skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s one of the factors causing real estate illiquidity - same happens in residential.

People really don’t want to materialize losses, and will do anything they can to avoid it. It’s why property prices aren’t falling much in residential yet either, except in markets with marginal owners.

And it often works - if it’s just a temporary bump in the road, things recover and blam - they’re rich again.

If it keeps up, at least they’ll have a lot of company and they’ll be less likely to be singled out/more likely to get a bailout.
I'm curious to learn more. How how much work is it to establish a stream and close it? It feels like something that could be done very quickly, but it also involves setting up some state (stream buffers) that could be a problem too.
Well, 20000 to hit 201 million requests per second and give Cloudflare problems. You wouldn't need that to make problems for many sites.
Ask HN: Best paid email provider in 2023?
Bonus points if I can bring my own email address from my domain or even move my domain there (RIP Google Domains).
It took 8 years for somebody to discover this. It can't have been that obvious.
> false allegations against Russia

Only way to know they're false is if you know who actually did it. Do you?
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It actually does, that's why I cited it so many times! :)

In 1958, Russell elaborated on the analogy:

> "...nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice..."[0]

Replace 'teapot revolving in orbit' with 'truth to the staircase fighting myth' – hopefully you now see why it's ridiculous to entertain all hypotheses as equally likely without evidence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
As far as I know, they never figured out who did that. Could have been Russia although the reasoning seems absurd, with excuses like, Putin is so crazy he would blow up his own pipeline.

Anyway, the fact that they just threw an accusation like that, widely in the media, and never bothered to definitively conclude an investigation into the cause puts all "pipeline" news into boy-who-cried-wolf territory for me. (Enjoy that sentence.)
With the abrogation of the Mosaic covenant, I am not sure what the status of the Promised Land is.

EDIT: Correction, the Promised Land is part of the Abrahamic covenant.
A second new gTLD has FAILED and will be sold off
Such printers already exist, e.g. Geeetech A-series.
I remember ...taking my sister's iPod something to install this and then to connect it to my PS3 in order to jailbreak it.
My sister was not happy of course, I am not sure whether I was able to reset the iPod to its original state or not.
As far as I know that does constrain you in e.g mod usage. If you stream it from the cloud you can’t mess with the game files.

(I accept that this might nowadays make me a minority, although in games like GTA I think the modding community is pretty active still)
Such attacks are possible because ISPs do not want to adopt a protocol that would allow any host to send a special packet to block malicious traffic on the upstream provider or even at the source network. In this case networks like Cloudflare would become unnecessary.
Wait, didn't Ed Thorp argue for the exact opposite – if you have a super-person that can guarantee lack of bias, then you also have absolute Newtonian predictability on virtue of the mechanical perfectitude. The randomness must come from somewhere, and it comes from imperfections which also incidentally introduce bias.
So it’s the ISPs fault that my grandma never met a spam email that she didn’t want to click?

One of the things that gets lost in this kind of debate is that the vast, vast majority of Internet users are not experts in how the Internet, computers, or their phones work. So expecting them to be able to "just not get exploited" is a naive strategy and bringing the pain to the ISP feels counterproductive because what, realistically, can they do to stop all of their unsophisticated users from getting themselves exploited?

At the end of the day, the vast majority of the users of the Internet do not care how it works - they want their email, they want their cat videos, and they want to check up on their high school ex on Facebook. How can we rearchitect the Internet to be a) open b) privacy protecting, and c) robust against these kinds of attacks so that the targets of DDOS attacks have better protection than paying a third party and hoping that that third party can protect them?
I think reddit is also inflating user numbers a lot. People that have been there longer mostly notice the drop in engagement. Could be that there are new subs that have distinct user bases that are buzzing along. But the perception of less content is more or less universal for users I know with few to no exceptions.

This was a process that already started before the policy changes around API access though.
Maybe I'm getting old, but what I would really prefer is that we could get some good movies, even if they touch on uncomfortable or ugly topics.

Movies like American History X, Fight Club, or What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

It seems these movies would no longer be "allowed" to be made, or perhaps the modern zeitgeist censors them away.

I just want to celebrate and encourage bona fide art and see more of it in the world.

And I would gladly pay for my family to access this higher quality art.
"Moreover, the lifespan of a given IP in a botnet is usually short so any long term mitigation is likely to do more harm than good." "As we can see, many new IPs spotted on a given day disappear very quickly afterwards." https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-...
"I bet if I ask a human to generate a bunch of sentences no matter how unrelated, they could do it infinitely ... I don’t think an LLM can “undo” it’s probabilities already generated like this (maybe it can?) and then generate infinitely"

Unless it zooms in on "Unrelated" and ignores the sentences it produces. reinforced by unrelated sentences.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-aws-protects-custo...

https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacti...
Which tests test specifically for “replacing humans?”
That seems like a wild metric to try and capture in a test.

