how mankind is always forced into a state of existential angst by the people in power. Nuclear winter to globalcooling to ozone to hiv to global terrorism to global warming.

Well, it depends on "which people" in power of "what".

The exact opposite arguments pops up regularly, where some indefinite "They" is accused of "hidding" a very dangerous thing that is going to destroy us all.

We have almost as much evidence of governements, corporations, interest groups downplaying risks (nuclear winter, global warming, AI, etc..), than of governments, news outlets, activits overblowing risks (global cooling, terrorism, etc...)

It's usually just fun when the risks are completely imaginary, but in practice someone _is_ affected.

In the end, we have survivor bias for "mostly past" risks (nuclear war, covid, ozone layer, terrorism, hiv, etc... are not things of the past per se, they're just less acutely present), and Cassandra syndrom for the future ones - with the benefit of our capacity for fiction.

At some point, the proverbial shit hits the proverbial fan, and we do our best, and we 've historically survived as a species - but I'd rather not be too close to the feces, and I wish more people would "see the movie" before it happens.
If we can agree that humans are imperfect, systems help nudge people towards more perfect.

I sure wish I had perfect willpower to avoid bad foods. But, alas, I am imperfect in that regard so I create a system that prevents bad foods from being in my house. The end result is that my behavior trends toward more perfect than had that system not be in place.

Moral philosophical discussions are fine and we can lament about the moral shortcomings of ourselves and others, but I think the systems argument is more pragmatic in creating real changes in behavior and outcomes.
>It adds up pretty quickly, and costs way more than traditional TV used to cost.

I have trouble understanding this complaint.

There's way more content than ever before; why wouldn't it be more expensive to get everything? You don't have to subscribe to it all, but the ability to pick and choose providers a la carte, as well as cycle subscriptions on and off seems like a huge win to consumers.
Better to discover now, than when there is a population level event.
I loved this beer when I was in my twenties. My college-age daughter and her friends, however, don't even drink beer. They drink this fruit-flavored hard seltzers.
Nostr isn't ActivityPub either though.
Hmm, I just tried the Bubbles preview on Win11, and it worked fine. Is it different when it's running 'for real'?
Adding https://ann-benchmarks.com/
why did you choose not to build on top of something like llama-index or langchain? how easy or difficult would it be to integrate with a library like llama-index?
How will ATSC 3.0 transform TV advertising?
You may be polluted by the monotheism ideas that gods are good. Historically gods were attributed to doing a lot of bad and dumb shit.
Grow an imagination - I was looking for the fucking text that's been there for decades instead of a new low contrast icon. Discovering that the old version was available under "more options" I went with that (and I use keyboard shortcuts more often, so I didn't continue to investigate beyond what was required to disable the new menu).

** Also, it's NOT necessarily the first option - it moves between the top and bottom depending on where you click. **

It's also not something that used to appear and disappear based on the state of the clipboard, so further investigation may not have shown it (unexpectedly).

Clearly you like contextually responsive icons that behave like floating div's in a webpage, and you have been paying attention to the shape/format of the paste symbol to visually identify it all these years. That experience is not universal.

I've discussed this with several people, and you're the first to point out the icon that I missed - everyone I've talked to missed it as well.
No chance this crushes the 'bubble'. Record immigration, developers have greatly reduced housing starts, and people will do anything to keep their mortgage as asset prices continue to rise.

There's no political will at any level (muni, provincial, federal) to build housing, remove zoning, to reduce immigration to reasonable levels, and it's starting to feel hopeless.

Average rent for a 1br in Vancouver is $2250 - an individual following the 30% rule needs to make 90K/year to justify that. The system is broken and we'll continue to hear platitudes from the government, and that goes for both the Libs and the Cons.
I realize I've been repeating shibboleths from my postgrad without full understanding.

