skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the 'whole of agency' funding thing doesn't really make sense.

Look at all the budgets, they dip, slightly, around that time then continue their upward or stable trends, as least publicly. Maybe the NSA really did get a budget win in the years post 2013.

Regardless, it was just too good to be true, tho, as a leak. Don't you think?

I think the most likely scenario is, it was a "false flag" "own goal"/self-inflicted wound, that then necessitated useful and remunerative healing and mending by restructuring and getting congress back on their side. Probably hastily executed in response to some looming threat: like they were going to merge NSA with some other agency, aggressively restructure, etc.

So, from one point of view, yes, Snowden is a patriot and a hero for playing the role of patsy in a scheme to save the US intelligence community from muddleheaded regulators, or whomever. But from another point of view, the conventional "public" one, if that's true, he's not.

But, the way it was designed is very clever: everybody wins! Public gets happy that they are now more safe and private. IT sector gets happy with a new shiny product "privacy". Defence and intelligence gets happy because they have to be "saved" by congress from the damage done by the leaks to vital national security.

Who knows maybe there was even an aspect of long game preparation to raise public awareness about privacy to prevent the eroding away of US internet company customer base by Chinese competitors thrown into the mix?
I don't care if you blow your money on casinos and crack, I just want the Google Play games section to not be 99%+ casinowares with the aesthetics of children's games.
It’s real. I’ve seen it.

They can’t get their internal silos to work together on a single project, so they have each silo make services for the others to use in service of the project they’re trying to make that needs multiple teams.

But… all the same problems come up. Teams building to their requirements and not what the consumers need, refusal to cooperate in design/requirements/etc, scheduling issues or project priority issues.

“Microservices are cool and what Google does and will help us avoid our organizational issues” is very loosely paraphrased from what I heard as the exact pitch for why it was being used.
Please follow the link. You should be able to group it, colour code it and isolate them. For example, I have different colours for different different containers. I can also open only container designated websites in it. For example, if I am in facebook container and I open google websites, it can switch the google tab to google container. There are so many things you can do with it.
it's a public key
The airline made the choice to put people in an overheating plane for 3 hours instead of the terminal.

Of course they don’t have control over the weather but they do control how they react to it.
> You can declaratively pass objects between web components in every web components library out there like Lit or Stencil.

They capitalized Web Components, I think they're talking about what browsers natively support and not a library or framework.
There's at least 3 prongs there.

PvP - someone will use it against me

PvE - someone will do it better than me

and EvP - it will take something away from our human experience

None of those really capture the weight of tradition though. Loss of control is a hard pill to swallow. Feels better to keep on doing the old thing that kinda works, instead of the new unknown.
I just don't see a reason to pick a fight if the status quo is "everybody wins".

Billionaires get to send their kids to good schools and everyone else at the school gets their education subsidized by those billionaires voluntarily.

The only difference I can see with using taxes is that the billionaires' kids don't get to pick their school, and the government now has to waste time and effort collecting and auditing those tax dollars.

I don't see a gain that's worth the effort. They can still donate money to the school or its employees if they want to influence the school's policy, or maybe just make some phone calls to accomplish the same.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that billionaires have a lot of advantages that we should try to even out, but this feels like picking a fight for the sake of it. There are better things to try to fix in the world.
Oh, this isn't in any way a new thing. They've been pulling this shit for probably over a decade now.

Naturally the whole time they've tried to paint themselves as innocent victims, and wouldn't people PLEASE just try running the malware themselves to find out it's all an innocent misunderstanding.

Meanwhile, the several in-depth analyses of the various "extra" payloads delivered by their installer always come to: "It's 100% malware, delivered using evasion techniques that try to avoid system/virus detection, and have no place in legitimate software. DO NOT use this".

Please don't fall for their bullshit.
Llama 2 RLHF models might be even more censored and overly aligned than ChatGPT
Lutris makes playing blizz games a breeze if you’ve not attempted it, however having a unified experience is that dream.
You are the bank
That's pretty much the premise of the article.
Affirmative action was voted down even in California when it came on the ballot, so an argument to democracy here goes against you.
Yeah, it's hard to Google with that name. I have put together a page with info about the language https://jprogr.github.io/mini-resources
Google flights is the best starting point. But during and post-covid, it's really recommended book directly with an airline. A travel agency will likely take half a day to rebook you after a cancellation, but an airline will put you on the next flight. Definitely don't book 2 separate tickets with 2 airlines to save money, because it's still pretty likely one flight will be cancelled/delayed and you will get stuck.

Check driving/transit to nearby airports instead of flying from your city. In North America this may give you a few more options and rarely worth it. In Europe this unlocks many deals.

