skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even so, Dugin is a civilian in this conflict. He is a propagandist, not a military leader or combatant.
You can still get a Sony Xperia flagship with a headphone jack and SD card support. I've got one, it's pretty good.
It is fatal in the worldly realm of growth and profit, but in the arts it is elixir vitae.
The sad part though is the acceptance and complacency around the power of these platforms. People have grown up with their favourite platforms and are becoming thoroughly subservient.
How to Use HTTPBin for Web Scraping in Python
During the pandemic I got back to an old hobby, creating Half-Life levels. I found that certain things involved a lot of repetitive work, so I started working on some automation tools.

For textures and sprites, I made WadMaker and SpriteMaker, which can convert a directory full of images (including Photoshop and Krita files) to the specific formats that HL uses: https://github.com/pwitvoet/wadmaker/

For creating levels, I made an automation tool named MESS (Macro Entity Scripting System) that can do things like covering terrain with props, simplifying level scripting and automatically applying workarounds for known bugs: https://pwitvoet.github.io/mess/

It's been very educational (and fun), learning about color, geometry and making programming languages.
Help: FB closed account of dog rescue volunteer
Hi folks, an acquaintance of mine works (like, 100% of their free time) with stray and abused dogs. They use their Facebook account extensively to find homes for the dogs and other help. Unfortunately their account was closed and they’ve been unable to recover it. They were in the middle of arranging an adoption when the account was closed, they’re desperate. If anybody is at Meta who might be able to help, please reach out to me: dhconnelly@gmail.com. Thank you!
There's a spectrum between banning everything that can potentially get content about Alex Jones when the user searches for him explicitly, and banning apps which actively promote Alex Jones. You're bringing up an extreme idea which is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
I did read it, I’m just not sure what are you suggesting? A law obligating everyone who publishes their apps to any app store to also provide an .apk?
A monitoring/configuration system for the various mixed Windows/Linux/MikroTik/Cisco environments I manage. It's absolutely re-inventing the wheel, but since I could just not find anything existing that really worked for me (heh!), I'm now dragging that particular millstone along as well.

It mostly connects to hosts over SSH, and uses CLI commands to gather data and make configuration changes as needed. Think things like NMVe storage health, disk space usage, Windows AD/Exchange/SQL/VSS health, Docker containers, reverse proxy mappings, Netflows hinting at BitTorrent or other data exfiltration, finding a MAC on a port, configuring VLAN access for a port/trunk, Wireguard tunnels, etc.

It's absolutely horrible, code-wise, since I tend to use this project to experiment with just about anything I think of. Current rewrite is about 2 years old, C#/.NET 5->8, UI using Tailwind and htmx, plus chartjs for the pretty pictures, although I have some custom rendering things for switch ports and traffic. Data store is SQLite, with some hacked-on time series features, and this is probably the most terrifying part of the whole mess, since I explored some really bad ideas there. But that also lead to some very good stuff for other projects, so possibly still a net win.
I'm sure there was some bias here. Interestingly, Poland scored much higher despite also having a relatively negative mindset in its culture as well.
And occupies your USB-C port, which you might want to use at the same time for charging while listening to music(I do while I'm in bed, I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this).

My biggest issue with it is that it's been sold to us on a lie - the whole nonsense about "reclaiming the space" - it's BS. There is space for it in nearly every phone on the market.
It's a welcome change, especially the time-lock is something that I always thought about. SMS and EMail as 2FA are dead when someone can unlock your phone.

Still though, why don't iPhone owners use face unlock? Is it not good?
I don’t disagree with you, but always think the “they’re just predicting the next token” argument is kind of missing the magic for the sideshow.

Yes they do, but in order to do that, LLMs soak up the statistical regularities of just about every sentence ever written across a wide swath of languages, and from that infer underlying concepts common to all languages, which in turn, if you subscribe at least partially to the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis, means LLMs do encode concepts of human cognition.

Predicting the next token is simply a task that requires an LLM to find and learn these structural elements of our language and hence thought, and thus serves as a good error function to train the underlying network. But it’s a red herring when discussing what LLMs actually do.
Do they really? Most recent cars I've seen have a touchscreen LCD popping up out of the dash and it all looks rather custom. Are there some kind of standards like double-DIN?
At the very least pharmacies should be prevented from selling anything as medicine that isn't backed by proper science. Pharmacies should be trustworthy establishments, by selling this garbage they are as complicit in this whole scam as the manufacturers.

And although placebo is a scientifically proven effect, it is not a label for quackery to hide behind.
He could have had his fill of clowns for the price of a circus ticket.
> Just because Hamas doesn't care about Gazans doesn't mean that Israel is giving them a reasonable opportunity to thrive, though.

