skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… if only the site formerly known as Twitter wasn't so hostile to being checked these days.

If we as an industry can't think of something better (cough honest status pages cough) … can we at least transition these tweets to Mastodon.
try this one: https://g.co/passkeys (you need to have set up a passkey before though)
How does one get removed from the block list?

Say some IoT device that half of households own gets compromised and turned into a giant botnet. The news gets out and everyone throws away that device. Now they are still blocked over a threat that doesn't exist anymore... doesn't seem like a good situation for anyone.

I'd imagine that the website owners that want the attack stopped will soon want to figure out how to get traffic back since they need users to pay the bills.

Whats to stop someone from just making an app that participates in an attack when connected to public(ish) wifi networks and participating in attacks long enough to get those all shut off from major sites?

How does this stop entire ISPs from getting shut off when the attackers have managed to cycle through all the IP pools used for natting connections? (e.g. the Comcasts of the world that use cg-nat to multiplex very large numbers of people to very small numbers of IPs)?
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes

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Technologies:
- Python
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- Databricks
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Résumé/CV: https://jide.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/Babajide_Ogunjo...

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Epics were not written down until quite recently. There is some medieval Mongolian literature (e.g. the secret history), but it's fairly limited. Most study of mongolians using historical literature is done from Chinese and other sources. Same issue with Turkic sources. Even Timur is known from only a few contemporaneous sources, with most of the extant historical sources being written after his death.

You also shouldn't take stories as necessarily accurate portrayals of daily life. Killing dragons and other monsters wasn't a viable route to power due to their rarity, but it's a popular legitimizing myth that shows up all over the place in early medieval European literature. Similarly, while early modern Spain did have "explorers" charting strange new lands and ahem, "romancing" women like their early modern literature (often inspired by that same literature), it was not a typical career for most Spaniards.

Raiding happened, but it was not the sole or even necessarily a primary means of economic subsistence depending on where and when.
Fair enough, let's put aside that in Copilot, prompting is automatic.

Even if you do prompt it correctly, and it responded in the abstract with all these pros and cons, you cannot be reasonably sure that the code it also provided actually follows these best practices. It will just anytime mindlessly wander from "the best experts on the Internet are saying this" territory to "I just made this up" territory.

Compare that with googling a human-written stack overflow answer on the topic, there usually is some good soul who pointed out the inconsistency, if there is one.

Look, I like grinded meat. But the fact is, without a detailed analysis, it's hard to tell what's actually in it.
is it any html template?
Yes, I was pointing out that the second layer is kind of close to the surface as well.

The surface layer is that Lego is providing sets to hospitals. Which is nice.

The second layer is that they're just giving them out to 300 hospitals. Which seems stingy considering Lego's revenue.

The next layer is that it is an employee driven collaboration with other entities to conduct a study to see how to best construct and use these sets to put kids at ease. Which is more complex.
Countercounterpoint: this is cheaper and potentially more humane than prison and giving your military stuff to do at times of peace is a problem that is helped by this.
I would gladly pay for copilot 5 USD a month (its an specific use case IA), but the current price point 20 month is incredible expensive it only add costs if the developer you are hiring requires it to properly function... thats the only value it adds.

IMHO If you are a code monkey copilot makes you a 5x developer, 10x if you have 5+ years of experience on the business

Maybe selling tokens/search could be benefitial for copilot, like only pay for what i use will be an interesting approach.
I don't like fiat money but wouldn't money tethered to an actual value store like silver or gold limit credit and future spending? Or is that some fiat-propaganda I've fallen for?
Am I the only one alarmed with this sentence: “… when a client connects to Cloudflare to send HTTPS traffic, it first hits our TLS decryption proxy: it decrypts TLS traffic, processes HTTP 1, 2 or 3 traffic, then forwards it to our "business logic" proxy.”
Then what's the point of it all if a hacker can still get into my account using the traditional methods? This seems to be just opening up another avenue of attack.
A lot of people would argue it reached it about 10 years ago.
Small, less complex protocols are inherently less likely to be insecure all things being equal, simply due to reduced attack surface.

DNS was created for a different environment, at a time when security wasn't at forefront so it's not a good example of the opposite.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a moment.

Record labels bled musicians, sure. Piracy just all-out stole their music - I doubt you'll find any documented instance where a musician was actually paid for their music by a kind pirate.

Events, festivals, concerts should not be the only way a musician should hope to recoup some of the effort they put into creating music.
Yes and other truth USA citizens can't directly see is, how both parties agreed to raise debt level so fast. When was the last time these people agreed on something big in common? I really can't tell. Something that will directly benefit USA citizens first?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65736734
This looks great, except I have some concerns about the name. As I get older I realise alcohol is a sensitive topic for many people, and have realised how many people have problems.

