skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have fun poking around their mail archive:

http://www.enron-mail.com/email/maggi-m/inbox/Enron_Dynegy_M...

> In addition, all information, documents and communications related to the merger between Enron and Dynegy should be coordinated through and approved by Mark Muller, Lance Schuler, Robert Eickenroht, Mark Haedicke, Rob Walls or Greg Whalley of Enron. It is absolutely critical that this procedure be maintained. To the extent that information is required to be disclosed to Dynegy under the merger agreement, then such disclosure should be approved by one of the foregoing individuals.

Most of the “foregoing individuals” are missing from the archive, but not all:

http://www.enron-mail.com/email/haedicke-m/
This looks like absolute trash - every single graph is about FAST FAST FAST. 5x FASTER, 15x FASTER FAST FAST FAST!!!!

How about accuracy? Are the results good? I can shit out a blank string at gigabits per second easily...

Searching for the string "accu" yields no results. "acc" only yields "acceleration".

This is stupidity and should be ignored.

EDIT: HOLY KEK - they have a "carbon emissions" chart showing them saving 95%. Jesus christ, ignore everything they say, they are blind deaf and dumb.
In practice nonce reuse with CTR+GCM virtually always results in an obvious exploitable vulnerability. With CBC+HMAC nonce reuse sometimes results in an obvious exploitable vulnerability but often results in a system which has unclear security properties but which isn't known to be practically exploitable under common use (and may even still be provably secure under after careful analysis).

In other words, if the latter system is flawed it ends up having the sort of security properties more akin to physical security rather than the strong mathematical assurances we expect from cryptographic systems.

Given the high rate of issues with nonce mishandling in real systems, even ones that appeared to be carefully engineered, it shouldn't be hard to understand why systems engineers (as opposed to, say, cryptographic researchers) would have an unambiguous preference for one over another when it comes to practical systems, at least if all else were equal (which, of course, it seldom is!).

> IMO those assumptions are not a good foundation for security and we should move past them.

No one here is advocating that using CBC with intentional potential IV reuse is good security. But defense in depth is a good security practice and using primitives that fail less catastrophically when inevitable disasters happen is also a good security practice.

This is doubly so because there we know that that some sophisticated attackers have been known to exploit the brittleness of otherwise secure schemes to compromise implementations. Brittleness doesn't just increase exposure to chance it also makes it easier to inject bugdoors and to plausibly deny them.
Taking multiple "points" (100mg doses) in a single session is extremely common among enjoyers of MDMA.

People don't really build tolerance to MDMA when they use it responsibly.

This is a phase 3 clinical trial, aka the last and most rigorous phase before potential FDA approval. There have already been studies previous to this one that establish safe bounds for dosage of chemically pure MDMA in a clinical setting, many of which are targeted at patients with "no tolerance" (aka drug naïve).

You are clutching pearls pretty hard here. Experimental medicine is not without risks. Apparently 8 whole active study group participants (less than 10%) experienced mild tachycardia, aka fast heartbeat, in a setting full of trained medical professionals with the skills and equipment to handle such events. There was also some sweating and nervousness. Compare that to a moderate to bad episode of PTSD and it's a walk in the park by comparison. This is highly ethical research. Take a breath and carefully read the full study and some of its references, as well as some other ones prior to this phase 3 trial, if you are seriously concerned about this issue.
This market is currently dominated by IM group chats.

In fact, most of the old social media has now moved over to chat groups.
so you need instructions on how to search?
I don’t think the provided webclient uses webasm, it’s just transpiled to js. It can be transpiled to webasm but there’s no benefit right now (and worse performance iirc)
I never need to SSH directly into servers. When I do, I need to be able to clone private git repos. ssh agent forwarding is the right answer.
And January 1, 2025 for entities created before January 1, 2024

plenty of time to repeal or debilitate this in the annual NDAA
You don't reject it you understand what the problem is and design the solution and explain it to them.
I'm sure this entire team didn't need to exist in the first place but that's what you get when you only have a business person and the Dev team they hire.

A PM here would have saved the company what, $5m per year?
Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain
The next US president, who has unlimited access to all classified information, is going to be either 78 or 82 years old at the beginning of their term.

That sounds like a much greater potential threat than regular national security workers, most of whom are required to retire in their 60s.
1 because the target version didn’t have any survival features, 2 because mojang absolutely would not appreciate it.
Some longtime fans of true crime are quitting the genre for good
Huge fan of Enron branding, it was done by none other than Paul Rand: https://www.paulrand.design/work/Enron.html
> Actually, the above quote is not Trump and not on China. It's Ronald Raegan on Japan in 1985.

Good, I was surprised at the claim that trump would say something so balanced.