Yes and no. Israel definitely hasn't had clean hands these last 15 years, but on the other hand it did withdraw from Gaza and leave it to themselves to manage. They really, really could've tried to better themselves, the area, etc, and instead chose to continue pursuing violence (via electing Hamas), which led to them being blockaded etc.

Don't forget, Israel was allowing more and more Gazan citizens to enter Israel to work. There are terrible stories (I don't know for sure if these are verified though) that many Gazan workers, who worked for years in the cities surrounding Gaza, actually gave information to Hamas to help them carry out the attack.

> That's without mentioning the settler colonialism debacle, which is not as one-sided as some people claim but still an injustice to Palestinians.

Yes, there's definitely at least some merit to this.

But that's true of almost every country. All of them have complicated histories. How many countries were newly created since WW2?

Only in this one case, a group that arguably got a bad deal (and it is arguable), is still clinging to violence and the idea that they'll "return" 75 years later.
The actual paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi0505
> This is a very marginal issue, folks need to calm down.

Is it? Why do we need to visually see, basically permanently, a ring or string of lights in the sky, unwittingly, just because of some billionaire?

> You can predict where the satellites are going to be and avoid them.

That doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter if you know where they're at if they're in your way. Telescope time is extremely precious and expensive. Not to mention, these megaconstellations have basically permanently increased the background noise in various spectrums. Not all astronomy uses the visual spectrum.

> They're not even a problem for large portions of the night and sky at all because there's very little light for them to reflect.

That's not true. You can see them with your own eyes.

Your eyes can roll all they want. It doesn't make the problem go away.
Off-Topic:

It's debatable whether for most English speakers the "The" in "The Ukraine" really carries the implications discussed in [1], but nonetheless it's a linguistic tic that should probably be dispensed with.

https://theconversation.com/its-ukraine-not-the-ukraine-here...
Their reputation is terrible. They've picked a side, long ago, and have been continuously working PR for it.
Lovely stuff, I haven't seen one of this series for a few years, look forward to watching this later.
It seems to be all about shock value. Just like the algorithms, it's all about the attention, it doesn't matter if it's cheers or disgust.
I think we know enough to say it's disproportionate. 15,000+ dead in Gaza, many more wounded.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestini...

Also remember the Israel had (has?) a policy of responding disproportionately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
You're right, they are being driven by their limo drivers.
For this type of operation I think asking about the material cost isn't very useful considering how vertically integrated they are. They're still paying the workforce whether the test happens or anything is built. The input raw material is pretty close to "free" as it comes in as giant rolls of sheet steel.

I think the issue you seem to be missing is that the marginal cost of materials that go into building a rocket is very low. The fuel cost is similarly a small percentage of the cost of building a rocket. The cost comes from the large workforce required and the low flight rate.
> In the case of operating systems, do you think 10 or so years of support is not enough?

Yes, I do think that is not enough. An OS should be thought of as scaffolding where parts of it are replaced but never the whole. And preferably while it is running, including all of the core.
15 minutes to migrate a large DB? It takes days just to run an alter column on our DB.
Twitter was relevant, X is passé.
Yea there is no surprise that those traumatized people will seek revenge in their later years I'd do the same. The cycle of violence continues
The fundamental problem is accumulation and correlation of, for lack of a better term, “public private data”.

Phone records, credit card statements, toll road data, cell tower data, etc. is not “our” data, it’s the assorted companies data. It just happens to be directly related to private activities even if in public places.

So authorities route around principles of privacy and such by engaging in entities who are not us. There’s nothing stopping authorities from talking to a neighbor. “Did you see anything? Were they home last night?”

“Oh, you’re a delivery person, did you deliver something to that house? Do you know what it was? Can you describe who answered the door? What time was that?”

Technically, that’s what the investigators are doing. No different from long standing investigation techniques.

The problem is scope, volume, ease of access, detail of the data, and, most important, how long it’s kept. Wouldn’t surprise me if the phone companies have my travel history for the past several years.

The concentration, resolution, and time span of the data makes the “Enemy of the State” movie more and more real. But it’s all using fundamental investigative techniques, policies, precedents and such that police services have been using for 100 years. It’s just cranked up way past 11. Those old court rulings and such, and concepts about what privacy means today need to change, or we’ll never be able to leave our houses.
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Communication theory of secrecy systems (1949)
> Not to mention the "blockade" is in fact Israel closing its own borders and Gaza has a third border with another country (Egypt).

Gaza has sea access, but Israel doesn't allow any ship to dock into Gaza or leave Gaza - this is blockading Gaza's own sea borders, not closing Israel's. Egypt's border with Gaza is also controlled by Israel through a treaty - Egypt can't unilaterally open its border to Gaza without breaking its treaties with Israel.
https://codeberg.org/AdamWysokinski/NeuroAnalyzer.jl
Neurophysiological data analysis with Julia (https://neuroanalyzer.org)
And I don't like the idea of a pen or a notebook company giving themselves editorial power over what people write in those notebook, which is basically what happens now.