It is a slick website, and looks a great product. I read a HN comment a few weeks ago saying something like "Macs have a long history of making GUI wrappers around command-line tools" and it's true - this fits in that tradition. I appreciate the note avoiding Electron too!
It seems like you haven’t been paying attention to what big tech has been doing the past decade. Every piece of available data is considered as a free-for-all to collect and use however they want. Everything on the web is scraped. Every time you move your phone its location is collected. Everything you say in earshot of a smart speaker is recorded. Every time you turn on a light, the bulb phones home.

There’s no legal rights or enforcement against any of this.
Good thing there are no major geopolitical conflicts or realignments going on between the US and major oil producers
> Man, this is completely unrelated problem.

You assert that you do not want this on grounds of clarity. It is not an unrelated problem to point out that C has numerous obscurity issues significantly worse than this could ever be in the language right now.

> Implicit operator overload is just a bad design.

That's at best a bunch of words arranged nonsensically, and at worst an assertion that you want to remove arithmetic operators from the language?

> Integer promotion has advantages and disadvantages, especially in a language like C where you often use 8bit or 16bit types for memory optimization/alignment reasons.

It's mostly a major actual source of obscurity and bugs.
FTC: BetterHelp pushed people into handing over health information
It's fine to deprecate OpenGL. What is not fine is not supporting Vulkan.
The bleeding edge is called the bleeding edge, because you risk cutting yourself on it!

Innovation can be good, but you have to understand the risk/reward profiles.
Isn't "build more homes" the same as solving traffic by adding lanes? Why wouldn't housing suffer from induced demand?

If suddenly a city were somehow flooded with supply of homes, wouldn't more people decide it now makes sense to move to the city, and prices would rise back up?
Tell me ... why it's only netflix what makes CPU go on max? Why netflix is giving me info message when I turn on VPN in the middle of movie? Why it's only netflix who stop working another second when my internet connection has quick failure?

Sorry but it seems that you have no idea how netflix really works.
if the PC has Bluetooth you could use a passkey from a smartphone - besides that, if it's a Windows PC, you could use Windows Hello (with a PIN)
'Overhyped' generative AI will get a 'cold shower' in 2024
If one were to accept the premise that it will eventually reach some unsustainable level, then it makes sense to start wondering what course of action an individual person/household can take to best prepare for such an event.

Putting all of your money into Bitcoin/gold right now is a terrible idea for an event predicted to occur in 20 years. So what do you do now? Next year?
Entirely this. I do not trust devices to always be working or on my person. I will only use this if I can generate an offline, perfect fidelity backup of my codes.

“But it’s safe in the Google/Apple/Microsoft cloud” is not an acceptable answer.
So you're telling me there's still some hope for my favorite JIRA tickets[1]!

1. https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=statusCategory%20%3D%...
only a tiny fraction was on exchange, hence why the journalist can watch the wallets at all.

yeah, its dumb that some social media intern is soliciting funds directly to an exchange account
Isn't the trust fund a fake concept? Benefits are always going to be paid from current year tax or borrowing. You can't actually "invest" trillions for the future if you're a government. At least that's what my Economist mother told me.
You don't need a lot of money or resources to pull one of these.
Code is on Github: https://github.com/649/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit

Also the participants are sometimes innocently recruited victims
for the attack. I blame app insecure defaults.

The trend since 2015 is to get worst as you will see in the bottom layer of this graph: https://www.digitalattackmap.com/
The Paperweight Dilemma
In my estimation, there are two unsustainable end states, one economic, one social.

Economically, it seems things will fall apart when interest payments balloon to become by far the dominating expense of the US government. At this point, the runaway cost of interest will force even faster money printing, resulting in a positive hyperinflationary feedback loop. Eventually the printing will outpace economic growth, which means inflation will be cannibalizing the actual economic output of the people. People will either stop working or find other mediums to trade in.

The social endpoint can happen at any point along the way there. It's a fairly well-known historical reality that a failing elite faces the threat of replacement when new elites can obtain the blessing of the populace; otherwise the populace is hopeless. A campaign to permanently stamp down potential new leaders wherever they may arise is feasible for a limited time but eventually becomes too expensive or diverts all attention away from important material realities. Once there is a cycling of the elites, a drastic shift in policy would undoubtedly be the result. In this scenario, it's highly like that violence occurs.

I'd obviously much prefer the first scenario, where people find other ways to trade peacefully before they start a revolution.
I’m not a specialist in networking, but isn’t the only thing that should be decrypting TLS traffic, is the entity I’m sending data to or my browser?
For now at least, they saying you can still login with traditional methods as a backup even if using passkeys.

