skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anything particularly disqualifying raised in this take on the new cyber direction.

Its concerns around limiting free expression, duty to adhere to standards of care, and market power could be alleviated by suitable legal tests.

I agree liability for vulns in court is problematic because of the elaborate possible futures that can occur in court, and the costs involved, but I see that this would likely be set by a sensible implementation of these ideas as a "last resort", with plenty of escape hatches to avoid it on the way, leaving the effect not toothless but just.

I'm interested to see where this will go, I don't think it will be a bad thing for my company's cybersecurity products.

A potential for abuse tho I think is the misuse of whatever collection of laws and rules results, to compel and gag deliberate weakening for the purposes of maintaining backdoor access, which should instead be negotiated through dedicated channels (warrants etc).

Whenever there's commentary on new laws, it's pertinent to ask what lobbyists might be representing what interests in any discussion? I don't know the answer here, but I'd like to see speculation.

One awesome thing that I hope results from this is that more lay people get somewhat conversant in what constitutes secure by design software. An increase in such security literacy can only be good--I think! Unless it's like that situation where people go to their doctors with their diagnosis and treatment already worked out thanks to Google, and are just looking for the doc to rubber stamp it! Which...depending on you and your doc, might be the right choice! Haha :)
No way, does TeamViewer require you to use Edge???
How is this different from let’s say Banks, having to be audited by a third party and said reports reviewed by a Banking Regulator that can fine or close said Bank?

And if controls fail and a Bank buckles down, they need to respond with their own capital. (Political favors and bailouts aside)
This seems like a good thing? Making software makers have liability for a shifty product should have happened a long time ago.
I guess PKI not used between fob and car?

Sounds to me there's less verification between fob and car, than contactless EMV card and reader. How is this possible? Is it an industry wide practice?
I dunno, I reckon the amount Microsoft pay in defensive security and the amount China pay for offensive cyber security are going to be in the same order of magnitude.

The real advantage is that MS has to play at least somewhat inside the legal system.
Fun fact: when you take account of inflation, petrol's pretty cheap (135p in 2012 would be 184p today according to the BofE's inflation calculator - you get different results with different starting points of course, but it's hard to cherry-pick one that's that runs much above inflation over the same period). I reckon fuel costs feel worse now because salaries have flatlined.

> removing the ridiculous contractor loophole where you can go from 45% income tax to <30%

While paying your own holiday, insurance, employer's stamp, sick pay, pensions, bench time, etc. If you've got an in-demand skill and you're healthy I'd say it's definitely an improvement, but it's not quite as simple as comparing tax rates.
The classical market is primarily older, wealthier, and willing to pay for quality physical media.
Ah, yes I read that. The wildcard would be "undisclosed terms"...if there was some restriction of not directly owning/running a record label.
This reminds me of an AI that passes the Turing test. Of course it's not conscious. If you treat it as if it's is you get the exact same result though.

At some point the similarities between the metaphor "the Universe is intelligent" and the actual Universe are so small that there are effectively no conceptual errors.
It's not for saving storage. It's for making sure it will actually not overflow.

End number doesn't matter, what matters is developers thinking about how long data should be stored and what data should be stored.

Not doing that analysis and overprovisioning 4x will just cause disaster in 2 years instead of 6 months.
You can exfiltrate secrets that aren't in the state, but are in accessible resources during a plan using an http data source with the secret encoded into the url
Hosting a website without a computer is quite cool if you ask me
This is a fun hack, nice one.

Thinking of reasons to not do this though, it's effectively impossible to content moderate, at least not without building a database of all the content you don't want to host.
Gunax lbh! V’z n lbhatre zvyyraavny, naq fgnegrq ba gur arg nsgre gur unlqnl bs Hfrarg. V’yy or hfvat guvf va gur shgher sbe fher.
I am an it professional.

I've used qr codes maybe... 6 times, ever?

With probably 50% success rate before I give up.

I know for a fact that literally nobody else in my in law family of middle class Canadians has ever used a single one.

Anecdata of course, but if we're sharing assumptions... :-)
Having used both, I think Go has better performance and due to its static typing you can reason about functions since their parameters are explicit. This scales better as the org grows. Elixir lets you define a spec but it is not enough. I routinely had to go several callsites up the stack ti understand the parameters. However, I heard static types are on their way and that is huge.

Elixir has GenServer and BEAM niceties which is something you'll have to replicate, likely poorly, in another environment.

As for learnability, meh. Have a senior on staff and new employees will be able to learn either.

Elixir has Phoenix, liveview, and Ecto. You'll just have to look into them, but they are good. The game changer is iex, you can terminal into any running process in the cluster and interact with it.

