skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody mentioned this in a reply, but it deserves to be a top level comment. A good chunk of this year's unusual heat may be attributable to a reduction in SO2 emissions from shipping. Article cites other factors as well, but this implies that 2023 is the new normal.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...
I'm not sure if you run later in trouble, if you don't have the number yourself but somebody else.
The difference is that BBR does not use loss as a signal of congestion. Most TCP stacks will cut their send windows in half (or otherwise greatly reduce them) at the first sign of loss. So if you're on a lossy VPN, or sending a huge burst at 1Gb/s on a 10Mb/s VPN uplink, TCP will normally see loss, and back way off.

BBR tries to find Bottleneck Bandwidth rate. Eg, the bandwidth of the narrowest or most congested link. It does this by measuring the round trip time, and increasing the transmit rate until the RTT increases. When the RTT increases, the assumption is that a queue is building at the narrowest portion of the path and the increase of RTT is proportional to the queue depth. It then drops rate until the RTT normalizes due to the queue draining. It sends at that rate for a period of time, and then slightly increases the rate to see if RTT increases again (if not, it means that the queuing that saw before was due to competing traffic which has cleared).

I upgraded from a 10Mb/s cable uplink to 1Gb/s symmetrical fiber a few years ago. When I did so, I was ticked that my upload speed on my corp. VPN remained at 5Mb/s or so. When I switched to RACK TCP (or BBR) on FreeBSD, my upload went up by a factor of 8 or so, to about 40Mb/s, which is the limit of the VPN.
My initial (unconfirmed) suspicion would be that the CCP has discovered the US is spying on their party members via Apple devices.
I don’t see how a one-day factory stoppage aligns with the article’s teaser, “ Just in time’ production system minimises costs but technical glitch highlights risks.”

It seems like Toyota identified the issue and got things running again quickly enough. This does not at all seem like a good case study for exploring the risks of JIT.

I read The Guardian regularly and will continue to, but they sometimes go out of their way to find an anti-business angle.
Apple Spending Millions of Dollars a Day on Conversational AI
This website looks hilariously mangled on mobile. Which at first I kind of expected, until it said at the bottom it was updated in 2022.
Yeah, that's human interest to get you interested in the problem and how it occurred to the author. Do you think the trolley problem is about trolley cars on rails with switches?
IIUC in general they do. One of the steps of this failure is that a key that had no business signing off on accessing government data was granted that scope by MS's cloud software because they changed the scope-checking API in such a way that their own developers didn't catch the change ("Developers in the mail system incorrectly assumed libraries performed complete validation and did not add the required issuer/scope validation").

So instead of failing safe, lack of new code to address additional scope features "failed open" and granted access to keys that didn't actually have the right scope.
Am I missing something?

It would seem to me that knowing the specter secret key and the “login id” then exposes the password that then is “fixed” and cannot be changed without breaking other aspects.

In a world where we’re moving to passkeys and hardware based authentication, why is this even a thing? It just seems a huge step backwards.
If everyone has the moral authority, then you realize that your enemies think the same way, right? And you realize that you have just given them license to punch you too, right?

How can you believe that other people can err in their judgement of themselves and others and at the same time assume that you are immune to the same error? It's completely ridiculous.
higher comp at Netflix
It does not. Child components will only render when their parent component re-renders or for example, its state changes.

Either way, this is different than what I mean with Mithril.js (it does full tree re-renders on event handler calls or when a manual redraw function is called).
I typically use "F100" or "F500" to refer to the space of all large corporations. This feels to me like a happy blend between explicit naming and including everyone with an LLC.
If you take the time to do a decent setup.

Text compresses extremely well and long-term archive space is generally inexpensive.

The hard part is all the work of deciding what is important, what the processes will be, and implementing a proper archive system.

Most people just don't dedicate the resources to things like this until the need is demonstrated.
The work to un-lobotomize it is already underway. I don’t blame organizations for releasing aligned base models as it relieves them of some amount of liability and reputational risk.
> it's not like Europe has a lack of engineers and scientists capable of building this stuff

That wasn't my point. We have engineers, but we have no local champions. ASML, SAP and Spotify can't balance out what the US has.

>they are just mostly working for US companies

THAT was my point. Europe has a lack of local top tech companies and our brightest minds are working to build up the US tech sector instead of the domestic one.
Nowadays if you want to create a discord account you have to fork over a non voip phone number.
effective accelerationism apparently
The problem is enforcement, yes, and GDPR is finally, if very slowly, is getting enforced.

No regulation is a "saviour".
Wait ... what do you do with the planes? Or are they just enormous outdoor furniture?
Disney’s wildest ride: Iger, Chapek and the making of an epic succession mess
The timing for the staging is interesting. On the one hand, you want to light the Starship engines (the 2nd stage) while the SuperHeavy (1st stage) is still accelerating the entire stack. This is to keep the propellants at the bottom of their respective tanks to prevent any bubbles going into the engines. The Starship then needs to be under sufficient thrust to accelerate just as the SH cuts its engines so that the two stages can separate safely.

