skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What court has admitted polygraph test results into evidence? Surely, none in the US.
Oops typo, where I said "filters (sed)" I actually meant "filters (grep)"

Yeah text replacement isn't super common. I do use it every so often, but grep I use probably dozens of time per day
Will be missed.
Who is PBS guy?
Okay, so someone has posted links to mythical urban workshops so that you can attempt to live without a car. So, since I'm so unimaginative, riddle me this Batman, how does one go about getting large materials to/from this workshop?
https://rockpaperscissorslizardsomething.neocities.org/

I had chatgpt make the code for this for me.
> Firefox was the tool they used. They won. It's done. The web is universally standards compliant.

sure, when there's only 2 standards (down from 3 10 years ago. Probably down from 5 20 years ago), it's very easy to be compliant to the standards of 2.

But yeah, sad reality. What I want isn't necessarily what is most profitable. I'm tired of having to care about how much money my tools make to justify/chastise their ability to function.
Oh it's common, just not something you could casually hook up in a residential setting. You'd need access to 480v/3ph service to do this realistically. Moving 100kW at residential voltages to a single device is not happening. Your wires would have to be cartoon-sized.
Was he endangering the lives of others? Was it his first time?
haha, yep, exactly my experience too. And then also the occasional "Go buy this $20 tool that lets you do that by (ab)using accessibility APIs"
Specifically about violence: people make mistakes, and people change, not everything is black and white.

White collar crime/theft and the indirect killing of people through occupational risks (ex black lung from mining), class traitorism (ex being a cop) is a much greater kind of bad than someone who got in a fight or something.
> What percentage of the vulnerabilities discovered are independently discovered by multiple pen testers?

Zero because we patch them as soon as we are notified. Generally at the end of the test / before the retest, but if they found something serious they would notify immediately,
> we negotiated a code escrow agreement with the company.

really curious of the terms of that
The bank is just someone else's money, the grocery store is just someone else's food, the OS is just someone else's code.

I used to use that cloud quip, until I researched what IaaS is and accepted there can be benefits. And note, that quip is usually used for IaaS, not SaaS.

That all said... This seems like a really shitty rugpull by the company.
hyperparameter tuning does already go some of the way towards learning the compute graph, though very constrained and with a lot more training required.
Hard to understand when concepts are used without definition or introduction. The Encoder section just begins without any description of what it is or where is sets in an overall process. I grasp what the author is trying to do, but the post misses basic essay structures such as introducing ideas and explaining them before using them, rending the entire post confusing if one is not already a student and half understands the topic before reading.
As the article notes, they just ended the "CrashPlan for Home" plan and decided not to do B2C marketing, but they remain happy to take money from individuals. At the time I just migrated to "CrashPlan for Business" and paid them $10/mo (because I have a NAS), but thanks to your note I'll be moving to CrashPlay Pro (which is cheaper on a yearly basis).
It would be really nice to add salaries. I remember there was a past effort where people would actually downvote listings that didn't show salaries. Now it's required in California (though plenty don't, including Mistral....). Honestly, it just saves everyone time and helps keep the market open. Maybe we should also restart the pressure? The template should be updated to reflect this (I swore it used to exist). And then allow us to filter by salaries.
I have never used Airplane but have done projects in Retool which is really nice but little on the pricey side since they charge on a per user basis not on a per app basis. Wish they charged on a usage or app model since it makes it really expensive at first.

I know a lot of people using it so i doubt it is going away.
"Your specific workflow" is a myth. A cache designed for "your specific workflow" will be subject to completely unforseen workflows when put into production.
Amazing how Yale hasn't been in the news like Harvard's been.
Great tool!
It would make sense to store the current work start time also in the browser so the work time is not lost in case of closing the tab/window/browser
People frequently rotate CRTs for arcade games. They're fine.
I knew there was more than meets the eye.
woudl love to learn more - what startup was this? why could they not have gone out to market to compete with you instead of letting you whitelabel their product?
> I watched a video once on YouTube about ants and there was a section where they encountered termites and had an all out battle.

Do you have a link?
My major constraint is just that the name must lend itself well to artistic representations and fun mottos/slogans hahaha!

I love these suggestions, especially Moss and Ivy! Thank you!
I don't understand how any tech startup gets any adoption from business users with critical use cases. The risk seems obviously disqualifying.
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> i was/am a fan of the airplane founders but this is so disappointing. what went wrong?

The airplane founders/owners got a big payday. What makes you think that, from their perspective, something went wrong?

> no lessons to pass on to others.

Someone just paid them for all their lessons, why would they give them away for free?
I'm just using it because the alternative is even more hostile towards me. I don't care about the drama, I just want to use an adblocker on all my browsers' devices.