For me, I'm much more experienced in Go and would leverage managed kubernetes if I needed to cluster. I think it scales better for larger orgs. If it is a core group of one small team, Elixir is pretty rad.
There's nothing to re-stir because Apple Inc has completely bought out all Apple Corp trademarks in 2007. Yeah, apparently if you make enough money previously made agreements aren't really binding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Or, you know, have alert on disk space like adults.
As both one of those nature lovers (guilty as charged) and a former trailworker, I have to point out the obvious: "Designated" parts of nature don't just come out of nowhere. We purposely plan parks and trails and preserves and wildernesses both to protect and, almost always, also to allow recreation.

Only in some areas is recreation the primary threat to conservation. Usually it's something more like logging, mining, or simple development that threatens a natural area.

I'd argue that relative to the other ways we treat nature, providing planned recreational access is a very low cost to pay if that means we get to then manage and protect that place for posterity, with the public's support (and funding).

Yes, even then we occasionally fuck up, whether it's through fungal spread or simple overuse. But relative to the more destructive alternatives, a few trails and tours is often the lower impact option. It's also the much more palatable (to the public) option compared to the nuclear "protect it but don't let allow recreation" option, which is only used in exceptionally sensitive circumstances (like some caves).

Realistically, people aren't going to want to stop seeing natural places. If anything, more people are going to want to as more people get richer and nature becomes rarer and more precious. I don't think there's any stopping that, any more than we have a chance of stopping industrial development for the sake of some philosophical ideal society. It's just not gonna happen. Yes, we're headed into a bleak overbuilt dystopia, and no, there's no stopping it. The best we can hope for is to slow down the destruction through management and education, both of which go hand in hand with planned recreation.

Recreation is often the "bribe" we dangle in front of the public, asking in return for them to minimize impacts. Like Prohibition or prostitution or drugs, shutting it down completely doesn't work, and it means you can't regulate it or tax and fund it. It means you can't enact management best practices, and you can't educate and encourage visitors to lower their impacts.

We can't expect the world to just listen to our pipe dreams and stop doing the things they want to do. We can, however, work with people to ensure the places and activities they love will be there for a couple more generations... if we're lucky.
I interviewed Daniel Cazzulino, now well known for his new library SponsorLink. He landed in hot water with some after adding SponsorLink to his .NET library Moq.
Regulation in general is way past overdue for software.

How many other world changing technologies were allowed to become so utterly fundamental to the functioning of society before we started making rules to set a minimum standard?
It's not illegal to promote something. What's illegal is overtaking a new market by pushing your stuff via already established monopolies in entirely different markets (at least under EU-law). Which is why Microsoft is taking action (and google stopped pushing their browser via their search engine)
Easy... name one person who's done more for e-cars.
mi are sexier
The author didn't mention anything about the actual company, BIS. Most of this article is cribbed from general sources and other tech reporting. What makes them notable? Why were they picked? How deep is the catalog? How many recordings do they represent? Even the Wikipedia entry is better than this.
If your smart colleagues can't write a sentence like "we need extra 1TB for next 3 years of growth", they are not smart and you're not either...
Policies which reduce crime / recidivism rates are good; policies that don't are bad.

Killing all people will reduce the crime and recidivism rates to zero. At the very least you want some more nuance.

The efficacy of policies can be determined by measuring the outcomes.

Killing a healthy person and taking two of its organs to save two terminally ill people waiting for an organ transplant will increase the number of years lived. Is outcome really all that matters?

Breaking the window of a car because you like breaking stuff and breaking the window of a car to unsuccessfully save a dog left behind in the car on a hot day, are they really morally the same because the outcome is the same? Yes, you talked about policies and not individual actions, but with some more thinking I could certainly find a good example for policies.
Not really-really.

You are comparing your English QWERTY, with the French AZERTY, but there are many more languages QWERTY.

On the Italian keyboard (which is also QWERTY) the round brackets need Shift, but the square ones need AltGR.
Yup, that's the one.

Uses wireshark display filters syntax to implement the ability to match traffic at any part of the stack.

It's still used internally, but clearly they stopped updating the OSS version just after I left. They were updating things to make it fully compatible for everything owasp when I left which meant additions beyond the wireshark definition of display filters. Everything firewall and WAF was moving to the filters and also other traffic matching features too.
First of all, I just want to say that I've found your comment insightful, especially this part:

> they are going to lobby congress to destroy the open source AI movement that is currently on track to destroy OpenAIs mote.

> And they want to do this all because of some nonsense about skynet.

But, I do not agree that the writer (and Wired) should not be held accountable for publishing something that is essentially an overly sympathetic and uncritical ad for the company. This is what made it mostly unreadable for me.

I guess knowing that these types of fluff pieces were written about so many grifters and cult-like startup gurus [0] leaves me wishing for a more critical view. For example, I believe the writer could have described how these cult members view themselves just as well WHILE justifiably questioning the narrative and expressing concern about how it relates to being a for-profit-non-profit, open source LLMs, concentration of information, capital and power, the homogenizing and enshitifying effects their tools might have on society, etc.

