skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I don't. They seem to baby obesity, including the media where obese people like Lizzo and others are celebrated for being unapologetically fat. I understand bulimia is an issue too and we don't want kids especially to think they need to be waifs, but now this sentiment pendulum has swung way too far to the other side and they accommodate obesity in every which way. The only fat people the media seem okay to chastise are Trump and I think maybe Chris Christie & very few others?

No, this should be confronted as _the_ health threat of the next 20 - 30 years. It's more consequential than anything else, Health-wise, productivity-wise, medical costs, quality of life --All these shoppers in their electric 4-wheeled scooters. It's insane that this is not a declared crisis.
If the CIELAB numbers are based on perceptual changes, how do they interact with accessibility? Do we need to worry that these perceptual formulae might be based on standard vision? Could they be different for different types of color blindness, or is that not a thing. (FWIW, I try to make my charts as accessible as possible, but I’m totally uneducated in color stuff, so I’m limited to just following advice, can’t derive anything—there’s every possibility that this is a dumb question!)
This reminds me of professional Bridge. They split the teams with a wall and pass their cards through a window at the same time to prevent communication through timing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVZLNRmO3vo
The prophecy is 8 hours late
First time you're seeing evidence of coporate-taxpayer corruption? Buddy I got news for you and you're not gonna like it.
Some awesome photos from OP website http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IL/Airfields_IL_Chicago_C.h...
> Which leaves me wondering if this is more of a fluff piece

I feel like everything is becoming a fluff piece these days. Hypebeasts for everything seems to be the trend.
...and that only serves Microsoft OpenSSH.

Since PuTTY can do both, why bother with Microsoft?

Here are the instructions:

https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.79/htmldoc/Chapter9.h...
> the vast majority of liberal societies went all totalitarian on their people.

No stop this nonsense. China was sealing apartments in 2020 to enforce quarantine.

The worst that happened in the west was that we couldn't get dinner and beer at one of our many corporate restaurants that willingly shut down.
Browser based client side 3D model converter (using WASM)
I think the plan is for OpenBSD to switch to got https://gameoftrees.org/ when it is ready.
If Netflix is as successful as Hulu with its advertising tier, it will make more money from its ad tier than its paid tier. Ben Thompson (Stratechery) thinks the best strategy may be just make the ad tier free.
google search is worthless now, not just for images. i only ever use it with the `site:` setting or the research subsomain (these are rhe only ones that seem to have retained a functional version of google's algorithm). i use pinterest itself for general image discoverability and it works really well.
The new StackOverflow is already down.

Meanwhile, local and self-hosted LLM AIs like Llama 2, Code Llama and the derivatives have 100% uptime....
I'm getting the feeling our planet can't really handle a lot more of this "economic growth". At least not the way we've been doing it for the last 200 years.
Why? Most software is at least 10x slower than necessary for reasons that don't require inventing new algorithms.
Last year, I started building a similar desktop tool in Flutter: https://github.com/PolyglotNetwork/devtoolbox

I wanted to include offline CyberChef within this app in a webview but it turned out, Flutter still doesn't support WebViews on non-mobile platforms. I wonder if that has changed.
Thanks for taking the time to write about your reverse engineering experience. I'm more of a programmer than a reverse engineer, but I do like to dabble in RE and analysis and dealing with obfuscation and techniques like virtualization is always quite a challenge. There's probably a lot of learning material out there, but it feels difficult to digest at times, so articles like these are always helpful for getting some perspective on how these things work out in practice, and getting a feel for some of the approaches you can use when you run into a roadblock. Definitely makes me want to go mess around with some binary analysis after work.
I believe this is the case of "no true Scotsman". Whatever backup you propose, someone will point out that you could have done it better. You could have disconnected servers with backups from network when they are not in use. You could have hired a dedicated person whose responsibility would be to deny/delay any request from management to delete the backups. And so on.
Somebody should add elevator recall feature for when a lobby smoke detector trips!
Empower artists to make far more complex works that they would never have been able to do alone before.

One artist might be able to produce a complete animated movie controlling all aspects.
Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study
> My only regret with dealing with the OpenBSD team was reporting the issue to them too quickly, as they are uninterested in waiting for any kind of coordination in disclosure.

This BS with disclosure coordination and all the other crap vendors have been trying to train researchers to do for years needs to stop. You find a issue, you publish it, vendors need to deal with bad code and products in realtime, not when it suits them.
And they used to be called Desktop Apps, or am I missing something?
Previous discussions: [1][2]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271764 [ 75 points | 116 comments ]

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282341 [ 159 points | 150 comments ]
I'd be willing to accept the argument that Whatsapp happened to have assembled an uncommonly good team, but it is a signal.

