skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can be rank-and-file in software, law, and medicine and exceed $20k/mo after taxes.

I mean, you "can" do a lot of things. That doesn't mean it's common. You "can" hit a hole in one, be struck by lightning or win the lottery, after all.

Someone on HN knows someone who's brother's uncle's girlfriend's roommate's cousin makes $750K/yr as a L7 superstar at Google in Silicon Valley, therefore "You can make $750K as a SWE" is technically a true statement. This true statement somehow evolves into "SWEs commonly make $750K, look at levels.fyi" which further evolves into "SWEs on average make $750K." Neither of which are true.
I never claimed that energy production would increase in efficiency the way semiconductor production has. I just pointed out that anything based on the Carnot cycle is going to be horribly limited and should be considered an old-fashioned way of generating energy.
Huh, I wonder why the main Nitter instance does work, but many popular ones like https://nitter.fly.dev/ and https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ do not.
On the main point, yes, piracy on PC/mac was a huge issue.

But then, Windows PC were in the same boat. Looking from the sidelines, Windows gave publishers a lot more freedom in implementing anti-pirating (super invasive) features, and when push came to shove Microsoft stepped in to add OS supported anti-piracy features that the games could hook into (Microsoft using the same system for its own games).

I think we can at least blame Apple for doing nothing in a situation where a whole group of developpers are stuck with an issue that could be alleviated with the platform's help.

Irrelevant to the point, but Stadia was 3 year and half (nov 2019 start, to the death announcement on sept 2022, and actual shutdown on jan 2023). So basically the same span than the 2010 ~ 2013 miracle for Apple.

I forgot a lot about these early days (was absolutely not into PC gaming), for people in the same boat a nice refresher:

https://www.cultofmac.com/73192/why-2010-was-the-year-mac-ga...

The fun part being that 2010 span was triggered by Valve, so from beginning to end Apple just didn't do anything.
I sincerley doubt they are ideologically committed to a specific engine technology.

W. Edward Deming helped start the Toyota Way, by introducing high quality manufacturing processes after ww2.

I'm sure they laugh at Elon for being unable to produce a high quality and error-free product, with infinite money and all the latest technologies at his fingertips.

Toyota's unending crisis will continue, by design.
I’m wondering how far the big one will be felt. As egocentric as my question is, will I feel it on the East coast?
US database Books3 stole literature to build AI linguistic software
I've wanted an evil Teddy Ruxpin that is really evil and wants to lower your utility function and tries really hard to do it (violate the first law of Robotics) but just isn't strong enough to really hurt you. I figure though the bar for creating a catastrophe is not really that high, all it has to do is start a fire.
Something you have: Your phone

Something you know: Your pin

Something you are: Your FaceID/Fingerprint
I’d go further and say it’s the root cause of a lot of problems in society on whole.
Atmospheric railways were attempted a few different times, with similarly bad results. This page has a quite a bit more detail about one of the attempts:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/croydon-experimental-at...
VBScript was such an underrated way to write exploits for IE users. You could have programs run that could make web requests with cookies and process page data. When I did this pen test back in the day I found forum software that had HTML enabled in the signature field. I wanted to show that you could turn something as simple as XSS into really high-level access. So I ended up writing a program that did this:

Payload: change a users signature to the program and hide the code on the edit page

Vectors:

- VScript - submit a request with the users cookies on IE (also defeats client-side CSRF tokens)

- Phispher - use javascript to show a phisphing page for the login screen as the signature code runs (works cross-browser but requires interaction.)

- PHP - collect forum logins and send requests to update signatures with the program

Results:
I ended up spreading to most signatures in the forum, undetected. Ended up gaining access to all the forum admin users. From there is was easy to get a shell on the forum because there were theme uploads via the admin page. Called a reverse shell via perl -> nc with the www-data user and then privilege escalation with a local exploit to get root.

