skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Threads are the new stories.
OpenSSH Forwarded SSH-Agent Remote Code Execution
You're X-acerbating the issue.
Much of the salts come from decades of excessive agricultural runoff from beyond wasteful irrigation practices that still continue to this day. Mainly because Colorado river water rates were way under market value in the 30's when they were first established and have barely changed ever since, making them wildly ridiculously undervalued today. If CA farmers were charged realistic market rates then they might be incentivized to improve their irrigation practices which would pretty much solve the "water crises" as well as stop increasing the poisoning of the Salton Sea.
Steve Blank: AI and ChatGPT Will Revolutionize Customer Discovery
He tried to back away when the stock markets fell making financing more difficult/expensive. He wanted a better price. He still wanted to buy it.
I could understand this if it was acquired and then heavily censored or monitored. Or if something more obviously destructive was done. But if this is all part of a plan to ruin twitter, it relies on having an egotistical person very publicly take an enormous "L" and everyone involved keeping quiet about it. I'm still going with Elon biting off a bit more than he could chew.
WTFPL is not a good license for the same reason that "public domain" isn't good. It's not actually recognized internationally. Copyright is the basis of viable international licenses and they need you to turn over the copyright to them (or license it to them or whatever their CLA says).

So, if you did that it'd probably be worse than useless because it might hamper the legal adoption of identical or near-identical code if the fix was such that there was essentially only one decent solution.
That is a great explanation. I would only add to this that QubesOS [1] has been designed to take advantage of everything you describe and even take it a step further using multiple VM's for further isolation. Whonix is one of their default implemented VM templates. They make it easier for someone to use Tor in a safer configuration.

[1] - https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
That's insane. Those are manufactured for at most $20 (assuming tiny quantities), and even if you lost all the original design files reproducing them isn't that expensive.
It sounds like Elon had the domain and it was burning a hole in his pocket. That's the only explanation, honestly.

Twitter as a brand becomes less valuable the more he alters it, since he's such a polarizing figure, so changing the brand to break continuity seems pretty counterproductive. It just reminds people that Elon is still fiddling with it.
You forgot Square (Block) on that list as well for Jack Dorsey has always wanted Square to become a super app.

It's not that no body has tried. Literally every western big tech company wanted to build a super app the equivalent of WeChat. For whatever reason, it just never worked.

It remains to be seen if the economics and/or cultural differences in the West would allow for a super app.
Would be nice if you could further qualify that statement.
On that note, even here in SF the Fillmore Pool Hall is a very fun place to spend some time, and BYO B or pizza is cheap. One thing I miss about life in upstate NY was hitting the old-school bowling alley with score displays that looked like the screens from Alien, though.
On the other hand, we have seen an infusion of cash into modern cryptography thanks to this space, which is fairly positive. I personally don't mind.
I do wonder how much work will go into changing the logo on all the websites that have twitter buttons. The number of WordPress blogs that are now being updated.

All because of the whim of one person.
Problem with these type of tours is a lot of information shoved into your face in short time and then it disappears, few minutes later the user will be asking “what was this section for again?”, I tried it in a platform I built before, it was to fly drones and some sections where to control while others for video feed etcs, so you should know what to do before clicking due to the dashboard complexity, users will be nodding their head and hitting next without even reading any. Had to remove it eventually and instead I added a little information icon for each to hover over to get some info what that section is about.
>accuse you of being a pedophile based on this

Please read the diagnostic criteria: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int...
-- there is no mention of CP.
This is one of the reasons why I will never "purchase" a game that I can't keep on my own computers. It's quite common that I want to revisit a game I bought decades ago. The idea of it having been vanished like this is unaccpeptable.
That probably complicates things from a legal perspective. I could imagine that that patch can no longer be submitted by anyone.
Exquisitely concise way of describing his shtick
I think that’s dead on arrival in the US. Having been raised in a conservative evangelical church, there’s the notion that in the “end times”, this kind of thing (referred to as the “mark of the Beast”) would be required to buy and sell goods, at the cost of eternal damnation for getting the mark. The linked webpage is nightmare fuel for the many tens of millions of Americans in such churches. Everything about it is a giant “here come the end times!” dog whistle, even if it wasn’t meant to be.

Also, why do we suddenly need to prove who’s an actual human? Is that going to change how I talk to chatbots on company websites? Is there the laughable notion that this won’t be immediately subverted by social media bot accounts so they can prove that they’re real people? What exact problem does this solve?

Also also, sucks if you’re blind, I guess. Now having eyes is new our fundamental definition of being a human. I’ll snag a few of these for my pets, who’ll be happy to know they can be official people on the Internet.
Microsoft hack that exposed government emails jeopardized other files
> Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

Under Twitter’s previous ownership, the social media site complied with government takedown requests at a lower rate.

