skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the urge to play Deadfire today so I got my gaming PC out of the closet. Shortly thereafter it went down a flight of stairs (don’t ask) and lost both wifi antennas.

Downloading 20GB at about 5mbit was painfully retro, but I got the idea to Ethernet it to my MacBook and in a few clicks was borrowing its quite decent wifi connection. But my MacBook doesn’t have an Ethernet port or a normal usb port. So I got a dongle with Ethernet and plugged it into a USB to mini and then a mini to C (didn’t have a USB to USB C cable).

Probably the most “LAN party experience” I’ve had in 15 years.
CA has a risk to get their root cert removed from browsers; ISP doesn't risk anything especially when asked by the govt.
Reasoning about parallel execution is hard. You need high level language and library support for that unless you want to spend the rest of your life in tricky debugging territory.
Perhaps because the hand axe and holy book it rest upon are both, useful but outdated tools of man.
Now do a side-by-side comparison of the two situations - one an extended planned campaign with fake text messaging accounts etc, the other a spontaneous day-of joke by someone whose political affiliations were open and not concealed.

Unfortunately for Mackey and his defenders, juries are actually kinda good at understanding context.
Think about the human brain's ability to distinguish 2 nearly-identical sound frequencies. Our neural nets are masters of time domain signal analysis. Even the slightest shift in phase or frequency is usually perceptible.

I think saccade plays a big role in how we perceive smoothness of motion and could also explain why some people don't really mind 60hz whereas others find it to be an affront to civilization. Just a little bit of difference between human visual systems could explain a large difference in final perception.
I once heard a British comedian talk about hiring a hypnotherapist to help him watch the first Harry Potter movie again as if it was his first time. I personally don’t think such precision or efficacy is possible in hypnotherapy, but it’s a fun idea.
Likewise, it is one of the best solutions to this problem. And it also nicely maps onto language constructs, much nicer than the other options that I've worked with.
So I can just give you a cardboard box and call it a vault? You can not prove me wrong upfront so you have to believe me? That is ridiculous.

There is plenty of evidence you can provide to establish confidence that a certain degree of security has been achieved. Robust auditing, thorough review, formal methods, exhaustive testing, competent red teams exercises failing to find any vulnerabilities, etc. The only people throwing their hands up claiming security can not be evaluated have nothing useful to say about security because they do not even believe it is possible to know if they did anything.
It feels like math issue is solvable, so are an all the other more precise engineering type things (even basic calculators can do all that). Yes, it’s early and but it seems like llms are on the right path this time, and what the article describes is achievable.

What the author I think is missing is if they can automate s/w engineering with this, by that time all other existing office work will largely be automated as well. Whether it really happens in our lifetimes is debatable.
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I built this basically to learn RAG. Ended up getting ahead of myself and building a full scraping pipeline that runs hourly across the news source and embeds them into a vector dab for retrieval :)
Judging by AMD's Q2 financials, there most probably isn't insatiable demand for EPYC CPUs right now. But probably AMD won't sell the chips with discount as Threadrippers, either because they already sit finalized in EPYCs in a warehouse, or to prevent companies buying lots of Threadrippers and using them in datacenters. They probably want to make the big money in the datacenter, and they're willing to take a short-term revenue hit if it helps to motivate the buyers to spend in the future.
A Retro Computer Yule Log with Atari 8-Bits – Music with Crackling Fire [video]
> the threat-actor was able to hijack a session token from a support ticket which was created by a Cloudflare employee.

If a threat-actor stole bank my password because I stored it in a file on my laptop how is it my banks fault?
The easiest way would be to have the GIL behind a feature flag that defaults to 'on'. That way you avoid yet another language split and if you don't want any possibly breaking changes you simply don't do anything at all. But if you want to run with the performance gains that a GIL free CPython would give you then you will have to do some extra testing to make sure that your stuff really is bullet proof with that flag set to the 'No-GIL' position.
Especially because if you use azure ad (or entra now) as a backend behind okta (as we do at work too), you now have two vendors that might get hacked instead of one. If I have a valid azure cookie it bypasses all IDP login rules (eg this cloud service may only be connected to from the company network).