> you should come out of reading this article horrified at the nonsense that major people at major tech companies actually believe, and the fact that they are doing something about it. (IE lobby congress in this case and attempting to destroy the open source AI movement)

Agree.

0 – https://www.wired.co.uk/article/we-work-startup-valuation-ad...
Those aren't full courts. There are similar Jewish/rabbinical bodies in the US that also deal with family and religious issues. Sit in on a full sharia court and you will see procedures that techniques that answer questions that the common law has long struggled with. For example, not every witness in a sharia court must take an oath:

"Article 107: A person requesting the oath of his adversary must precisely specify the events concerning which he wishes said adversary take an oath. The court shall prepare the formula of the oath as prescribed by the Shari'ah."

https://www.saudiembassy.net/law-procedure-shariah-courts
Maybe I’m not appreciating your viewpoint because the article nor the comments seem overtly self-promoting to me.

I would agree with you if it was a garbage press release with low quality fake comments.

Maybe there’s some niche politics that I’m unaware of in the LoRa space that is triggering.
Damn, I totally forgot about Siegfried... But the Nazis sure liked their walls, the Atlantic Wall comes to mind.
Why would computational explanations of consciousness be more ridiculous than the non-explanation that is asserting everything is conscious in some way (which is basically what panpsychism means)?
Just a little side-note you might find interesting:

In the home computer era, when 8x8 bitmap fonts had their heyday, displays often had rectangular pixels. So, while the characters look square now, they often did not back then.
The up-front process is identical: create a branch to work on something. The development process is identical: create whatever little commits are useful to you personally, don't worry about whether they'll end up in main. At some point you can decide whether you have ended up with another independent unit of work, and point a new branch at the separate unit, without needing to squash any of the commits you have (branches are cheap).

I don't know what you mean by making PRs being "fiddler than rebasing to split/merge commits". What is the fiddliness you see?
> It's right out in the open that many companies are making enormous profits and giving out astonishing executive bonuses, at the same time as freezing salaries and layoffs.

I started my career at a large defense contractor. This was long ago, back when one had a mail cubby to receive memos and the link. I remember receiving one memo that stated:
1. The company didn't hit the metrics needed to trigger profit-sharing with the employees
2. The executive team had different metrics which were hit, so they'd get bonuses

It was a good life lesson for 22 year-old me.
You should definitely file a complaint with the bank, that person is well outside their mandate by stalking you outside of your interaction with the bank. KYC is one thing, stalking your customers prior or after interacting with them is creepy AF.
This is why for certain things the minimum requirement should not be 99% certain or 99.9% certain, but 99.9999% certain.
Doesn't scale to large projects and your dependencies. Requiring `map` to be type stable when calling dependencies is a maintenance nightmare in Julia.
Not in my case; I've had two password reset emails in the past 3 days (having had none since February) and both have gone simultaneously to the different email addresses I have on the account, with different codes on all the emails (even the ones sent at the same time), and the click-through URL is certainly on the legit Facebook domain.
Amazing work, props to Damien! As others have mentioned, these fonts gain a whole new audience with the microprocessor community for use with small displays.
If you like gron, try fastgron :)

It supports everything gron supports, but 50x faster.
I've created 2 products in past as a solo founder — Growby.net and Robofy.ai — and I can share some tips from my previous experiences.

When you're running a startup on your own, it's tough to handle both product development and marketing at the same time. What worked for me was to alternate between the two. For instance, I'd spend one week focusing solely on coding and building the product, and the next week would be dedicated to marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Some solo founders switch tasks every day, but I found that dedicating a full week to each area was more effective for me.

Another key point is to focus on high-impact, low-effort tasks. It's unlikely that you'll be able to master all aspects of digital marketing or build a groundbreaking product all by yourself. Concentrate on the most crucial tasks that will give you the biggest return on your effort. In other words, prioritize.

Lastly, keep direct communication with your customers in-house. Don't delegate this important task. However, it's okay to outsource more technical tasks like server management and coding to others.
Adventures in Startups
This is attractive but the chat doesn't look very lively. How successful and active is Code Shelter ?
> I absolutely love the trend of rewriting classic Unix utilities

This was actually a big draw of GNU implementations in the mid-to-late 1980s vs. the "then classics" of the mid-to-late-1970s. Before the dominance of Linux / OSX, people on SunOS / Ultrix / HP-UX / Irix / AIX / *BSD would often quickly install those more featureful GNU utilities. I imagine AIX/*BSD people still do.
Not even that actually. Members aren't allowed to directly pick the party leader, they can only choose between two alternatives put to them by the MPs.

