skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO what is surprising about this is that the service didn't already have DDOS protection of some sort (or did it?) It's been a pretty standard practice to add that to any public-facing service for a decade or two now, hasn't it? Cloudflare is free/cheap for smaller services and there are many other options too.

I'd just assume that any service is going to get randomly DDOSed soon after launch, even without any sort of blackmail/targeted attack. Even if you can figure out who did it, there's pretty much no chance of chasing them down.

My takeaway from this wouldn't be "this shouldn't be possible" but "this has been commonplace for decades, and will keep happening, and we should prepare for the next one".

It doesn't really matter whether it's some corrupt local agency or some script kiddie... half the world's connected, on various shitty devices, and DDOSes are gonna keep happening.
It looks like the method you used has a lot in common with a finite elements analysis. At least the simple version of it that structural engineers use in software like sap2000 and RISA. Do you think it would work if the matrix in the equation were a lot bigger?
Given that our other principal source of extant stoic writing is from a former slave, Epictetus, I’m inclined to agree that the criticism is baseless.
> I agree, but wouldn't there be problems with the speed and cost in electricity

It's either that or it's vulnerable to 50%+1 attacks.
Ahh, you want to kill some content, aye? Lets see, which hatchet will work best - can't immediately find flaws in the logic, so that one's out; same deal with the math. Let's look broader - let's just say, ah, this content may be sensible, useful, it may even be accurate, but we'll just accuse it of poor tone - specifically we'll kinda gesture at workplace norms and say that it's unemployable (why not add in a bit of implied ad hominem to spice things up?) That'll do the trick~
Title should be: " My AI Timelines haven't sped up, but now I think there's a 10% chance of AI dominance in 5 years"

His AI timelines haven't sped up, only clarified
If Southwest will have to make One Big Decision on its next generation, Airbus could have a reasonable shot at it eh.
why chase still does 0% for saving and checking,which forces me to transfer most of my money to fidelity
Yep. It is a pretty useless device if you cannot hold it in your hand and unlock it. So for example, when I ride my bike I can pause the music or receive a call and not much else.
That's still not very adequate comparison.

Musk has been promising self driving for... what 10 years now?

Hyping a working tool like Mathematica that will bring a revolution is a vague hope rather than a concrete promise of outcome.
Would it be more efficient to use solar thermal for some of the desalination instead of $10b worth or regular solar?
This is pretty amusing but unsurprising. I thought it could be a troll because I think it's a hijacked listing (go look at the seller feedback), but if you search the sorry but I cannot part, you find a bunch of listings.

https://www.amazon.com/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%...
Verbosity ≠ Value. Disconnect between pricing and customer value in LLM's
Compare it how?

Isn't Citi as different from Chase bank as Microsoft is from Google?

Sure - they are both "financial" companies just like Microsoft and Google are both "tech" companies.
is it? Venmo seems to work just fine
YES. (if not, please kill it)
My CSS Resets
That's an odd one. Not seen that. Lots of aggravating little quirks, though. Annoyingly so many of them would be trivially addressable by users if we just had a way of adding simple rules.

E.g. "this request on this device refers to X", or more generally "when you hear X it probably means Y".

As an alternative, I've spent more time than I should passive-aggressively repeating the same instruction and then flagging every single failure in the app. I have no idea if it makes any difference, or if the things I've done that with that have improved were due to general improvements to their voice recognition, but it gives me some limited satisfaction (I now wonder what the financial tradeoff is of fixing the reported issues vs. any benefit potentially gained by just having the reporting function but sending it straight to the bin to make people feel like they're being heard...)

One of my goals for this year is to experiment with HomeAssistant or similar to at least start to replace or supplement my Alexas.
Aside from supporters of popular political movement?
Note they have a new fee schedule, this would cost $500 in the fee to sell, and IPs are going for $48-$52 right now:

https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/
Wait, I thought Duo was now Gmail meet?

Even Google product teams can't keep track of Google product changes. This one happened a year ago!?
> Asking to take certain actions by voice, such as send a payment, make a reservation, or post to social media. You can still ask Assistant to open your installed apps.

This seems to imply that apps which feature 'app actions' would no longer work properly and will need to be opened via assistant separately...

Sounds like a major regression for those scenarios with needing to issue a separate command to open an app.
Got excited for a second, but no iCloud integration. They support CalDAV with app-only passwords. Good luck, though! Looks handy
I agree. There is none so blind as those who will not see.
Oh I wasn't talking down about JPM. I actually worked there for a few in the Private Banking space (as a Software Engineer). Great bank, but they also have has the wind at their back in certain situations (being gifted First Republic in the latest regional banking crisis. FR just had a liquidity crisis. Functionally it was fine. JPM got a steal).

