skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks to treat only the symptom.

What we need is regulation that controls spam and punishes cyber attacks.

We should not accept the constant round-the-clock break in attempts on every system in the country as just normal "background noise" on the Internet.

If people were going up and down every street testing the locks on every door we would do something about it instead of just saying "how can we coerce companies into selling stronger locks?"
What do you think about a person who bought a house and documented all the ways to rob it that they could find? As far as I am aware, there is no law against that; and that is more comparable to what security researchers are actually doing.
Yes, but it is now (for some months) supported by V8 (browser, Node and Deno - hidden behind a flag) and Wasmedge and Wasmtime will both have implementations soon.

But I wouldn't hold my breath to being able to call web APIs directly from WASM ;)
> Kia’s privacy policy reserves the right to monitor your “sex life,”

Please tell me this is lawyer CYA boilerplate, or is there a way for the shocks to tell "if this van's a rockin', don't come a knockin'".
Aside from anything else, human language and its comprehension is an important aspect of AI, and the sheer variety among grammars is a salient feature that cannot be ignored.
And by "forever" it is meant ~1994; see Cheswick and Bellovin (§3.1):

> Up to this point, we have used the words “firewall” and “gateway” rather casually. We will now be more precise. A firewall, in general, consists of several different components (Figure 3.1). The “filters” (sometimes called “screens”) block transmission of certain classes of traffic. A gateway is a machine or a set of machines that provides relay services to compensate for the effects of the filter. The network inhabited by the gateway is often called the demilitarized zone (DMZ). A gateway in the DMZ is sometimes assisted by an internal gateway. Typically, the two gateways will have more open communication through the inside filter than the outside gateway has to other internal hosts. Either filter, or for that matter the gateway itself, may be omitted; the details will vary from firewall to firewall. In general, the outside filter can be used to protect the gateway from attack, while the inside filter is used to guard against the consequences of a compromised gateway. Either or both filters can protect the internal network from assaults. An exposed gateway machine is often called a bastion host.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalls_and_Internet_Securit...

* https://archive.org/details/firewallsinterne00ches

Ingham and Forrest wrote a good history of firewalls:

* https://www.cs.unm.edu/~treport/tr/02-12/firewall.pdf
It's not much of a "hack", it's literally how the number format works. If you implemented it without the "hack", you'd just be at the mercy of the compiler to see through your arithmetic on the float bit patterns and reconstitute it.

It's not actually that fast, either. Every mainstream architecture from the last 15 years (except maybe RISC-V, since it's exactly the sort of thing they would forget to add) has a "approximate square root" instruction with single-cycle throughput, and they're all both more accurate and more efficient than this. It was good for its time, but it's time has passed.
It’s a failure fund, it pays for a skeleton team or third party contractor or whatever to keep the lights on. It’s intended to be actual insurance, where you pay the premiums forever based on some assessed cost of maintaining your products for 5 years (or pick your timeframe) or refunding your users, whichever is cheaper.

Making hardware companies even harder definitely isn’t great but I don’t see how else to deal with the fact that if I buy a toaster that connects to your toaster cloud and my toaster stops working when you go out of business- I am out one smart toaster that you sold me. Best case scenario I have a regular toaster and worst case I have a brick.

I’m not asking if that’s legal, mind you. I’m asking if that’s fair, if a reasonable person would call that fair? While the company itself is fully aware of the risk that it might not exist tomorrow, it’s customers typically aren’t.
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Ask HN: Take AWS to small claims court?
Has any one of you ever taken Amazon to small claims court?

I've been trying to get a very obvious mistaken charge reversed from my account and I've lost patience at this point.

I'm strongly considering dying on a hillside to prove a point but frankly I'm not sure I care enough and may just dispute it with my CC company. Although I'm sure that will have extremely annoying repercussions as well. Any of you had to do a CC dispute with Amazon?

Advice in general on how to actually deal with AWS customer service? I feel like the rep is trying to get me to provide some sort of "coded language" that I need to use in order for them to actually address my billing issue.
Seems like a planning problem.
Hey what would be amazing is if you could support Lago, the open source stripe alternative. Lago implements many payment providers so it open up the payment options your app could be used with quite quickly.

https://www.getlago.com
Making Trump a constitutional monarch makes a little too much sense
There probably isn't a physical SIM card anymore. It probably just has an eSIM.
overwhelm the brain with input. to hold onto threads like this one, you have to be fairly healthy or fairly mad.

not strapping on tin foil hat, this likely isn’t some massive coordinated effort. it could be done “better.”

this is just making the most of the situation. at scale.

if you simplify the question, “Who wants to let their car manufacturer surveil them?” - the answer is also simple. very few hands are going to be raised.

most people don’t get the tl;dr - they drown in the firehose.

what isn’t out there is a friendly, accessible version of what you’re looking for - multi-manufacturer information on snipping the sensors, why and how, and what you lose in the exchange. if it is out there, it isn’t friendly enough to be readily found.
> And the first line is past tense, just like the second.