Check multi-city options. Made-up example: Compare [Paris-New York-LA-New-York-Paris] to [Paris-New York-Paris (plus a separate booking of New York-LA-New York] to [Paris-New York-Paris].

Forget about maximizing points for your personal bookings. In my experience in the last few years, they are almost useless for individuals compared to taking the best option/airline on case-by-case basis. They only make sense for business travelers that can take expensive flights for business and then leverage the points for personal travel.

If you just want to travel when you see an opportunity, "Scott's cheap flights" or a regional alternative is worth looking into.
Just do a Google search for FileZilla and malware. It's been an issue for many years now, and lots of people have written about it.
If anyone is curious about the "Butadiene Product Stewardship Guidance Manual" referenced in the video, it's free: https://www.americanchemistry.com/industry-groups/olefins/re...
USDOT has some rules re tarmac delays "For flights departing from a U.S. airport, airlines are required to begin to move the airplane to a location where passengers can safely get off before 3 hours for domestic flights and 4 hours for international flights." from https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer... but it looks like they fell within the 3 hour cap, plus there's probably no monetary penalty to passengers as you propose.
Exactly. The problem will be solved.

A route that regularly has multi hour delays on the tarmac due to congestion at terminal should not exist.

If the service is being offered it better be capable of being rendered.
Which forum? May I have a link?
Such people now become entrepreneurs, with the same types of rewards and addictions.
This is hilarious - I flew United recently for the first time in 2-3 years. And good lord, I thought it had been bad before, but somehow the potential was there for it to become worse than I ever could have imagined. Surly crew, comically dreary cabin, unimaginably terrible “food,” and approximately one drink service per three hours of flight. The only saving grace was that recline seemed to be broken on many of the seats, so at least the legroom wasn’t terrible.

I never had a, uh, opportunity to fly Aeroflot, but this is a lot what I imagine it must have been like.

I hate the Southwest cattle call, but it’s a no-BS consistent experience… if they happen to fly where you want to go without having to make two connections and a non-plane-change extra landing. And Delta still somehow seems to be a generally nice experience, though that only really works for me if I’m flying to one of their hubs.
Here we're talking about a proportion significantly less than 1%.
The balance and 5v5 and Role Queue. It’s fascinating how closely it parallels the official forums.
It’s not forcing, it’s a choice that moving implies. I have felt that a country is like a religion and moving is converting. You wouldn’t expect your parishioners to meet you halfway. A country shouldn’t just be a zipcode you happen to.

I grew up as part or diaspora and still know people who have refused to mingle with the host country and just keep to out ghetto, or as we call “the colony”
I don't think it's a huge "hypothetical" distance to cover for an intelligence organization, perceiving itself to be existentially threatened, to resort to the types of operations it is known for in order to protect itself.

Your second point tho I don't understand, 'hypothetical in degree for the CIA,NSA,FBI to be "actually no longer the bad guys we know they were despite zero accountability for it" Each of those things isn't impossible, right? It'd be nice if the latter could be made true because accountability actually existed for brazen criminality.'

Can you explain more? How are CIA, FBI related to this? Also, it seems you mean it could have been a factional thing: some faction wanted to shake things up because they weren't happy with the criminality (except the criminality was not the spying on the public type, but much worse), and this was their lever?

I think if it was factional, a more banal reason is more likely, e.g: General A didn't like that General B's division was going to get funding for Project Y instead of General A's Project X, so A organized this leak to make General B's division look like klutzes, and ensure General A would get the funds for her project.

But it just seems a bit over the top for people in the shadows to blow their whole modus operandi with a public expose for some factional thing. I think it's more likely it was very much sanctioned from the top and "whole of agency" in essence.

But maybe that's not what you mean! :)
I’ve never really thought about, but I’m in the first group for sure.

I’m also someone that likes getting the most out of a basic set of tools or features. A less is more kinda person.

Although I’m old skool Mac OS so I need some kind of GUI.
> It has to do with correcting specific and massive historical wrongs in which our government was complicit, not lifting up disadvantaged people generally.

And I tuned out. I’m not paying for the sins of our fathers.
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Ghost in the wires was a fantastic read. Rip
React and Redux both have similar addons as well, to inspect the component tree and to see the state changes over time (and even roll back; "time travel debugging" has been one of Redux's primary features since it was released).
I watched the whole video, and missed any discussion of obvious safety mechanisms (beside the recommendation for remotely operated isolation valves). How about monitoring mechanisms. Every pipe leg should have a remotely sensed pressure gauge. If there is a significant pressure difference at different ends of a pipe (more than expected of a pressure drop during flow), not explained by a valve being closed in the middle of a pipe, that is a blockage.