Citi on the other hand hasn't had those options/gifts... largely because of prior mismanagement. I think they're only up 10% in the last 10 years or something crazy like that.
Amazon check out allows badges instead of biometrics
It might be time for a mutually-assured destruction lobby/guild.

In this case, when a company like Unity bans this VLC project for using LGPL software, the guild would open individual lawsuits against them to remove each of the other projects using LGPL code, based on various legal precedents around discrimination. Which would make it untenable to single out projects like this.

This is a negative or low-vibration idea, I realize. Which is actually my point. If a policy causes one to go down these anger/fear/ego-based rabbit holes, then something is suspect with it. This is the litmus test I use.

Somewhere along the way, we lost the wisdom or will to understand the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. And we sold our souls when we allowed wealth and power to override our discernment of right and wrong.

If Unity wants to step into its power, it can start by abandoning knee-jerk policies designed to protect itself from liability against stupid laws. It can start saving a war chest to go to bat against patent/copyright/trademark trolls for the rest of us and protect the projects within its ecosystem instead of throwing its contributors under the bus. It can set an example for other large companies to follow so that we can eventually reform the system.

But whatever all this malarky is has got to stop.

I really want to like Unity for how it aligns with my goals as a shareware game developer in my formative years and a lot of other reasons, but they make it very hard to do so.
Can't find the referenced blog post, but find it surprising that Amazon is allowing badges in its checkout instead of biometrics (the whole point of their 'just walk out' check out experience).
Derivatives would make what youre talking about not work. Or lead to very convoluted rules which is bad.
You could also just buy VUSXX (or similar) through chase.
I'm not a moderator so you have no obligation to listen to me, but I'll make a request none the less: please consider only commenting when you've something to say that adds to the conversation in some way. The HN guidelines are pretty good at steering people towards contributing in positive rather than negative ways: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That webpage does not explain how to get it. Instead, I recommend using gorilla-cli [0].

[0] https://github.com/gorilla-llm/gorilla-cli
guarantee you it's going to turn into shady money laundering in < 1 year.

hell, wouldn't surprise me if that was the goal.
Boring, but at my last company, we got a /22 so we could run authoritative DNS on four separate /24s.

Maybe something something anycast in general.

Also, you don't really need a /22 for it, but maybe you can collect data on how much of the internet can't connect to hosts on .0 or .255 addresses. (Some firewalls block access to those as a misguided attempt to reduce smurfing.)

I have some ideas for path mtu testing where you'd setup a different IP for each MTU from 576 to 1500. It's overkill, but you could do it with a /22.
I’m not sure why you assume he should have known or a good manager would have known. If you made a list from scratch of the most important things for the Cloudflare CEO to keep track of, would the HR script in layoff calls even make the top 100?

I‘ve also seen bigger things than this change with one stomp of a CEO’s foot.
This generation of CEOs will go into the history books as the worst.
The wind is probably less likely to run out like the oil rig did.
TBH all Classic voixe assistants are terrible, they should be replaced with any of the mainstream LLM models we have.
I have had that thought, being aware of some back and forth in votes. But in the end it might tend towards - I had 100 upvotes, those downvoters are just idiots. Not sure what else it really adds.
They are probably statistically some of the lesser used features and since there were layoffs in Assistant ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224 ) they are probably looking to shrink the codebase being maintained.

Assistant has trained our household into thinking that its pretty limited in what it can do so everyone in our home only uses it for basic things. Since Google's assistant can't accomplish more than most basic tasks people don't use more than the basic tasks. No one wants to learn the appropriate subset of English to speak the Google assistant dialect. You really need the voice assistants to be reliable and basic or extremely capable. There is no real middle ground here for most users.

Hopefully once LLMs get more integrated with voice assistants we will move more towards the extremely capable side of the spectrum.
I like how when I first opened the link, App Store said I need iOS 17.1 or greater.

So I updated to 17.2.

And only then does App Store let me know that it’s not compatible with this device anyway.

Thanks, Apple!

(I have an iPhone 14 Pro.)
> The Post Office also paid independent people to figure out where the problem is, and the answer was "Horizon is garbage, you can't rely on it". So, they fired those people.

A UK tradition!