This is a somewhat complex issue, so please bear with me.

First, we can dispense with the idea that the tense of the first line is "just like the second". They are different and the difference is quite significant.

Whether the first line should be called "past tense" or "present tense" is more of a fussy terminological issue. There are two concepts in linguistics which have to do with how the verb relates to a timeline:

- "Tense" has to do with whether the action takes place before, during, or after whatever time would be referred to by the word "now".

- "Aspect" has to do with the temporal structure of the action itself, rather than its position relative to a "camera" placed at "now": maybe the action occurs at an indivisible point in time ("That's when I noticed the rabbit"); maybe it takes place continuously over an extended duration ("I've been reading for thirty minutes"); maybe it occurs at a large number of separate points within a continuous window ("I used to visit the donut shop every day after school")

Except I used the wrong words just now. "Tense" and "aspect" are terms from syntax, and you can determine them purely by looking at the form of the verb. The definitions I gave belong to semantics: when I said "tense", I should have said "time", and I'm not sure what the semantics-specific term for the quality related to aspect is. Anyway, we name the verb forms, "tense" and "aspect", according to whether they primarily correspond with those semantic definitions.

Except, again, there's a little more to it. We'd like to name the verb forms according to this distinction, but there is a long tradition in Latin scholarship of referring to both of those distinctions by the same name, "tense", and this bled over into English.

So we can say the following about line 1 and line 2:

- Line 1 is, semantically, focused on the present. It is making a claim about "now".

- The verb is conjugated in what would traditionally be called the "perfect tense"; according to the tense/aspect distinction described above, it is present tense (reflected in the form of have), indicating that we are talking about "now", and perfect aspect (reflected in the fact that have is used at all), indicating that the action described ("taking a toll") is already finished.

- Line 2 is semantically focused on the past. It is making a claim about some time before "now".

- The verb in line 2 is conjugated in what would traditionally be called the "simple past" or "preterite" tense. The aspect is not clear, because the English preterite tense is used for multiple different verbal semantic aspects.

The fact that line 2 is talking about the past when the rest of the chorus is talking about the present is very strange.
Why a blockbuster superconductivity claim met a wall of scepticism
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair
Having been on both sides (admin and developer), developers are notoriously bad at estimating how much space they need. You can't give them carte blanche to the storage because they'll waste it and consume as much as they're given without a thought to conserving it. And then when you put limits in, they'll whine and complain until they get what they want. Being an Artifactory service provider for a large IT dept gave me a direct view in how hard it is to manage storage for developers. And as a developer using Artifactory, I don't want to worry about storage, I just want my builds and CI pipelines to complete.
It’s an eSim. Not a physical SIM card afaik.
EU cracks down on 6 Big Tech giants
Want to second this comment. Spatial efficiency, insert and locking mechanisms, electrical characteristics, mechanical strength characteristics, machine pickability/placeability, solderability, thermal characteristics, thermal impact to overall system, environmental seal properties including water/saline air/weak acids/weak bases, orientation guarantees, safety factors such as susceptibility of shorting with different categories of pollutant including metal dust, longevity/susceptibility of contacts to build-up of dust, formal fire engineering properties (including combustion temperature/off-gassing), fabrication cost including line purchase/scheduling/maintenance and hard tooling fabrication/longevity/maintenance, color coding for human error reduction in assembling and maintenance, documentation and translation, distribution and recalls, etc. That's just the connector. Now look at regulatory outlook, availability and all of the above mentioned concerns for the relevant cables and their fabrication processes...
somewhere a data scientist is cackling.
Astrobotic Wins Two NASA Contracts to Study Rocket Plume Interactions
Is it? Does Tiktok track everything you do across the entire Internet, like Facebook and Google do? They might, I don't know, but I haven't seen "tiktok.com" in my NoScript list on 90% of websites like I have FB and Google.
I'd bet the salary of the guy who is making this a pain could buy enough storage that they don't have to worry about it anymore.
In my younger days, I was more likely to drive over the limit, and to be honest I don't think it really made much of a difference in how quickly I got anywhere, but it used a lot more fuel, was more likely to kill me and was far more stressful having to keep switching lanes to maintain those speeds.

Nowadays I'm more like you described, and I prefer to just punch in the speed limit on the cruise control and enjoy my podcast/music. If the traffic ahead slows down, I slow down. I leave the outside lane to the angry BMWs.
That doesn't really have the same meaning, and sounds very awkward though, especially because "saluer" needs an object.

I'd say (considering the context, the meaning is that she "told me goodbye" too many times before): Elle m'a trop dit au revoir.

That's 6 syllables (7 if you pronounce the schwa) and I think that's close enough to what Maroon 5 mean in their song.

