skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a fire. I lost every single thing I own, except my landlord grabbed my phone, bless him. Otherwise I would have been totally stuck as all my TOTP apps are on there.

Also, never lose your phone number. I can't get back into my Google account even though I have the username, password and recovery email because I can never get the SMS code.
thank you :) good luck with yours!
Making games is already difficult, nobody wants to do extra mile to support a platform, Valve made the right choice with proton, unfortunately, that means less incentives to have a native gaming experience on Linux.. I'd say the tradeoff is worth it

Apple should do something similar, but they'll never do since their users expect quality over anything else, wich is why they market Game Porting Toolkit as a testing platform, as opposed to a shipping platform for Valve's Proton, even thought it's basically the same project, 2 different culture, Valve doesn't care if the experience is worse
This attack just spams requests to a web server. The novel part of the attack is that it also spams packets to cancel those requests to bypass any concurrency limits that may be in place.
> The answer is: "when the world stops using the dollar".

The world uses EUR, JPY, CAD, etc much less than USD, and plenty of countries (CA, NL, FR, DE, Greece(!), Italy(!), Thailand(!)) have lower borrowing costs than the US:

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/world-government-bonds
> And management consultants solving every problem in the world by adding a “AI” box in their powerpoint flow diagram.

i work at a large consulting firm everyone knows and am seeing this first hand. I'm not on the bandwagon until i see real money in the bank from large AI projects succeeding. It's not happening yet. I not a naysayer but am still very skeptical.
Except that Google and everyone else pushing passkeys have been publishing massive volumes of highly technical details about all of this for years.

You're looking at a non-technical blog post targeted towards the general public, and non technical journalists. Any technical details you want are just a search away.
US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
I am hoping to be part of that "Next Generation"---although I'm already 46. I'm sure there are others a bit younger.

My last talk at PGCon tried to fill some of the gaps around what you must know to hack on Postgres, especially the Executor Phase and TupleTableSlots. I'm not the most qualified, but sometimes it takes a learner to know what learners need. Just the other day I wrote a table of contents for a book about how to contribute to Postgres. I figure it would sell at least ten copies. Maybe a serial publication online would be better. Curious if anyone would be interested in either of those?

For now Postgres is more like a hobby for me, but if someone is hiring to do open source Postgres contributions full time, I'm open to a chat. ;-)
How to build the best cybersecurity tech stack for your business
Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot's impact on code quality
Small animals also help. :)

I can't help but feel happiness and goodwill for a cute cat or bunny. Once I have that feeling, I can pay attention to it, keep it going, sit with it, or wish that feeling for myself or to others. If I lose it, I just bring up an endearing image or thought of the cat/bunny/my kiddo and pay attention to that feeling again.
Both of those have lower borrowing costs on their bonds than the US currently does:

* http://investing.com/rates-bonds/greece-government-bonds

* https://investing.com/rates-bonds/italy-government-bonds

* https://investing.com/rates-bonds/usa-government-bonds

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/world-government-bonds
No.

1) The US has real productivity growth

2) The US has population growth

3) The US Central Bank has no reason not to bail out the US Federal Government if needed.

Greece/Italy would be like the US Central Bank (The Fed) not bailing out California. You can see why that might be politically popular. There's not really a politically popular reason not to bail out the US Government.

A default would mean the end of 30-year fixed rate mortgages. Interest rates would be 18% again. House values would drop by 70% - and if you thought 2008 was bad - you better hold onto your butt.

This would make The Great Depression look like a small recession.

Which is all further reason why it WON'T happen. At pretty much any point, politicians could go back and pay back treasury holders in full w/ accrued interest, and then the problems are massively reduced.

There's no political will to drive everyone in the country into a black hole for no reason.
This is great, can she add data that goes back further? Maybe another 500-1000 years?
AWS got this very right with the per-account incident dashboard.
It's the assumption that the hardware operation is the same as the C abstract machine operation.

Hint: they're not, and that causes all kinds of subtle problem when programmers assume they are, especially when it comes to atomicity. The compiler caches a value in a register and two threads synchronize on that value? Boom. Or maybe no boom when one was expected.
What wording would you use? I honestly have no idea how to describe Wayfire in other terms that would be more understandable to the majority of people.
Aside from the caffeine boost the bigger issue is just that They burn through calories.
For the aggrieved downvoters: https://blog.panic.com/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...
Can be a tough act to balance in reality: "assuming the team feels comfortable with criticism" is where this well-meaning process falls over in most shops.
Hoarding.
I thought it was going to be about this https://ourworldofpixels.com/
Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully at some point we can add more stories, quickly. I'm also looking into other methods of learning, we should have a few more soon.
I don't think the situation is as bad as it's made out to be. Yeah, you're not gonna get the latest triple-A looter shooter 3000. I've never enjoyed those. It may be a small minority, but enough games still get native ports that when I'm travelling with only my mac I'm never short of things to play.
All conversations with a board are possibly unpleasant, even successful moments, "why aren't you more successful."