Also, Microsoft and Google have one big thing in their favour: they run consumer services with billions of customers that they get a ton of experience from. And which are a huge target which rarely gets breached.

Those consumer services are not running on the same IDP services e.g. "Entra ID" but as a company it does prove they know what they're doing. I have to give them that. I know MS got breached recently too but they have a decent track record overall. Saying this as a MS critic by the way.
Nope. Men tend to stop making new close friendships starting after 25. There are no "other factors that need to be addressed first". For ordinary men with ordinary mental health, it really is as simple as "go make new friends".
Your computer is not as fast as the computers of the people who disagree with you.
Those are best for compliance to security requirements/ standards. They're not for security against state level actors.
~~~I do not condone online video game cheating~~~

Way back when (2006?), a friend of mine sold wallhacks for online games. It was his software, written in C++, and it was considered to be pretty much on a level of its own.

Anyway, IIRC, Casper had a piece of software wrap his executable which would generate a hash from the purchasers PC, I believe it was hardware- Hard drives, graphics cards, whatever.

It was extremely difficult to determine who was a new customer, and who was a customer who upgraded their hardware. It ended up being a lot of maintenance - but it was cool to see behind the scenes, so to say.

It was also interesting to see another league of players form: dedicated cheating servers. Who had the best hacks amongst the hackers. At first, it was walling (seeing through walls), and then aimbots. Aimbots got better, and finally aimbots which calculated the spray patterns.

He ended up having a baby and taking a professional software job
Yeah gotta love Microsoft marketing goons that rebrand everything every few years.

Though azure ad was actually a bit confusing. But usually their rebranding makes zero sense. Like from lync to Skype or msdn to my visual studio. Or sms to sccm to mem.
A business can request visiting law enforcement to do all those things, and hopefully law enforcement complies. However, if they refuse to comply, realistically you just have to let them in anyway. Document their non-compliance and provide it to your lawyers, who can decide what action to take (lodge a formal complaint to the law enforcement agency, apply to a judge for an injunction to compel their compliance, etc)

Well, that’s true in countries like Germany or the US. I suspect in somewhere like Russia or China, formal complaints are unlikely to achieve anything except invite government retaliation.
It's a big category.

In the last year, two of my favorite reads were Children Of Time and it's sequels (Adrian Tchaikovsky) and Embassytown (China Mieville). I also really enjoyed reading the Lilith's Brood series (Octavia Butler). All three of these present a more nuanced look at humanity's interaction with alien intelligence
This is the most cryptocurrency response possible. I thought people were finally moving away from this Reddit, WSB, financial conspiracy theory bs.
^ This.

~15 years ago, I was working with venues to see how we could handle ticketing, etc. They ALL had exclusive deals where the venue could ONLY sell online through TicketMaster and then TM would handle ~100% of the back office reporting, tracking, etc and even the onsite credit card processing for walk up sales.

It was one end to end system/suite and to replace any of it, you had to replace ALL of it once the contract was up. Not a fun space at all.
> Both Hetzner and Linode network appear to be reconfigured specifically for this kind of attack for the XMPP service IP addresses

This suggests a compromise of Hetzner and Linode network management.
Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate
During a lonely period in my life I met two other travelers playing Uno on Xbox Live. We played every night, games had 4 players and matchmaking so we would essentially bust on the new person who joined until they left and were replaced by someone new. Never got even a first name, didn't talk about life or struggles, just cracked jokes. Eventually I made friends in real life and drifted away from gaming but it helped me get past a relatively dark period. Fortnite is a great place to start.
HN is faithful to its “I could build it in a weekend” estimates, but even on that scale “a non-technical person could replicate Salesforce with RoR in 20 minutes” is extra brave.
https://archive.ph/RcSU3
Related: MS Office 2010 was/is available as "click-to-run" edition, based on a virtual streaming file system.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office...