Yeah the BEAM with some Rust NIFs is a great combo. I'd definitely consider it in the future for many types of problems and anything involving a HTTP or GraphQL interface.
They should know, after all …
I really can not understand how fucked up us health care is.
Even under the premise that ending a temporary Covid policy is like a layoff, they've given quite a bit of notice. The source article says RTO for 3 days a week has been required since May.
analyzing network hardware for academic credit? nifty! How long has this been going on?

Anybody done a comb over OpenWRT similarly? There's numerous slightly customized versions of that in all sorts of hardware.
My mom got cut off due to crackdown and called me about it. Turns out neither of us have really been watching much netflix lately. Actually I think account sharing was blocked for a month before she noticed. So we canceled.
It was like that in Poland .. until some politicians got recorded and recordings leaked to the press, you can guess how that changed the law.
No I mean we should use the potential flexibility of AI to gather data from many varying APIs that might change at any moment without prior warning. Some of these national pollen sites may not even have an API, may require scraping.
Any word on pricing? Would love to use it a personal app.
Which libraries are you using for the crawler or are you building from scratch? I’d love to hear more about your approach!
> 3. Checked that I am not doing any implicit conversion.

There are warnings for this that you should activate.

The rest is pretty much incurable.
It'd be fine if it wouldn't spam google images results, and resulting images are often completely cut out of context, or origin link is not working.
How does it compare to GPT4 these days? The article yesterday made it sound like it's getting close.
A Nave is the central part of a church. A knave is a tricky deceitful fellow.
Git's popularity only exploded around 10 years ago at most. CVS is more than 30 years old. Make the math.

There is reason Perforce, as crap as it is, is still as popular as it is.
Gulf Coast temperatures surge to highest levels ever observed
> No, the USSR was a big grown up country governed by people that understood the difference...

So to rephrase it: never trust NATO's word.

> The standard for notes is to provide relevant context.

And I say it is relevant. NATO claims to be strictly a defensive alliance, the note adds contextual information to show that NATO is both expanding and waging wars of aggression.

What can be more relevant than that?
that only happens when the image was manually uploaded by a user (i.e from gallery). there's not much they can do about it. in that case you can scan it to find visual matches and hopefully one of them has metadata about the original source (but it's not perfect and you have to scroll a bit).
As lousy as these systems are, they kill a hell of a lot fewer people (for now) than drunks, so net positive for the time being.
I visited the US a few years ago and I was shocked how much calories were packed in random foods. Some desserts/cakes alone were above 1000kcal. Basically in the US I had to be very careful and calorie counting and I got the impression if you eat randomly you'll end up with a very high calorie intake (typically above 3000 per day), whereas this is usually less true in Europe (but it's getting less true every year) and you might end up just a bit overweight instead of obese by eating randomly.
Sure, if you want to expand the discussion to "everyone can make every tech stack act badly" then you might have had an argument. I don't find that argument compelling however -- it's borderline meaningless.

Also nobody used the word "magically" before you did. Note that.

What's your argument exactly? That Elixir is overrated? Or something else?

Furthermore, I am not insisting on my standards of the quality of comments. I am under the impression that's the expected quality of comments on HN at large.
>Throwing out the way we currently do water rights

IANAL but is that even remotely feasible? My impression is that they're basically akin to property rights, and the state unilaterally revoking them is going to be blocked by the courts.
Some are. I have a robot that vacuums my floor, a robot that washes my dishes, etc.

Sure, they aren't humanoid and are special-purpose, but I suspect that's how it will always be. One general-purpose humanoid robot seems like it will always be more complex, and therefore more expensive, than a small set of single-purpose robots that have a form factor optimized for their purpose.
Site has been around since 1999. Please be careful to not overwhelm the server.
Related:

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/28/a-modchip-to-root-starlink-u...

https://youtu.be/NXqLMmGwJm0
One strong advantage of CyberChef is being cross platform. I use it regularly on my Linux machine at work.

DevToys is Windows only.
Letting a few billionaires buy all of the water in the country is just one step closer to complete dystopia.
A webring for static site generators
> that suits the projects work flow, is well documented and a relatively low learning curve for anyone interested

Maybe well documented, but "suits the project flow" and "low learning curve", absolutely not

(I mean, ok, maybe "low learning curve" if you're developing a very simple UNIX project in the 90s)

CVS is one of the tools where I literally never look back and say "ok this was nice". SVN and Mercurial something here and there. CVS? Never
> In practice, samples meeting the WCAG 2.1 recommendations are harder to read than those with an “insufficient” contrast ratio.