Elle m'a trop quitté could work as well, with 5 syllables. I don't think you can get shorter than that, each word here seems necessary and as small as can be, to me.

If you can spare a few syllables, "déjà trop" or "trop souvent" would make these sentences much more natural.
In 1999 we still hadn't realized the wonder of reading mp3/wma files burned onto a CD. Aiwa was the first brand I remember opening that up. USB slots were next.
There are people spending time trying to decipher the subtle differences of some archaic sentence. Newton's first law obviously follows from the second (acceleration is force divided by mass, so no force, no acceleration). Newton decided to list it as a separate low for unknown reasons, most likely he found the exposition clearer this way (simpler first, more complex later). In the end what mattered is that he showed the entire world how to use math to do physics. Why split hairs about the meaning of the first law, which is redundant, and not used anywhere anyway?
Often this is intentional administrative backpressure. Finance tells IT to minimize costs. IT knows that the majority of users are poor at housekeeping, so tight control over storage allocation provides an incentive to delete-first-expand-later.

Unfortunately, this strategy frustrates users who have a genuine need to expand storage and who are unable to efficiently obtain an exception to the process.
What’s wrong with 1.1.1.1?
You can't store "the semantics" losslessly because you can't definitively say what the semantics of an utterance even are, unless you're using some reduced definition of the term, or a pre-selected frame, or a computer language.
Me. I'm excited about what they're doing with their security stuff (I love that it can only access files that were explicitly allowed) and it feels like there's a ton of good ideas in there generally. My notes so far: https://simonwillison.net/tags/deno/
NoCD patches are commonly distributed as an already-patched version of the executable, which would count as infringement.
My understanding of AM and Eurisko (having looked into them a decade or so ago) was that their source code hadn't been published, and that there was a dispute as to what their capabilities actually were and how much was exaggeration by Lenat.

I don't know if that's still the case. I do think that it would be worth creating systems that mix the ANN and GOFAI approaches to AI.
I think it's more about the quality and aggression in the shake.
World’s most powerful Open LLM: Falcon 180B
It’s hard enough to translate when there’s one meaning - but good writers often use multiple meaning of the same words - either for deeper meaning or for humor or other layered meanings.

That’s why the translations of Asterix are so impressive.
> Following their designation, gatekeepers now have six months to comply with the full list of do's and don'ts under the DMA, offering more choice and more freedom to end users and business users of the gatekeepers' services.

6 months until sideloading on iOS?
I dug into the article, specifically the Nissan section. It reads like the car itself _could_ be gathering information on its own. IMO, the Nissan phone app is the more likely culprit here.

Unless there's something wild going on with XM, or there's a WiFi backdoor, the only other way the car is getting data out is over OBD2. And that's all engine, tires, and performance stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Turbo3-Leaf-Spy-Pro/dp/B00PMLTPN0/?ta...

Edit: OH. Looks like there's Over-the-air updates on some models. https://www.nissanusa.com/connect/features-apps/over-the-air...

> The wireless features in your vehicle, including Over the Air Updates require use of your in-vehicle modem (if equipped). While Over the Air Updates are being made, some other wireless features may be unavailable or may require a wired connection. Please see FAQs for additional information.
That intro was funny. Reminded me of the old Coffee Talk sketch on SNL:

“The perpetual marketwide truck driver shortage isn’t perpetual, marketwide, or a shortage. Discuss.”
For midrange furniture (not as nice as vintage hardwood furniture that will last for generations, but not as crappy as cheap laminate furniture that is lucky to last a decade), pine is a great middle ground and very sustainable.
They are an acquired taste, but I learned to appreciate how modern and punk their music feels. Not aimed at authority, like the 80s punk movement, but angry at how mediocre, mundane and unfulfilling our daily lives have become in the past 30 years.

It's about time punk started to turn on the rat race.

https://youtu.be/WhOmCYmEkvU?si=sRS9ga0-LbhCvb3g
They're not designated as "immortal" gatekeepers. The commission can revise the list at any time, as market conditions change.

Every monopolist was once not a monopolist. Every monopolist came into existence at some point in the past and did not exist before then. So what? Should we abolish all antitrust law for this reason? It's a very strange criticism.
> People who aren't affected by this are those who are either (a) genetically blessed, and would hardly gain weight in any environment, or (b) are socially blessed, in that they are wealthier, live in places with a strong culture of exercise, and/or have easy access to nutritious fresh vegetables.

or c) are disciplined enough to count their calories and stopping when they hit 2,000 kCal/day or so.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401563
Maroon V?
I always scoff at all of the endless "How will we pay for it???" crap. We'll pay for it by cutting out massive inefficiencies like the insurance system (which is basically a giant RICO scam), which would introduce an incredible burst of innovation and efficiency, as Americans got unshackled from jobs they were only in for insurance benefits & were able to take more creative risks and move into jobs more suited for them. Also, the way we do healthcare straight up costs twice as much while also producing less care.
Does anybody know of any data showing how many times he's threatened to sue and then done it? I'd wager it's less than 1%.
Reducing word count is rather useless if you end up with words that are much longer.