That said, FF mobile is still far from parity with its old version from 3 years ago when it did its big break, so it becomes hard to sympathize when a CEO salary doubles and I'm arguably getting a worse experience despite that.
...I deeply abhor your take.

The fact that you see other people getting on with their lives as something that needs to be wrenched away from them lest they ruin your naturalist fantasy, deeply irks me to no end.
Hi! I'm 60,000 words into a non-fiction travelogue/guide to China for Westerners. It's a narrative story of a 60 day journey, and we also walk through Imperial history, modern culture (music/tv), apps apart from WeChat, and more.

I'm debating going trad/self-publishing route - can I hire the freelance publishing contracts manager for a consultation? My email is mikhael at hey.com
I quite like the licensing trick Nintendo used on the gameboy as an example of this. [0]

Essentially, the gameboy expected a bitmap of the Nintendo logo to be present on the cartridge rom, and was shown on screen at boot. It had to match a version stored on the gameboy itself or else the game wouldn’t start.

The thinking (that I’m not sure was ever tested) was that someone producing a game that tried to trick consumers into thinking it was an official Nintendo product, would be liable for damages in a trademark lawsuit. Since the game would never start without an official Nintendo logo, the hope was to make the legal system enforce Nintendo’s licensing scheme.

[0] https://catskull.net/gameboy-boot-screen-logo.html
Someone on reddit found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18xqea3/niklau...
we solved energy production 70 years ago and we're still in the shitter
The encoding is typically learned, and if possible is part of the ANN so that it can be adjusted along with the other parameters.

A good place to start on that topic is the word2vec paper.
I have a lot of respect for the product and the folks at Airplane. And I (even as a "competitor") find it sad that such a great product is being shut down. My best guess is that they were running out of cash.

This to me is pretty surprising... because it's actually not hard to make a SaaS business profitable. You just have to build a great product, and be disciplined at hiring. It's weird that they seem to have done well on #1, but failed at #2 (which I'd deem the "easier" problem).

RE #2, I've heard they have less than $1M in ARR, but somehow (according to LinkedIn), have 61 employees. We had 4 employees when we were at $1M in ARR (and growing around 700% YoY). Even when we were growing quickly, we hired slowly: IIRC we were at around 30 employees at around $10M ARR. (That's less than half the employees Airplane had... even though we were 10x their revenue.)

When we started Retool, average headcount costs were around $300k / year. So if you have 60 heads burning $300 / year, that's $18M / year. If you only have $1M in ARR, you're burning $17M a year. Ouch! (If you're burning $17M a year, it's not hard to see why a fundraise of $32M would only last you 18 months.)

To me, it's tragic that a great product like Airplane has to shut down. Tragic both for the team, but also for its customers (who have three months to rebuild everything). Building a great product is the hardest part of starting a startup, not "not hiring". I'm hoping that a more challenging fundraising environment will make ~profitable startups more common going forward. (Especially because it shouldn't be that hard to make a SaaS company profitable!)

My sense is that many other startups are going to be going through something similar over the next few years. For example, last I heard, another one of our competitors (with the initials SB) has less than $1M in ARR and has 40+ employees. I feel that the 2020 - 2022 fundraising environment has spawned a bunch of fairly unsustainable businesses — and many of them will shut down in the next year or two. As consumers, it would be wise for all of us to be conservative when it comes to which platforms we choose to build our infrastructure on.
It should be like a credit report. If it's been at least 7 years since your last public criminal record, they should then just fall off your "report," and no longer be visible except to the courts.

It used to be that you could pay your debt, and unless your crime was infamous, the "memory" of it would fade from society rather quickly. The internet and private databases have definitely hampered this facility and perhaps it should just be regulated with the same forthrightness we apply to credit decisions.
Share ComfyUI Workflows as Interactive Apps
most reasonable companies have limits to prevent abuse of that stuff, in the fine print. a professional company like airplane would not let that bankrupt them, this is rookie league
any number of ways? a simple bill of sale from a legal distributor?
btw: Whats the idea behind the 600kb image from unsplash?
Aren't most drivers kernel modules? In theory, the goal to aim for is that Maestro is able to compatibly load C Linux kernel modules. Then, whether or not the driver module is written in C or Rust is orthogonal to which kernel is used.

(Just bs'ing here, haven't written drivers in over a decade. What other complexity am I missing?)
Dune Messiah
Some more early jazz performed by Don Angle:

https://youtu.be/QcsHc7zxsfM

https://youtu.be/ST1zZdNEvy8
There are real integration challenges with the "simple file approach":

- File locking and concurrency
- Atomic writes / moves
- Realtime change observations

> clumsy use of regedit does have a chance of totally borking the entire system.

So does a clumsy rm -rf, which shows up in stories here far more often than stories of people breaking their registry.