Is it possible to control the credentials in your phone and copy them somewhere else?
US debt to GDP ratio is greater than 120%. The IMF defines that as an economic death spiral. By 2028 the loan payments we make on all that debt/money we printed will only cover the interest, no longer the principal, and the death spiral becomes irreversible with US insolvency by 2042. Historically, we are at the point where there's a depression, war, and/or a new monetary system. That's how they reset and seize more power. 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. They are selling our bonds and not buying these days. Markets WERE looking at a lost decade, but the past week or so have been looking at 30 year treasuries, so 30 years.
Even if someone has something like a specific immune system genetic profile that makes them more susceptible to a particular virus than other people, that genetic marker is extremely unlikely to correlate at all closely with any socially defined racial or ethnic group.

The effects of European diseases on native American populations is a red herring in this context, as modern populations are increasingly interbred and not isolated, and even with that case, it's not entirely clear that it was genetic vs. developmental, i.e. European children who survived to adulthood likely had been exposed to those diseases when young, while native American adults had not - so if they had been exposed as children, there could have been no difference in susceptibilty.
Capitalism cracks me up. We live under this fantasy that everything we do can be turned into a profitable business. Even the government should be run like a business, right? Like somehow educating a child for 12+ years should be a profitable venture. Or housing the elderly. Or providing a basic service like water, sanitation or electricity that everyone uses at about the same rate. Surely we can stand on each other to turn a buck.

I think that AI will be the biggest loss leader ever invented. We'll buy a robot one time for $10,000 that will perform $1 million of mental and physical labor over its lifetime. Except nobody will pay for that $990,000. There will just be this expectation of something for nothing, so the anticipated payment never comes. And it will happen so quickly, so completely, that we'll wonder how it was ever possible to pay people to do all this free stuff.

No, the GitHub Copilot model of charging for AI services isn't going to scale. People are going to open source AI and own it themselves and stop paying for goods and services. Why would they when the AI can provide everything they need? AI is the beginning of the end of money. The headline foretells the end of the era of artificial scarcity, because capitalism can't compete with free.
Adam Back is distant third after Len and Nick... I'd wager Satoshi is/was one of them!
All of this is valid!

But it would be even more secure if there was an opt-in "I don't want to use my phone as 2FA".

Phone number authentication creates a weakness for anyone who is in a targeted attack.

A motivated attacker can easily bribe/trick a telecom employee, or if physically accessible, swipe the phone itself to read 2FA texts.
I'm not sure why this is generating such debate.

CS:GO is a competitive shooter. Macs are not widely popular with that type of customer.

It has nothing to do with the technical limitations or business decisions of Apple (especially since Valve would distribute via Steam, where Apple's cut wouldn't factor into it).

If they ever ship to iOS, they'll have to support Metal, and once they have to support Metal, they'll get Mac support essentially for free. That will change the calculation on whether Macs are worth supporting for them.
They may be, but the food has to be grown somewhere by people, and those people will eventually be fed up with being left behind.
>That said, the debt will be at an "unsustainable level" when people stop buying it.

And that won't happen until the rest of the world gets their house in order.
Federal Debt reached unsustainable levels long before I was born..
> but Linux (gaming) usershare is growing

Because the games are there. In large part because Valve is making it happen.

> Apple's indifferent (if not hostile) attitude towards gaming

They’ve been touting the abilities of Apple Silicon for gaming on their events. Their platforms support modern gaming controllers with zero setup. They had Hideo Kojima (and others) at WWDC. There are two separate sections on the App Stores just for games. They developed multiple technologies specifically for games: https://developer.apple.com/games/

We can argue if Apple’s gaming strategy is any good, but calling them indifferent or hostile to games does not align with reality.
AMD is probably best positioned to make a laptop/desktop SoC with the same kind of unified memory. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Intel's little experiment in budget dedicated GPUs is also a byproduct of similar R&D.

Lisa Su was interviewed at Code recently, and the AI discussion focused on competing against NVIDIA in big datacenters, but I hope they're also thinking about client-side stuff like that.
Do I get a breakdown of what went into each item's price on the display sticker?

Because we get that now on most (if not all) grocery stores and retailers. I can see what items in my grocery receipt were charged which of the various local taxes and can dispute them. I've had groceries miss-categorized and considered prepared food which carries a local tax in my area, but they were not prepared foods and should not have been taxed.

Having a full price up front isn't the magical cure a lot of people paint it as.
I don't understand the problem with Social Security. The Federal Reserve has already willed hundreds of billions into existence for COVID relief and wars in the last few years. What's another few hundred billion more for Social Security in a few years?
I love that book.

I liked that Pham founds the Qeng Ho specifically so that he could be the one commissioning new software for the ships. He wanted to be the one putting hidden backdoors, secret passwords, and booby–traps into it. Of course it’s built on Unix, but if you’re paying attention you’ll notice that when someone enters a command they type “a column of text”.