What's "demonizing" about this? It doesn't even mention a specific country.

"accusations" are not a problem if they're true...
where do you actually file this in 2024?
There are successful examples of almost every kind of software you can think of that have been developed remotely, so I’m not sure it’s web development specific.

Even with software that is ostensibly developed by a team in an office, is frequently worked on by employees in different offices.
Another application: erasing original antigenic sin.
seems kinda biased. not a single bad word of Allende's Chile.
IIUC a blockchain is a structure where each node has a content addressable hash that includes the hash of the previous node in the chain. If you change any historical node, every subsequent hash is updated.

This structure is used inside your .git directory, your docker manifest, etc.

Blockchains are incredibly useful structures.
Mesa-optimization algorithms in Transformers[pdf]
since Discovery is used in almost all civil and criminal actions:

You're proposing abolishing it but only in antitrust cases?
I think you might be surprised how easy this process is at some big tech companies. For me the bigger hurdle is getting past a privacy review, not the issue of the license.
I'm gonna go ahead and blame everyone involved. Unity's okay I guess, but I wasn't aware that it was the type of CEO that merited Jobs-esque adoration from the masses. All you're doing with that is bolstering the CEO's image - which is like 50% of the CEO's whole job.
What exactly is so hard to understand? It's a well known fact that they pay to be the default search engine. Either that's against the rules or it is not. It sounds like the DOJ doesn't want to be blamed for any potential negative consequences for establishing clear rules, so instead they'll bully Google into settling so that they can get an easy win.
Something "feeding into" a false rhetoric doesn't mean it's false.

Facts get twisted all the time.
Yeah… because f350s make so much economic sense…
Solving the Expression Problem in Go
You’re talking about PV, not solar thermal. Break even for solar thermal can be one year.
This is great! Reminds me of Fire & Ice and Solomon's Key 2 on the NES.
Not only that, but my joke fails when it comes to stringing up a wire alongside a high-voltage power line. (Like that urban legend about the farmer who got "free" energy by stringing the wire along his fence)

Not only is our farmer not taking the actual leptons from the power line, but he's actually stealing something from the EM field. Our farmer only has claim to his wheat field, Edison owns the EM field.

I guess particle classification is completely irrelevant to property law.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/is-it-poss...
Display port is not USB, the GPU already had secondary out that basically just needed to be routed to the USB-C connector.
So what, we have no ground truth about economics? Is it just a close cousin of psychology?
I ... hmm. My memory is really, really dusty on that.

I remember I had a handful of conversations with Bryan Dube during development about Q4 deathmatch. He was a super sharp game programmer / technical designer who had done a ton of the work on Soldier of Fortune 2 deathmatch previously, and had worked on the Urban Terror mod for Quake 3 before that. And he was much more focused on multiplayer than I was.

We talked a lot about weapons (as I had done most of the code side work on weapons in Soldier of Fortune), but I'm now remembering him being really keen at the time on adding more high skill play to Q4 deathmatch. We all loved rocket jumping, and I remember him really wanting to add other kinds of high skill movement.

So that much I definitely remember. More than that and my memory is kind of fuzzy. To be honest, lots of team members loved deathmatch and Quake, and all of us were of course talking about gameplay possibilities all the time, so it's possible the idea originated somewhere else on the team.
There are recent updates on his Instagram: https://instagram.com/tjholowaychuk?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
For anyone else curious, Apache POI re-implements support for the Excel file formats and most formulas.

https://poi.apache.org/components/spreadsheet/formula.html
That’s not what survivor bias is. You listed a set of services saying that open source is better. But the entire history of everything you said shows they are superior to the open source solutions and have gotten cheaper and more capable.

Flash had a 10 year transition and was open sourced along the way, but was no longer supported by any of the open or closed source browsers… how does that help your point? No one. Listing a bunch of crap closed source projects doesn’t strengthen your point as there are equally a bunch of crap open source solutions.

What’s the open source solution to S3 or DynamoDB anyway? These are software solutions that require a certain kind of infrastructure, you are saying all companies should also specialise in that infrastructure?

Where do you stop? Self host in a data centre? Well now you rely on the data centre… self host in premise, now you are beholden to your ISP. Be your own ISP? Now you are beholden to government regulation? Be your own government… it gets absurd, but I’m just following your line of logic down the line.
Yeah the JVM definitely makes tradeoffs that adversely affect startup time, things like autowiring DI, etc all contribute to this - it's not just the runtime. It can be slightly annoying so periodically effort is invested to make it fast again, see recent Spring Boot startup speeds which are pretty damn quick now but can be made super fast with static wiring. (all without needing to resort to CRaC or AoT)

I was really getting at the fact that you can't reasonably call something unreliable or slow when it's probably powering some of your most loved (and performant) distributed systems that your applications rely on - doubly so if you are running on AWS or GCP. If it was either unreliable or slow, let alone both it wouldn't be fit for purpose.
>But there should be enough scientific evidence that anything more is very dangerous.