> In 2009, the government came under fire when ACMD [Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs] chair David Nutt of Imperial College London was sacked for questioning government drug policy in public

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/little-has-changed-in-uk...
So somebody may or may not have made a claim?
Got my Razer Core X (arch linux cuda was already installed as i have in my T14 a NVIDIA GeForce MX450) so far it works pretty well, thunderbold cable in set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 and have a lot more cuda cores ... yay. I use it with my spare 1070ti but will add my 3090 soon.
Rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa is producing rising amounts of methane
It says you can only add new events now and not reschedule...does that mean when Assistant gets the info wrong for the event I'll have to go in and manually change it? It screws up constantly, so it sounds like a headache
Because of BigMac index?
I flew on an Alaska branded Embraer craft a few days ago. Do you mean only those operated directly by Alaska? I think mine was operated by Sky West.
Modeling Beats and Downbeats with a Time-Frequency Transformer
Right, I think this is a nothingburger - they 'depend' in the sense of leaving it up to Unity to honor a defined set of responsibilities on their side of a relationship. I think there was no need to get into whether this posed any sort of existential threat to VLC.
> But I also annoy myself as a user when I can't remember what the syntax options are for the CLI that I coded so I end up having to open the source code and re-examine the argc and argv sections to see what the spelling or ordering is. If this happens often enough, I give in and expend the extra effort rewrite the utility as a GUI app with radio buttons, checkboxes, etc.

Why are you not implementing -h & --help?
This is the problem with the anti-h2 crowd. It's almost all based upon lack of understanding.

One person in this thread, was talking about cars, with no knowledge or understand that 3 separate manufacturers have h2 products on the market. Not 3 cars. 3 manufacturers. Another was discussing things as if it's an insurmountable task, that having h2 in cars is "really hard", yet these cars are being sold and used all over the world, with loads of adoption in Japan.

People make up weird claims about efficiency. About storage. About where h2 comes from. On and on and on. It's so ... absurd.

This isn't a 'my team your team' thing, yet it seems like, especially americans, are wired this way. "It's not thing $x, thus evil! wrong!! We must, absolutely must destroy any hope of this other thing existing.

h2 is the future for many application and usage spaces, and I can see batteries the same way too. It's not either or, and made up claims won't help the green movement at all.
For fck's sake, please stop using this font. I know Apple started the trend but even they went back to sane alternatives. The narrow lines of this font are a torture to the eyes.
Same here, even after scrolling pretty far (on For you) if I click to open a post(?) and then the "left arrow" to go back to the feed my position is usually the same.
It’s also barely clarified and has a ton of false precision problems, which I’d expect a researcher who works in the field not to have. Why 10% vs 20% or 15%, no real reason, just vibes, but it gets clicks.
Is 20 people per company a lot? It's not just a person and some software.

Robokiller for example is a paid service with a business division. You're talking developers, sales teams, support, and everything else that goes with it.
> Taxation and spending aren't inherently bad

I mean, they kind of are. Tax-and-spend policies inherently centralize and politicize decision making for matters that are better off in the decentralized hands of civil society, and create perverse incentives that usually lead to both waste and bad policy.

For some questions, there might not be viable alternatives, so we might be stuck with tax-and-spend, but that doesn't make its own defects disappear, it just means we need to deal with those defects.
Reminds me of how NPR is always like "yup the dow was super gnarly today bro, now over to Steve so we can get an update on our best-video-games-of-the-year report" and it makes me grimace. Then I think maybe I'm getting old, but then I think, no dammit, this is just dumb, and it's probably ok for me to expect a little more professionalism from journalists. The news shouldn't need to sound like a twitch streamer, and words from our best and brightest like Aurelius shouldn't need this kind of obnoxious paraphrase either. In the end a work is relevant or it is not.. giving the work some unnecessary "update" to attempt to become/remain relevant just seems unasked for, and silly, and desperate.
Follow up question: How much effort, money and skill would the project of creating a video like this take if you allow yourself the use of AI*, vs if you forbid it.

It's hard to define precisely what "use of AI" is. Generating images with midjourney/stable diffusion would count (even if you edit them), having AI-generated code that's executed by the server of a SaaS you use wouldn't.
Apart from whether the economics make sense brine disposal from desalinization is a big issue. Waste with high salt concentrations can wipe out marine life - it would be nice if this piece took the issue a little more seriously. It's a continuing problem in the Canary Islands which are dependent on desalinization plants:

"Rejected brine is a serious threat to marine ecosystems, causing negative effects on both flora and fauna. This is especially so when the optimal initial high dilution capacity is lacking in the discharge system. Consequently, brine discharge plumes spread over large areas of the sea floor and modify the structure and distribution of benthic communities such as seagrass habitats.
...
Rejected brine disposal costs are between 5 and 33% of the whole desalinization process, depending on the characteristics of the brine, its pretreatment level before disposal, disposal method, and volume"

from: Jiménez-Arias, D., Morales-Sierra, S., García-Machado, F.J., García-García, A.L., Luis, J.C., Valdés, F., Sandalio, L.M., Hernández-Suárez, M. & Borges, A.A. 2020, "Rejected brine recycling in hydroponic and thermo-solar evaporation systems for leisure and tourist facilities. Changing waste into raw material", Desalination, vol. 496, pp. 114443.
> It is strange and horrible that it is become like that, but that's where we are.