Also an aside:

> This is the worse it will ever be.

I hear this a lot and it really bothers me. Just because something is the worst it’ll ever be doesn’t mean it’ll get much better. There could always be a plateau on the horizon.

It’s akin to “just have faith.” A real weird sentiment that I didn’t notice in tech before 2021.
The sentence is obviously delineated by two newlines. A paragraph made of a single sentence.

The paragraph is so obvious that I would never expect anyone to question it. TSMC is a mere 12.5% of global semiconductor market in 2022.
I think skepticism is always welcome and we should continue to explore what LLM's can and cannot do. However, what I'm referring to is trying to get a quick win by defeating some inferior version of GPT or trying to apply a test which you don't even expect most humans to pass.

The article is actually fine and pretty balanced, but it is a bit unfortunate that 80% of their examples are not illustrative of current capabilities. At least for me, most of my optimism about the utility of LLM's comes from GPT-4 specifically.
[dupe]

Some more discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37821756
Indistinguishable from the kind of service I get from Google - the moment that I need a human involved I just close my account with whatever Google service is misbehaving and move on.
Are you referring to this?

>People talk a lot about TSMC and the bleeding edge business(computers, phones), but that's just one part of it, but there's a whole industry of embarked software that will likely be much bigger.

I have no idea what "embarked software" means. So-called "bleeding edge" makes up a significant portion of semiconductor profits, so how can you disregard that and say semiconductor is going bust?
> To protect giant companies against small startups that are trying with all of their might? I'm not so sure.

They ain't doing it now either.

I think more useful model might be shortening it (5 years for anything but medical and such ought to be enough to monetize most) and enforcing profit share into patent law itself.

say 20% of the revenue on the product divided to the owners of patent used (excluding subsidiares and other related entities of company using patent).

Then the original "inventor" (as joke as it is in software...) gets not only the money but also good profit margin advantage over big corp to market
I would enable cryptographic 2FA on all of my accounts where it is possible and run the 2FA on a discrete device (token dongle or an old phone with wifi and Bluetooth off, no sim)
> "^integer" which is better than "int"

I agree that it reads a little better. But as a small-handed person, it is unfortunately much more uncomfortable to type.
Second law of infodynamics' implications for the simulated universe hypothesis
The article states one unnamed policy source, whereas the navy and seismologists have made public, named, specific statements. That's why I'm asking if there's anything of substance beyond she-said-he-said.
Every second can count in paediatrics, so won't always be possible.
Can anyone can explain what's novel about this attack that isn't plain old requests flood?
If none of the board is industry, and none of the major shareholders are industry, why would they hire industry? Finance is becoming the only job that exists.
Yeah entire week of dev time to figure out /s
Instance-variable heavy Ruby code does look rather like someone has sneezed on the monitor, so I think it would have been a bad move, aesthetically ...
Interesting to see this here, without any context attached. I've been practicing loving kindness meditation for a few months now and the results have been incredible.

I'm atheist, pretty sure reincarnation is bullshit, but the method described in this sutta works. In mundane terms, you can train your brain to be happier and more joyful by those simple visualizations.

I'm not quite sure what is the role of spreading kindness in all directions, perhaps it somehow ties our perception of space and time, which is always present, with good feelings - what fires together, wires together - making them more likely to appear in future.
You are quite obviously speaking from the perspective as someone that wouldn’t be in a position to be making these calls.
"In addition, there is damage to the communication cable between the countries." (same source)
Even simpler than that, actually. There's no requirement for any distribution at all. (And I would argue strongly against a uniform prior, but that is a separate discussion.)

What's necessary to guess 50 % on the first toss is simply (a) complete ignorance about the bias, whatever it is, and (b) the hypothesis that the bias is just as likely to be negative as positive (i.e. a symmetric prior.)
The Mahayana (Tiantai school) version: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34460022
There should be a protocol to block traffic on the upstream provider. So if someone from 1.2.3.4 sends lots of traffic at you, you send a special packet to 1.2.3.4 and all upstream providers (including the provider that serves 1.2.0.0/16), that see this packet block traffic from that IP address directed at you. Of course, the packet should allow blocking not only a single address, but a whole network, for example, 1.2.3.4/16.