A problem with epicycles is they are harder to falsify. If the model doesn't match new observations, just adjust it, or add another epicycle. In contrast, Newtonian gravity can hardly be tweaked at all. So when Mercury's orbit was slightly off, they knew something was wrong.

I'm not quite clear on how I feel about this. Geocentricity is a theory, in broad terms. It seems disrespectful to say adding epicycles makes it "not a theory". As you say, there was a theory that the planets actually moved in epicyclic motion. It wasn't just calculation to them.

(I want to stress that the idea of epicycles, the mechanical craftsmanship, and actual prediction of the planets are all amazing genius.)

Yet, having more parameters than data means the model doesn't explain in simpler terms, only restates. In this sense, it's "not a theory" (by Occam's razor). It seems enough epicycles can model anything: (3Blue1Brown Fourier Series) https://youtube.com/watch?v=bL0LV0Huj1s OTOH the epicycles did predict planetary motion, so they did capture some regularity... not sure what to think.

RE Chomsky: You can see it's like epicycles: with enough parameters, an LLM is like a numerical method for curve fitting, that doesn't explain the data (any more than a fourier transform does). Curiously, they do seem to predict very accurately... yet also generalize strangely ("hallucinate"). What to think?

But it seems it's got to help! Even if only as a device, like a telescope. Also, from this interview with Terry Sejnowski (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XKC-4Tosdd8 3 hours!) there's instances where a technique was developed for a problem with Neural Nets, and an equivalent was found in the brain.

He also gives a Chomsky-like view: if you duplicated the human brain and it worked perfectly, you wouldn't have done any science if you didn't understand anything.

BTW Chomsky's point E (which I'd never heard of), the last and most minor, was based on Gold's work.
Inngest co-founder here - happy to answer any questions about Inngest or our fundraising!
> that the studios are frankly not in a position to concede on. This strike should have been staged in 2021, or not at all.

You should look at the Sony hack and see for yourself what a studio does and how it is built. You don't have to rely on any speculation whatsoever.

I know gaming better. Steam gives away for free all the proprietary data movie studios hoard. A few people with Steam data, if they're numerate, can do the work of 1,000 movie studio people.

People are worrying about LLMs and economics and all this bullshit. It's all political, in the strict sense of the outcomes are controlled entirely by people and can change with the stroke of the pen.

The real thing the two sides should be worrying about is not this speculative AI bullshit or copyright law. It's how Hollywood is working more like the games industry does.
I think the Mastodon has (at least) two major factions.

I get that a lot of Mastodon users are like you are happy with where Mastodon is. I'm not even mad.

But a lot of people ARE looking for Twitter 2.0 and a lot in the Mastodon Community WERE saying "we are it"
I keep updating my Mastodon deathwatch: https://tech.lgbt/@Kye/109982031390613361

The text:

10k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

100k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,000k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,300k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,400k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,800k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

1,900k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

2,000k monthly active users: "Mastodon is dead!"

I'm starting to think these people aren't real doctors.
> I had actually rang alarm bells about him during the interview process but was overruled by HR because his resume was so amazing.

Yikes. I have a great cost-cutting proposal for your company, then: don't bother with interviews. Just let HR hire directly based on resumes without ever talking to the candidate. Why would you bother with the interview if this is happening anyway?

> He also said he was charged with launching an entirely new product for the company, which raised our revenues by 19.6% the first quarter that it was released

If you're a public company, this should be easily falsified by the next employer doing due diligence. If not, yeah, hard to know.

> Furthermore he said he worked at our company for 1 year and 3 months. When in reality he only worked there for 7 months and 3 weeks.

This is the one he really should always get caught on. If companies say nothing else when asked about a former employees, they at least say what their tenure was.

> Having a community moderated/validated accuracy platform might actually add significant value to LinkedIn for employers.