I'm disgusted at how we transform such fantastic things as personal computer and turn them into such limited object.
The most charitable explanation I heard was that homeopathy was developed in an era when insanely toxic substances like mercury salts were regularly used as medicine.

Someone noticed that using “less concentrated medicine” resulted in healthier patients. Then obviously even less concentrated medicine “worked” better, and so on…

You can easily see how a simple logical extrapolation from there would result in ardent believers of homeopathy.

(To make matters worse:
Simply hydrating patients with water is a fairly effective treatment all by itself!)
It was my understanding that a deal with Saudi Arabia would have pushed Israel to a more peaceful solution (see https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141302 and others. note the date) like abandoning settlements and such. Hamas would loose it's foothold with some Palestinians in that case.

> Could it be both? Hamas did something horrible. Murdering civilians isn't justified (why do I need to type that?) but history didn't start that day.

You don't. But I typically don't write a whole disclaimer about such trivial things. What I will say though: Hamas uses civilians as protective shields, hides under hospitals etc. to generate outrage. And you can see it working pretty well. Or shooting rockets from the rooftops of civilian's houses. I don't envy Israel: either shoot civilians or loose your own in rocket attacks. There just is no right here, but one plan of action to me looks less wrong than the other.

Talking about history, I don't understand the whole fuzz about this anyway. Jews have been there for thousands of years. There's even a Quran sunna about "allah promised the children of noah the holy land" (or something like that). You'd think that makes it clearer. To me it feels like the deeply entrenched antisemitism of the middle east is just blind rage.

/e: I really liked this video about the history btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN4mnVLP0rU
I don't think this is really down to people understanding what a computer is, but more down to how humans interact with nonhumans. We anthropomorphize animals and objects all the time. A computer program is ultimately a (complicated) object, that we often give all sorts of human trappings, like a human voice that expresses things in human languages.

If you can take pity on the final, dented avocado at the shops because it looks "sad", you will for sure end up calling Alexa 'she'. Avocados can't be sad, but they can look sad /to humans/, and a machine can't really have a gender or be polite in the human sense, but it can definitely sound like a polite lady.

I think humans will just fundamentally relate to anything they perceive socially as another human, even if we know full well they aren't human. Probably it's a lot less work for a human brain, than it is to try to engage with the true essence of being an avocado or an Alexa.
Or ever.

Not that it’s a fair comparison modern medicine and some (even on a minimal level) access to healthcare means that the majority of people who are alive now would’ve been dead.

Of course that’s certainly not the only thing.
Thanks for the reply!

>As always it is helpful to remember as well that NSA's mission is to secure budget for NSA, full stop.

Sure, let's focus on an intelligence agency with budget constraints, Russia's GRU perhaps.

You claim that bug chains are "ludicrously cheap". Is cheap the same thing as abundant? If you had to guess, how many distinct zero-click exploit chains do does the GRU have for e.g. an iPhone in lockdown mode? Order of magnitude: do they have 1? 10? 100? 1000?

Zerodium pays up to 2M for "Full Chain with Persistence" for iOS: https://www.zerodium.com/program.html I don't think a low price relative to utility lets us conclude that such exploits are abundant. There's asymmetrical information in this market: buyers don't know the quality/novelty of what sellers have discovered, and sellers don't know how badly buyers need what they have to sell. It seems plausible to me that a savvy seller could negotiate a significantly higher price, similar to how tech workers are often able to negotiate significantly higher compensation -- especially if they were somehow able to prove that they weren't just replicating an exploit the broker already had in their inventory. I also suspect there is significant buying power on the buyer side which keeps acquisition prices low (hard to play buyers against each other, given low number of buyers who coordinate with each other).

In any case, I think this is the wrong question in a certain sense. The right question is about the relative cost of buying exploits vs developing in-house. I don't see why picking up the bug from email is hard or expensive. If the GRU is already running a program like XKEYSCORE, which seems likely, it could just be a matter of adding a few filtering rules for emails that go to select security@ email addresses. Have a GRU engineer monitor those emails, and see if any proof-of-concept work in the email can be quickly integrated into existing malware, in order to attack a target considered too low-value for the GRU's crown jewel exploits.

The real question is about the salary of that GRU engineer vs the cost of purchasing exploits. If the GRU engineer gets paid $100K, and a fresh exploit costs $500K, employing the GRU engineer to harvest a few temporary, expendable exploits a year looks quite favorable. I don't think the price/utility ratio of exploits from brokers affects the decision, since that price/utility ratio argument also works for exploits harvested+developed in-house.