I'm sure it will be exciting. I just hope sufficient SH engines remain running long enough to try the staging event.
It is implausible that a person bothered by this could operate in society. It’s deep into conservative-parody-of-liberals territory. It’s possible for a claim to be so outlandish that no amount of good faith with preserve it.
I have now. This document shows that the CIA was trying to counter conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination (of course they were), but it doesn't seem to provide evidence for the CIA deliberately shifting the meaning of 'conspiracy theory'.

This part got an audible "Heh" out of me though: "Note that Robert Kennedy, Attorney General at the time and John F. Kennedy's brother, would be the last man to overlook or conceal any conspiracy." Robert Kennedy was murdered one year after this document was written, while running for president. Suppose he secretly doubted the Warren Commission's report (as has been claimed by some of the people close to him, but disputed by others), becoming president would have given him a uniquely privileged position from which to assail it.
> The server owner decides this and if you have a somewhat big server you want it enabled.

I am not talking about servers requiring phone numbers, I am talking about Discord blocking your account entirely for no reason until you give them a phone number. Maybe you haven't experienced it yet, but I have.
Waterless high-density hydro stores more energy with less elevation
> Every single human conflict can be described as "small differences" because humans are very similar to each other.

He's obviously talking about differences which are small by human standards. The rest of the paragraph:

> If you want to know who someone in former Yugoslavia hates, don’t look at the Indonesians or the Zulus or the Tibetans or anyone else distant and exotic. Find the Yugoslavian ethnicity that lives closely intermingled with them and is most conspicuously similar to them, and chances are you’ll find the one who they have eight hundred years of seething hatred toward.
> So... a really fancy website?

Basically.

Which isn't a high bar, if you've ever use a banking portal.
I think there were a lot of people that cheered the deaths of both, myself included.

I don't know anybody that didn't cheer the death of OBL actually. I did see some morons on Twitter/X try though, but they were pretty fringe even among the left.
Directory Opus is the best file manager on Windows
Yeah, this is not a single additional number though – they give you a new random number for like 5 minutes which is enough to set up the account but obviously not enough to use it afterwards. I guess they do it so that they can allow reusing the number with other services.

Why there's no service generating multiple permanent virtual numbers is a mystery to me, too. They don't seem much more scarce than credit card numbers. On the other hand, only Privacy.com seems to allow issuing that many cards (in contrast, Revolut only allows you to have 5 permanent cards + 1 single use card – this seems to be the usual limit in other banks as well), so they might know some kind of a secret sauce.
The car is actually named after the color code for that particular shade of orange — Pantone 021 C!
> The podcast makes a unsubstantiated and unexamined assumption: kids
> must be online.

You haven't listened to a single word of it have you?

https://soundcloud.com/chrismorrisbits/peter-ohanraha-hanrah...

It says precisely the opposite.
Why do you keep doubling down on your father's personal experience? It's one data point from 30 years ago. It doesn't really matter.
Asking me for my opinion, getting my opinion, and then telling me it’s my opinion, and then judging my opinion is not a great conversation. I’m left wondering why you asked the original questions (I.e., do I value content and does the internet provide me valuable content) when you had already imagined my answer and drawn an illogical conclusion from my imaginary answers.

Edit: having perused your user page, I think I get it. You’re really passionate about the one man studio thing. I don’t think you’re wrong to do this at all, but it might be worth considering how Leo Strauss would interpret a nation of auteur content producers each producing for an audience of one. Everyone might get exactly what they want, but the coherent unified society does not get what it needs.
In the article Scott says he lives in a Republican district in a state with a Republican Governor, so he wasn't in San Francisco at the time he wrote this. I live in a Democrat district in a state with a Democrat governor so I can't imagine the political demographics of where we live are that divergent.
Last I remember as of at least 7 years ago Google et al were using custom NIC firmware to avoid having the kernel get involved in general (I think they managed to do a lot of Maglev directly on the NICs) because latency is so dang important at high speed networking speeds that letting anything context switch and need to wait on the kernel is a big performance hit. Not a lot of room for latency when you're working at 100 Gbps.
Is it impossible for an adversary in China to modify an iPhone during manufacture in a way that Apple can't detect?
Having grown up a poor POC, a different tribe. Each POC group also will have its own set of social and political mores. For example, many POC who fled from Communist countries will vote for anti-Communist rhetoric. Many poorer POCs also tend to be more okay with anti-feminist or anti-LGBT stances. On the other hand, recent immigrant POCs often dislike groups that stereotype them or are anti-immigration as they obviously feel solidarity towards recent immigrants.
GAs are super cool and I think underutilized in the NN era.