Market economy. Bleh.
My immediate thought as well.

Where’s that value in memory? It’s @ the address.
When you have performance issues with hand crafted REST API's, a GraphQL enabled set of API's feels like it could be a lot worse. Huge volumes of data for tables don't blend well with a mix-n-match way of joining things.
>Personally think there’s a lot of weight behind the notion it was Paul LeRoux

I'm glad that you elaborated why you think that's true, shame on me to expect anything.

Bitcoin was all about transparency, fighting fraud and crime, coming to consensus on the chronology of transactions in an organized manner. The last thing that criminal and drug smuggler wanted was an organized system that holds everyone accountable in a transparent and fraud/crime-free way.

It's too bad that Satoshi was as he put it "better with code than with words", because he didn't explain clearly what his goals and vision with Bitcoin were and because of that cypherpunks, crypto-anarchists and criminals overtook Bitcoin. And now Bitcoin has become the synonym for crime, drugs and the dark web. But I have to tell you police and law enforcement agencies like Bitcoin very much because of that aforementioned transaction transparency.
Maybe by then compute will become cheaper. I am sure they have some plan for the future regardless if it pans out in the end.
The distinction is between the police using technology and the population being subjected to it involuntarily.

Fingerprints are a technology. If your fingerprints are on the murder weapon the police can use that as evidence that their suspect is the murderer. That's not the same thing as requiring everyone to be fingerprinted ahead of time.
(65,355,919,909 + 80,085) = 65,355,999,994 obviously /s
That'd be difficult given how an MRI works. Plus, VR wouldn't really be necessary given that the patient typically can't move their head. There do exist non-metallic goggles and headphones that pipe in the stuff from external electrical sources in a non-electrical way to the patient, as you can see in the video below. I'm not sure how ubiquitous those are, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8sVSZVsPc
That seems a bit taken out of context. The Old Man wasn't talking about ethnic identity, but about political / revolutionary / national traditions in the context of the revival of Napeolonic imagery (and autocracy) in France.

Like many things with him, the quote can also be turned on its head when read in full context. Just like when people quote "Religion is the opiate of the masses" they rarely read the rest of the sentence "the heart of a heartless world". Negative judgement was not being cast on religion just a description of the reality of the situation: the world sucks for the mass of people and people reach for God to save them from it.

Likewise the traditions of the dead generations can also be beautiful dreams. The powerful can and do use the past or religion or whatever to build a mythos for the purpose of domination, but the weak can reach for it as a tool of liberation, too.

Good book: https://www.amazon.com/Fatherland-Mother-Earth-National-Ques...

(early journal-article version here: file:///home/ryan/Downloads/titusland,+SR_1989_Lowy.pdf)
Heck, I'd imagine that making headlines and having Google benchmark your attack would bring some amazing street cred.
I stopped seeing this once I stopped playing Asian MMORPGs.
> You can come at that from a different perspective in an improved editor, like Emacs

1. I wouldn't put beginners in front of Emacs, no.

2. The BASIC user-interaction model can be implemented in 8kB of ROM, and was on most Commodore 8-bits, for instance, without any block-addressible direct storage. That's a big win, in my book.

> I wonder if this is simpler to you just because you imprinted on specific BASIC dialects as a child.

I genuinely don't think so, no. It genuinely seems like a simple, clean, logical division to me, and the way that C and C-derived languages let implementation details fall through for the user to have to face and deal with seems like a major failing to me.
And Google and Cloudflare also get good PR because how insanely good their are at deflecting those huge attacks. It's a win-win situation here... oh wait /s

(the /s is just on the "oh wait" part, not the whole post)
I have checked the RAM on that machine.

The problems I see never show up if I play with VLC (“plays for sure”) but they did show up on debugging videos played on the XBOX ONE which has was been finicky no matter if I was using Plex, Jellyfin and various client software on the XBOX. A few out-of-spec frames din’t bother most players but the XBOX freezes up for two minutes for the slightest anomaly. With Jellyfin and the new Jellyfin client playback is fine unless there is something wrong with the file that I can detect with other tools.

Badly encoded videos are all over the pirate space, frequently they promise lossless audio but skimp on bits for video, for instance.

With that XBOX all the legit video apps (BluRay player, Peacock) have the problem of trying some handshake that cuts off video with my old Samsung TV and pandemic special Denon receiver (decontented POS compared to my old one which has the video output burn out). Power cycling the receiver brings back the picture but it is one more humiliation I face in front of my tech skeptical family.
That audience will buy skins, because that's how a lot of the winners in iOS gaming makes money.
What?