By all means, go find it and report back!
> The problem isn’t that China is doing the same

Wait what? So you think industrial espionage is to be accepted?

> the problem is the sheer amount of one sided propaganda that you and everyone here is receiving.

I mean, you're literally doing whatabboutism with this exact line

Look I get countries looking out for their own interests and fuck the facists the US has supported but that doesn't mean I'm just willing to bend over and let governments or companies steal my company's secrets because "everyone is doing it"

Further, to be real, with the current and historical governments for each nation, I'd still rather trust the US government having the tech advantage over the Chinese one. That is abso-fuxking-lutely not an endorsement of the US government nor their actions, but, I mean the US definitely walk the walk on liberal values out of the two
The sun and moon have resurrection stories applied to them as well, and they are much easier to track than Venus, so I'm leaning on yes these theories would not be dependent on Venus.

The human psyche want's to have answers. Over time, those answers tend to be refined. However, what happens after death is just something that can't be answered, so theories remain.
i use a stock web browser. all of the features, none of the cost
> It's one thing when you want a banana that costs $1, but you have to pay $100 for the gorilla/banana combo. But if the banana + gorilla is free, then it's hard to complain that you are being abused because you got a free gorilla with your banana.

A phone is $100 (or $1000) and an app is $1.

Or to take it from the perspective of the device OEM, the price isn't the money, it's having to agree to take the apps and services the customers might prefer alternatives to as a bundle with the services the customers demand you include with your product. Which has market value in the same way as paying for the default search engine does, and could have reduced the price of the device for the end user. Or increased competition for those services (like Google Play) that currently operate with high margins.
It is literally in the constitution.

>To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
Experience certainly helps, but last time I checked, schools are supposed to teach you how to use reference tools (reference manuals, company listings, search engines...), and how to use them well - a pretty fundamental skill of being an engineer ?
> If the US government can't do anything, what does that mean?

It means the US people would need to - if they wanted to - pass new laws specifically to target tech company's anti-competitive behaviors because they aren't exactly the same thing as what was being done by the companies the laws originally targeted.

I'm not convinced there is broad >60% popular support for expanded antitrust laws, so you'd really have to start with that in terms of what it means.
https://archive.is/fphZh
Anecdotally, I worked with several brilliant engineers who have MBAs. Folks who are extremely technical and can go deep in their fields of expertise, yet they see the bigger picture in terms of business outcomes, and have tools in their toolbox to navigate ambiguity, mitigate escalating complexity, influence senior stakeholders (technical or not), etc.

Of course an MBA is not the only way of acquiring those skills, but it is certainly an effective way. It can be incredibly powerful to someone with already strong technical skills. So I'd agree with OP that this trope is unwarranted and out of touch with reality.

edit: I like OP's edit, replacing "MBA" with "management-consulting thinking". Lots of old school consulting companies come up with recommendations for areas that they have no domain expertise. While it may look good on paper, it's a recipe for disaster, like the original article describes.
> Connections to GRU cannot be rules out.

Neither can the connection to the Illuminati.
Why? A Wyoming state reps introduced a bill to limit sales of electric cars, pretty much because such cars would reduce the use of fossil fuel. Use of nukes would be a long those same lines.
I'd say name and a surrogate ID key so you can see which individuals own multiple related businesses that create a conflict of interest and who youd want to avoid working with.

Not driver's license and address. That should be private.
> If they want to bankrupt you, they always can, regardless of whether you did anything wrong or not.

Misses the point, which is: the likelihood of being sued increases when you break contracts or appear to do so
While I completely agree with what you said, you shouldn't be surprised that these incumbents project themselves as a savior doing the masses a favor or as being some sort of victims. It's a pattern seen across the board with predatory companies - be it publishers, journals, hardware manufacturers, automakers, telecom.... The only unfortunate part is that politicians and the judiciary often buy into these posturing.
No one talks about the reduction in inflation, increases in real wages, improved public transport, and free school meals under Allende, that's true.

They just seem to focus on the fun times of a CIA assisted military dictatorship, the secret killings, and all that nonsense that comes with wiping out a democracy for nigh on two decades..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende#Presidency
> Deer, possums, raccoons, and other wildlife who live outdoors seem incapable of learning how to avoid it, so it's unclear my cat will either.

Or, you only notice the ones which have been killed. Otherwise, deer, possum and raccoon populations should decrease pretty fast. And of feral cats of course.