... but VBScript was still pivotal to spreading the code because IE was very wide-spread back then (and very, very vulnerable.) Good times / 10.
What are you talking about, you think linux came and courted gabe? NO! It's a free platform they can build upon and make it their own, so they did it. No one is going to pull the rug out from under them.

Also apple is fucking swimming in games, I'm willing to bet more gaming is done on ios than windows. It's just not games that represent 'the gamer'. No modern warfare 5000 on ios. I know that most days, even as I could be identified as 'a gamer' for the last 30-40 years, I spend more times playing games on my phone than I do on consoles or my pc. Part of that is just 'I always have my iphone' part of it is the games are often designed around short session length, part of that is most AAA game releases these days are wildly uninspired. Every once and awhile I can black-out a whole sunday just to soak in a big release (I imagine spiderman will eat a day or two whole in a few weeks, I know Baldurs Gate ate more than a few sundays since it was released)

It's sad not to see many games on macos, though the ones we get are generally ones I want. Aforementioned baldurs gate 3, mid tier 'indies' that are frankly amazing like Hades and Slay the Spire. I could care less if assassins creed 326 makes it to macos, or mordern warfare 754: even more jingoism. It hurt a little to see blizzard abandon macos with diablo 4 .. then I played it and well ... not so hurt anymore.
I've recently read the first half dozen Bond books. Casino Royale is definitely a bit of a strange book - I found it really hard to get into until the bombing scene. I have to say though, the following books are a blast, particularly Moonraker. I think in part it's Fleming hitting his stride as a writer, and part getting used to his writing.
> Most of the improvements apparently come from training larger models with more data.

OpenAI is reportedly losing 4 cents per query. With a thousandfold increase in model size, and assuming linear scale in cost, that's a problem. Training time is going to go up too. Moore's law isn't going to help any more. Algorithmic improvements may help...if any significant ones can be found.
80, 443, (2082, 2083, 2086, 2087 - with a special port knock sequence, get that wrong failban adds your ip for a while (24hrs). passing the little knock test opens the real ssh port, for your ip only for a "Fixed" period of time.)
That hasn't been my perception
I was aware that internal combustion cars catch fire more often. There's a bit of a compensatory difference in severity: EVs don't catch fire as often, but it's especially bad when they do. But hopefully we can quickly move past the era of super-flammable EV batteries even if actual EV fires are rare.

I look forward to kicking fossil fuel based cars out of everywhere for reasons unrelated to safety. Or you could say reasons that have to do with the collective safety of all life on Earth rather than individual safety.
Cool site! Any chance of a adding a simple KMZ export for offline use for a given area of interest?
The rule is pretty simple: if you have fields which may potentially contain integers with outside of +-2*48 range, or floating points where you care about NaNs -- then do the safe thing and store them as strings.

That one simple rule ensures your data won't be clobbered and you program won't crash.

(And yes, your serialization/deserialization code will need to contain explicit string conversions. But even with that extra conversion, Javascript is way more interoperable with anything and future-proof than any alternative like protobuf or msgpack)
I am a firm believer in open source, with the caveat that authors should always and everywhere have ultimate say over how to release their own work, never legislators or courts. FOSS may be the morally and technically preferable choice for many projects but is not inherently superior, and there are several advantages to going proprietary - plenty of examples where paid software is actually higher quality, regardless of whether it is developed in the open. This is also likely to be the case with ML software. If you want nice things then pay for them, but ultimately authors should be able to retain full creative freedom and executive control over their own software and let the marketplace decide.
Didn't feel a thing.
"Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface" (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5 :

> To establish this digital bridge, we integrated two fully implanted systems that enable recording of cortical activity and stimulation of the lumbosacral spinal cord wirelessly and in real time (Fig. 1a).
How does this address OP's concern? If you have a single device (e.g. an iPhone) and you store all your passkeys on it, then losing it means you lost all passkeys. Your post describes exactly that:

- "I can’t recover the keys if I lose the hardware"

- "That is a risk you’ll need to take if you’re using hardware authenticators"

Fantasizing that with this proposed simplification of the authentication process people will introduce complexities such as a password manager or a backup hardware device is naive to say the least.
I just asked my GP during a regular physical and they wrote me a script for whatever dose I wanted.