But ISPs do not want to adopt such protocol.
For:

if (need_free == some_other_bool)

you could use:

if (!need_free ^ some_other_bool)

if you're using _Bool.
How large of a “botnet” did it take to cause 398M rps?
Sometimes the OS is unaware of ECC support on the hardware as well, e.g. Linux doesn't/didn't enable the Intel edac driver on i3's running on server chipsets using ECC memory, despite the CPU actually utilizing ECC in that scenario (they simply forgot to add them to the whitelist). So edac-util went "No ECC MCs found!", even though the platform worked.
I think this is something us nerds who contribute on niche topics will always find at some point. Amazing!
It's interesting to me that most of the push-back so far has been for the business model of the internet, ie people need link traversal and content publishing in order to make money from advertising (implied, but not stated). Therefore we need to add yet another layer to the mix, the cloud providers, and start paying those guys.

And yes, we can block entire subnets. You own the IP addresses, you're responsible for stuff coming out of them, at least to the degree that it's not maliscious to the web as a whole. (but not the content itself, of course)

I'm calling bullshit on these assumptions. The internet is a communications tool. If it's not communicating, it's broken. If you provide dynamic IPs to clients that attack people, you're breaking it. It's not my problem or something I should ever be expected to pay for.

To be clear, my point is that we're suggesting yet another layer of commercial, paid crap on top of a broken system in order to fix it. It'd be phenomenally better just to publicly identify place and methods where it's broken and let other folks with more vested interests than information consumers worry about it. Hell, I'm not interested in paying for the current busload of bytes I'm currently consuming for every one sentence of value I receive.
20% of the horror stories you hear are from young people who decided they don't need to sign up for health insurance then get in trouble.

60% (and, really, the 20% above and 20% below too) are from those upset that the US system isn't "free" because, as I wrote elsewhere, all they know of to compare with are the "free" UK and Canadian systems, so the whole world outside the US must be "free" and thus anything that isn't 100% "free" is fascism by billionaires, or something. When, really, the UK and Canadian systems are more aberrations than the US's is.

The remaining 20% are more like complaints about how different plans cover different things, or finding a doctor that accepts their plan, or unexpected difficulties with changing plans; that is, procedural issues. I don't mean to say that they are insignificant—I'm experiencing the last one myself—but they don't get the Internet mobs riled up as much as they get about the injustice of not having 100% "free" healthcare like "the rest of the world".
It's worth noting that features like the one that enabled Rapid Reset are pushed into standards by the exact same companies, because they are needed for performance at their scale.

So in a way this was partially caused by the existence of insanely big tech companies that need such features.
Apple wasn't also the most helpful when it came to motivating developers to port their games over. 30% fee for apps and no native development until 2014 with Metal. Windows had DirectX for a much longer time.
My problem is that it often seems like significant complexity is added in order to chase marginal performance gains. I suppose performance is relatively easy to measure while complexity is not.
I've heard stories about attacks where the target is a subsystem but in order to avoid drawing attention to it they attack the entire network.
Errr, no? First of all, the kid might freak out from the AI glasses itself, if it could even wear it considering size, weight and other possible health limitations the child might have. They might not ever seen an AI set, they're jittery as it is, and you're introducing another set of variables and strange things they have to figure out.

Also, will they be able to comprehend that the things they are seeing in the AI image is an analogue of what will happen soon? It won't replace the "tactileness" of the machine and process, adults or companions can't guide them through a hologram in any immediate way.
Review of old K+E graph paper by Math researcher and Youtuber Chris Staecker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7KU26mnX-I
I've wondered about the DEI thing, but there's no way to know really. Nobody is going to tell me if that was considered. I suspect not, though.

I find that specific experience doesn't really matter because every job I've gotten has been a complete reset stack wise.

I have a lot of varied experience, but I think what sets me apart is that tech is actually fun for me. My work/life balance naturally tilts towards work. I'm not just looking to climb a ladder, get more money, or protect my job by making myself irreplaceable. By that, I mean that I document everything I do like I'm going to die tomorrow, and like I care about the DX of whomever takes over my role.

I also don't care if I look dumb. I ask dumb questions and I don't try to hide that I'm human. I've done this my entire life, and it's really paid off. I learn more quickly than my peers most of the time, and this is exactly why -- I lean into the impostor syndrome and own it.
That was the joke: "ChatGPT told me".
This is the reason you need a security researcher that is actively exploiting things.
Yes, this is why I think the LLM and image generation models are still impressive. Knowing they are ML models in the end and still produce a results that surprise us, makes you wonder what we are in the end. Could we essentially simulate something similar to us given enough inputs and parameters in the network, with enough memory, computing power and a training process that would aim to simulate a human with emotions. I would imagine the training process alone would need bunch of other models to teach the final model "concepts" and from there perhaps "reasoning".

