skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "bothering with me" I mean "add my IP to the long list of IPs they are scanning".

By the way, I find it annoying that my logs get filled with this kind of trash. It has the perverse effect of making me long for something like Google Analytics since they rarely if ever bother running a javascript runtime.
Switching to AMEX will make the card less usable internationally, too.
> The harm to society of people who need them not getting pain drugs far outweighs the pain to society of those who don’t need them abusing them.

How do you measure that? Opioid overdoses accounted for at least 72,800 deaths last year [0] and there are countless more addicts out there whose entire lives are ruined because of that addiction. Many of those people, if they ever recover, will never take opioids again for any real medical pain relief like you did for your wisdom teeth because of the very real risk of relapse. Additionally, opioid withdrawal is, according to almost everyone who's gone through it, is one of the worst experiences you can feel.

I'm not taking the side that it definitely doesn't outwheigh the need of those who genuinely need them. On the whole I actually probably agree with that. But stating that so confidently and ignoring the very real pain, lost lives, and broken families caused by opioid addiction because you had your wisdom teeth pulled and wanted opioids feels pretty dismissive and not a serious argument.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7226a4.htm
https://certstream.calidog.io/
It's also handy to have a spare credit card in case something funky happens with fraud detection when you're traveling. (Or you just leave your card in a restaurant someplace.)

I haven't had an issue of late but after I did have a problem a couple of times I always travel with at least one extra card these days.
No way this gets commercialized in 10 years. The NRC page [1] states that the Natrium project is in the preapplication phase. In the case of NuScale, the approval took 6 years from the application time, and that was a pressurized water reactor, that the NRC has plenty of experience with. Compared to that, the NRC has virtually zero experience with sodium cooled reactors; one can claim that the precursor of the NRC, the AEC had such experience, but probably no employee from those times is still alive, let alone currently employed.

So the pre-application, application and approval process will be one of learning as much for the NRC as for Terrapower. If they get it done in the next 10 years, that's a stunning achievement. And only after that Terrapower will start working on the actual commercial reactors.

This is a very long haul enterprise.

But if they get it done, this can change the nuclear industry. Russia already has 2 such reactors working, and this month they started burning fuel derived from nuclear waste in one of them. These reactors achieve a lot of things: no need for pressure vessel, can burn U-238, so basically the uranium reserves become unlimited, produce much less waste, and can even burn waste. The first of these is by far the most important, because it means they can be made for much cheaper.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...
Funny that the thread doesn’t load properly because of black text with black background on safari mobile in dark mode.

Maybe dark mode was a bad idea based on that rule indeed.
> The organization’s open-source software model, called InVEST, combines data gleaned from thousands of researchers working with techniques such as satellite imaging, soil surveys, climate modeling, and human development mapping to quantify and place a value on natural resources.

Here:
https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/software/invest
I think this is true in the US where everything is designed around the car, but not as true in Europe. Somewhere like Amsterdam it’s actually generally faster to ride a bike than anything else. Also for longer trips high speed rail can be significantly faster and cheaper. So I think it really depends on the city context.
She is rich, and famous, and can both afford to fight legally, and sway public opinion to her side ( which is is the ethically sound side, it’s hard to argue it’s totally fine for anyone to make fake porn and share it of you without permission… doubly so given we allow people to exercise likeness rights )

So she has the social and economic power to stand up for her rights, and enforce her existing likeness rights in the face of some widespread AI imagery that is violating those rights…

I’m not expecting precedent, just another sad example of how the rich and powerful have rights the rest of us don’t, because you have to assert those rights which requires lawyers which requires money and so… the status quo continues as it exists today… “nothing to see here, move along”… sadly.
yes, ff does a ton of background connections. use wireshark to see what it is doing. i tried to block all that crap once but after a while i just gave up.

it is still my primary browser because it is now the only alternative to google's monopoly(even though mozilla is de facto living off of google's money).
Costco takes only MasterCard in Canada.
Which deck?
> My take is that if more money is produced they will chase the same amount of good until the prices increase enough to accommodate the new money.

More or less. Money is debt – an IOU, a promise to delver something in the future. Another way to look at it is: Inflation occurs when the promises made cannot be delivered on in full.

