skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's something like this

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Radeon%20RX%206600%...

Single fan, low profile, high cost.
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:) this is a good way to make web libraries, its educational, functional, and full of love for the standards
I do this now. There are plenty of chrome plugins to block domains from the results.
> > This is why we intend to build MLS into Google Messages and support its wide deployment across the industry by open sourcing our implementation in the Android codebase.

Are they talking about open-sourcing the whole messaging app, or only the MLS library used within it?
While the modern Internet has certainly changed how documentation is published, your suggested three-part breakdown seems as relevant today as it did when documentation was mostly delivered in print.

It's also worth pointing out that being able to skim comprehensive, reference-style documentation to get a general overview of a technology without getting bogged down in irrelevant-for-present-purposes detail is a useful skill to learn.

“As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one’s education) is the art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/theprinciplesofp00jameuoft/page/...
Sure, but we aren't discussing how everyone should just go teach journalism or the humanities.
Not the OP but I do run Teams on Apple Silicon and it is still a bug-ridden mess. Crashes, rendering bugs, file attachment bugs. At least once a week, usually more. Searches fail to find results that I can manually locate by scrolling through the chat history. I have reinstalled the app more than once.

I have shared these observations in their feedback pop ups and I know Microsoft loves collecting telemetry. Why should they dedicate more money/resources to fix defects when it clearly hasn’t stopped them from growing their market share?

Teams is the first example I use to begrudgingly explain to someone that quality doesn’t matter.
Close.com is already a great source of inspiration for their opinionated approach. We hope we can make the difference on UX in the short run and that community will bring much value for every user in the mid-run.
9 days later--but yeah, that's why I'm pretty sure this is a spurious popup. There's no way Apple would show a popup with an internal service process name to a user.
Oh man, oh man. This is heart-breaking. Even though I never met Kevin IRL, he was always something of a.. well, maybe not a "role model" exactly, but certainly an inspiring character in many regards. Some of my earliest forays into the world of phone phreaking and related activities were inspired by the stories I read about Mitnick and his crew out in LA, in Markoff and Haffner's book Cyberpunk. For a while me and some of the guys I ran with would use the word "Kevin" as a sort of code-word for this stuff to avoid telling our parents any more than necessary about what we were doing

"Where are you going to night boys?"

"Oh, we're going to hang out with Kevin."

(this meant a night of trashing telco dumpsters, fucking around with payphones, and various other dubious activities)

"Oh, OK. Well, be careful."

That sort of thing.

Wow. Never saw this coming. I didn't even know he'd been ill.

Anyway... RIP, Mr. Mitnick. May there be clueless operators to social engineer, on "the other side".
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Indeed, translation is often overlooked use case for LLMs in English forums. Let's not forget that the Transformer model originated from Google Translate. It's also quite useful for improving broken English to a more acceptable standard.

My comment above is translated from my broken English to simple native-ish English by GPT-4.
Serious question: why revere Mitnick, but not someone like SBF? Mitnick is admired for his technical skill and social engineering prowess, but the same argument could be made that SBF is also exceptional in this regard on an even larger scale. Both are (alleged) criminals. Genuinely curious what makes Mitnick morally good in the eyes of HN. Was it his redemption arc as a “white hat”?
Dont know about OP, but in my place, India, Whatsapp is lifeline of society. Wedding invites, sales pamphlets, news, wishes, purchases, money transfer, book sales, car rentals, friends to friends money transfer, progress reports, school communication to parents, 100s of types of clubs, almost everything gets sorted on Whatsapp. The activity which gets limited by Whatsapp (like members in group, need bot etc) moves to Telegram.
We have mainly chosen to use JS on the frontend and on the backend to lower the learning curve for people that would want to contribute / extend it to their own needs.
Then typescript (with its limitations!) it our best shot on top of JS, especially as we are using GraphQL
RIP my friend.
Everything Markoff ever wrote was untrue.

https://youtu.be/3zgLHEqIlJg?t=528
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Mods, Any idea why my submission yesterday didn’t supersede this one?