If the members directly elected party leaders it would be run by Kemi Badenoch, a black female conservative software engineer who when she was younger hacked the website of a Labour MP so it said nice things about the Tories.
I see this a lot. Some unsolicited advice: you don't need cat for this kind of command:

echo "https://smolsite.zip/`cat somesite.zip | base64 --wrap 0`"

can become

echo "https://smolsite.zip/`base64 --wrap 0 < somesite.zip`"

- Really awesome project nonetheless!
Does nobody have space alerts ?
I’m not sure what you mean by “whole creationism.”

Do you mean a transcendent God who exists outside spacetime and created it ex nihilo? The three Abrahamic faiths definitely believe that.

However there are other faiths that believe spacetime is eternal and that the Creator created the world or possibly the universe out of eternally existing matter. I get the impression that Hindus and maybe Mormons believe something along those lines.

If we abstract we can identify eternal universe vs created universe and intelligently designed universe vs random but we sure did get lucky universe as two independent dimensions. I don’t know of any created/lucky faiths, but the standard model is compatible with eternal/lucky.
In the 90s and 00s, we’d create “buy now” buttons on PayPal and drop them in the HTML. They still have “buy now” button builders, and people trust PayPal.
Agreed. It’s not just about the amount of regulation though. The kind of regulation is important too. Take 3 random examples:

Single player game: maybe we want to cut back on the skinner boxes, or automatically mark 18+ any actual gambling.

Professional accounting: maybe we want the thing to be error-free under normal operating conditions (good luck defining "normal" here though).

Media player: that thing routinely reads stuff from the Internet, maybe it should be robust to hostile input.
Sure, that's how you get doppler shifted frequencies and enter the realm of radars.
Is that how it actually works on Instagram or was it just an example?
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the UK has a weird culture of conformism and authoritarianism, and the weirdo part of the Tory party is deeply into that sort of thing, and is in power now. it's not very mysterious.
yes, according to GDPR, it does matter. Also I doubt that HN has a clause in their ToS saying it's ok for anyone to scrap the site and use the data for commercial use.
Something strange is going on here. Nothing has changed about the bill, yet all news outlets are reporting as if it has.

All that happened was that somebody said "yeah but we won't use these controls so don't worry".

What is the authority of that statement? The bill hasn't been changed.
I remember having AOL back in the very early web days, just after they added the browser. My dad had an "Internet for Dummies" book, which had a directory of websites to try. I, as maybe a 10 year old, could not properly type all the characters in the URL correctly and I gave up on this so-called World Wide Web. It seemed way worse than AOL-proper. Also, at that time, AOL had a much richer user experience than most of the early Web.

It was probably only like 6-12 months later that the web started to eclipse my usage of the proprietary AOL network. The ability for people to self-publish meant there was a lot more content for my hobbies of playing Civilization II and Battletech on the broader Web.

About 15 years later, I ended up working for AOL, via HuffPost, right through the Verizon acquisition. That was actually an extremely fun time to be there, as the company was attempting all sorts of experimental media projects, like HuffPost Live, Patch, their Aol Originals, etc. Completely coincidentally, my then-girlfriend (now-wife) worked for them through her PR agency, all the way through the Oath era.
So if fusion allows to generate preposterous amounts of cheap energy, what will be easier: generating commercial helium as a by-product, or using all that energy to go and bring helium home from Jupiter?
It was just a quickie for fun, but maybe I should look into that
If you use SSH agent, key-based auth will fail and fallback to password, because that requires creating file in /tmp that you can't do if partition with ssh ran out of space.
There's clearly sufficient demand for them to have settings to lock the profile down from search engines, and non-logged in users. I'd wager that most users who set the privacy settings (heck look at this post) don't realize that random strangers with zero professional interest can see enough detail to cause serious harm if they wanted.
Most people turn that off coz it is near-useless feature and I don't need OS reserving 5% of 2TB drive
There is some truth to it. In WW1, they had a lot to loose in the West and little to win. They tried anyway (maybe because to preempt any invasion from France, no idea...). In WW2, if it wasn't for ideological reason, they had little to win in the East.

I forgot who said it, but there truths to it: The Germans are tactically brilliant, operationally lacking and strategically bankcrupt. I am German, working in international environments, and I see parallels in industry.
Yeah but Zen 5 is going to widen the front end anyway, which is one of the things they had just said was a good choice not to do ;-)
This feels really revisionist, or perhaps you have some uncommon requirements for "generally usable". My first non-Blackberry smartphone was a Motorola Atrix in 2011. By this point most of my friends and coworkers were already carrying an iPhone or Android device, I was late to the party. None seemed to be saying their phones weren't generally usable.
Oh I SEE qr codes everywhere. But I never see anybody using them. People do, obviously, but most of my friends and family never have.
Love the free version
Android is a corporate brand and not consumer brand

edit: I do not buy Android license in a way that I would buy MS Windows when I build my PC, mobile manufacturer does. Pixel phones are their consumer brand not Android