There is still a human element to consider, though. For example, where the promise is held can be a factor. Promise Jeff Bezos one billion high fives and you'll be fine as there isn't enough time in the day for him to collect on them all anyway. As far as anyone knows the promise is good, it just hasn't be called. Promise one billion different people one high five, though, and now you've got a problem. It is now you who doesn't have enough time in the day to deliver on them all. Once you have proven you cannot deliver, then it is known that the promises aren't worth as much as when they were made.

In both cases you have created one billion new 'high five bucks', but high five buck inflation is apt to only occur in the latter case. In other words, creating more money doesn't necessarily lead to inflation, but it is, indeed, necessary for there to be relatively more money (promises made) than output (promises delivered) to see inflation occur.
Florida has a history of being supported by and enabling drug money.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/03/cocaine...
oh right, I remember some guy mentioning fixed RPM helping a lot.
This would be struck down in violation of the First Amendment. One has a right to make images of others in anyway they see fit. If they try to sell their likeness in a commercial transaction, then things can be regulated. But if someone is releasing artwork for free of someone else, that is fair game.
Einstein was a pacifist whatever his other inclinations were. He certainly didn’t want the natives in Palestine to be harmed or displaced as European Jews also moved there.

“Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering.”

Einstein in his letter to Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, Nov. 25, 1929, AEA (Albert Einstein Archives) 33-411.

—

It might have been naive of him to think and hope for European Jews to come to Palestine in peace and without war (that is not how history played out), but I don’t think he had bad intentions.
Why not different letters this seems to go unanswered
That long list isn’t curated, it’s every publicly routable IPv4 address. It really does not take long to run some canned probes against 3.7 billion addresses.
Making your service IPv6 only tends to cut down on this traffic.
You’re anthropomorphizing a script on some botnets.
Yes, there is such a thing as an earthquake bomb
i gave up on that place when 4chan started to worship authoritarian trump
> She's apparently the queen of the US now, and it sickens me.

Why ?

> I mean, I'd good on them for taking action... but I have zero faith that anything remotely like this would occur if my niece got a similar treatment.

Wouldn’t you want the same response for anyone victimized online like this ?

I don’t get your reaction
You run the image through something like CLIP interrogator.
A hydrogen bomb is more powerful than a nuclear bomb is more powerful than TNT. That doesn't mean the hydrogen bomb isn't a step-change in the danger level.
They don’t since the Costco card changed to Visa
Scaling Airbnb's Payment Platform
I don't think that fentanyl would ever be prescribed for home use, but I could be wrong.

Hydrocodone was sent home recently with a family member after surgery, any this same person had oxycontin years before after a broken leg.

I've only seen fentanyl as an injected solution in hospital settings, including my own.
Companies like Spotify and Netflix (that have a free app used to access subscription content) removed the option to pay through their app years ago.

You can only pay (and create an account) by going to their website, so they have always effectively paid Apple nothing but the yearly $99 developer account fee under the old rules.

However, now they can now tell you where to go to set up a new account on their website next to the login account and password fields of their app.
Ah yes that was the official instance, but they disabled this one at least half a year ago IIRC.
Very true. Actually fun fact… historically LA had the biggest rail network in the U.S. i believe it was over 1000 miles. The ripped it all out for lots of reasons, but arguably one was that the car companies bought many of the rail lines and scrapped them. What a shame.
To be clear I don't think unscrambling a TV signal is theft, Im just pointing out that it is a matter of law. The Tv provider didnt loos anything.

The grid provider, however, did loose something, namely they have to burn more fossil fuels to overcome the increased resistance on the line.
“Enlightened self interest” is randian nonsense. That’s how we got here in the first place

Ask Lybia how nuclear disarmament went

Go count all the slaves supplying the global market for chocolate, cobalt, mica, vanilla etc...

How about prisoners in the US making .20-.50c/hr making license plates or literally picking cotton on a former slave plantation in alabama.

