skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIP Kevin.

Many many years ago, during undergraduate days, I used to study "Art of Deception", wanted to became a security hacker one day.

Now my topic of interest has shifted. Nevertheless, that book still reminds me that human is still the weakest link in security chain. You don't have to be super smart in exploiting code.
Yeah seems like kangaroo tendons are much stronger than pig/cow ones. Per the article.
Absolutely! Fear of failure. Fear of success.
These anxieties are very common in startup founders. So it's better to identify them early so they don't get in your way.
Playbook to hit GitHub Trending List
Finally. It was a ridiculous limit
Can second that this is a very solid and reliable way to do any kind of migration, not just recovering from corruption. When possible being able to insert your own code in the middle of the transfer and shunt bad data to a dead letter queue is a life saver sometimes because the last thing you want to have happen is the xfer get stuck when it hits a pothole.
I never saw anything inspirational about what he did but it did highlight just how human fallilble our computer technology could be.

Could have got the message out in a better way but the story of him avoiding the law provides that sort of thriller plot line that engages people.
Maybe the star is a bigger publication than I’m aware of but it seems pretty hilarious for them to have a paywall.
Do you have a link? I'm not seeing one at toool.nl
I don’t even understand how this would work. The computer isn’t going to acquire information about what’s going on, do interviews, even monitor wire services for press releases. It could only possibly rehash other news articles, right?
I think it's more that he was one of the first/earliest to use technology to amplify his skills on a scale previously out of reach of most people. Coupled with the fact that he was way ahead of his opponents and a young man, it is quite understandable the path he took.no one is perfect, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
At a first glance, this looks like a variation of the Signal protocol to me, which seems great as a message-layer solution (i.e. a successor to OTR) – as long as the idea is not to bolt it onto RCS, like OTR was bolted on to various non-interoperable messaging protocols.

I’m quite happy to be mostly independent from telcos and phone numbers for my instant messaging; I really don’t want to go back to the bad old days of messengers supporting only one device per account and my account and address being tightly coupled to a phone plan/number.

“Google builds another messenger” is a joke at this point, but the reality of “Google delegates messaging to telcos” might just be worse.

Yes, iOS/iMessage and Android/RCS don’t interoperate and it’s very annoying, but not even Android (RCS) and Android (SMS, because there’s seemingly still uncountable edge cases disqualifying RCS in many given setups) interoperating is honestly unforgivable.
For future cases, the best strategy here is to call them the instant their phone lines open up. For a west coast person this can sometimes mean calling at 5am or something.
US judge finds flaws in artists' lawsuit against AI companies
Colleges aren't just trying to produce academics, they're happy to produce business, non-profit, and political leaders as well.
I think it's pretty amazing to be 57 and expecting a child. I'd be thrilled. I'm 54 no kids and I wish I could have great relationship with a woman that is so good we had a child. Seeing how sick he was and sterility is a possibility from cancer drugs I think Kevin would be thrilled about the child as anyone would be.
As a point of comparison, the average US oil well produces around 26 barrels a day, or 1.8MW.
In case your point is that using "less" instead of "fewer" for countable nouns is an example of unclear communication, let me disagree with the point.
I was recently stuck on the tarmac for nearly 3 hours over night. It was an awful experience (especially since they were unable to give us a real estimate, we kept hearing 15-30 mins for the entire duration). I would have much rather they simply cancel the flight than have to go through that.

The issue is that all these airlines are running things with much lower tolerance for variance in the system than they used to. They just don't have the resources to support that any more. Rather than lose money by being honest about what they can handle, they'll let passengers suffer. The reason is obvious: no matter how awful my experience so far, I'll continue to keep flying.

I suspect air travel will get worse until the limit case that it's so awful people start refusing to fly altogether.
> you will be very hesitant to accept results from a new paper they put on arXiv until your community has vetted the result.

Forgive my ignorance but I thought that was SOP for all papers. Is it not?
Thanks for the response, it is more than my facetious remark deserved! I don't particularly disagree with you, I was mostly observing (pedantically once again) that "commonly" is a bit of a stretch there; I think it would perhaps be more accurate to say that a society has a sort of skeleton or high-level overview of a moral & ethical system that is broadly agreed upon.
someone who became homeless because they don't make enough money is likely to come from a family that doesn't make much money.

someone who becomes homeless due to addiction is not likely to be supported by their family because people, in general, hate addicts. even well-off families often can't or won't afford to pay for the help the addict needs, or the addict needs more help than can be afforded, and eventually the family is likely to get sick of it and the addict is again homeless.

you might believe that these aren't the case, and I can't convince you, but the traditional family support network barely exists now and usually doesn't accomplish much when it does exist.
That isn't what causes turbulence. Turbulence is caused primarily by natural winds, especially near storms or mountains. There can also be momentary turbulence when passing through the wake of a large aircraft, but rules on separation haven't changed significant in years.