Twitter fully complied with 440, or 50 percent, of requests and partially complied with 377, or 42 percent, during the 12-month period before Musk’s takeover.

Turkey was also the biggest source of these requests at 27 percent, followed by South Korea with 20.6 percent and India with 12.8 percent.

- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...
It's a security writeup so it's probably run by a security expert who is not an expert at running high traffic websites. Most likely there is something on the page that causes a database hit. Possibly the page content itself.
The "guy from Opera" has done amazing work on SVG in Chromium. I hope he will be able to contribute a few more years, because it will be difficult to replace him.
> trains are better in every case and with every metric

Except what people in America actually want to do, which is not ride a train outside of novelty.
Rclone. The only answer.
AMC scraps plan to charge more for better seats
Oh I know I'll get over it, as with all things. Still in that grieving place tho :)
The article shows that the cost of going to college is not growing significantly though. Only the sticker price is growing, and Americans are not aware of (or just underappreciate) the significant value of a higher education.

Doesn't that mean that the main problem is a marketing/information issue, and less of an actual affordability one?
A list (that I occasionally update) of similar text-to-diagram tools that work from browser https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

I have noticed that some tools don't allow exporting diagrams anymore or have a watermark on them now. Need to add that info someday.
CVSS 4.0 Is Here, but Prioritizing Patches Still a Hard Problem
It's extremely hacky and there is barely any automation at all. Everyday at 0500 a cronjob uses https://github.com/djc/abna to fetch the bank balance and makes no effort at all to automatically parse more than the balance. It then compares that with what the balance "should" be according to hledger and sets up a todo item if there is any difference. Somewhere during the day I manually reconcile the two and check off the todo item.

I'm sure it could be smarter with automatic parsing and whatnot, but I actually kinda like the manual action. It makes sure I'm aware of everything happening to my bank account. Time spent per day is actually quite low because it's kept updated and there is never any big backlog of transactions. I would say it takes 2-3 minutes if there are any transactions, or zero ofc if I didn't spend anything.
Complete reliance on biometrics to establish “personhood” is not only ableist but also opens some really frightening doors to future bad actors, like the removal of eyes as a means to revoke access/rights.

Let’s reduce an oppressor’s canvas of options rather than extend it further into our bodies.
Yahoo will also clear your entire account if you don't log in for a while.

Happened to me. Lost all my old emails from high school. Sure, that's on me for not having my own local backup, but they still did it with no warning that I ever saw.
Do they mean "only confirmed on Zen2", or is the problem definitely confined to only this architecture?

Is it likely that this same technique (or similar) also works on earlier (Zen/Zen+) or later (Zen3) cores, but they just haven't been able to demonstrate it yet?
Or adds a guard.

They mention perf issues for the workaround but they're notably absent from the microcode commentary.

I wonder what this is going to do to the new AMD hardware AWS is trying to roll out, which is supposed to be a substantial performance bump over the previous generation.
A previous company I worked at had a way to translate logs into sequence diagrams - specifically in this case SIP message flow. by searching for an ID you could see all of the services which interacted with the message flow, and by clicking on the arrow a full version of the message which was sent.

It was amazingly useful for diagnosing problems. I wish more logging systems were able to visualise flows through a system of micro services so well!
Neither of you really have a conclusion. Your modality is overly-reductionist. His is overly broad. In both cases it's impossible to reliably measure. What had ought to reasonably be concluded, then, is that we're entirely ignorant as the the capacities of an individual. From that agnosticism, then, we can build a framework of expectations. And that is entirely elective - if you want to say that nobody is exceptional, you'll seek to reinforce that. If one elects to search in every individual for some special capacity, that's what they'll find. I don't know about you, but between those two framings I'd prefer the latter.

Then there's the objectivist train wherein no expectations are allowed, one must duly profess their ignorance and make baseless measurements in estimation and comment on the distribution of faculties per individual and the degree of resolution to which these measurements are allowed to take place - and it isn't to the degree which any great conclusions can be drawn, I assure you. There is no means by which you can splay out a person's whole and examine them. Time spent with one or two is time spent neglecting some other specimen. Not to mention the interference added by environment. And even in the best of cases that time spent may only be revelatory of some minute fraction of the whole, where again only some shallow conclusions may be drawn and they're only conclusive insofar as the observer has decided they are at some point in the context of time and space within their ever-evolvong system because there's hardly a tape measure suited to the infinite degrees of freedom that exist in the world.
Error Bounds for Convolutional Codes and an Asymptotically Optimum Decoding Algorithm [0]

Also known as the Viterbi algorithm. Every digital communication device in existence today most likely has an implementation of it.