Which dating site was it that admitted that they really didn't want their users to find their soulmates, because then they stopped using the dating site? LinkedIn doesn't want you to find your perfect job and work there happily until retirement. Then why would you bother using LinkedIn anymore?
One I really appreciate is having sane tab indexes and the ability to trigger things like buttons and drop-downs using the keyboard. A slick select box loses a lot of points for me if I can’t navigate and use it with just my keyboard.
Reality is biased towards the fast-moving scenario, so long as we aren’t running into the bounds of physics, which as far as I can tell we’re not. Kurzweil was much more right than he was wrong. The opposite is true of people who strongly disagreed with him and called him a quack.
>Should corporations the size of Microsoft (almost 25x of Sony, the 2nd nearest competitor) be allowed to make acquisitions of this size to grow itself, and weaken competition.

Sure. Becuase they aren't even a monopoly in the gaming space to begin with. If you could simply outspend to become a major gaming competitor, Amazon should be #1 by now.

It's clearly not that simple so I'm not concerned about Sony suddenly declining. And meanwhile, Nintendo sits in its own throne above Sony/MS as if it's watching two children on a playground.

> I can think of many ways it can cause destruction to society. Only have to look at Facebook in the 2016 election.

Do you really think a loosely historical shooter game most people use to compete against one another will be used to control information for national elections? I simply don't see it, but who knows?

Even if so: the big issue with that comparison is that your grandparents aren't playing COD. Mine were on FB around that time.
The rebranding really was disastrous. Echoing other comments, as someone who bought 6 packs largely for nostalgia or to reconnect with SF from the east coast the new packaging ruined that.
If you’ve got 30 seats, another 1 seat is not much more.

I mean, enterprise users are used to paying 5x as much to use SSO, look at the pricing per seat of Salesforce.com which goes into the stratosphere when you add enterprise features because really $200 a seat is cheap to get a salesperson putting all his records where everyone in the company can see them.
Reminds me of a couple of married friends of mine. The wife played a classical musical instrument (e.g., not an electric guitar) and had her sights set on being a professional. While working towards that she did a lot of teaching/practising/etc, and her students would often say something along the lines of "I'm so envious of all this time you have to practice music! How are you able to do it?!" and her reply was always a bit of a let-down/reality check for them: "my husband works in tech."

Not quite independently wealthy, but I imagine there's a fair few artists out there in a similar position.
All of that is the purely humanitarian impulse to save the ad-based internet from dying.
Can anyone recommend sequencing services available in the USA which have good privacy practices / do not share genomic data with any third parties? (And ideally which delete data fairly quickly)
Sites with surprise hjkl always make me smile
"Not in a position to concede on"? In what world?

I've seen a dozen different posts and articles where people did the math, and showed that what the WGA is asking for, financially speaking (annually), could be paid out of a single studio's profits for a single quarter (at least, I think that was the degree of disparity; in any case, it was painfully obvious that the studios were being obscenely greedy).

The only way one can argue that the studios are "not in a position to concede on" these demands is if they take Wall Street's insistence on ever-increasing growth as mandatory, rather than purely for the benefit of increased bonuses for the already-very-wealthy people at the top.
A common technique is exploiting macros in real word documents, which would still work with the added protection of an executable bit and being able to see file extensions.
> 99% of people will never need or use calculus in their life. Most jobs have zero to do with Excel.

doesn't imply that ignoring the Kardashians is as bad as pride in ignorance of math/science. (direct quote from you)

> There are probably 100s of millions of people who care about what celebrity X is up to

But if those celebrities died together at the same time, very few of those 100 millions people would actually suffer any consequence.

So they are basically useless to society, math and science are provably not.

> Knowing celebrity news allows for instant connection with millions of people who also know about this news

I'll pass om that, thank you.

Millions of people watch soccer in my country, never cared for a second.

Guess what?

I have tons of connections with people I share common interests with.

Who would have thought that was possible?

> Guess what? You likely don't have this knowledge. And you probably are glad you don't, and are maybe even proud that your don't.