The tech/product behind it has its roots in game distribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_App-V
Oh boy, you're missing quite a lot here.

First let's breakdown what "modern social history of prehistoric handaxes" means, as virtually every word has a technical definition.

"Modern" - from the modern period, i.e. 1500s onwards

"Social history" - a specific type of historical analysis focusing on essentially what a common man would have thought and known about. This is a very rough reduction of what the term actually encompasses.

"Prehistoric" - old stuff

"Handaxes" - a specific category of lithic (i.e. stone) tools that are typically symmetrical bifaces, distinct from modern axes.

Also, most rocks can be confused for meteorites and vice versa. "Looking like a meteorite" means nothing. The rock shown does look quite a bit like a chert core though. I'd be surprised if it was actually a handaxe because they're almost always symmetric and tapering, which the painting doesn't show, but I don't care enough to read the paper.
Telegram is as secure as it can possibly be without the security requiring compromises and leaking into the UX. I thought that was clear to anyone who has ever used it. If you require 100% bulletproof security and are willing to compromise on convenience, it's not for you.

Since this thread is about XMPP, Telegram's security is effectively the same as XMPP over TLS, maybe a bit better because there isn't a trusted third party (the CA).

> All voice can be E2E thru servers, like Signal does.

I know that. In fact, I built the first VoIP implementation for Telegram, libtgvoip, myself from scratch. Relay servers add delay, can run out of capacity, and cost money in bandwidth. Of course relays are still used if a P2P connection can not be established (libtgvoip always started the call through the relays and only switched to P2P if pings went through and RTT was lower, that took at least several seconds before enough statistics was gathered).
Covenant Property Law Examples in the USA
It's absurd and real at the same time.

My apartment contract forces me to pay $99/mo. for roughly 120mbit, while most residences on my block can get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber for $70/mo.
I should have been more clear on what I mean: I am well aware that the job market is not optimizing for fairness but that is what people often judge situations on.

I do understand how it came to all of this and how the situation is justified but just posed that if we turned our back to completely free markets and imagined a structure based on "fairness" then things should probably be different.

Furthermore I disagree with the argument that nobody would want to work an intense job while being "underpaid". Plenty of labor is really intense and pays minimum wage or barely over.
to be fair, biology did have a 4B year headstart
I think it's pretty obvious what I'm implying. overpopulation is bad, and the Haber process has massively accelerated overpopulation. ergo it's worth questioning whether it's actually a good thing
Does this work well with M$ Flight Simulator? It's notorious for its long installation and update times and huge (100GB+) storage requirements
> has near infinite context length

Which has near infinite costs, or it's not the same thing as attention. So it'd be something different... or yeah, computer = magic.
I worked at a startup that tried to compete with them. Eventually we just sold to them. I don’t know the details sorry.
I assume the parent comment is making the opposite point? I'm in Australia and I can get 90-100mbps which is very fast in this country - I'd say the average house gets 50-60mbps (guessing, haven't looked it up).
It may not be as employment-friendly as it once was, but it sure is pleasant to use. I like it better than anything except Scheme, personally.

I agree with you about Python, but I've come to appreciate JS much more than I once did (it helps that some of the major pain points have gone away in recent versions).
LA is indeed a great example. Your YIMBY laws at the state level are being used to override local zoning to build McMansions in the highest fire risk areas like the San Gabriel Valley foothills, along with bulldozing existing rent-controlled affordable housing near transit to build more luxury condos.
And yes, just take a drive into DTLA any night of the week and see the vacancies for yourself: 2/3 of the luxury condo units are dark, night after night after night. Good luck getting data from the parasitic real estate sector for a proper study. Those condos are bank accounts for foreign money laundering, which is probably why FINCEN recently announced that they're going to finally crack down on it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-set-unveil-long-awaited-...

