skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If cybersecurity was that easy, we wouldn't have so many examples of businesses getting it wrong.

I can only partially agree with this point. Businesses getting cybersecurity wrong has almost no material and significant consequences. At best, they get a tiny slap on the wrist or asked to answer some questions. Nobody in said businesses goes to jail for it or personally pays any fines. Compare that to criminals who have a lot more to lose if they get caught — jail time, fines they have to pay, not having freedom for quite sometime, life not being the same after they’ve served their sentence, and more. Businesses have it extremely easy compared to this. No wonder cybersecurity is so poor among all businesses, including very large ones (like Microsoft, as a recent example).
No, skepticism should be your default stance w.r.t. extraordinary claims.

That many people are heedless, shallow of thought, and frightened of ignorance in similar patterns should not be taken as evidence that _some_ of their flights of fancy are fact.
> the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater volcano in the black, cold ocean depths, almost two miles below the surface.

I'm 99% sure the number 6000 is an estimation, and in that case, how would you start to estimate such number? Divide the area into a grid of N cells, count all of them in one cell and then apply to the entire area? Seems they would be many clusters so the number would be very unreliable.
> Damn, I need to make an extension.

Well, I wouldn't recommend quitting your day job, if you have one. The indie lifestyle can be very difficult.

> Any advice on any good material for how to write a good extension?
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I mostly just read the docs from the browser vendors.
The police in NYC have rioted because the mayor was proposing a civilian oversight board to investigate misconduct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Assoc...
If only "farm.com" were available....or "F-Arm.com". Yeah, I like that second one even better.

Obviously if someone decides to be more explicit, then this could get pretty funny. The trolling level here goes to 11.

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EDIT: f**arm.com is available
Is it morally wrong to eat a cupcake? I’m not a smoker nor would I want anyone I care about to smoke, but have you thought through the extrapolation of your assertion?

Similarly, old people are a drag on society. It’s not at all clear that reducing lifespan is a decrease on net productivity.

I would not want those I care about to die early, nor would I deny anyone else the same hope for the sake of productivity. But I can be objective enough to acknowledge the tradeoffs.
You're giving SCOTUS too much credit.
It's not a payday for the government. This money will be returned to creditors as part of the bankruptcy process.
My first thought is "good"; far lower cost and better allocation of resources. If nothing much, they can just go on toe the next call, if a big problem, they can get more resources on the scene before moving, and the article indicated that these were the intended uses.

If course, "use" is doing a lot of lifting here. The questions are if this goes further and turns into "abuse.
Might I suggest using an ffmpeg frontend like HandBrake? It has a bunch of presets, the Apple ones will surely work for this.
The biggest advantage of apple maps is that they don't sell every move you make to 3rd party vendors or keep a long history of where you've been and sell that to vendors.
I kinda like those "titans of industry" rubbing it in.

It casts the dismal level of governance and regulation of online life in the unforgiving light of an X-ray. Let those skeletons be clear to all.
Absolutely reprehensible.
Does the MIND Diet Prevent Dementia?
I had to go to great lengths to disable location history, and Google penalizes me for it by disabling search history in Maps as a result. I'm sure 99% of people don't go to great lengths to disable location history and so yes your entire history of GPS locations is basically saved to a Google database as far as I remember. (Note I'm obviously a user recalling details from years ago and not a Google employee/developer. My perception that Google collects all our GPS details forever by default is based on reality, whether or not that means you as an employee would actually be able to do anything with that data.)
Zaps just put a signed nostr note inside a lightning invoice so that clients can show that a specific user send some amount of money to some note or profile. clients request lightning invoices via lnurl (an http lightning specification). You could do the same thing for any other fiat or crypto system if you want to, but nostr was mainly build by bitcoiners which is why there is lots of bitcoin tech integrated, but its completely optional.
Linear algebra for programmers
The discourse on Facebook & Instagram is significantly different than what you would find on X or Reddit, both in terms of quality & topics.
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Exactly, which is why I reject it as douchey, judgmental bullshit. We have terms for each type of thoroughfare in English already; they're seen on street signs and maps all over the USA.
Im not sure what you mean.