Can you provide a recent reference to someone bricking their system with regedit?
How many businesses have the in-house expertise to maintain a defunct codebase? And for how many of those that do is it actually an optimal use of resources?
When I was looking for a job a few months ago, every single application required answering multiple questions about whether I'm Hispanic, and if not, which race I am. Additionally, some employers demand to know my sexual identity AND orientation, which I consider ludicrous and obscene. "Before we can consider your application, we must know who you like to have sex with!"

Ostensibly this is for some kind of reporting and statistics, but I feel bad while answering it every time (about 100+ times last year) and wonder if checking the box that says "prefer not to say" automatically disqualifies me.
This is really good! Thank you for sharing!
This would really be almost as good as room temperature, since it’s firmly within reach of off the shelf cheap refrigeration equipment. It would enable tons of uses like small cheap MRIs, superconducting processors, even superconducting power grids.
I feel for the author. A sudden onset, undiagnosable illness like this is one of the most frightening things one can experience.

One day in February of last year, our perfectly healthy dog just wouldn’t stand up. Blood tests showed abnormally low platelet count. Multiple blood tests, steroid injections, ultrasounds and a bone marrow biopsy later, by process of elimination (no internal bleeds, no tumours), a panel of vets could only speculate, but not diagnose, Immune Mediated Thrombocytopenia. Out of nowhere, his immune system was now attacking his platelets. Luckily, whether it was IMTP or not, we had a simple mediation plan - high dose of steroids. It worked, he became a happy dog again, but the side effects from steroids were brutal; hair loss, diarrhoea and constipation in a never ending cycle, night tremors, sores all over his legs. We would periodically reduce the steroids, but immediately the platelet counts would start dropping, so we would have to increase it back up. Then, roughly 9 months later in October, just like it started, it ended. Out of nowhere, his platelet counts normalized and the illness disappeared.

We still don’t know if it was actually IMTP, or some other immune-mediated illness.

It’s an absolutely terrifying experience to go through. The unknown eats away at you.
I just created a new gmail account to test this - it asked me to create a password (minimum 8 characters, I used lowercase letters and numbers only) and didn't say anything about MFA or passkeys. I'm not going to fact check every other claim since the first one failed so utterly.
I vaguely recall an episode of “Dark Diaries” which was supposedly the guy behind “d3f4ult” as part of some activist hacking group. Dude was convicted of computer hacking crimes and sent to a federal penitentiary.

I believe he ended up being a security consultant or something. So it’s possible.

I think you might find work with smaller companies. HR at most big company will often deny, ignore or ghost you once they pull the background check. Maybe they will look the other way? But likely need to know a few hiring managers that would take the risk of hiring a convicted felon.

Personally, I do know having a felony on record will exclude you from any financial related firms. But honestly, you are not missing out.
That may be true, but i also think its pretty unfair to claim, even just on the internet, that the board is inapropriately setting compensation based on a conflict of interest without some evidence its true or at least some evidence that said compensation is unusual.
The super-expensive ones are bred for outlier traits like being bright red, platinum white, etc. It seems unlikely that ones harvested from the wild could compete.
Those people who lawfully risk violence to serve the public are why you get to have your fantasy that a world without violence is possible.
Another great read by Simon: "The Architecture of Complexity"
I think it really depends. Someone who had an a assault conviction at say 18 and is now 40, is a different situation from someone who very recently assaulted someone (but also how could you expect someone to change if they're never given a chance).

There's also the negative case of someone who has assaulted someone but was never caught, you can't safely eliminate that because there's no record of it.
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LLMs are not a time saver, they are a mind saver. If you struggle to complete your book; if you suffer from blank page syndrome, this video is for you.
puhleeez.
The house has devolved into pure partisan politics regardless of which side of the aisle you are on.
What "reform" do you think would help?

The problem here appears to be that the victim didn't do even a halfway decent job of protecting their RIPE account.

RIPE offers TOTP. TOTP is hardly the best possible security, because it can be phished, but assuming the people using it are competent (and why are your networking team incompetent?) that ought to be adequate. It seems as though Orange didn't bother to enable TOTP and indeed didn't even set a decent password.
> You just have to build a great product [1],

sarcasm or is there a missing reference somewhere?
I went back and looked up the event. Rostelecom has been behind a few of these. I might be conflating two of them.

In 2017, Rostelecom grabbed financial & other network data for a few minutes.
https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/rostelecom-route-leak-targ...

In 2020 Rostelecom announced lots of networks they didn't own and got that traffic for an hour. Early analysis felt it was accidental. Not sure about later analysis.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789754

But 2 months ago, Rostelecom grabbed a chunk of Apple's network (which I missed)
https://cybernews.com/apple-network-traffic-went-through-rus...
Thanks! This looks like a really good summary of options.
I think the Airplane Linkedin is overrun by people who say they work on an Airplane (the word not the company) :) It looks like they only had ~20 employees so not a super large team.
Throwaway because I worked there:

Re the 1-2b tweet, two important numbers (2023 ARR, and hence growth rate) are wildly off.