Commercial airlines don't shut off their engines and glide to land. ATC usually directs them to step down their altitude from cruise in increments until they intercept a cleared approach. Then they make a smooth, continuous descent with minor variations in power to stay on the assigned slope.
I really don't believe this at all. If it were true what motive would Snowden have to continue engaging publically well after the fact like he has?
>I suppose what I'm trying to say is, a lot of the anti-video game and anti-gambling crowd have started to sound more like a certain segment of people demanding others shouldn't have fun. It almost sounds like a new spin on "Video games are making violent children!" because that topic has gotten stale.

There's some merit here, but a lot of the push back comes from gamers as well.

I think it's as simple as any inevitable result when costs rise. This crowd of gamers are used to seeing games as cheap as $5 on sale and they are already up in arms about AAA titles charging $70 at launch. So there will always be some tension and push back against that. Even threats of piracy over what for a middle class first world citizen may at worst be a dinner date (not even a fancy dinner date these days, sadly). Hearing of someone paying double that for a single game on a reocurring basis sounds borderline insane.

Some may be because the gamers are young, so they literally have no income to buy games with and are impatient to wait for sales. Others may be compelled by that rising tension against "capitalism" as a whole and see these services as yet another example of big coporations invading their hobby.

I've long stopped trying to really express my POV in those spaces, so c'est la vie.
I know that Canada (where I live) has introduced the Air Passenger Protection Regulations[1] in 2019 (and making it better since then), which does have "tarmac delays" clauses[2]. IIRC, we modelled it after EU regulations.

[1] https://rppa-appr.ca/eng

[2] https://rppa-appr.ca/eng/right/tarmac-delays
Same here. I can’t explain why, but it feels like a more relaxed font and I really like it.
> they glide into land rather than stepping down to avoid turbulence

This does not sound coherent. Airliners consume more fuel lower down than higher up. And they definietly don’t “glide” them in the aviation sense.
My ex certainly wasn't boring. But they certainly were physically abusive. I don't believe that automatically qualifies someone as deserving of credit.
Jeez, lots of hate in the thread for some kids games.
Oh yeah, it must be in there. If you were to etch down to the chip with acid I’m sure you could see it.

Contactless has two forms. The old one is mag-stripe emulation. It would literally just respond with the information from the mag-stripes. It was exactly as secure as mag-stripe. Probably worse because you didn’t need to physically move the card over a read head.

That’s no longer supported in many (most?) modern cards. I know ApplePay refuses to do it. I think card brands have said to stop using it but I’m not positive.

The other mode (absolutely dominant in contactless) works through encrypted EMV tags the same as you get when using a physical slot. The order of things is a little different but it’s just as secure.
They seem to hook a lot of clever people. I always assumed it was some kind of weird tax dodge, but maybe Scientology doesn't get enough credit for their social engineering skills
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
As another ex-academic: maintenance is even bad for your career!

You're being evaluated based on how many papers you can publish, so the academic process selects for good (well, fast...) writers, not good coders. Papers are selected for novelty, so it's much easier to publish a paper based on a 'novel' algorithm than to publish a paper based on v2.0 of the algorithm. There might be novelty in the v2.0, but it's risky, reviewers and editors might not agree. There's always novelty in the v1.0 (well, it's academia, so it's more v0.1)
If you have Internet connectivity you can go to LiveATC.net and listen to communications between your pilots and the airport ground controllers. That will sometimes give you more accurate information about what's really happening.
And since the book itself is a work of fiction, it doesn't really tell us what will reality look like.
It’s not even a matter of open-sourcing the messaging app: Without a viable backend implementation (supporting federation etc.), there is no way to communicate!

Google seems to be stubbornly pushing RCS, but it’s clearly not working at least internationally.
Sitting on the tarmac and inhaling jet exhaust gases is dangerous.
I have had a better experience with the Chinese boards, personally. If you go for the $3-4 ones instead of the $0.50 ones, you will usually get something actually with genuine parts and better quality than a brand-name arduino.

My favorite clone has ESD protection on the pins, and I have never seen it get fried, which I have seen with a few genuine arduinos.
Yes, Blindsight is also the book that pointed me towards Metzinger’s Being No One.
We are unsure about the right license to use, so this is a great feedback. We had a MIT license one week ago that we know that we cannot hold on long term and we felt we were lying to the community by keeping an MIT license and changing it in one year.