Given that in very recent times we got to experience what happens when people handling money completely ignore regulations, I'm quite happy banks are "compliance businesses".

Banks should be boring businesses focused on taking deposits, making loans and other variations of that sort of capital allocation. Whenever a bank talks about "new financial innovations!", run for the hills because it's invariably a way to separate customers from more of their money.
The value is transacting independence from monopolies, with interdependence to a distributed network.

The value is immutability –not something censor-horny commies value, I'll give you that.
Robber barons who hired the Pinkerton detectives to kill their striking workers would like a word.
The OP is pointing out that most pearl-clutching about the effects of wind turbines comes from people who don't care about birds in any other context. It's solely a way to continue fossil fuel production, using the language of environmentalism.

A serious discussion of the safety of birds would sound very different, but that isn't the goal. The goal is to talk about anything other than reducing fossil fuel production.
Man, Pete Thiel rained on Elon's parade and now he's gotta spend the rest of his time trying to recreate a company from 20 years ago
I'm quite torn on this (to be fair, I rarely use voice commands at all...I've found it's usually more effort to fix things when it gets it wrong than the cumulative sum of all the times it may save me any time whatsoever).

1. I can see how this is absolutely frustrating for someone who uses one of these commands regularly.

2. At the same time, one of the issues with voice commands relative to say keyboard input is the lack of delineation. If I hit Ctrl + Enter on my keyboard, there's no way for the computer to interpret that any differently. However, that's not the case with voice commands. It needs to keep determining (a) what I said, (b) whether it's a command or just voice, (c) whether it's a command it's supposed to execute and that's before it even figures out waht to execute. But the problem is that as the number of voice commands increases, the number of false "this is a command and not just voice" triggers will increase.

There's probably a genuine benefit for Google's users in the universe of commands being very small as long as the command that's removed is not one they use.

I've noticed several of the options are "you can use a custom routine to do this instead". Maybe Google should have included the custom routine and made it togglable.
Aa awful of a lot of people _think_ they need dedicated public IP's for their hosting though.
However, stealing access tokens is only possible with public clients. The open redirect works on both public and confidential clients.
Same reason guys used to live in opium dens.
and this sucks.
ITVX is, purportedly, though.

I have some relatives who tried out ITVX for the first time especially to watch the drama, which they didn't catch as it was broadcast. They reported that ITVX was almost unusable, and also that the app crashed their telly and caused it to lose the ability to output sound until they rebooted the telly and let it go through an update cycle. "BBC iPlayer is much better." came the grumble down the telephone. (-:

I told them that it was ITV, which has 4 channels and is almost bound to repeat it.
I don't get it. If civil aviation is beer money why build the 747, the most iconic passenger plane to be every built, only surpassed perhaps by the Concorde. Something has changed at Boeing in the last couple of decades, that has changed the trajectory of Boeing leadership leading to quality issues.
Unproductive workforce and employees being too much in the comfort zone.
People just got lazier as more stuff were thrown at them - from chia puddings to remote work and most of us humans have lazy self-control features built-in.
Evernote finally pushed me over the edge when they limited free plans to 50 notes last month. They had made so many changes to the ui and price increases that it was becoming a worse and worse product.

Apples free notes app replaced it and other than being SLIGHTLY annoying that I have to log into the web app on windows machines... I dont miss evernote at all.
Despite what people say about ϕ-2, I never liked its responses. It clearly lacks depth and consistency.
A good start might be the French "NF525" law, which lays down legal standards for how cash registers should work. https://www2.ikosoft.com/en-gb/all-knowledge-about-the-nf525... / https://www2.ikosoft.com/en-gb/cash-security-software-how-to...

"Any software with nf certification must not allow any concealment of data essential for VAT assessment. It must be equipped with a system for identification and tracing of all processes and information relating to collections.

Concerning the registration, the security is done by electronic signature. All information recorded in the cash register system cannot be modified or deleted. Errors and returns are automatically considered as new transactions.

As regards the retention of data, the minimum period imposed by the standard is six years. Furthermore, during a tax audit, an archiving system must facilitate the interventions of the tax authorities, by quickly restoring the data necessary for the calculation of VAT.

Note that archiving is systematic before any purging procedure. This rule ensures that the data is available at each intervention of the administration’s agents."

It's perhaps a bit more like signed git commits than blockchain; the requirement is that every transaction be signed and immutable. If "corrections" are required, the correction has to be appended to the log leaving the original in place. I believe there's also a requirement to feed all this receipt data to the tax authorities.