One thing that might improve the algorithms in the linked write-up is not choosing the strict top results. Often, GAs perform better if you choose a random selection from the result set, then choose the top performer from that selection.

So, if your algorithm generates 100 results, pick 10 randomly, then use the top 2 from that selection to generate the next generation. This allows more exploration of the solution space and mitigates landing in local optima. Introducing the new parameters means more playing with the values, but it's been shown to work better, and makes sense in the context of biological evolution, as well.

Anyway - GAs are fun and I'd like to see them used more. Thanks for the article OP!
Interesting how fast they switched to that.
How can "public policy changes toward immigration" replace wage hikes? Won't that just result in a large population of untermenschen suffering substandard living conditions? Essentially a slave class?
He flies them himself and has a couple of co-pilots on standby living close by. Mentioned that in an interview.
https://youtu.be/ePT7m1sYuMo?si=wUj49RSRK7DG4kkS
In terms of inclement weather for driving purposes, SF is more similar to Austin than say, Seattle.

My point wasn't that sunshine specifically helps, but that the complete lack of snow, ice and other roadway altering weather conditions is a serious asterisk that needs to be solved before this technology can be moved out of Beta for most of the US.

Self_driving cars seemingly can't handle snowy conditions. 70% of the roads in the US receive at least five inches of snow per year. (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/weather_events/snow_ice.htm)
I advocate for myself, others should do the same. Medicaid is there for retirees and disabled folks and the rest of us should be working. I don't know what these millions you mention are doing where they can't afford healthcare, but there are plenty of job and education opportunities out there that will provide insurance if you're willing to study and work, which I think is fair.
It seems like using np.random.choice is indeed a slow way to get a grid in which 5% of the values are 1. I would recommend using np.random.rand(size) >= mutations:

> python3 -m timeit 'import numpy as np; mutations=0.05; rows=10; columns=10; np.random.choice([0,1], p=[(1-mutations), mutations],size=(rows,columns))'
50000 loops, best of 5: 8.88 usec per loop`

> python3 -m timeit 'import numpy as np; mutations=0.05; rows=10; columns=10; np.random.rand(rows,columns) <= mutations'
200000 loops, best of 5: 1.06 usec per loop
>people dying cuz of dumb mistakes. the solution was to keep someone on shift, like 12+ hours, or often more for sensitive cases.

Which was entirely the wrong "lesson" to learn! Once again doctors bristle at being told they should improve their processes instead of being arrogant hero complexes that can do no wrong.

They should have improved the handoff and paperwork processes. Airplane mechanics have been handing off extremely complex procedures and concerns for decades, with very few accidents. So maybe we should learn from them instead of letting tired doctors continue to mistreat people.

Doctors similarly were grumpy about bringing in checklists like pilots have, despite them having a demonstrated effect.
Does the process actually un-lobotomize it? Or does it retrain it to add the missing capability back (and it's not as good as if it hadn't been lobotomized in the first place)?
Nazis are not monsters, they're people just like you. Their existence does not cause suffering per se, and punching a Nazi does not reduce suffering, it increases it. If you think a particular worldview is inherently evil you're not going to eradicate it by dehumanizing those who adhere to it and advocating for violence against them. The only way to achieve that is to get them to understand that they're wrong, and to do that you need to engage with them as human beings.

Needless to say, tolerating Nazis does not mean tolerating all actions inspired by Nazism.
I love the other .stackexchange forums. These types of questions and the answers they engender are great. I've seen some great discussions on aviation, ux, and math over the years. Long detailed answers with cool insights. A few hours ago, there was another HN post from the latin one.

But (for me), the same is no longer true for stackoverflow. I used to participate on it both as an asker and an answerer. But something happened. It felt like it was a takeover by ever pedantic moderators. Now I participate there only rarely.
Bigotry is prejudice, as in, judgement without (yet) having facts, or even in spite of them. That's not simple disagreement, it's willful and obstinate ignorance. I agree it's not worthy of respect.
Normally “toxin” refers to a natural poison produced by an animal or plant.
How is this not "use the same password on every site" but with extra steps?

Seems like the "Spectre secret" is a massive risk given that compromising it once without detection would compromise EVERY PASSSWORD THAT USER USES, even ones that didn't exist when the secret was stolen.

Followup question: how does Spectre plan to prevent malicious SEO-squatting like we already see in the cryptocurrency space? If this was used widely, I'd assume that the search results for "compute Spectre password" would be 100% stuffed with sites that capture the secret...
As I know, Grammarly migrated to Graphite implementation built into VictoriaMetrics [1]

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#graphite-api-usage
There are multiple regulatory reasons why logs in general (outside of specific use cases) are hard to retain indefinitely. You can document a security use case that triggers indefinite retention for logs based on some selector, but then you run into the problem that they say happened here: your selector is inexact and misses stuff.
In a spectrum you can only move left or right to achieve relief.