Later proved optimal by Forney [1]

0. https://www.essrl.wustl.edu/~jao/itrg/viterbi.pdf

1. https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~yxie77/ece587/viterbi_algorith...
that is pretty unfair. the common man never had that amount of freedom on twitter. the lobbies, the blue elite and the powerful however lost a similar if not more amount of control over the masses thanks to Musk.
> The reality is that Israeli parliament is weak and nearly wholly controlled by the government.

You have it exactly backwards: the government is selected from the MPs and is supported by the parliament. The most popular way to change a government is to call for (legislative) elections. (No executive elections — these were tried for a short period and cancelled.) The government is controlled by the parliament, not the other way around.
Really lovely writeup. I liked the discussion of determining how can you tell if a randomly-generated program performed correctly. The obvious approach is to just run it on an "oracle" -- another processor or simulator -- and see if it behaves the same way. But if you're checking for microarchitectural effects with tight timing windows you can also write the same program with various stalls, fences, nops and so on -- things which shouldn't affect the output (for single-threaded code) but which will result in the CPU doing significantly different things microarchitecturally. That way the CPU can be its own oracle.
welp, that's unfortunate indeed.

It's a single-core 128 MB VPS, which seemed fine for my boring static html articles. I guess I underestimated the interest.
My personal experiment in 2013 exactly matches your comment. I spent less when I used cash. I withdraw the same amount if monwy every month once a month, but the action of giving that money to cashier & checking the change and sorting out the notes in wallet made it real impact.
Thank you this is wise: is there anything more specific than that you could offer?

After double-checking, OP didn't ask to encrypt things from the past, and "read and share" isn't quite going to help get someone started, sort of becomes a catch-22 at that point. I really hope there's some info to offer people who don't have tech experience. It'd be a lot to ask to acquire a tech background then a security-specific one, especially if all we can say is "read"
Musk has the deeper pockets. I'm more worried about him suing x.org and winning.
Don't forget in addition to null, javascript has undefined and undefined.

(the value undefined and the property-does-not-exist undefined)
Congratulations! You are a total victim of this Spartan myth that the article author has often debunked.
I wouldn't go as far as telling something is badly written just because it's written to work on one platform. It can be an exceptional application even when it only works using a single platforms' intrinsics. Similarly a badly written application may work on many platforms
apparently tiktok tokens are already worth real world money?

CDBC are here. FedNow is essentially that. also russia just announced DigitalRubles.

USA Dollar is now part of a more competitive currency market? maybe?

as part of the general public, I can only guess
Isn't that drinking a pint all at once? Now there will be a copyright charge for drinking your favourite bewerage all at once.
Hilarious and desperate.

They are in no position to make demands. The current data that has been scraped for AI models is probably good enough to be able to generate synthetic data.

Even if it's not, what are publishers going to do about people scraping their content? Absolutely nothing.

Trying to force this issue feels like a good way to be disintermediated quicker.
Aah yes, everyone knows that google trends is the best way to judge the health of a business.
I imagine they are also getting traffic from sources other than HN.
Yeah, but not kewl enough.
Avi Loeb's Deep Dive for Alien Life II
JFYI: Pedophile != Child abuser.
In my opinion if you call your company 'X' or 'Apple' you shouldn't expect everyone else to just shrug and say okay, this letter/this word now belongs exclusively to you.

Of course the trademark system is not that simple.
Stealthy Data Exfiltration with ChatGPT
Tom Cruise films are prescient as ever.
This is a 'guns don't kill people' argument, which historically has been a bit more complicated than that. Humans are not context-free actors independent of their environment - our environment shapes us. And the argument here is that this technology would create an environment that would have a tendency to bend us into a shape we may not like.
It's only one example. Look into it. Sure, Elon has no doubt pissed off some bubbles that you frequent or some advertisers, but any evidence that Twitter as a whole is dying is purely anecdotal, or so small that it's not worth registering. (For example, the Financial Times said Twitter is "dying"... by citing SimilarWeb showing a 5% decline since Elon's takeover.)
The world of "tech" seems to be spiralling into a realm of absurd metaverses, the dark obsessions of a tiny gang of annointed leaders, a house of cards, lies built upon lies, increasingly desperate hypes.

The whole thing detached from the deteriorating human reality, a pervasive lack of empathy for our condition.

Not clear how we could / should respond to this grand fiasco. Somehow tech needs to be reinvented. Much more grassroots, more authentic, more focused on real problem solving.
There's no reason to fix those locks because 1. if they were actually unpickable you could drill them out or cut them off and 2. you can replace the core yourself if you want to.