I wasn't stating that it had to be a federal law.
I've had excellent results from both powerline and MoCA in my 100 year old brick and plaster home. Powerline, I was careful to locate the origin node near the service entry and that worked well. (I'm not sure it was needed, but it seemed sensible to not try to locate the origin and the destination nodes both on branch circuits far from the panel.)

MoCA, I'm only using for the TiVos, though I've tapped into it for speed testing when I first installed it and it was "perfectly more than adequate" with no real tuning other installing the MoCA point of entry filter [singular, not plural] (in my case a PCT-VC-F18a) and hooking everything up.

I'm on US powerline, but in case it helps, I'm using the "devolo Magic 2 WiFi next starter kit" for powerline and, once again, that also "just worked".

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Maybe the best tip I can give is "make sure your coax is properly terminated AND properly tightened". This is no place for the old hex-crimped crappy ends and no place for finger-tightened F-connectors. Put high-quality compression connectors on the coax and snug all connections with a wrench.

Second tip: If you have unused ports on a splitter, cap them off with terminating resistors (or better, replace the splitter with a 2+ GHz splitter with the correct number of ports).

Third tip: Throw out any old 850 MHz, 1 GHz, etc. splitters if you're trying to run MoCA.
Thanks! OK, GDPR should still have teeth then. Good to know.
I've warmed up to the idea that X11 needed a replacement after implementing (parts of) the protocol in Ruby (yes, I want to cause myself pain, clearly).

It's obtuse in a way that might have made sense when first invented (e.g. slotting an arbitrary request byte in the request header for some requests because there's a free byte otherwise used for padding so that the request length can be 16-bit aligned) is just pointlessly stingy now. The way length fields and the lists the refer to might not be adjacent in a packet, likewise.

But then I looked at the Render extension, and realised the problem was less the original protocol - it's easily extended after all - but that the people writing the extensions were so steeped in the same thinking of overgeneralising.

E.g. the Render extension very sensibly - given we've mostly settled on a few formats - dictates a set of visuals that must be supported. Surely then they provide an easy way of obtaining it? No. You need to retrieve every single visual supported by the server. Surely the Render extension will just default to force clients to apply some godawful slow path if they want some bizarro format? No. But they'll at least make it easy to get the default formats everyone actually wants? No - you call a function that provides values for all the visual fields, such as depth, mask for red, green and blue bits and many other things, and then checks that mask and a bitfield determining whether you care about those things, against every single visual reported by the server.

After seeing that - dozens of lines of code whose sole purpose is to work around the fact that the server extension written by the same people doesn't tell you the ids of the required visuals - I went looking at the Wayland spec in utter disgust.

You could easily "fix" X in a aggressive but gradual way in a lot less time than Wayland - the biggest argument for Wayland is not technical, but not being mired in that culture, I thought.

Only to find it's pretty much equally obtuse and overwrought, only in different ways...

I expect to have to bite the bullet and move to Wayland eventually, but it feels very much like a lateral move with no upsides I care about and a lot of efforts that'll make me swear (I used bspwm, there's no port, so I'll need to figure out which of the tiling compositors are somewhat close enough, especially given I heavily rely on bspc to change bspwm's behaviour) and I'll resent every part of it.

I really I wish we got a timeline where someone instead aggressively deprecated old functionality from Xorg in several rounds of purges.
I've heard of a gentleman who is around that age and diagnosed with cancer, not long ago. I dunno details but he got arrested for DUI and from what I hear is arranging things like he expects to be in jail for a while.

I think that is his plan for getting treatment.
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I'm not surprised you had issues with that wifi repeater. The way those kinds work, they just take an existing wifi signal and repeat it back out. This kills 50% of your bandwidth for devices connected to the repeater. A better option is a mesh network system (like anything on this list https://www.wired.com/story/best-mesh-wifi-routers/). These are much smarter and can tolerate things like a node being taken down, so should work better than that repeater.
Wait, what? In the US law enforcement can just take peoples' stuff and then the people have to prove that they are innocent in order to get their stuff back? Should this not be the other way around, law enforcement has to prove - within some reasonable amount of time - that the person is guilty, otherwise they get their stuff back, plus some compensation for incurred costs? But even if the person is guilty, why can the state take their stuff to begin with, at least beyond what is required or might reasonably be required to pay for fines or compensations or was acquired illegally?
Ask HN: Twitter vs. Mastodon for tech (particularly AI) content?
I know it sounds kinda vague, but by "content" I mean relevant news and discussion of technical stuff.