I am talking about things from big providers like cloud flare, and some for pay options like private relay.
They compromise home internet users and/or their IOT devices mostly with scripts and malware. So the investment for the scammer is mostly in researching exploits and seeding their malware. Most of them just use exploits created by others, but the best ones with the biggest networks are actually very capable security researchers. Given different circumstances they could probably be highly paid engineers.
I would find it very useful if the generated metadata could be shared across network storage for a workgroup of Macs working with large shared media libraries.
Unless even their paid api usage is subsidized (and it very well could be for all I know) they can’t be losing that much.

But it doesn’t matter, I’m they never would have gotten the valuations they did if it weren’t for the insane hype around the (free) ChatGPT offering. It more than paid for itself just in that regard.
They're always free to sell.
Is there something there that explains how the recovery process is different? The only thing I see in the FAQ is somewhere that they link to the normal account recovery page, and say that you'd have to order another hardware token.
Would you have any resources you'd recommend where I can read more on this?
This is the wrong question. When does federal debt increase rate become unsustainable?

As common wisdom states, federal debt is public surplus. It's the set of things that the federal government has invested funding in that haven't been liquidated. This includes roads, streetlights, parks, power substations, etc.

The relevant question for our economy is how quickly is the federal government spending, and what is the value created from that spending?
It was manageable until we cut taxes while rushing into two incredibly expensive optional wars on the other side of the planet with the executive using those and other post-9/11-reactions to loot the treasury. While, again, cutting taxes.

We never made any moves to recover from that and have had no cushion for the two big crises since then (housing in ‘08, Covid in 2020). It’s not even clear trying to recover was realistic after the two Bush terms, the budget and debt was so far gone already. Just a recipe for getting thrown out of power and having someone else who’d ignore the nigh-unsolvable problem take over.
That's just how cloudflare works. It can't know what to cache, or use any rules based on the http request without decrypting the traffic. And without decrypting the request it can't do any application layer DDoS prevention.

When you use cloudflare, or any other CDN, you either give them a certificate for your domain, or use DNS to allow them to acquire a certificate on your behalf.
thank you! I will have a look at LingQ, it does look interesting. Some other people also asked me to add the vocabulary list for Webbu too, so that should be coming soon :).
I was asking a question, so I was looking for an explanation. Honestly, I am not sure what form international observers would take.

Observers in China, perhaps on the US/Mexican border, and wherever oppression against civilian populations occurs would be difficult, often impossible, but seems like it would be worth the effort.
After The Pirate Bay and other famous public sites went down, there has been a proliferation of private trackers. These private trackers have high quality stuff. To get an invite, some of the trackers need references and also do personal interviews etc.
I've been deeply coupled to Apple since 2005 and it's safe to say they've made stabbing attempts at getting serious about this a dozen times, real serious ones too, but inevitably it doesn't matter.

The most recent one that comes to mind is Mac x VR marketing push...4 years back? Ended it complete tears, SteamVR isn't even available for Mac anymore. And it was depressingly obvious at the time there was no reason for it to work out, it was clear ARM Macs were coming very soon.
The new feature for subscribed allowlists is going to pair really nicely with the existing support of ABP-style blocklists. I’m very excited for this release!
Fi Wireless opts customers in to sharing 'CPNI' (call records) for Google offers
Apple Just Released More Child Protection for iOS 17
just got this email:

"Protections enabled for your child

Screen Time and parental controls include a number of important tools to help you control how your children use their devices. Starting in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS Sonoma, three features included in Screen Time will be enabled on CHILD NAME's devices to help keep them safe: Web Content Restrictions, Screen Distance, and Communication Safety.

Web Content Restrictions help prevent kids from accessing adult websites while they browse the web. In the newest OS update, adult websites will be blocked and you can choose to allow or block additional websites. There’s also an option for you to block all websites, except for a specific set that you choose to allow for CHILD NAME.
Screen Distance can help protect kids’ eyes and reduce the risk of myopia by encouraging them to move their device farther away if it is too close to their eyes for an extended period of time. This feature is available and on by default if CHILD NAME has an iPhone or iPad with the TrueDepth camera that powers Face ID.

Communication Safety detects nude images and videos that children might receive or attempt to send in Messages, AirDrop, FaceTime messages, the system Photo picker, and when using Contact Posters in the Phone app. If sensitive content is detected, the photo or video will appear blurred and CHILD NAME will be presented with helpful information and reassured it is okay if they do not want to view the content. To protect CHILD NAME privacy, all analysis of the content happens on their device and Apple does not get access to the content as a result.

If you'd like to change or disable any of these features for CHILD NAME, you can do so on your device in Settings > Family > Name"
I've observed it used as a great way to shut down projects that don't immediately have demonstrable results
Would you consider a different pattern, woven on a old loom a new technology?