Since it’s dirt cheap, not a controlled substance, and safe without any drug interactions I think my doc didn’t really care. And I think 90 days of 2grams a day was like $3 without insurance. I remember thinking how it’s cheaper than aspirin or Tylenol.
Not actually required. Strongly suggested, but not required.
I haven’t heard of people getting locked out of iCloud. Losing all your devices nukes E2EE stuff, but that’s not much stuff by default. In particular, photos, device backups and messages are recoverable.

I thought the Apple Store would check your driver’s license or whatever and reset your password, recovering whatever is protected by the escrow keys.

I know Google loses accounts all the time, mostly thanks to “surprise 2FA” combined with zero tech support. I’d believe Apple screws this up too, but I haven’t heard any anecdotes.

Care to share a link to examples?
Not for databases but for messages, ala msgpack
California will require VC firms to report founder diversity statistics
Nick Zentner has a lot more content on YouTube too (and it's all very lovely!), see https://www.youtube.com/@GeologyNick
What if I never transition to HM?
20 years ago, I got into programming by writing little VBScript extensions for my StarCraft clan’s bot on battle.net. It was primitive, but such a fun and social way to get into programming!
It's even specifically called out that links directly to the pdf are not ok.

> web links must point to this page rather than to a separate copy of the dvi, ps, or pdf file
This tip would be better with a prescription as well
I haven't heard anyone claim that passkeys are simpler than passwords, as that would be trivially false. The claim is that they're more secure while still remaining fairly usable.

Passkeys are WebAuthn credentials that are synced between devices, so they aren't hardware keys, they're software keys.
that is one of the more complex serialization formats I have seen.. custom backslash-escapes, 13 operators, "variable compiler", string concatenation, user-defined types (somehow only in binary protocol), two types of maps, special "file path" type...

I could say many things about it, but "simplest possible" is not one of them.
That is certainly where the economic incentives appear to be.
At least one of the claims in the suit[0] asserts that it's lower vacancy that lessers want:

As a former industry executive explained, the market structure is "a classic prisoners’ dilemma." Since residential real estate is a perishable resource (if a unit sits vacant for a month, a Lessor can never monetize that lost month of rent), Lessors favored a strategy of keeping "heads in the beds," a term for offering sufficiently attractive lease pricing to maximize physical occupancy levels in multifamily residential real estate properties. Thus, that industry executive opined, while all Lessors "would be better off limiting their rent reductions [discounts]," if any Lessor "lower[ed] their rents while the others don’t, then that [Lessor] would outperform"

I'm personally doubtful as to how intentional the collision actually is/was, but intentional or not, it would still have negative effects from renters' points of view.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's likely intentional:

As one Lessor explains, while "we are all technically competitors," RealPage "helps us work together," "to work with a community in pricing strategies, not to work separately."

And wow:

One Lessor said that the net effect of raising rents and “pushing people out” of the residential real estate leases they could no longer afford, was “10 million in income.”

[0] https://www.hausfeld.com/media/550bhzyp/realpage-complaint-f...
That article is about as misleading as it's possible to be while still being technically right. The "attestation" feature of passkeys exists solely to let websites refuse to let you use passkeys tied to hardware you do control, or to software. The way this article only mentions it in passing and tries to downplay it reminds me of the joke of https://what-if.xkcd.com/49/ - a very long article listing a bunch of upsides of the Sun going out, and only one sentence about the downside: "We would all freeze and die."
GPT passed a test on the theoretical fundamentals of selling and serving wine in fancy restaurants. In a human passing such a test provides a useful signal of job suitability because people who pass it are often also capable of the physical bits, like theatrically opening wine bottles. But obviously that doesn't work for an AI.