There must be surely be ways of detecting popcorn polymer buildup without opening the pipe. Some kind of acoustic reflection or whatever. If we can detect a stud behind drywall with a five dollar device, surely we can tell whether there is popcorn polymer inside a pipe?
Wall Street banks spend over $1B on severance costs amid sharp job cuts
https://archive.is/Z1kqG
how well does this actually pan out for you?
Saving fuel seems highly likely to me.

My understanding is that's the cause of the additional turbulence you see these days, since they glide into land rather than stepping down to avoid turbulence. I think they also have planes more tightly packed now subjecting you to more wind vortex from the other planes.
The constraints of performance and whatnot limited the options for Rust's async model. It's not bad given the constraints, but it's not great, and how developers use async Rust vs. Go matters even knowing this.
https://news.wisc.edu/decades-on-bacteriums-discovery-feted-...

Taq polymerase is about my favorite thing discovered through basic research. Just some scientists looking at interesting stuff in a Yellowstone geyser, who happened to discover the molecule that enabled DNA replication in a lab and essentially exploded the field.

No corporation these days is going to pay somebody to do that. I think it's worth the risks to get something like that.
The pilot should be held responsible for the welfare of his passengers.
The CIA will continue to be funded no matter what PR they conduct, just like intelligence agencies continue to be funded in every industrialized country in the world.
This is half the price of a 16GB 4080, and 1/3 the price of a 24GB 4090. Is it worth it for running LLaMa/Vicuna LLMs?
Most modern Asian mobage ("gacha" as they call it. Short for "gachapon/gashapon" inspired by the gumball machine esque toy of the same name) are like that these days. They are well past the days where they focus on selling solutions to hard levels.

They can "simply" create an entire culture around a game or even individual characters and use that parasocial relationship to grip players. Within the game with stories and bond mechanics and whatnot, and outside the game with animation, merch, Youtube personalities (as it's called today, Virtual Youtubers, or "VTubers"), and even concerts. And I didn't even get into the fanart side of this.

It makes for better game design at least. but what they are doing is much larger thinking than those old school arcade grift strategies.
I remember that lecture very well and thought about it a few days ago.
I don't know, but there's an excellent possibility those drawings are in the public domain...
This is so naive, I don’t know where to start.

Fresh water is not that big of a deal, it’s plentiful and cheap in most places. Desalination works really well, look at Israel.

Cars are required for most people to live their lives and make a living. I don’t know how you expect we’ll just magically do without.
Total numbers are anything but in decline. Unfortunately though, we seem incapable of correctly managing the required culling and puts pressure on the more endangered species rather than the intended ones. And there are disagreements about the methodology used to count the population numbers and thus the number that need culling.

The meat is available for human consumption, but often isn't stocked due to consumer boycotts. So most of the meat from culling ends up as dogfood or wasted. Maybe this will change with Australians embracing traditional culture more, but for now 'eating the national animal' horrifies many who will stick to their non-native farm animals.

The leather is great, used for top-tier foot ware and sporting equipment like footballs. But this is being replaced with synthetic materials, driven by consumer ethical concerns again. Most of those concerns seem driven by problems in the culling industry, and the horrific news articles it generates fairly regularly.

Bone as usual goes to fertilizer.
He was interviewed by one of the local TV stations today: https://abc7news.com/stanford-theo-baker-university-presiden...
> We do?!

Yes, generally it's the legal system we live under. When you boil it down laws are technically just an encapsulation of the larger view society takes on issues of morality.

Now, you may not agree with every law. I don't. But I think most people would agree stealing, killing, etc are bad. This is sort of what I was getting at with a commonly agreed upon moral and ethical framework. People expect you not to kill from, or steal from them, or whatever else. If someone killed your son/daughter/wife/husband/etc your framework might justify seeking revenge. You'd run afoul of societies agreed upon framework but consistent in your own. Does that make you evil? Not necessarily. Perhaps society would think you are though. It's interesting when you think about things that way. How far afoul of the agreed upon framework can you run before you end up having more people hate you than love you.
The third sentence of the linked article tells us that his wife is pregnant.
I called United recently with a question about a $1200 flight credit that was evidently unusable, seemingly due to an apparent failure in one of their systems. I called the customer service line and guffawed out loud when the automated voice told me the wait time was over two hours.

2 hours and 45 minutes later, I gave up. You win, United. Enjoy the $1200 from my Covid flight cancellation. I guess I figured I’d at least get to use it given that whole $50 billion bailout, but I guess you needed the money more than I did.
I played a lot of Chopin, especially the Nocturnes, although none to perfection, and other classical music. That gave me a solid background in music theory, I do believe you could learn all the basics from playing Chopin and thinking about the music.

As an aside, music skill (and many other skills) can be divided into Reading and Writing. Reading consists of either actually reading sheet music, or Playing by Ear. Writing is executing what is in your mind. In the context of improvisation, it's coming up with those things to execute in the first place.