A app is not a "new technology". A microprocessor is a technology and the code you run on it is just another pattern on the loom.
Nah it's even better because they're considered capable defenders so it's harder.

What I'm not sure of is why Google published this. I can't figure out what their strategy is here. We never published about the attacks we absorbed because we didn't want them to know our capabilities.

Unless this is marketing for Google Cloud?
I'm pretty irked by Valve's Mac support - no 64 bit support for Team Fortress 2 etc etc. So update to a M1 and you're done.
James Whitehurst is now the interim CEO and President of Unity
To elaborate on my Duolingo critique… I find it too linear and strict. I can’t really get it to focus on the skills that I’m struggling with or most want to focus upon at a given time. This is especially true when you’re learning using a combined, multifaceted approach (eg YouTube videos + kindle stories + Duolingo + classroom instruction).
Thank you.

There are basically two ways: a) You let the user check the output. If the user says, yay, this meets my needs, great. b) There might be an objective way to check if the output meets a certain objective. For example, you can let the LLM generate the output together with a proof that the output is correct. You can then check the proof separately.

And of course, you can mix and nest a) and b).
Not out of the question. When I was a little kid I'd buy 45s and notice this difference. I asked for an equalizer for Christmas, thinking this was the issue.

But of course it wasn't, and before long I realized that I liked the sound of the records better.
There is, you create a load balancer, an autoscaling group, put an ubuntu image in it, set the userdata to install docker and docker-compose up your desired containers.

* Instance refresh to deploy new images.

* Every so often update your AMI to patch.

* Create an RDS database and hook the instances up to that if you need such things.

It's really hard to get more boring but works than this. It can be set up in a few hundred lines of terraform. I promise the code for your entire AWS account will be less than just the k8s YAML.
I bet candy crush looks great on a 27" retina display. /s
It's vastly more money than that.
It's the same story being played over again and nobody is seeing it.

AI has a lot of similarities to the crypto bubble, but people keep repeating this "ah, but now it is useful!", sure it is. I like ChatGPT, but will people really use all those new AI products being built?

Most things in the real world need an accuracy beyond what AI can offer and will likely offer in a few decades ahead, go learn about AI and any expert will show you that for example, LLMs can't solve some basic problems.

I'm not saying AI will never be as smart as human, but rather that, it will take longer until we've figured out stuff that people are already pricing in into markets as if it will happen in a year.
> We need not only a balanced budget amendment, but massive spending/entitlement cuts and austerity, as well as boost in GDP/exports because we can't service our own debt and have relied on other nations to buy our bonds.

Massive spending/entitlement cuts aren't popular.

~40% of the country is on either Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, or Social Security.

That's ~46% of Federal spending. Besides Republicans for SNAP - it's completely untouchable.

~12% of Federal spending is the military. With all the wars going on - good luck cutting that.

After interest - you only have ~16% of spending left to cut. And that's the stuff I think most people are in agreement we actually want!

You can't squeeze blood from a stone.

What's most likely to happen is that instead of ~40% of US adults not working - that number will decrease - and you'll have a larger, more productive tax base and less people on entitlements - strictly due to market forces.
Israel and the West reckon with a high-tech failure
MineREPL: Minecraft-Inspired, Interactive 3D Platform for Learning Programming [video]
I graduated with my Comp Sci degree in 2003ish, and my life was awful for at least 5 years post-graduation. I know it wasn't just me too.

(This is also because of where I graduated, and the fact that I didn't feel comfortable moving to the US post-9-11)
Depending on the content, yes, moderators can suffer severe trauma caused by their jobs.
It's fair. It's not politically feasible, however. Yes, that means we're doomed to catastrophic financial hell.

We're already at the cliff's edge, watching interest rates climb while trillions of US short term debt turns over. It would only take a couple more points of interest to make all of the US Treasury spreadsheets go from the bright red they're already at to flashing red with klaxons.

And they'll do what they all, always do: monetize. Blow out the currency. That's our fate, and it's inexorable at this point. The only question is when.
I always thought this was an interesting story on the history of OpenGL and D3D: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/20932

It's outside my field and before my time, but it seems more complex than "vendor lock-in for the sake of vendor lock-in".
> Apple doesn't even bother trying to convince people to get games on the platform

Presumably why Sonoma introduced a 'gaming mode' for the first time.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213658
Monster is a classic "capital lite" business model with a large and growing addressable market, and management has been extremely successful reinvesting the substantial free cash flow generated by the business into organic growth and acquisitions. There are really only a handful of businesses of that calibur in the entire public market. Of course, people have realized all of this by this point, so Monster stock trades a large multiple of earnings (nearly 40x), while prospective growth will never match what they did historically from inception, otherwise they'd end up the largest company in the world after not too long!