It's harder than LPL makes it look though.
I’m not sure I would even trust it. But if everything was socketed it might be a fun project.
Even if you think social graphs are the future of banking/payments, Twitter is still an... interesting... strategy. It's exactly the wrong social graph for that sort of thing.

(I also don't think that hypothesis makes a lick of sense -- Apple+Google, not any particular app, is the "WeChat of the west".)
What’s Next for the Moon
It is certainly something that is more on our mind however I don't know if we will do it anytime soon. Our first change will be to go at different times of the year when it is more comfortable.

We have always avoided August as it's never been a nice time to visit due to the heat as well as being much busier due to the school holidays.

As for it's value I don't know if I am honest. It hasn't been something we've looked into in a very long time so I really have no idea.
I'll add that Ruby meta-programming has 2 pseudo-phases(at least in my mind): load time and 'true' run time. They're both technically run time, but smth like a has_many method in rails ActiveRecors runs once when the code is loaded, defines some other methods and doesn't run again while the process is running, normally.

You could also be defining methods pretty much whenever, for instance in response to user input, mutating the state of the process from that call onwards.

The former is much, much more common than the latter.

e. A blurring of the 2 is something like ActiveRecord defining field accessors dynamically once a DB connection is eatablished. You connect to the db and now your User model has email, first_name etc methods, unless you'd defined them already.

I'm guessing nothing quite like this could exist for Ecto(I vaguely know this isn't a super good comparison, Ecto is quite different from AR from what I remember).

That being said even that would still happen as part of a prod app's 'loading' phase so to speak rathet than during a request cycle.
We've explored this. Not everyone will have this problem, but with Blazor, you have to export almost everything about F#/.NET to WASM.

The Fable compiler team seems to have made steady progress towards a Rust compilation target which would solve this, but I'm not clear on where that works or how.
So he wanted it to take it off the stock market, fix it, yada yada but then realized this is a bad idea?
sam bankman-fried is closer to Musk opponents at every angle you look at. and btw those opponents crowned sam bankman fried while they hate musk in every newspaper you can buy in the US
Reminds me of the OS X logo honestly. Maybe apple has a leg to stand on in terms of trademark? Though I find that highly doubtful due to it being a letter of the alphabet.
> - Win16 support

It also doesn't work on Windows XP. OpenSSL does.

This is, unfortunately, still important for many users.
[Google spokesperson said] "always developed technology independently and competed on the merits of our ideas."

Unfortunately for Google, a patent case is mainly a matter of *who* developed it first. *How* it was developed is largely irrelevant.

The most reasonable way to overturn a patent is to show "prior work".
>Where is your evidence that it is designed this way? < You can find the reference that the platen forms a dummy-load.

I could explain to you how and why this happens,

but I doubt you would " believe ", even if the facts are placed in front of your face.

Hence further dialog is moot.
> UK, notably, also has no constitution — it however wouldn't be reasonable to argue that "the only democracy keeper [in the UK] is the supreme court".

Exactly. IIRC, the UK didn't have anything called a "Supreme Court" until very recently (its highest "court" used to be a committee in the upper house of parliament), and even then it's clearly subordination to Parliament:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Ki...:

> The United Kingdom has a doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty,[6] so the Supreme Court is much more limited in its powers of judicial review than the constitutional or supreme courts of some other countries. It cannot overturn any primary legislation [Acts of Parliament] made by Parliament. However, as with any law court in the UK, it can overturn secondary legislation [an American translation may be executive orders and agency regulations] if, for an example, that legislation is found to be ultra vires to the powers in primary legislation allowing it to be made.
The Big Five model was extracted from English language words describing personality (later applied to other languages, where sometimes 6 factors are needed). It has no theory behind it (other than, "I think languages evolve to capture interpersonal dynamics").

As feanaro noted, the 4 dimensions of MBTI is fairly correlated with four of the five factors of the Big 5 (or OCEAN) model. It leaves out neuroticism, which might be helpful in a business context, since you can put a positive spin on both ends of those 4 dimensions. I've seen MBTI extended by adding a Turbulent-Assertive axis to include neuroticism without the pejorative label.

Research has shown that classifying people into the 16 types reduced the statistical predictive power. Nevertheless, the types have value for didactic purposes. It can be easier to understand personality differences by contrasting the extremes rather than the vast muddle of people near the median. Once you can see how extreme differences manifest, it is easier to recognize the more subtle (and statistically more frequent) differences.
I see no reason to think this isn't them sticking to short-term PR concerns. For a while, the tech playbook with regulators is to say vague, positive things, grudgingly agree to some bare minimum, and then mostly ignore or sandbag on their commitments while lobbying aggressively behind the scenes.
Over the last decade the best oracle has consistently been "what would happen in the stupidest of all possible worlds?" and this is most likely the answer in this case.