By using AGPL, we feel it's the right level of restriction. It's the license used by Metabase for example (https://github.com/metabase/metabase) that many companies use internally.
Obviously, we don't want to restrict people to self-host the CRM for their own needs.
Yes, that's an option, but if you don't want that don't agree to such a job.
(it was a then-uncommon combo scanner/scale with error correction)
Depends on the prison, but if you're in maximum security prison, you may have bigger worries.
Yes. Writing is only a small part of journalism. AI cannot do reporting.
>say, something ethical—like shut down their company

If we're asking for utopic dreams I wouldn't mind ending world hunger while we're at it. Maybe get 99% of the world off of fossil fuels too.

Also, I'm still waiting for my jet pack.
Is there a fundamental reason that content that ranks high can’t also answer a user query crisply?

Is it just that no one has found a good way to do it yet or is it fundamentally impossible because of some google ranking thing?
You can own something on paper but end up having no control over it. So no, not only humans can own things.
My favorite quote on the subject is:

> Every great open source math library is built on the ashes of someone’s academic career.

From William Stein, lead developer of the computer algebra system, Sage: http://wstein.org/talks/2016-06-sage-bp/bp.pdf
Surprised nobody, and the article, mentioned RiotJS. It's maybe less framework and more library but, it is easy to make these little web-components. It's also one of those setState and repaint types. My primary drivers is that is easy to bolt into existing projects - so one can gradually add more dynamic features without the mega-rewrite-all-at-once-to-new-tools dance.
> greater hardware expense (because you need a beefier system just to run the OS) and reduced reliability.

Unlikely. The marginal cost is so low that a "beefier" but standard processor that's widely used is likely to be cheaper than a lower-powered but less-popular processor. And using a standard system that everyone else does is more likely to have the bugs ironed out.

I don't like it, but realistically unless you really need low power it's cheaper and simpler to get an extremely standard off-the-shelf RPi like system and slap whatever on it. The savings you can shave off by going smaller just aren't worth the effort.
Please see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36794762
Yep.

For example, I have a friend who is into ウマ娘 (Uma Musume - Horse Girls) by Cygames. It's a "horse racing" game with anime girls with horse ears. There's a whole ecosystem around it with several anime series, concerts with music from the game with the voice actors singing and dancing on stage, variety shows with the voice actors, YouTube channels, lots of limited edition merch you can win at convenience stores.

My friend (who only has a part time job and lives with her parents at age 25) has spent over $700 upgrading just one of her characters. "But she's so cute!"

https://umamusume.jp

https://anime-umamusume.jp

https://1kuji.com/products/umamusume7

https://umamusume.jp/event/gb5th/gaze/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWxPGGuIfWME2KTLUmSCHw

etc etc it never ends
I met Kevin in Chicago when he was hired to speak at a bank event that a friend got me into. His presentation was world class. He was quite a guy. Rest in peace.
The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War with China
Guys i appreciate the comment about EMV, I’m aware but it misses the point. They need to be _my_ keys, and ones _I_ can pick and verify. If you don’t generate the key, it’s not actually secure.

At minimum, EMV would need to be verifiable. Ideally rotatable. Best case: chooseable.
This was my first thought. Your kids start working on these puzzles and the next thing you know Yale and MIT are trying to recruit them.
It's not gambling because there is no randomness directly between an input and output (and subsequential outputs). Unless you want to argue that the lack of clear resolution of an item as chance (be it either due to lack of knowledge or testability).

For all intents and purposes it will be considered a direct purchase, and is also why microtransactions are an entirely different 'problem' from online gambling.
Pretty much all of OPs complaints are answered by AsciiDoc. I've used it for my books, docs, etc. It's fantastic and has amazing toolchain support in IDEs, GitHub, etc. The big (good) publishers use it as their standard (O'Reilly, Manning, etc.).
I'm curious how often you get people who know what POPCNT is with that question.
Ghost in the Wires is a good one too
Not disgusted enough to leave their job even though many are wealthy to extremely wealthy. Not disgusted enough to stop supporting Republicans.

I can understand someone who works at a newspaper and makes 70k a year so they have to report on sensational stories but Tucker Carlons net worth is $380~ million.