He also built interstellar communication networks specifically so that civilizations that fell could rebuild more quickly (at least once they reinvented radio) and could learn the Qeng Ho language and systems in the process. But he also put in encrypted channels so that Qeng Ho traders would have inside information and therefore an edge against outside traders.

And then Nau gets his hands on it all, with his crew of Focused to examine every line of source code…
The standards group that was behind Fido/U2F has been taken over by people who want to push a new product. That new product is "Log in with your phone" and phone lock screens allow biometrics and pins.

Password managers are not relevant, as you don't use a password manager to unlock your phone.

The people behind the takeover don't really give a shit about Yubikey-style tokens (which haven't achieved much market penetration anyway) but they've left them in to make the takeover less blatent.
> If the US was an IMF country it would be way off the reservation.

That's not even wrong.

I don't know where to start without coming off as aggressive, lecturing, talking down, or putting words in your mouth. Tough place to be in.

Instead, I'll volunteer a general pattern that helps avoid this intellectual trap.

I'm old enough now to have seen it wax and wane and take different forms, from Ron Paul to BRICS, and there might be one key fallacy uniting all those.

It's not dissimilar to what I've seen from independent large, unorganized, groups discovering Tether every 18 months.

It's that _you and the people you are learning new info from are not uniquely blessed, and not everyone is on your timeline_. It's likely there's a sizable # of people have had the idea before.

If the US was so heavily indebted it was in a worse place financially than other "IMF country", Argentina, Egypt, Ecuador, Tunisia...we'd see at least some of the same problems. There isn't a mass delusion, psychosis, or enough dumb people in the world to have the US in that category of country but still treated the way it actually is.

To some extent, I wonder if this short-sightedness is due to polarization. We spend 4 years being told everything is falling part and fundamental values are broken whenever the other party holds the presidency. In reality, US was _by far_ the most economically successful country during COVID, the last decade. It's earned it place and will continue to for a very long time. I highly, highly suggest reading information from a foreign perspective, Economist is great, if anything, they have a slight antipathy toward the US. And they don't swing for home runs via takes, ever.
Chrysler has been using Cummins engines for ages. They are in the Jeep Wrangler.
Opportunity for what? This isn't a sales environment, and I'm not sure what the benefit is of attracting users who don't know the tools they use. What is the opportunity cost of losing a user who doesn't understand the benefits of the project?
One question I don't often see asked in regards to passkeys: what is the legal standing in regards to law enforcement access to 'passkeys' vs passwords?

For example, it is completely valid to say I genuinely do not know my 1000 long multiple special character password; it could be on a piece of paper, in a file encrypted with multiple layers. Essentially, there is no foolproof way to ever prove whether I know a given password, or not, especially if the password is only ever in my head (assuming the plaintext version is never logged, all you would ever have as 'proof' is a hash to compare it to).

Passkeys make it so that, I imagine, there is an element of 'proof' at all times; your face, fingerprints (which in some countries you are required by law to provide), I can't disprove I "own" my fingers so that element is always there, and you can be compelled to provide your fingerprints at any time for any reason - with a password, it is impossible to know whether I know a password.

In that sense, a password is far, far, far stronger than any other method of authentication.

Take a scenario: Mr Police wants access to your phone, it's protected only by your fingerprint, pretty easy to gain access. Now do the same but with a password that's sufficiently complex, written on a now shredded piece of paper, and there is genuine plausible deniability.

I imagine in a lot of cases this is extremely important and passkeys will be shunned altogether.
The "comforting" thought here is that Rome took centuries to collapse. While the USSR collapse was much faster, it's still being milked to this day.

As another person, there is still the infrastructure (military and civilian), capital (trucks, heavy equipment, electric), domain knowledge, work & work best practices (read OSHA), culture, etc.
the average salary in the US is like 58k. 200k USD makes you the global 1%, even if you're not the US 1%.

plus if I believe levels.fyi, 200k+ is F500 programmers, and mostly those at FAANGs or other high-end orgs. Plenty of folks ain't.

But yeah, 20k/mo. is mid-level legit-org SWE pay.
On iOS you can use third party software to manage passkeys, there is no inherent cloud requirement.
Hebrew itself was "extinct" as a spoken language by about 200ce. Until the 20th century when it was revived. It was replaced by Aramaic and Greek.

Aramaic lived for a longer period, but then slowly died out. As a liturgical language western Aramaic / Syriac lived on, and eastern variants for longer but as a widespread, spoken lived language in the Levant I believe Greek replaced it, and then Arabic. I understand that "Jewish Palestinian Aramaic" lingered on for some time in some smaller communities.
> If the US was an IMF country

The U.S. is in the IMF and has used it to borrow.