Why I think AI is not the appropriate term is that if it were AI, the AI would have already figured everything out for us (or for itself). LLM can only chain text, it does not really understand the content of the text, and can't come up with new novel solutions (or if it accidentally does, it's due to hallucination), this can be easily confirmed by giving current LLMs some simple puzzles, math problems and so on.. Image models have similar issues.
It is measuring how well it does replacing humans - in those tests.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ozjiX1E7ZA&pp=ygUTc2JmIGludGV...

Picked an interview ar random. He is not charismatic, but he can talk like so many banking VPs talk ( almost no substance ). This may have helped him make people part with money.
> One clear conclusion is that modern popular concepts of human racial and ethnic groups have little connection with the actual biological-genetic history of individual modern humans, they're mostly artificial (which is why claims about 'race-based biological weapons' are nonsense, for example).

When you said "race-based biological weapons" you mean weapons that target specific races?
If a learning resource is lacking or confusing, Slack or GitHub issues/discussions is a way to engage and provide feedback so they can be improved. If the docs were confusing, there are other channels to get help to unblock folks. The outcome of that interaction would lead to improvements in the docs.
They're probably right but it does feel like a negative feedback loop. I used to have an Intel MacBook, during COVID I had a blast playing COD: Warzone with friends while in isolation. But then I got an M1 Mac and that door closed. If it were possible to play I'd probably still do it from time to time.

That said, I probably wouldn't be spending enough on battle passes/whatever to make it worth their time. To be cynical, I wonder if it's less the total number of Mac players and more the amount of money earned from those players. Stands to reason anyone that didn't buy a specialized gaming rig is going to be more of a casual player.
Just like the law enforcement forced the criminals to up their games, so the only option we have is to pay tax?

Well, I wrote this comment to ridicule yours... but actually that was what happened.
Which game is it that you are referring to?
The prefix * in C comes from prefix ! in BCPL. C’s weird a[b] == b[a] is also a hidden BCPLism.

BCPL has infix ! as well as prefix ! so you write an array index expression like array!index instead of array[index]. Infix ! is commutative like addition and [] in C.

You declare structures in BCPL by defining a constant for the offset of each member, so you can write object!MEMBER somewhat like C object->member. The semantics of -> in early C were very similar to BCPL infix ! except that members had types as well as offsets, but like BCPL there was nothing to tie a particular member to a particular structure as there is in modern C.

There’s a certain elegance to BCPL’s syntax that you don’t get from prefix-only or postfix-only indirection operators. C might have been better if it had stuck closer to BCPL in this respect, but sadly * conflicts with infix multiplication.

Some readers might also have used BCPL-style syntax for WIMP programming in BBC BASIC on RISC OS.
This is an extremely common private equity playbook, that hasn’t seen as wide adoption in software as it has in other industries because there is a presumption that software clients aren’t particularly sticky and the software space allows faster innovation. Twitter is a story that confirms that bias (so far).

I think Unity is the next big test case. If users leave the platform in droves and revenue tanks it will continue to confirm the current hypotheses. That said private equity firms will keep trying it no matter what as the market biases make it an easier space to compete so I’m not sure it matters much to software companies.
You should check the comments after the article there... It seems that things are not quite as article makes it to be... there was no explosion nor there is any reason to point fingers...

I get in the forums people would say all kinds of things, but for government officials, you would think they would know not to talk before they know for sure....
I wonder if the Steam Deck has pushed Linux above Mac in terms of Steam userbase?

I tried, unsuccessfully, to find stats on the matter.

Edit: As Sayrus points out below you can click on the rows in the Steam Hardware Survey to show more information.
Come for the graph paper, stay for the snark. Go to the Grid Dots page[0], and...

I'm going to guess you're really into pens. Not an unhealthy amount... but more than most.

It's like the web page sees into my mind!

[0] https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/squaredots/
No point in releasing and maintaining games for a platform that is actively hostile towards them. Even disregarding the whole Vulkan/Metal situation, Apple's complete disregard for backwards compatibility means any game that does get ported will probably just stop working in a year or two if it's not updated, so why bother?
HTTP/2 "Rapid Reset" DDoS Attack Disclosed by Google, Cloudflare and AWS
What the 80% statistic doesn't convey is the fact that you have people delaying getting married and continuing to live with their parents because HDB supply can't keep up with demand. See also the insane valuations for resale flats.
PRetty sure this covers it : https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/multicolor/

Just change the values to 0.1 cm.
Hacker News nerds will argue all day long that the Internet is a utility when the argument happens to personally benefit them, then in the same breath say that a random network admin is justified in blocking a whole ISP subnet due to one “bad” actor. And of course by bad actor I mean person that almost certainly accidentally got themselves infected with malware by not understanding the completely Byzantine world of computers and the Internet.