The best part of your response was this though:
>how many LA pols are facing felonies now because of denying housing so that they can take bribes to let a few things through?

Huizar is the poster boy for this and he was taking bribes from the worst luxury condo developers of them all to build in downtown, razing the existing affordable rentals. Not to mention he went along with literally every big housing project that came his way for Boyle Heights (Vegas hotel/strippers/poker chips included or not), as detailed in "The Sellout".

I agree with you that there's a shortage, but the conversion of housing into a speculative commodity is a much bigger problem than a lack of construction, which is why there are well over 5 million vacant homes in this country (that we know of). AirBnB, Wall Street hedge funds purchasing single family homes, get rich quick flippers, are all driving the affordability problem.

https://therealdeal.com/national/2023/10/08/millions-of-home...
The Polaroid SX70's unusual shutter (2018)
Wikipedia says shooting started in March so the February script is probably the script they shot from or at least close to it?
Just looks like a wrapper for chatGPT. What’s unique here?
Not accurate. TM already had a lock the market before LN acquired them. In fact, LN created their own ticketing platform to compete with TM... and failed miserably.

Take a look at the largest venues in the country. Most of them aren't owned by LN, but they still use TM for ticketing. If anything, TM has helped LN to acquire more venues than the other way around. In general, TM has a much more dominant share of the ticketing business than LN has of the venue or promotion business.
To be fair, the European tendency to push the government to resist undesirable forces is kinda the whole reason for the Treaty of Brussels in the first place.
The follow-up, about how the shutter timing is modified by the use of pneumatics, is also fascinating, albeit mostly above my head:

https://opensx70.com/posts/2020/11/pneumatics
You can't say they all make mistakes and equate them. How frequent and severe are the incidents? How sophisticated does the attacker have to be to exploit these bugs? After reading all this I'm not inclined to consider Okta.
I kinda did this when i got my steam deck. I mounted my nas to steam deck, added it as a steam storage and moved my games there. It works rather well. No storage required on steam deck. It is slower than playing from SD, but not that bad on smaller games.
is that the same "Office Click-to-Run" that I've had to disable running from start-up 15 times?
Its a common theme used online in posts and memes for years, about voting dates moved, vote by sending text, vote by calling a number, voting places moved, all fake.

He wasn't even the only one to do this joke online, a quick twitter search showed both sides promoting the same fake scenarios. This was also popular genre of meme on facebook.

The case also proved nobody was affected by the joke, and the his joke was censored by twitter. Also twitter didnt remove others jokes using the same voting meme style.

So we have a joke, nobody fell for, nobody should fall for, and somehow, only the Government didn't realize it was a historical common joke....

Saying he was trying to disenfranchise the public, is a real stretch. Jokes with this same genre have been around since the turn of the century.

His account was just a meme account, just like the bee or onion. Saying his post was taken as fact semes unlikely.

They had to use a KKK law about voter intimidation to persecute him, and they referenced his conservative postings and anti-Hillary viewpoint as proof he was a "bad dude".
Wait are you saying that tax incentives can cause transitions in transportation infrastructure and are in fact effective?

Huh. Maybe the US should stop subsidizing the oil industry. Hard to take electric futures seriously when tax dollars are funneled into oil projects constantly.

However I don’t believe the national defense priorities will allows the US to make a similar transition. EVs are not the vehicle of choice in a combat war zone — yet — and that stands in the way of the transitions in ways most of the public does not realize.
US unit cleared to use higher-enriched fuel
I live in another city in the Baltics, and I would not be surprised to see the same results here. The main reasons why would be:

- During the 2010s GDP and real wages of these countries increased a lot. Cars shifted from being a luxury to being a standard - especially for younger people. We have a strong used car market, so cars are cheap to buy and repair here. I paid €3000 for a MPV which is my daily earlier this year.