It’s the exact same URL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774063
Bill is clearly still picking up the phone. He'd likely be amenable to picking up a paycheck as well.
ssh-agent forwarding does have some use cases with hardware keys. However, most people aren't using hardware keys.
Because _one_ person affiliated with DORA behaved badly we should dismiss their research findings? Does that still sound reasonable to you after being spelled out? I really detest this attitude.
yo if people like looked at an actuarial table they'd have a better idea what that means
How would he have known the CEO's bank account number? Did the CEO write him a check at some point? Or maybe a bank's CEO traditionally gets account number 1…
Storytime:
He randomly came over for dinner while cruising around LA with a friend of a friend, aaages ago... asked if I had a disposable tablecloth, luckily yes. Orders like 10 entrees/appetizers/desserts for delivery for just the 3 of us.
Over a few hours picking at food, drinking case of beer etc., the entire table was covered in tech gibberish, diagrams, code etc. Really wish I saved that, but at the time I was like "who IS this guy?" and it was a disgusting mess. I do recall appreciating that level of openness and bonding, and have never had such an experience with anyone else like that in the industry since then.
RIP
I don't normally get inflammatory but you are a consummate moron.
I got the i5 8gb version for $62 off of eBay for Home Assistant after seeing rpi4 prices. Very cool system in such a compact size at an unbeatable price.
The offering by OP is a fairly common and accepted structure, and this seems like an unwarranted nitpick?

Another org with a similar offering is Elastic, who offer Elasticsearch as a "Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine" per the Github repo. No-one is going to be complaining that they don't offer their full platform under an open source license.

Offering a self-hosted version of your core product with an appropriate license is standard fare.
Well, JavaScript has no simple way to react to an assignment like count = count + 1 without introducing some magic between the code you write and the final code that runs in the browser. Svelte is only able to achieve that experience because it has a compilation step, but React does not; hence why setState() is necessary and why people argue it's more "just JavaScript" because the code you write is pretty much the final code that runs (aside from the transpilation necessary to convert JSX syntax into JS, but this doesn't alter the way that anything works).

This isn't to make any kind of judgement on either approach though, I personally really enjoy the DX that Svelte offers.
This was my favorite font ever, made me stop font hopping...until I found that italic A and italic O are too similar, now I'm back to don't hopping.
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I didn't know him personally, do you have any stories you can share?
> In video games, when you make an in-game purchase for instance, the money is gone

This isn't really true for any games that I'm aware of. Some games allow you to sell the skins for money (CS:GO), and for the rest you can sell the account. It's likely against ToS, but unlikely to be enforced. People selling WoW accounts with high-level characters and top-end equipment has existed since I can remember.

> If, as in casino games, there is hope for you to get your money back, and more, there is temptation to play just to cover your losses, which will eventually result in a downwards spiral. That is, you already can't pay the bills, so you take a loan to play more.

That's just someone rationalizing an addiction. It's probably a better rationalization than the people making in-game purchases they can't afford have, but both groups would almost have to be addicted first to even tell themselves something like that.

I don't believe a rational person without an addiction would gamble with their rent money. I definitely don't believe that they could then be convinced the best way to get out of the hole is to keep doing the thing that got them into the hole in the first place.

Once someone has gotten to that point, the money doesn't matter. They'll gamble with money they don't have, and they won't stop if they somehow manage to win enough to break even. It doesn't matter whether they're up or down, the answer is always gambling.

Anyone who has passed a middle school math class knows that gambling is as much of a money pit as in-game purchases, there's just more steps involved. The house always wins, after all.
The other thing is that there's no meaningful leaderboard or PVP situations. Some gamers will whale to acquire or preserve a position as #1-on-the-charts, so hyperoptimizing for single player doesn't scratch that itch, unless you're doing some Rube Goldberg setup like self-promoting video streams demonstrating your overpowered build.

I've tossed a little money (probably about USD40 over three years) on Genshin, but I'd rather express my attachment to characters by buying an Arataki Itto oppai mousepad off of Aliexpress. TBH, I found my interest waning when I realized I had a sufficiently capable team of characters I liked, so there wasn't really any reason to go chasing characters I didn't want.
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That is literally how their search ranking team works. Here is a search strategy, here is another. Tell me which is better based on a bunch of random queries.

For spammy websites, you don’t review every one individually. But you have an algorithm that e.g. downranks them, and you AB test it.

They probably already have this strategy now, just not deployed for one reason or another. (For example, it might be expensive and unreliable to scan every website.) But if Google loses enough traffic to a competitor, they’ll be forced to do something.
> You either Play the game or you Die.

And given the game is won by the highest bidder, all of the surplus created by technical progress goes to advertising which, as you point out, adds zero value and, in fact, detracts from rational agents making optimal decisions.

This is /exactly/ the kind of market failure where those of us who prefer smaller government want to start talking about appropriate regulation.
damn i missed this! do you know if its possible to still get one of those???
I've noticed this. I've had a paid subscription since GPT4 dropped but I'll probably cancel this month. Anyone got suggestions for a replacement? Preferably something that is like ChatGPT4 was on release day.
It doesn’t matter who the Gerber Baby really is. Society has chosen to associate the Gerber Baby with certain attributes regardless of who the person behind the photo really is, and so it is with Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick, the real person, excelled at social engineering more than any other trait and was arguably subjected to malicious prosecution. But in his later years, there’s a lot of documentation online indicating that he didn’t live up to the myth that grew around him and he was not a pleasant person [1].