> Further as mentioned in my post, my parents essentially ran your experiment already with the result being every male cat we had dying in under 5 years due to being hit by cars.

I'm sorry to hear that, but I am curious why it was only the male cats. Perhaps they are less skittish? What happened to the female cats?

> So no, I don't think it's a great idea to let your cat outdoors in most reasonably populated & dense areas of the US.

Alright, but I would hope you can at least agree that keeping cats indoors all the time is not preparing them for the outdoors, in the cases when they do slip out.
> It would put the characters into public domain and rob the authors of the ability to sustain themselves selling collections of early strips.

That's not true. It might make it harder to make as much money, but there's nothing that says the author can't still profit from selling something after it's in the public domain. I've paid for works in the public domain multiple times, sometimes directly to the author of the work.

Creators have a massive advantage when selling their own stuff. They can include things like signed copies and extras that no one else ever could. Fans want to support the creators of the things they love because they want more of it.
Their comment makes no real sense to me either.

I can't tell from looking at their comment history whether or not they're AI, but their profile says 'I am nobody.'

It's a strange world.
Is every brand a baby formula brand?
As effective as that might be in terms of a proper active control group, it does not seem terribly ethical to give amphetamines to patients with PTSD without any medically sound reason to do so.
It’s made out to be a big deal but nothing he said revealed anything new. It’s all been part of the lore for decades. He wasn’t a direct witness and all he gave was hearsay. He basically testified that some people he trusted told him things and showed him some documents. The only difference than all of the past revelations is that congress let him testify.

Honestly it was disappointing to me. Someone with his bonafides standing up, raising a hand, and testifying in congress that they have been inside one of these things, was part of the program revere engineering them, or gave an alien a handy would be an interesting development. Until that time, I chalk this up to simply more of the same blurry assumptive evidence that looks a little too much like a pie plate.
Weird Al’s “mission statement” was released in 2014 and was itself a parody of the KPMG anthem (which was done in earnest) that was leaked less than a year prior to Enron failing. There would likely have not been any collective cultural sentiment around this text in the year 2000 in the same way as there is today.

Just something to keep in mind when viewing historical events, even if they seem recent, with a modern lens and values.
Trivial to ask for a ChatGPT rewrite. Not trivial to make sure it works.
Re:cross promotion, I think the big thing would requiring it to be open to anyone and/or paid. When CVS says “compare to Tylenol” they still have the name brand right there and don’t pretend their generic is somehow better. The web is different but I think it’d be useful to have a rule that, say, they can’t put Chrome ads in Gmail unless Microsoft can buy the same spot at the same price for Edge ads.

> I would bet everything I own that this isn't happening

As a daily Firefox user they’re pretty common - there was a long period where Meet, and only Meet, dropped Firefox calls frequently, GCP would get stuck in a redirect loop at login if you used a browser other than Chrome, etc.

I would be surprised if there was a smoking gun “break Firefox” instruction - more that it’s not a testing priority, they jump use Chrome proprietary APIs as quickly as possible and delay switching to the standard versions (like they did with YouTube with that slow web component polyfill), etc.
My 2c is that banning products from competing app stores or forcing the same price on your platform is definitely anti competitive
What confuses me most about Israel’s rising political turmoil is that the faction driving for violence against Muslims (the ultra orthodox) are also exempt from the military.

Say they get everything they want and they become an apartheid, theocracy…how do they expect to survive? Who will defend them from their neighbors and from their Muslim citizens?

How would the country with arguably the greatest need for a strong military in the world expect to continue existing if their most powerful and populous group refuses to fight?

We’re seeing the problem already with reservists resigning in large numbers in protest of the PMs power grab.
Thanks! I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe getting some of my own stories down. The late 90's were a really fascinating time to be in games.

And I loved Masters of Doom, too, although it was weird reading it and occasionally seeing people I knew show up in it, briefly.
I would be keen to know what techniques are used. Usually subdomain discovery is done with dns axfr transfer request which leaks the entire dns zone (but this only works on ancient and unpatched nameservers) or with dictionary attacks. There are some other techniques you can check if you look at the source code of amass (open source Golang reconnaissance/security tool), or CT logs. Dns dumpster is one of the tools I used alongside pentest tools (commercial) and amass (oss)
This is certificate transparency doing most of the work, right?
What you’re doing is completely denouncing BYD’s accomplishments by saying they must have stolen the technology to get to where they are today.

That’s the exact argument you will use to convince yourself of any of China’s successes stories. They can’t possibly innovate because they’re Chinese and not western. Therefore, they must have stolen the tech. This is how Raegan convinced the public in 1980s.
I felt like it had a lot to do things web related but was pretty lacking on primitives for algorithms and data structures out of the box.