- Routes and frequency have not changed. It's not like London where there is a bus stop every 100m and maybe in the worse case you need to wait 12 minutes. In my area buses run every 20 minutes at the best of times, and the closest bus stops are 500m apart.

- Public transport and buses are seen by the city as a cost center, not as something that makes the city better, so investment is not forthcoming.

Although we have some brand new buses, most of them are 10+ year old buses bought second hand from Germany. Trolley buses are even worse (as they aren't as transferable as buses). A lot of them are nearly 30 years old. They are slow, uncomfortable and have no working heating during winter.

- To take a bus to my office (central part of the city next to a large shopping mall) I'd need to change 3 times and if everything goes as planned it would take me just over an hour. Compare that to driving where in the best case it takes 15 minutes, or 30 minutes if the traffic is bad.

It's much quicker and much more comfortable to drive. Parking is not an issue as all new office buildings and apartment block have underground parking.
Id love 120Mbps down!

I'm stuck with 100, which is actually closer to 80 most of the time.

I could have 250 if I wanted to more than double my monthly bill, but paying 200$ a month for internet isn't my Jam.
One person cannot kill legislation in the Senate, it takes 51 nay votes.
It’s actually comical that Cloudflare is trying to blame Okta for this. A Cloudflare employee uploaded secrets to Okta’s support tool. That is what caused the breach.
The thread above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958831) elaborates on how to force DNS validation and/or how to tie your private key with Let's Encrypt via DNS.
You could and should discuss on the mailing lists. Agree scheduled transactions are not visible from bindings, and it could be a feature request. If you wanted to so depreciation of assets you could easily do your own calculations via scheme or python.
Surely you’re not suggesting that the company whose CEO denied being compromised for a week or so (before relenting and playing semantics games about whether it was “really” a leak or a hack) _might_ not be real trustworthy about disclosure…
Shooting a hole in a bulletproof vest with a slingshot is not a sign the bulletproof vest is garbage. All shooting a hole in a bulletproof vest with a slingshot means is someone decided to shoot a bulletproof vest with a slingshot and found one or more weak points in the bulletproof vest.

Sounds pretty stupid, right?

Okay, now replace slingshot with tank.

Now it does not sound so stupid.

Turns out you can learn something based on the effort needed to breach a defense.

As it turns out, the entire commercial IT industry is basically incapable of stopping small teams of moderately skilled attackers as has been demonstrated to death. A team with just 1-2 M$ of resources is basically unstoppable even with 100 M$- 1 G$ budgets. That is the definition of gross inadequacy.
AI agent generates reward algorithms to teach robots complex skills
oh man that's a great idea - i wish i could test but I get mine via gamepass not steam.
This, and the apparent need for 4TB+ SSDs for Steam libraries is at odds with how I play games.

I tend to bounce between 2 or 3 AAA games at most before I "finish" and delete them. Maybe I will come back some day, but I certainly don't switch every day to warrant keeping dozens at once or insta installing them, and if its an intricate mod setup or something I just archive it.
Correct, it only handles prevents the basic kind of borked that can be reset with `stty sane` or `stty reset`.
Related:

The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737611 - Nov 2017 (93 comments)
Editing based on the latest script,
Including all unused cut,
Complete reproduction of Sid Mead illustrations
and more.
Blade Runner White Dragon Cut is going to be ver5 !
Editing based on the latest script
Editing based on the latest script

According to Poul Sammon’s book ‘Future Noir’, some changes were made at the editing stage of the film’s production. Among them are the following three points––where the flow of the movie was changed dramatically.

1 From Zhora’s retirement to Deckard and Rachel’s love scene
2 From Deckard and Rachel’s love scene to Sebastian’s apartment
3 Deckard and Roy’s chase scene

In “Blade Runner: White Dragon Cut version 4” (hereinafter referred to as “WDC 4”), 1 and 3 have been reworked as scripted. In “Blade Runner: White Dragon Cut version 5” (hereinafter referred to as “WDC 5”), 2 is further reworked as scripted––aiming for full reproduction of the script dated February 23, 1981.

https://whitedragoncut.com/?page_id=2407&lang=en