Happy to see I’m not the only one. This has been bugging me for a long time, how an “accessibility guidance” formula actually had the opposite effect. Why was that standardized?
Bitcoin ETF Approved for Grayscale by US Court
The Great Lakes are protected by a treaty with Canada, that has strong bipartisan support in the neighboring states. You can't have our water.
What does the recommendation system have to do with the available content (and especially what Netflix produces)?

I also remember reading on HN that the system was simplified even if the Netflix Prize [1] competition was supposed to make it better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
The planet will be fine, it survived asteroids and much worse. Even if everyone starts lobbing nuclear weapons at each other, cockroaches and many plants will persevere among the ruins, the untended fields, the forests and hills.

Humanity though? Hoo boy, are we really in for it.
Ask HN: Why did Python win?
I started programming in ~2013 in JavaScript. I’ve since learned and tried a handful of languages, including Python, but JavaScript was always my favorite. Just within the last year I learned Ruby, and I was blown away by how fun and easy to use it is. At the present time, I’m starting all my new projects in Ruby.

My impression is that in the ‘00s, Python and Ruby were both relatively new, dynamically typed, “English-like” languages. And for a while these languages had similar popularity.

Now Ruby is still very much alive; there are plenty of Rails jobs available and exciting things happening with Ruby itself. But Python has become a titan in the last ten years. It has continued to grow exponentially and Ruby has not.

I can guess as to why (Python’s math libraries, numpy and pandas make it appealing to academics; Python is simpler and possibly easier to learn; Rails was so popular that it was synonymous with Ruby) but I wasn’t paying attention at that time. So I’m interested in hearing from some of the older programmers about why Ruby has stalled out and Python has become possibly the most popular programming language (when, in my opinion, Ruby is the better language).
Way too much, have been using GPT4 every day since it was available. Engineering.

I hope to train a good local LLM that I can run on my Nvidia GTX 4090. I don't have high expectations though.
Jeeze, brains are just unimaginably weird.
I pulled “lots” out of my ass, based on having been to a couple different campuses. The fuzziness of “lots” accurately represents the level of certainty (low) which is appropriate for chit-chat about the existence of cafeterias. Chill out, nobody is actually going to ban cooking at home.
That has not been my experience with ChatGPT 4. If I were to ask it about some specialized info about quantum field theory or superconductor tech, I'm sure it would send back nonsense fairly frequently. But if I ask it to explain the difference between median, mean and average, or ask for examples on an architectural pattern, it's seldom incorrect.
And the other end of the problem, it's now so incredibly challenging to get started doing anything. Who cares trying to start a business with housing, health care, and food costs as high as they are?
that's 11% of the "value" (money). that's cherrypicking from the statistics i quoted. if you want to mess around with that sort of thing, look up calorie production.
The correct URL is https://schrts.co/wdnmrPYa .

That's the original posted URL, but someone then changed the URL to show a wrong chart. Perhaps that or another person would be kind enough to revert that change. HN does not let me do that.
> However, the information was corrupted at the source, and those devices that did understand the attributed detected the corruption and rejected it.

No they did not, they shutdown a whole session down for a malformed announcement. The right decision would have been to ignore the corrupt attribute and maybe not install that particular route.

A logged message saying "Attribute 129 with value 0 is invalid" would have helped operators more than just blindly shutting down sessions through which this was announced.
I also work in security (appsec) and most of my day is spent programming. In my experience in the security space (10 years at the moment) the qualifications are absurdly disconnected from actual job requirements. At my last place when I was involved in hiring decisions we selected mainly on attitude and coding ability. At my currently location this does not seem to have been the case as most on my team literally can't code. I'd take someone who can code over someone who knows tons of security theory any day.
You should tell that to all the people/institutions buying 3+ month treasuries. Clearly they didn't get the memo.
I had similar thoughts, but that doesn't make it any less funny!
Thanks for your comment. This article was written in one go, and it could be way better than the actual state. However I do appreciate that you mean to consider my article as a nice example on how things work out in practice. Being a programmer and knowing a little bit of reverse engineering is important (well, I'm still a programmer too!). If you have any questions, please let me know.

Regarding the difficulty of learning material, I can feel you. It was the same for me when I started (I have a lot of stuff to dig into!), and it's still. Academy papers might be difficult to understand, but once you comprehend the formalisms it'll be easier. For sure, understanding the formal formulas is another challenge that I haven't resolved yet.
I can't find that part now, but there's plenty of really rotten stuff in the book.
if the origin link isn't working, that means it was taken offline by the original source. in that case, imo it's a good thing that at least the image was archived on their servers. especially since each one has a comments section where someone might post information about it.
>>available to rent/buy on Prime.

Which I find endlessly annoying. Already paying for the service, being required to buy ad hoc almost everything I want to watch is a source of repeated annoyance. Our response is to just say "Oh forget this, screw Prime", exit and switch to looking for something on Netflix, PBS, or whatever.