The key people at Foxnews were shocked and mad at the outrageous claims but for them the ends justify the means.
Because as much as I'd like a button to press to fix my problem, what that problem is, is material to what the LLM or customer service agent chooses to do, and the problem space of things that could possibly be wrong is way larger than any service can hope to program in a page for every single last possiblity.
This didn't seem right to me as intuitively thinner air would require much more power to move the same volume to propel you forward. My intuition fell apart based on the altitude which aircraft typically fly. Below typical cruise altitudes, the air resistance seems to overcome the additional thrust produced by the engines leading to lower fuel economy. It's not until you get above typical cruise altitudes that the are gets too thin to be effectively pushed by jet engines. In retrospect it makes sense because of course airlines are going to try to operate at the altitude which costs them the least amount of fuel. Go much higher or lower than those cruise altitudes and your fuel efficiency drops pretty quickly.
Yes, I think we first saw this with cigarette cards. And people did feel compelled to buy the cigarettes for a chance at completing a set. With todays understanding of gambling and addiction, I think the only thing stopping us calling it gambling is that it is not a big enough problem to investigate and legislate.

Anyone here get in trouble for digging through a box of cereal for the toy at the bottom?
I have a habit of rewriting code because it is hard for me to understand without doing this and frankly, it isn't uncommon for the algorithms to be different. But the most common thing is that a small one-liner is a critical component to making the model work. Sometimes this is a one-liner in the paper, sometimes this is a one-liner in the paper that they built their work on, of the paper they built their work on, of the paper they built their work on.

People building on top of one another's code definitely helps make projects get up and running faster, but I do wonder if it makes research faster and/or better. If a secret sauce gets lost in the game of telephone, it can be hard to know how much is the secret sauce. Especially when comparing to works that don't use that line. Sometimes the secret ingredient gets lost and similarly the gains. It's also not uncommon for this secret ingredient to not be known, or acknowledged. Especially if it is "well known" (won't be for long).
no but my cable was. My parents sure made sure I couldn't enter a password and buy those totally educational biology documentary channels I was curious about.

Even then, any and all payment options on my phone are bound to a password, I make sure I have to enter that password or fingerprint every single time.I do find it a bit strange that others, especially with young kids, wouldn't have similar securities. I'd probably be even more secure if I did.
Would there be a modern version of this? I haven't read it and I'm interested, but mostly my parents are getting old, and with AI on the corner, I fear a bit the next level scams.
> For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

Denying that there's a problem is one of the reasons that people are being turned off from the church entirely. Yes, plenty of churches have resisted the tide of hatred and embraced inclusivity, and I commend them. But when I accompanied my father to church while visiting him, I was dismayed to find that the new pastor had laced the sermon with anti-gay fearmongering. That's not coming from nowhere, and it is abetted by people who want to believe that there is nothing amiss.
> Better by what metric? It has not been my experience that instructional quality is in any way correlated with budget or prestige.

I can't explain why you haven't seen it, but it's quite prevalent due to the economy of educational resources.

Let's dispense with qualitative arguments and just talk about availability. For example, try to find a class for learning Farsi/Persian in Fullerton, CA. Community colleges don't offer them and the 2 professors that do have curriculum are either at a UC or part time (specific semester + year) at various State schools while they also teach, the more popular, Arabic. How many of each resource are allocated to how many of each school? There are limits and those limits are influenced by tangibles like salary, accomodations, etc.
Agree that the ownership of using a vulnerable 3rd party is on you. I would just categorize that as supply chain risk and not prompt injection.
Any player could start trolling the others at any time:

clarinetist-- play loud, continuous lyrical lines that noodle around whatever register the trumpet happens to be playing in

trumpet-- play continuous arpeggios

trombone-- play ska-style double-timing off-beats

tuba-- no roots of chords allowed. Bonus for playing continuous dotted quarters :)

Any combination of any of the above trolling will sound bad.
My understanding from someone who knows about this (please forgive my lack of knowledge as I am attempting to relay what they told me) was that they used to step down when going to land at fixed points to avoid turbulence and hold those levels.

The levels were picked to provide the customers a comfortable ride, based on reports from other planes and whatever other sources they have.

They have since been told to save on fuel and so don't do this, not "gliding" but lowering the thrust to save fuel when descending which exposes people to the rougher air for longer periods of time.

Please correct my understanding if this is not the case.
Yeah, sure. One bucketing emptying over time and then refilling as you change activities is completely different than a battery which depletes over time and then recharges.
There's something to be said about a defense of this that doesn't account for random sampling.

Assuming that they did a proper sample of said papers, that implies that for whatever domain they sampled, 26% is likely a decent estimate of actual issues. Increasing the scale doesn't make a proportional estimate any better.
For years I planned to get one by sending him the $10, but I never got around to do it…
You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.
Yeah I know, I wondered in the comment whether CEO might have written Mitnick a check
You can always justify behavior that causes someone else cost. Like the NYT with all their spyware?

Both queries are reasonable ones to make. A spies by default without proper consent, B blocks by default without consent.

Is this optimal? Can we do better?