To be honest, I am a good Reader, but a poor Writer myself, and still in the beginning of this part of my journey. I love listening to jazz, and playing along, but devising my own melodies is almost beyond the current me. But what's great about music is that every day you practice is one that you get better.
My next question is how did this organization get the security clearances required to know what missile defenses we have?
AGPL is always scary. If I integrate your CRM code into my tech stack, technically I may need to make my tech open source, per AGPL. Thats dangerous.
Ironically there’s nothing teamy in Teams in our team - just 1 to 1 chat and massive isolation.

Compare it to Slack here you can safely meme in #random…
>Why addict yourself to something your counterparty has every incentive to abuse you over?

sorry if this answer sounds dismissive, but well: "because it's fun". I don't think myself as that strong an addict, though. So if it starts feeling not fun I simply quit spending, and likely quit altogether.

>Or as I asked in terms of my EVE Online experience, "Am I actually enjoying every moment of playing, or am I doing work I don't enjoy just so that I can get something?"

that's honestly an interesting question in and of itself. Because real life can have that analog too. Especially for an MMO like Eve. There may not always be times where I want to go out with friends, but I want to keep good relations, so I can put up with it until/unless I really can't make that plan.

I imagine guilds in MMOs have similar incentive. At some point you make genuine friends and you're there for them more than the daily grind itself. It's a means to gather friends together.
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I disagree with their risk ranking matrix. The controversial cell is "Prompt Injections" / "3rd Party LLMs". It says: "Medium risk. While the risk exists, the responsibility of fixing this is on the LLM provider."

No. The responsibility of using a vulnerable 3rd party component is always on you, unless there is a clause in the contract that says otherwise (and even then it might not apply or can be found illegal and void). Case in point: the payment info leak from ChatGPT in Italy was entirely due to a bug in a third-party component, redis-py, used by them.

Also, the concept of owning the LLM is used a lot, but not explained in sufficient detail. I don't see a sufficient level of distinction between LLMs both trained and used in-house and LLMs trained by 3rd parties but with the inference going on in house.
Lol my wife is the same and it drives me nuts. She will say go get me "x". I'm like where? And then she'll say "the closet" or something like that and I'll have to ask "which closet" and so on.
Well I’m crying. Kevin was my hero for so many years growing up and inspired me to do nearly everything I’ve done. I met him at The Last HOPE so many years ago and I feel so privileged for that opportunity.

RIP Kevin, we’ll miss you so much.
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His recent enterprise, KnowBe4, was doing security training for companies, trying to make the internet safer! So you could say we're less safe with him gone :(
Hard when ignoring the labels kills them before they can be punitively assigned the task I guess.
Can you give an example? What you're saying sounds interesting, but I don't understand. What kind of conflicts did they catch?
This is an extremely insensitive time and place to troll. Shame on you.
I recently flew international for the first time since 2019. Boston to Taipei, which normally takes 25 to 30 hours, door-to-door, and cost between $1200 and $1500 pre-Covid, took 83 hours after multiple delays. This was a $2000 ticket too.

The worst part was rebooking at JFK for an international airline with insufficient local capacity and ground staff. And then getting the runaround on hotel reimbursements.
Well, it was just the one time.
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Rest in peace. Like many others here, Mitnick was an inspiration to me when I was younger, believe he truly embodied the hacker ethos. “Ghost in the wires” is a fantastic and fun read.
I know, right?

“Sterrett said it was vital that all drones were recovered and that similar shows did not take place over water until there was an assurance the same thing would not happen again.”

So the alternative is that all future drone displays must take place over… land? That seems… suboptimal… in the event of similar mass failure.

And while I am truly sorry for the aquatic wildlife adversely affected by a few hundred pounds of lithium falling on their habitats, is this even in a part of the river that provides drinking water? That seems like that would be the primary risk, but I can’t imagine that’s the case in any area densely populated enough for a drone display.
I would be very much interested in reading more about this, do you have any good articles you could point me to?
you are literally powerless to make them do anything.

this is known as impotent range.
"Go to any major US city, there are large parts of it cordoned off to people of specific ethnicities" - this seems like a you problem. In my experience, people in ethnic enclaves tend to be very to people of other ethnicities.
The pricing is for the cloud version: you can use it for free if you stay under 100 contacts.
Self-hosting is completely free!
As someone who worked on publicly funded grants, I find this attitude repulsive.

Everyone who receives money from public coffers owes that public a service mindset. The arrogant self-importance in academic science is inexcusable and reason IN ITSELF for de-funding the entire enterprise.

> are they so full of themselves to think they can profit from modern life for free like a parasite?

How ironic.