Have you ever considered that people simply don't care and their life is just as good as anybody else?

I honestly don't understand what drives your thought process, but if you are thinking that I need to excuse myself for not caring about most famous people, sorry to break the news for you, you don't know how wrong you are.

> while blaming others for feeling the same about a topic your care about.

That's just you assuming bad faith.

I don't care what other people care about or not, it doesn't affect me at all, I simply replied to pride in ignorance of social happenings is just as bad as pride in ignorance of math/science. It is simply not.
I don't think it's a bubble. There are no places to buy or to rent. Our major cities simply do not have enough housing. We have to build more, and higher interest rates make that even more difficult.
That has nothing to do with the deductions they get now?

If W2 withholding was removed, people who have more take home pay then go into debt when taxes were due.
Free Software licenses typically say basically “I’m giving you this for free, so you take it as it is, no promises.” You get the guarantees that you pay for.

But nobody would write some of the absolute schlock they get over in proprietary-land if they didn’t think they could dupe unwitting consumers into paying for it.
>Fix the lawmakers and you stop all the bad faith influence.

One-sentence simple solutions to one of the most complicated problems humanity faces. How do you propose to do that? Lawmakers are in charge of their own rules. There is no incentive to change their own incentive structure from within.
It's cool you can pretend describe a tenuous connection. HN does tech, mass shootings are in media, be nice on twitter, utopia. but that doesn't make this relevant.

this isnt content designed to be interesting or informative. its just activism.
Typically there aren’t users on the servers. The servers aren’t used for browsing the internet or checking emails.
We shouldn't need backwards compatibility built into the OS when we have perfectly functional compatibility shims that can be isolated from the rest of the system or run with reduced/user privileges. VMs, DOSBox, Wine, etc.
I don't know what you're trying to say. Someone who writes for TV, that is their day job. You can't have a job writing for TV "on the side", that's not a thing.

Writing novels is not a reliable source of income, and fanfic doesn't make money at all.

It's true that TV writers often do have to pick up some kind of work in between seasons, though it depends on the show.
I only know his work on Top Gear which was mostly amusing. I'll give Engineering Connections a watch.
nope, if we create an easy mechanism to force someone to prove he's one real government-identified person then sites will gradually require it.

suspended from twitter? can't create another account cause you only have one id!

want to share something anonymously to avoid getting fired or investigated by feds? tough, you're required to sign in with your MyID to keep everyone safe!

the only way to prevent this is to not build it and vote out anyone who tries to create it.

government ruins and abuses everything it touches, we have a consistent pattern of behavior to go off here

we should actually be moving in the opposite direction.

i shouldn't have to prove i'm anyone basically ever, except for taxes and census.

not for planes or trains or buying liquor.

driving can be licensed but should be an "anonymous license", like "i'm driver #9238" not "i'm fred the licensed driver".

and those numbers ("driver number", ssn) should be barred from use as identification for any other purpose with massive penalties.

here's the moral reason why: forcing ID creates tools for administering punishment/"accountability", but it does this in advance of something being judged as wrongdoing. basically prior restraint on a mass scale. and when the government promulgates ID technologies it promulgates tools for this abuse of liberty.
https://github.com/rings-social/backend/blob/5ad749ded69fff2...

Rings gives an API compatibility layer for Reddit that should make the transition from Reddit to Rings easier - if the app developers decide to switch their app endpoints.
I think people _greatly_ overestimate the amount of defederation that goes on. Most of those 2M are visible to most of the rest.
I think the crux of the issue is that making a system that's customizable AND sandboxing AND user friendly multiplies together to create development and testing effort that's not palatable for most right now.

Even the open source offerings that add sandboxing often drop either the customizability or the user friendliness.
BTW the reason I linked to this tweet is because the DNS was still propagating on the x.ai domain and the site wasn't opening everywhere (and still may not).
It’s still a weird sex community regardless of if it’s adherents swear it’s not.