The tweeter runs cbinsights, and then quotes cbinsights in the tweet. Super wried.
The first region to somehow effectively ban any access to Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and social media for people under the age of 21 will raise the first generation of young people to rule over the rest of the world's social media addicted hoi polloi.

Having a permanent public visual record of "growing up" isn't going to help people as much as their parents seem to think it will and the only viable leaders, politicians, Justices, etc. will come from this hypothetical region.
I use Chroma Doze

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.pmarks.chromadoze/
Great question. No changes to requirements that I'm aware of when legally changing your name, but that's not the step I'm talking about...the exploitable mechanic here is in socially-engineering the hiring manager.

Two approaches:

The more confusing you make the results of your background check, the less apparent relevance the criminal conviction for Jimmy Deere will have for Jane Doe. The hiring manager isn't the county clerk or a private investigator. He doesn't have time to unfuck your fuckary.

So when changing your name, pick one from the local obituaries or the name of a former resident of your home. Even better is if you share a name with another known criminal. Your background check will "erroneously" include information about a random dude named Jimmy with a criminal conviction, suggest you are currently incarcerated for manslaughter and DUI, and that you died last year at age 89, but you also died a decade ago at 72. With any luck, he'll distrust the results enough to hire you.

The other course I've seen is the squeaky-clean route. Adopt the name of an overseas CEO who works in the same industry you do. Then act like an expert in that field without ever explicitly claiming to be that person. It sounds insane. It fucking works. Any negative data will be glossed over by all the positive sentiment associated with your "victim." (Just don't attend the same trade shows!)

The yarn-graphing I had to do to disambiguate one individual's skinwalked identities had my colleagues calling me Pepe Silvia for months. The guy was using disparate sets of foreign-and-domestically-issued papers to establish toy companies all over the place and at one point "adopted" the identity and address of his onetime AirBNB host, who himself was a retired industry executive. It was the wildest case I've ever worked.

Synthetic identity fraud: fun for everyone!
I feel this stuff will be obsolete in a year
Looks like I'll be staying on Bash! It somewhat amuses me that we don't seem to have done better than it in all these years—but I also take a lot of comfort in that. With that said, it still gets updates! So, it can and is still improved. :- )

Hard to compete with such a mature offering.
Well, the new certificate shows up, but so what? CT logs aren't like "Barry Shitpeas got a certificate for hugecorp.example" they just tell you what was issued, not why, not who in any useful sense was issued it, and they take up to 24 hours to do that.

What is the overlap between the set of people who think "pass1234" is a good password and the set of people who have great oversight of their cert issuance and would flag unexpected issuances ? I'd expect it to be approximately empty.
as the size of the document grows to infinity.

Therein lies the problem.

Also the fact that it would need to be constrained to 7-bit ASCII only, and on top of that be "valid" in its natural language. It's a neat trick to make two documents look completely different with the same hash, but looking at the techniques which are required, they all rely on a binary file format and copious amounts of data which are effectively "hidden" --- all of which do not apply to a text file.
You are speaking orthogonally to the topic you replied to. The parent wants sandboxing between different programs so that one cannot read another’s data without explicit configuration and consent.
Lately I have been more interested in rust. Similar trade offs but “fearless concurrency”, access to low level APIs, and no garbage collector sold it for me.
The thinking was tested (in U.S. jurisdiction) in Sega v. Accolade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

The court sensibly ruled that using technical means to force competitors to display your trademark against their will doesn’t mean you can then claim they’re infringing that trademark.
This is worse than the Japanese cartoons that people claimed made them convulse. When they paint ships like this, they call it Dazzle Camouflage because it is so hard to focus on. It's literally a military tactic meant to mess with your vision.

We even know that from how zebras survive as long as they do with all their hungry predators circling about.

Greyscale is better. I can't imagine how this is an improvement.

I'm colourblind, and this visual tweak is horrific.
Sorry, forgot to write the footnote so just removed it. Agreed that building a great product and finding PMF is hard. But "not hiring" shouldn't be!

(So yes, I suppose the comment was tongue in cheek, haha.)
Took me a good minute to figure this out, I kept thinking it was some kind of anti-Apple joke I wasn't understanding.
> You can't remove parking in isolation, I genuinely wish you could. You have to fix the reason people want it in the first place.

This is both blindingly obvious and incredibly frequently overlooked.

Here's the 5-step plan for improving our city:

1. Remove parking spots.
2-5. We'll figure it out later; I promise.