People here are mostly reminiscing about Mitnick--the myth, not the man.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/uk6wgd/why_d...
I can't say enough about how influential Kevin has been in every decade, continually staying at the head of the snake of hacking. I am so lucky not just for how he inspired me in my youth, but how he relit the fire of security paranoia in the last decade when I was fortunate to work for an organization he hacked (by contract).

All software engineers are now more vulnerable with Kevin gone. Stay paranoid friends, now more than ever.
What in the world. That's really young to go. I really did not expect this guy, being just one generation away, to have died.
Yahoo, back in the days before Google, was a manually curated search engine. They had a team of people doing the indexing work and creating the database from which the search engine pulled results. In principle, this avoids SEO spam because the manual curators aren't going to add spam sites to the index. Reddit functions similarly because, in principle, users aren't going to upvote spam posts.
Reading how he did social engineering was a huge influence on me... basically, taught me how to interact with normies.
The language is thick as well as rambling. It's obfuscation. Huge sentences a human would attempt to break up for clarity ramble on. It does feel like someone apeing writing "a big fancy soundin' science paper." It's hitting that uncanny valley of writing for me.
The term "hacker" describes someone skilled at tricking systems into doing what they can't. Mitnick was not only one of the first popular hackers he also had many famous exploits. His arrest was a major rallying cry for the hacker community at large (now known as the overly corporate "infosec community"). There's no redemption arc. You do not need to do what society considers "good" to be considered righteous.

There's no such thing as objective moral and ethical good. To me, Mitnick is a hero deserving of the highest praise. He inspired myself and many others to get started in this world. It may be difficult to understand if you didn't come into computers in the late 80s/90s.
Sounds like a reference to Mixture of Experts
Pardon my tasteless skepticism, but are we sure this isn't a social engineering trick of his yet?
Yep. I'm familiar with the issues around the veracity of that book. That isn't really the point. Back in 1995 that was pretty much all we had to go on, and Mitnick still became a hero to a bunch of us.

In the subsequent years I've read all of Kevin's books, as well as pretty much all the other books written about his life, and watched the various movies and documentaries that dealt with his story. It seems like Markoff was kind of a dick and frankly contributed to some of Kevin's problems. Sad. :-(
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I managed to beat level 7, but I have no idea how to proceed for the bonus level.
Close! Was in a meeting and needed to see the behavior of a system when passed a string greater than 64 char.

My mental capacity was used elsewhere - using chatGPT let me answer an important customer question authoritatively.
I would imagine this is more common that we know or expect. The incentives are too great and university administrators exist is such large numbers that cheating your way into those positions must be a common tactic for 50% of the people in those positions.
You might want to feel like the biggest fish in a small pond and not a middle-sized fish in a big one.
I've got a RTL SDR on order, and I plan on using it with SDR#. Mainly I will be exploring the radio airwaves, seeing what's out there. I just wish there was an inexpensive SDR that would also transmit, especially for amateur radio frequencies.
Sounds like your geography is very similar to mine, fellow gulf coaster/swamp dweller. I know my house sits on a bunch of piles as well, though I don’t know how deep they go. I would guess it’s likely less than 50’, though maybe not.
I think you're spot on.

I have a journalism + mass communications bachelor's, but only because I dropped out of the CS program -- too much math. Once I had mouths to feed, I couldn't make it work financially as a journalist, so I started freelance in software and my career has grown from there.

The communication skills, and more critically, the understanding of how information is gathered and disseminated in groups (i.e. mass comms) is by far my biggest strength. That foundational understanding has served my career far more than any of the programming classes I took before switching majors.
Right. If we didn't have ads, then nobody would illegitimately get traffic to go to their website LOL total crap who comes up with this shit

Have you seen a 419 scam? Doesn't have any ads. Just a direct intro to get scammed.
As a foreigner quite integrated into Japan (living here for over 5 years, married to Japanese, working at a Japanese company), I have also succumbed to 建前 (Tatemae; 'built in front', going around what's 'built in front'. around the bush?). 本音 (Honne; 'real sound') is just what people do in the West (speak their true thoughts), but not so much in Japan. As the article mentioned, people you (at long last) become more than 知り合い (shiriai; common acquaintances) or people with power will often speak abruptly (as 本音 is felt as such). Even so, it took my wife a bit of training to break out of her shell. Now, she can cuss me out in English without hesitation :)

建前 (I'd even consider it brown-nosing sometimes) is something I think that bugs many foreigners living in Japan, as it does me because it's done so commonplace here. I'm starting to do it (unknowingly, but probably from positive-feedback) just for the amount of gregariousness it brings. I would even go further to say that Japanese language it self is blemished in 建前 because of the culture's apprehension towards conflict and directness.