In a two dimensional problem, moving up or down may be the shortest route to getting from suffering to okay, and in some cases that transverse movement may take you from suffering to thriving.
The Stone Age is such a ridiculously broad time period.

From Wikipedia[1]:

> The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC.

So, 3.4 million years out of (generously) the last (3.4 million + 6,023) years were the Stone Age. 99.82% of "human" history (of course appreciating that modern homo sapien didn't appear until 300,000-ish years ago).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age
I feel this everytime one of these articles comes out, but it seems totally bizarre to me that we rely on private enterprises to deal with state-level attacks simply because they are digital and not physical.

If a Chinese fighter jet shot down a FedEx plane flying over the Pacific, that would be considered an attack on US sovereignty and the government would respond appropriately. Certainly we wouldn't expect FedEx to have to own their own private fleet of fighter jets to protect their transport planes. No one would be like, "Well it's FedEx's fault for not having the right anti-aircraft defenses."

But somehow, once it hits the digital domain we're just supposed to accept that Microsoft is required to defend themselves against China and Russia.
Some things were not plainly spelled out:

* July 11 2023 this was caught, April 2021 it was suspected to have happened. So, 2+ years they had this credential, and 2 months from detection until disclosure.

* How many tokens were forged, how much did they access? I'm assuming bad if they didn't disclose.

* No timetable from once detected to fix implemented. Just "this issue has been corrected". Hope they implemented that quickly...

* They've fixed 4 direct problems, but obviously there's some systemic issues. What are they doing about those?
privacy.com does have a secret sauce - a direct partnership with Visa that allows them to register cards that don't show up as "pre-paid". As far as I know, nobody else has this. I don't remember what they used before - perhaps still Visa, just pre-paid.

I don't think there is any major residential phone provider that would offer that sort of partnership to the point where you could trick services like OpenAI into thinking that the number is that of a real person. Aaand spinning up any new phone provider for this purpose is like registering a brand new super-blockable ASN for a VPN's IP addresses.

FWIW, Telnyx allows you to keep phone numbers indefinitely, and receive/forward SMS messages and phone calls. But they do not offer an integration out of the box - you'd have to code that up yourself using their APIs. And each phone number you allocate has to be paid for individually. And also, Telnyx is super detactable and blockable, of course.
Everyone always thinks the other side "attacked" first. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango.
FANMANGO. has mango
Precisely.

Sometimes you'll hear it expanded as "The Fine Article" or just "The Article".

Often, it really does mean just "the article". People use the acronym without expanding it out or thinking too deeply about it. At one point, decades ago, it may have connoted some kind of hostility (e.g. "If you had read the f---ing article..."), and it's still meant that way in "RTFA" (read the f---ing article, meaning "that was already answered, so you clearly haven't read the thing that we're supposed to be discussing")

But now, it's mostly just a kind of in-joke, and TFA means nothing more than "the article", with the F entirely silent.
The cash price will often be lower than the copay (which isn't a good thing, but it signals that the issue is benefit design rather than cost of provision).

For example, Walmart sells a month supply of levothyroxine for $4 if you don't get your PBM involved.
What the hell good is a 2%-3% cash back on a credit card when they're fucking you for 26% of your balance every month?
When I was in 10th grade in 1968, our Social Studies teacher told us that any interest rate over 8% was a violation of the usury laws, to protect the public from loansharking.
So when did loansharking become legal with these credit cards?
You're going to want an IT Manager well before 100 people. I handle systems integrations & cybersecurity compliance for a 15 - 20 person PR, marketing, & design firm and I am constantly busy with everything from major operations initiatives, major systems setup, and being available for end user IT issues.

That being said, get a Mobile Device Manager (expect a year to get it configured to where you want), get a company password manager, get a cell phone plan figured out (expect to spend $$$$$ on phone systems).

All of these systems will require significant time for set up & deployment, especially if you are doing it in such a way as to grow your compliance posture at the same time.
>.... How!?

Everywhere else has had the sense to create smaller local ruling bodies.
The friendly article, if you don't like curse words.
It’s security logs though, presumably these carry less legal risk than chat messages or mails

Also when you don’t know how a Chinese threat group got into your network that’s a major issue which will cost more than theoretical legal risk
I have a lot of experience with panels at events and they can be pretty great with the right panelists and the right moderator. And there are a few events I attend that are well above average. But on average I avoid panel sessions at conferences like the plague unless it's a topic I'm really interested in and know people involved.
Globalization and free trade should be completely rejected by left-leaning people. I guess unless imports coming from countries where human rights an economic externality are either taxed to death or banned.