Between Twitter and Mastodon, which do you find better for that kind of thing, and why?
Yikes, silly mistake, thanks for noting that.

The numbers for Vietnamese citizens are similar. Vietnam one of the most pro-American, anti-Chinese countries in the world. 76% favorable for the U.S., 78% unfavorable for China, though the dataset is older.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/07/14/chapter-1-the-...
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/07/14/chapter-2-chin...

We've gotten a bit far from the original point - for the purposes of the U.S. supply chain, Vietnamese government neutrality and strong public support is plenty to negate the risk that the country suddenly cuts off the supply chain. My original point is that de-coupling from China is a national security decision, not protectionism, and production is moving to Vietnam because it's a friendlier country than

Informally, I do think Vietnam can be considered a U.S. ally. China is signaling a desire to expand, and most of its neighbors consider it the biggest threat to their security. There's a reason that Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are all among the countries that have the highest opinion of the U.S. It's not a trick - they are acting in their own security interests.

Vietnamese neutrality makes perfect sense, and I don't think they'd get involved in a war that didn't involve them. But the country is certainly friendly enough to rely on for the U.S. supply chain.
MBARIs video on this is the thing to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXUOPkQPo8

It's worth the click, they're the group doing the research here.
Cyc ("Syke") is one of those projects I've long found vaguely fascinating though I've never had the time / spoons to look into it significantly. It's an AI project based on a comprehensive ontology and knowledgebase.

Wikipedia's overview: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc>

Project / company homepage: <https://cyc.com/>
I took a look at our CO and we have a bunch of different Northern Telecom DMS Documentation binders. Stuff like Installation Manual (Module 00 to 18), Volume 3 Power-up Methods, DMS-10 Family OMP/RLCM Book 1, DMS-10 Family Volume 1 Generic: 400 Part 2. We also have a bunch of old CDROMs with documentation on them, as NT started just sending documentation like that instead.

But yeah there are books upon books of stuff here, and Northern Telecom isn't a company anymore from what I understand, so finding documentation is pretty limited if you don't already have an in.
> nostr is stateless it’s just a streaming protocol for messages

I've brainstormed ways to solve this on top of Nostr. Perhaps I could write a program that downloads all of the history of Nostr (or perhaps just the users I'm interested in?) and then my server would sign when I received the messages and create order out of that.

Then if I get a message that claims to be from the past at some point in the future, I'd instantly be able to see that. I'd also be able to periodically ping relays and see what messages that are no longer being relayed and I'd have some curiosity about why that is happening.

I just kind of wish this was baked into the protocol. But I sailed here from the Scuttleverse. I'm open to ideas about how to do this well.
I think so. How little power some of these old dams produce is a bit shocking by modern standards. I remember the allies during WWII went to a bunch of trouble to knock out a some dams on the Ruhr. I think one of them produced 5MW of power.

So these dams produce a round error amount of energy[1]. But the effect on the watershed is not a rounding error. And a lot of them are old which brings costs due to maintenance and engineering analysis. And that applies to the 60 year old power lines to tie these to the grid.

[1] Compare with fish. Friends mom lived in Idaho which is popular with fishermen. Some state analysis showed fish tourism generates about $1000 per fish caught.
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My Chevy had a recall out to replace one of the pages in the manual.
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Please don’t give him air. He is a crackpot.
I won’t deny that the newtype pattern leaves a lot to be desired, but I think I’m practice this isn’t nearly as big a deal as you make it out to be.

All that aside,

> Especially when the solution is so simple.

This is completely unwarranted and presupposes incompetency or apathy on the Rust dev team, either of which couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Designing programming languages is hard and full of tradeoffs. While we can of course disagree about those tradeoffs, “simple” changes like these are never actually simple in practice and involve complex sets of tradeoffs that invariably have been discussed to obscene lengths. Even “simple” workarounds often commit to implementation guarantees that language designers are hesitant to make until they’re certain it won’t box them into a corner in the future.