My mere observation.
I had a morning meeting today, and found myself mouth full of 建前.
I have a feeling that "need to have solitude" and "need to not feel too lonely" are completely different needs. If the lonely feelings get strong enough, they'll outweigh the need for solitude.

To use a crude analogy, you can be both thirsty and busting to go to the toilet the same time.
I am pretty sure OP is referring to the ability for an individual, logged in user, to maintain a list of "don't show me results from these domains" on their Google account.
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Jung may have invented the words, but he does not own them. Most will encounter the terms in the context of the Big Five model because Jung's theories have limited relevance today.
Look how easily this was derailed from a wildly popular reform bill that you probably want to people hating on Hawley. You do have to admire Pelosi, she and the hundreds like her in power really do have us and get our support despite what we /know/ they are very deftly. How is Feinstein doing nowadays?
That certainly sounds like what someone who agrees with Dr. Conrad, and has the same axe to grind, would say.
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How many men are having their first child at 57? I’ll be well under 57 when my oldest child is 23.
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You can restrict keys when added so that they are only available on specific hosts: https://www.openssh.com/agent-restrict.html
The post mentions Dutchman Stu Sjouwerman as a close friend. Kevin was partnered with Stu in the security company KnowBe4.

Stu is a dedicated Scientologist, and has donated millions and millions of dollars to that corrupt organization. I know because I served in the Scientology Sea Org and knew Stu when he was on “OTVII”. This was before KnowBe4, but he was still something of a big donator. He really hit it big with KnowBe4 and became one of the few whales still funneling massive amounts to the church.

I found out about the connection between Stu and Kevin while I was working as a developer for a tech company. One day we started getting those security tips and tricks emails, white labeled so they looked like they came from our own AppSec team. At the end of the emails it ended with the line “the price of freedom is constant alertness, constant willingness to fight back”. A direct quote from L Ron Hubbard and one Scientologists (and former Scientologists like me) know well. After digging deeper I found out they were coming from KnowBe4 and saw Kevin listed on the site as being a partner.

Business relationship aside, after reading Ghost, you get the sense that Kevin would not and could not stop hacking. Maybe he matured and that urge dulled but I always wondered if he ever did some covert snooping into what Stu was up to with Scientology. The Sea Org computer and communication systems are ancient (they still use pagers for some things!). It would have been a blast for someone like him to compromise their systems. And they are right there in Clearwater down the road from KnowBe4 headquarters…

Posting with throwaway because I ain’t tryna win a covert Scientology harassment and stalking op and have my family disown me which happens to virtually every former member who speaks out publicly.
Sad to see. Pancreatic cancer is one of the scary ones, since there are so few symptoms before you hit stage 4.

For those who haven't seen it, Freedom Downtime is a movie by the 2600 gang which is mostly about Mitnick's imprisonment, and the whole Free Kevin movement.

(I wonder who wrote the obituary, it's especially wide-ranging, and poetic in parts.)
Last I checked, you cannot withdraw money from a steam account like you can a checking account. Has this changed?
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Google no longer returns or even indexes "millions" of pages.
IMO the proper way to frame comparison is science from 1/6 of the globe (mandarin) vs science from 1/5 of globe (english). The entire narrative US/west can draw from the globe greatly overstates how many eligible English speaking candidates are actually available for western bloc to draw from. It’s not the entire pie, but 1/5 of the pie, while some share of that pie are also PRC nationals. Per the linked CIA factbook.

Most spoken language English 18.8%, Mandarin 13.8%

Most spoken _first_ language Mandarin 12.3% vs English 5.1%

The short/medium term competition is 14% of native mandarin speakers vs 5% native english speakers + 13% non native speakers of different fluency. Long / very long term (2050-2100), Mandarin speakers will likely decline to 1/12 of the world, while English speakers will likely increase, maybe 1/4 of the world. But Ultimately only a fraction of talent is properly captured and exploited, so it really depends on state policies, i.e. PRC graduates STEM at 2x the rate of the US or 8x more graduates per year, more than west taking in talent via brain drain. Hence IMO enough to rival English, which is the best PRC can hope for because displacing English with Chinese is too culturally difficult.
Fascinating, thanks. Do you happen to know what material they used for the piles? I’ve always assumed some kind of concrete column, but that seems possibly incompatible with the process you saw.
+1, he was a figurehead of computer science and technology, he should get the black banner.
Surely we can agree that the growth of a key utility in the early 2000s is pretty different from the growth of an entertainment app in 2023. The poor quality of users acquired through a moment like the one that Threads just had is pretty well understood.