If it was the exception for new hot content, that'd be fine. But it seems to be the rule for the majority of content, even if it's a decade old. So, we hardly go there anymore.
I hope that kind of thing goes the way of other corporate efforts to break/backdoor encryption for the sake of "security". IMO, it's really the wrong way to go about security. Sure it would be nice to know if some automated script is being used to log into a machine, but better design can mean that information isn't important.
Fortge chaff packets, sure. But aggregating keystrokes for 20 ms into one packet may save data.
And doesn’t time dilation occur with lots of concurrent events?
Ask HN: Robot vacuum but without the privacy invasion?
After six months of research I’d finally settled on my dream robot vacume. Sure it was expensive but it would do everything I wanted including having its own self emptying bin into another robot.

The company had a decent enough privacy policy and i was pretty much set to go.

Then word of the privacy scandal hit [1] and I ran a mile.

It’s 2023. I want a robot vacume but I don’t want the privacy compromise.

What options exist?

- maybe it’s a mainstream robot that can be put into offline mode so it never connects to the internet

- maybe it’s some software I install on my local network that intercepts traffic and helps the robot keep running none-the-wiser that it’s not actually phoning home anymore

- maybe it’s the holy grail, the release of the Framework laptop of robovacs. An open hardware dream.

What suggestions do you have for this privacy weary soul who just wants some automated help with household chores?

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
No you don't. A ban forces industries to create alternatives. Otherwise they won't bother. You just schedule a phased elimination over time so those alternatives can get developed. That's precisely how the Montreal Protocol banned CFCs and protected the ozone layer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
I've got a dishwasher, a clothes washer, a Roomba, etc.

I would say we're already here.
The original exploit concern was the use of the "Viterbi Algorithm."

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/ssh-timing.pdf [2001]

The addition of ML has greatly improved the accuracy of audio decoding - use a silent keyboard in any insecure physical locale.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/type-softly-research...
Please do not rely on these tools, they should not be a dependency of your thinking.

My bookshelf have a 100% uptime!
That would be too expensive, because the spectrum would need to be divided in much more channels than the 3 channels that are enough when they are matched to the average human vision.

High-resolution spectra (like needed for many scientific applications) can be recorded only for images with few pixels or for images with many pixels but with long delays between successive images (because they are obtained by mechanical scanning of the pixels), so you must accept a trade-off between spectral resolution and either spatial resolution or temporal resolution.
Here's the actual ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.38...
The correct answer is using client certificates, but they're a great deal of pain to set up compared to "ssh-copy-id" (or using username/password!)
Just in time for back to school.
I don’t really agree. I prefer WFH most days but it’s no panacea: WFH has expectations of availability during working hours and expectations of 40 hours ish of time commitment.

If I finish work in 2 hours and go do personal stuff for the rest of the day I don’t feel relaxed, I feel anxious like I’m in a gray zone in the employment contract and I’m going to be sniffed out and given more work to do.
You're spamming this thread and with your anti V attacks, have a bunch of them downvoted and flagged, and are teaching me about communication...

So rude indeed.
Are you addressing this comment to the cockroaches? If not then this obtuseness is not particularly witty.
Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid
How many people would be willing to trade medicaid for something as simple as inflation reduction, I wonder?
Famous among non-pilots as the default airport in early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Most cattle production happens west of the 98th meridian, where not enough water falls from the sky to support livestock or vegetable or fruit production at commercial scale.
Heating up plastics is thought to release microplastics but I've not seen much solid research on it either.

According to the European Parliament, ~63% of microplastics come from laundering synthetic clothes and car tires [1].

1. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...
It is sort of the opposite. The people with remote contracts aren't affected by this. It is the people who have contracts that list a work location but who have been working remotely anyway because of workplace flexibility who are affected. Yes, it is a crappy situation and workplace flexibility should be way way way more common but it isn't laying off remote staff.
Try out Bing Chat. GPT4 is the basis for Bing Chat. It can be annoying with its message limits, lack of chat history, and tendency to point you to websites. Though, you can switch it to creative mode which is pretty similar to the workflow of ChatGPT, the GPT4 version.
The solution to drunk drivers is public transport, not self-driving cars.
I've been maintaining SOC2 certification for multiple years, and I'm here to say that it's largely performative and an ineffective indicator of security posture.

The SOC2 framework is complex and compliance can be expensive. This can lead organizations to focus on ticking the boxes rather than implementing meaningful security controls.

SOC2 is not a good universal metric for understanding an organization's security culture. It's frightening that this is the best we have for now.
To be fair… supporting dual stack really does suck
How much latency does this add? Latency, particularly unpredictable latency, is one of the greatest stressors in software development work.