Put bluntly, anyone who asserts that a programming language design change is “simple” is only highlighting their own ignorance on the subject.
Here's a 2016 Wired article about Doug Lenat, he was the guy who made Eurisko and CYC https://www.wired.com/2016/03/doug-lenat-artificial-intellig...
Show HN: Automating Job Search with AI
This is a personal experiment that uses LLMs to rank unstructured job posting data based on user-defined criteria. Traditional job search platforms rely on rigid filtering systems, but many users lack such concrete criteria.

One of the superpowers of LLMs is understanding unstructured data, like the job postings in the monthly "Ask HN: who's hiring" threads. So I built a little tool that lets you define your preferences in a more natural way and then rates each job postings based on the relevance.

You can define what you're looking for in simple terms and get a custom list ranked by relevance. It's not flawless (especially with cheaper models like gpt-3.5), but it's a lot better than searching through hundreds of listings manually.
If that's a big issue for you consider using ECC memory, or even better - colocating your servers in an abandoned mine.
You may be right that Linux is a security disaster even with X11 replaced by Wayland, but ChromeOS is pretty secure and uses Wayland whereas I can't imagine its ever choosing to use X11.
Problem is those companies are like Nest, who made good products with love and then sold themselves to Google who then turned most Nest products into bargain-basement offerings with half the features. So the only real fix is FOSS, since everything else can be bought and killed. (FOSS can be too, but it's harder.)
> 3) Youtube Comments

Is probably LLM poison.

> 4) Gmail content

Is huge but also has enormous privacy issues. Most people by default assume their emails are reasonably private, whereas most people wouldn't assume their comments on these platforms are private.
Just over 120m 400 ft preformed firewall to firewall between two houses. Sometimes it works better if I turn off EEE. I've tried a few models of firewalls/nics all mini-pc's, all Intel. I think I'm just slightly over the rated length. Using buriable cat-7 in a conduit meant for fiber. Had the conduit run by the same people that installed the fiber.
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> either through his withdrawal

Which, as I recall, he tried but the courts said 'no'.
I believe the article says "interstellar", not "alien".
So Sweden's quality of life is bad simply because of the existence of 100 yr mortgages?

Also, I'm gonna need a source on your "median ppp" because it's completely different than PPP per capita, which is Sweden at $64.5k and West Virginia at $41.5k.

Sweden life expectancy: 82.4.

West Virginia life expectancy: 72.8

Sweden HDI: .947

West Virginia HDI: .877

Rural WV is a textbook case of conservatism. They were only old-school Democrats because of labor union advocacy. Their 2020 Presidential vote was 68% R. So since they're so un-brainwashed, they must have the clarity to be doing super well, no?

You could replace them with any Red state in the US. Want to guess how the quality of life metrics in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Oklahoma are doing?

Face it, your claims of propaganda directly contradict the quality of life metrics that red states experience vs. "progressive propaganda" bastions like Sweden that have higher taxes, a more diverse economy, no problems with gay people, universal healthcare and education. If you want to deny that, then it's crystal clear where the "propaganda" actually exists.
This kind of power dynamic between the civilian administration and 'the military' would not be considered to be healthy, if it were happening in a sovereign polity.

Could a sufficiently wealthy mayor (like Bloomberg) push through privatisation and deunionisation, while using their personal funds to pay for private security for the whole city in case there is a strike? The department's annual budget seems to be around 5 billion USD.
Well, this is one easy way to to create the hate filled alt-right LLM, sorry, "based AI" that Musk want's to build.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a43126181...
> ...it's about assigning appropriate work to peoples level and having them progress through the most efficient steps to mastery...

that's the opposite of what a union does. A union rewards seniority and nothing else.
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Can people with mental disabilities be eaten ethically?

Follow up question since I can guess your answer: what about mentally disabled chimpanzees? What about mentally disabled octopuswhiches[0]? I'm talking to the point where they would not survive outside of human intervention. Or maybe not. Where is the line?

[0] as defined as the plural of octopus elsewhere in the comments