The distinction of what a word is, is also pretty interesting to think about. When I read some old Dutch stories back in high school, I noticed the writers would glue together words that I would consider to be completely separate. The Latin word "quodsi" from the second answer is obviously a combination of "quod" and "si", two separate words, but "nimium saepe" isn't combined into "nimiumsaepe" despite Cicero often using those words together. "valedīxit" is just "vale" and "dīxit" smashed together into a single verb.

The proposed "illa nimium valedīxit" (from combining both answers, to include the stressed gender of the person in question) can be interpreted literally as "she overly goodbyesaid". You can derive the same meaning from reordering the words, but it won't sound as poetic.

I don't think English or French are more exacting and clear per se, I think that's more of a cultural thing for native speakers. Compare posh British English speakers to American English speakers; the exact same words can be used to either say something directly ("very interesting") or to hide complete disagreement behind a nice expression ("very interesting").

I wouldn't consider French to be any better or worse than English. It's just another language. Though, with the exception of the useless ^ here and there to indicate a missing s, French spelling matches pronunciation a lot better at least.
Many drivers get swindled into the "owner operator" scheme where the trucking company owns the truck and sets the rates that the driver (who thinks that they're an owner-operator, but is really an employee) gets paid. The vehicle ends up out of warranty long before it is paid off and the folks who think that they're owner-operators find out that there is no way that they can make ends meet. They end up bankrupt and the trucking company ends up taking ownership of the rig again.

While some people can and do make a living at it, many get swindled.

The actual shortage is a shortage of suckers.
All new EU cars since 5 years ago are obligated to have 'eCall' which contacts emergency services in case of a crash. Most manufacturers solve that problem by including a 4G module.

Older cars also collect information. Most dealers read out the nav computer drive at service intervals so they also know where you've been, who you called etc, only a bit later.
I am planning to release my first software but
Hi, I am planning to release my first software, which is Social Media Content Management. I have observed that many business owners or influencers face challenges, as they often have no idea about what content they should post and when to post it at the exact time. Most importantly, this system can suggest the content they should post based on their interests. AI will suggest it, and it can be automatically posted without their permission, but users need to take the initial action to activate this function.

Another function of this software includes:

- Scheduling posts on various social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, - - Twitter, and Telegram.
- AI-powered auto-reply to comments.
- Integration with Canva.

What do you think?
More like, no other financial and investment markets are as liquid and stable as America’s, which attracts the world’s innovators and investors. The US should not replicate the failure and incompetence at the helm of the EU and other major bureaucracies.
In some places, this is not an option. I have a mechanical Euro-5 car without sim card nor infotainment system that I would not be able to use where I live by end 2024.

Welcome to the EU and its low-emissions zones that span over many of its big cities.
The Game Theory Behind the Price to Refuel Your Car
It's in the user profile.
That a good idea in theory, but that has a very high bar for non-advanced users.

What I meant is kind of just a regular brand that offers you a regular car with convenience features, but no telemetry/services involved. All local and offline - that's the catch for them, because what brands want is to monetize services...
> Translation is a process which both erases information and introduces new information.

There's an essay I enjoyed by Douglas Hofstadter which is all about this, though from an artistic POV without much (any?) information science. Translator, Trader. The title itself is a fun bit of translational wordplay on "traduttore, traditore."
Hmm...

https://pic.infini.fr/bWfv8MUD/tpaSPBnT.jpg

https://pic.infini.fr/JZXcX6F4/SCZyNu1P.jpg
Both “she said goodbye too many times before” and “she had said goodbye too many times before” are grammatically correct English. They have slightly different meanings.
> This is true; and I find it hard to understand.

It's actually not that complicated. The US intelligence services relied on high-level sources, essentially the military's plans for invasion, to come to its conclusions. European intelligence services tended to rely on low-level sources (the status of the units in question) instead. It turns out that the units were, even on the eve of the invasion, simply not ready for an invasion, and the European intelligence had sussed that out. In effect, when the US reported to the Europeans that Russia was preparing for war, the Europeans went "With what army? This one clearly ain't ready for war."

Combine those contradictory signals with the preconceptions that people had. The US intelligence had badly misfired during the Iraq War. There is a (not entirely undeserved) tendency to view the US as excessively warmongering. Putin had a (mostly undeserved) reputation of being a skillful and crafty manipulator. And Russia engaging in naked territorial aggression would require painful reassessments of 30 years of Russia policy (not least of which is the degree to which Europe depended on Russian gas). With all of that weighing against believing the US intelligence, it should be no surprise that Europeans did so.