Lots of things usefully correlate with test scores in humans but might not in an AI.
Psst, you can steam-run those binaries
Computer security is generally defined as Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

Not “or”. Passcodes don’t provide availability, so they are not providing security.

This is undergrad-level stuff.
"At the suggestion of his father, ..."

We shouldn't forget Marc Brunel was also a great engineer and no doubt a very practical man. :-)
How Target Was Breached in 2013
Easy, add a “roles” temporal table to store all these rels and more.

Hilarious song and a decent viz, thanks for sharing :]
I guess we'll have to wait and see whether websites will force people to use specific authenticators. I don't think they will.
Australian authors' works feature in Books3 dataset used to train AI
I don't think they're saying that.

But from what I recall reading, the big one that hits Seattle will exceed the big one that hits the Bay. Seattle's big ones are higher magnitude but less frequent. Iirc it's also likely the 9.0 that hits Seattle won't be in most of our lifetimes. The last really big one was before Europeans arrived.
I read this article about once a year, and it terrifies me every time.
I am really impressed by this work. If only Disney needed an empirical physicist...
Arguably everything driven by capitalism is geared towards enshitification. Maximum extraction for minimal effort is a hard paradigm to beat
One thing that helped me was just to get older. By 30 I started not to care what people thought of me.

I still have the anxiety, but it's easier to manage. One tip is grounding. Try to distract yourself.

Sleep helps. I find that anxiety from yesterday goes away by tomorrow.

Another is to focus on something you like. It's hard in a workplace setting, but often there's something that you like more than the job itself. It helps (me) to concentrate fully on that.

Just remember that there's not something "wrong" with you. Most people just don't talk about this. I once had a panic attack during an interview phone screen about 7 years ago, and interviews weren't very fun after that.

An understanding manager helps. You could do presentations in written form rather than on stage or verbally. For standups, just keep it brief.
A tunnel is round, driving cars on that and passing is hard. Narrow tunnels especially
Either each car needs a driver or you need something to keep all the trailers precisely lined up. One new system has that; a human drives the "locomotive" and the trailers have automated steering to follow the lead vehicle precisely enough to not bump into traffic in the other direction. This is still experimental.

At the other end of the line, outside the tunnel, there's a whole rail yard. The different kinds of cars have to be sorted out, loaded, and unloaded. So there's a need for a big staging area.

Here's an overview of traditional tracked systems.[1] I've tried to find a video of the back end system and yard, but nobody seems to make such videos. It's too boring.

[1] https://www.robbinstbm.com/products/tunnel-boring-machines/b...

[2]
How does it compare with Caddy?
How do you act on a GOAWAY you haven't received and allowing the server to unilaterally stop supporting things can lead to weird edge cases.

After all you could say any client ignoring a GOAWAY is either bugged or malicious but certainly not until you get confirmation they go it.
as a user commented previously, you should have to meet a psychologist, you have appeal to it frequently. My recommendation is, do not contact psychoanalyst, do the right therapy, (i don't remember the name of the annother type of therapy).

that's all, you 'll notice that you'll be getting better.

wish you the best, cheers from Argentina
As I said comparing postgres to vector db is weird example as one is not replacement of other and one field is going more technological shift. Better example would be comparing say apache to caddy or spring boot to gin or even oracle nosql to mongo.
I think Craig's Bond is pretty loyal to book Bond in many ways - far more so than any of the previous actors. Though book Bond is far more vulnerable physically and mentally.
I can't agree with this.

If we're redesigning the power supply it's actually much cheaper to make it not cause burnout on the LEDs than to make it replaceable.
The Cascadia quake will be about same damage to Seattle and Portland as Bay Area quake. It could be up to magnitude 9 but the fault is 60 mi away from the cities. The big difference is that it will affect the whole area. And that PNW is way behind in infrastructure.
I hope its spacecraft design. 5 reviews!
From what I’ve read the faults in the Bay Area can’t really generate above an 8.0, whereas the cascadia zone can produce much larger events (remember a 9.0 is 10x the intensity of 8.0). It has to do with the size and type of the faults.
A particularly crazy thing I learned from some friends who I know who work in this field is that they use underwater hydraulic chainsaws (!) to sample some of these trees.

https://www.stanleyinfrastructure.com/products/underwater-ch...