Neither of us really knows what's going on in intelligence agencies, but my story seems about as plausible as yours. Given that simply using a Google Form for bug disclosures would be an easy and dramatic improvement on the status quo, I'm left with the sense that there is a lot of dysfunctional cargo-culting going on in the security world.

Looking forward to your response!
My new Kobo refused to start out of the box, without making an account. Very disappointing.
As if Ukraine really was an existential threat to Russia.
You're not wrong about that. It's still not the reason for this dispute. See my other comments.
“Crypto solves this”

Does it? Transaction times and transaction fees on some of the more well-known cryptocurrencies would seem to exclude them entirely.

There’s no particular reason that it has to be a decentralised cryptocurrency that operates in the manner required - preloading a few bucks here and there, which are transferred between accounts in small amounts.

As with many things that “crypto” solves, it is neither necessary nor sufficient. Some cryptocurrencies could form part of a solution. It’s not clear they bring any specific advantages to the table though.
Possibly. But only for a small minority.
The decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
> putting the iPhone maker's policy in line with rival Google

So while Apple touted privacy as a core feature, it opened a firehose of private data – something the other part of the phone duopoly, Google, hasn't done.

At least their marketing works.
Things that are super time sensitive should never have distractions present. The Uber app trying to get me to buy cold upside down delivery food while I'm trying to get a ride is a terrible UX. Another example is Waze, the once most amazing map app ever made until bought by Google, has Jack n the Box ads (ok yeah I'm eating jack n the box right now, who cares!) overlaying my fkking map while I'm driving.
Apple routes all of them. Company sends message to Apple. Apple sends the message to your phone. App on phone delivers the message to you.
Huh never knew that was their plan, such a shame Hurd isn't completed! I wonder if such a vision could be possible with a simpler os like FreeRTOS or similar
Implementation differences are certainly a part, but people do interpret them differently.

For example, I'm working on an application that is transitioning some of our stateful navigation to be more stateless to hopefully address some end-user confusion. We have an overlapping hierarchy where many objects have multiple parents, and the same object would display different breadcrumbs depending on which path someone took to the object. This made people confused about whether they were looking at the same object.
The first puzzle is mostly a sanity check/demo. The UI confused me a bit, but it seems you need to click on the 'Week' on top, and not the challenges on the right.
> Something like ProxMox that has no third party support, no veeam support, limited automation tooling, limited support for commerical monitoring (like PRTG) etc etc is probally a non-starter unless those things support it.

Proxmox VE has an extensive REST API with API tokens and an access control system to allow for safe automation.
There are also Terraform providers and Ansible modules for those that do not want to use the API directly, or use those automation tools already.

There's also Proxmox Backup Server that can handle guest-level backups as good as Veeam can, but yes, the agents and application level backups is still not there, but most of those are unrelated to the outer hypervisor, so one can still use their preferred backup solution for those parts just fine.

Central monitoring is possible through the external metric server integration.

Further third-party integration is a natural chicken-and-egg issue.
For a lot of third party integrations you might just need to ask the vendor of said third party if they can support Proxmox VE, as long as they receive no inquiries as admins won't even ask if it would be possible, they have no incentive to add support for anything.

But it's getting better, and more eggs are hatching.

> It would cost us far far far far more than 3x licensing increases to git rid vmware. Broadcom knows this.

The migrations I saw in our enterprise support had way lower cost. IMO 3x the cost would need some heavily specialized workload (which IME fewer admins actually really have than they might think) and/or admins that are just heavily against any change (as yes, they must relearn how to do some things, there are training courses for a few thousand bucks that cover the whole stack though) or having an anti-FOSS/Linux'ish mindset. I.e., come to us with so many prejudices that it's hard to make them realize that, while there are surely things that can improve, that just the same on the other side of the "pasture", but overall the grass is quite green enough for most use cases already.
CoCo had a UK clone made called the Dragon 32, which under the hood actually shipped with 64K ram, some careful tweaking and copying of the ROM to it's own spot allowed you to switch that upper 32K on and suddenly your ROM was RAM which meant you could extend the basic interpreter. Oh and you could also double the clock with a single poke 65495,0 .
> EGS does not give you benefits if you choose to publish an Unreal game on EGS

This is false. If you sell a UE game in Epic's store they don't charge the engine licensing fee.
> We've wound up being far more taxed than we were before.

While also receiving a lot more (sometime massively more) services from the state.
masks? sunglasses? etc

But also the phone locks back to requiring a passcode with enough failed attempts, so presumably people stealing them know how to induce recognition failure.
In my case, it was either from Kazakhstan or the US.
Every time I've paid with crypto, the fees I've paid to Coinbase and the network have been massive.