The field work in general seems very wet for this kind of research. (my partner did lots of it for her graduate work)
"In September, The Atlantic published a tool to search Books3 after reporter Alex Reisner identified author information for 183,000 of the 191,000 ISBNs he extracted from the dataset, used to train Meta's LLaMA, Bloomberg's BloombergGPT and EleutherAI's GPT-J."
Usually they just don't work
Yeah, I can do that. Will get to it tomorrow!
except what we're talking about here is corporate bodies with algorhythms automating prejudice, and leveraging risk... a very different thing to sharing with one another isnt it?
They really aren't the same.

Crypto didn't and still doesn't have the same immediate utility. The value proposition just wasn't there to justify the money and attention it was getting. Bitcoin in particular was a prototype that got mythologized into being "digital gold" despite it's many, many technical limitations.

Diffusion models and LLMs work today and make possible things that were science fiction five years ago, and have shown tremendous and exciting progress in the past 18 months.
Agreed, happy to see how this thread ages.
I mean couldn’t lit have just exposed a method like this.setReactiveProperty that calls this.requestUpdate and sets the property? The need for decorators seems because the api was designed to use decorators not because they are particularly necessary for this sort of thing
To minimize abuse. It’s a nominal barrier to entry.
Is it less half the cost? If not, I'm in the red as soon as one power supply (or its LED) dies.
Worse are comparison papers where the researchers are evaluating models against a benchmark. In another world, this would have been a blog post.
Some friends I know who work in earthquakes maintain that this article caused a measurable increase in the amount of funding available for earthquake research.
Check out lpy-mode
I still logon scripts written in VBscript that are still very much in production. Time to finally start converting those to PowerShell.
This article actually is loaded with inaccuracies. I once called the local earthquake office where I live, where the local scientists and such work.

They said this article is the bane of their existence because of people calling into their office with false beliefs that have just propagated into fear over time.

I dont even think the sentence got out of my mouth "so about that article I saw...", I was calling to see if my area was in danger of a tsunami, and she gave relieved my fears greatly.

It will be bad, but also there's a lot more nuance to it.
GraphQL is great if you're a frontend developer. REST is great if you're a backend or infra developer (not because of complexity of developing it, because of complexity of using it)

You cannot satisfy both with one tool. Migrating to GraphQL (or choosing it in the first place) will frustrate consumers of it who primarily use your API for things other than writing frontend clients. Using REST will frustrate people who use your API to write frontend clients.
Japan payment clearing network disruption continues for 2nd day
> Simply make sure you can always process it faster than the next packet can arrive

This is pretty much impossible unless you make the client do a proof-of-work so they can't send requests very quickly. Okay, you could use a slow connection so that requests can't arrive very quickly, but then the DoS is upstream.
How are you prompting ChatGPT such that you get useful results in a real world code base? It doesn’t have any context. The context is what makes Copilot work.

By default, ChatGPT can only give a generic answer. Do you just paste the entire file in there?

For example let’s say I want to write a function foo() that calls functions bar() and baz() defined in the same file and uses a library Y that I already imported. If I just write the name of the function, Copilot will often autocomplete a reasonable body for me. If I wanted to use ChatGPT then I would have to first tell it about foo() and bar() and the dependency on Y, and by the time I’ve finished telling it about all of that I could have written the function by hand twice over.
The bore of a 3T scanner makes a 1.5T machine seem like it’s the Metropolitan Opera House. The bore is the size of your head with just enough room to not drag your nose on the top.
I can't find any scientists claiming that sequencing 700,000 year old DNA means the half-life study was incorrect, or even that it was incorrect for any other reason. Do you have sources?