Or how about slave labor in the form of migrant children working in factories for Hyundai in the US south

The concept of self-interested Neoliberalism has utterly failed and it is turning into a global catastrophe

The earth cannot sustain 8 Billion people each living at millionaire consumption standards
This interests me a lot as we do security but don't run a big service ourselves and so don't have data on what motivated attackers' behavior is exactly.

How many active users (to an order of magnitude; no need for precise numbers of course) does this service have? 100k IPs sounds pretty costly to burn, so I'm curious how important one needs to be before that's considered worth it.

And could you say what type of IP addresses those were? Did it look residential such as from compromises computers (botnet), do they rent lots of IP addresses temporarily from aws/netcup/alibaba, or is it a mix such that neither category has the overwhelming majority?

If it's all server IP ranges for a service where end users normally log in, you could apply entirely different rate limits to those than to residential IPs, for example. Hence I'm wondering how these cred stuffing attacks are set up
Letter from Alan Turing, WGW, CHOA, and PSMBM to Winston Churchill (1941) [pdf]
I didn't call you silly. I said I thought you said something silly.

There is a difference, and it's important. If you think someone is silly, then you won't respect anything they say. You can respect someone's opinion and still think they say some silly things.

I do not think you are silly. I apologize if you got that impression.

I do think you have a very different perspective of what makes for good writing than I do though, and I don't think there's any point continuing to discuss the matter. That's all.
- my family and my relationship with my brother.

- some of my friends, they make me wanna learn new things (spanning a large spectrum of music, books, finance, movies, food, etc.)

- musical instruments, I really enjoy playing instruments, it helps me decompress and forget about stress inducers.

- my daily walk, keeps me healthy and gives me time to listen music and podcasts. sometimes I invite friends and we chat during the walk.

- having good breakfast or dinner with friends with long chats along with the food.

- movies, I really like watching high quality, good movies and learning about directors and how they function.

- my coffee machine.

- useful-charts posters, they help me compartmentalize things.

- good food, I really enjoy finding new places to eat good food and learn about the history of the food.
No way.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/terrain-of-struggle.htm

https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/about-farmworker-justice/w...

I'm not knowledgeable on agriculture, but even a city-boy like myself has read-up on how much we rely on migrant labor during harvesting season.
well no, because light rail would necessarily involve walking farther from my house, and it has to wait for car traffic too, albeit less often than buses do. the bus i took actually had a reserved bus lane for a lot of the route, avoiding the traffic thing, but it still only averaged 14 km/hour
Saw name, expected that character who cut the blowfish for Homer.
fail2ban will reduce your log noise but it's another thing to manage, you can end up locking yourself out also, and if you're using good passwords (or better, public key auth) it's not really providing any additional safety.

Ideally you don't need ssh open to the whole world anyway, and can restrict it to a certain subnet or set of addresses. Then your attacks will drop to nearly zero.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67860-3
I quit using cursive about 4 or 5 years after learning it. This whole cursive thing is people wanting the world to stop changing, but in 1948, like the Common Core arithmetic memorization effort.
Would it have been possible to pull this off when it wasn't easy to do? I can't put my finger on it but being easy changes things. It takes very few bad actors to have a big impact.
> Is it really that hard to imagine what this might do to teenagers or otherwise vulnerable people?

Its been happening to teenagers and otherwise vulnerable people since deepfakes existed (well, before that, but specifically deepfake/AI porn as opposed to other fakery), and been directly involved in multiple suicides and a huge explosion of extortion scams.

There are regular news articles about it.
If someone has experience with CrowdSec (a kind of crowdsourced fail2ban), I would like to hear your opinion!
The position of the US government as far as I can tell was that this was such little fish at the time that was the reason they didn't pay much attention compared to the ongoing direct network attacks against more valuable assets.
Build a RAG Chatbot in 5 minutes [video]
It provides the easiest and fastest way for developers to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chatbots, without needing any local GPU setup. Code is on NVIDIA's GitHub and is ~100 lines of Python.
> . I have yet to see reasons in this comment section to believe that access to healthcare specifically is the human need whose lack is driving most of the cases addiction in the US.

Oh, yeah, I’m not saying that healthcare is the only factor or even the most important factor, just that it is relevant (and it does seem to be where the US opioid crisis _started_; oxycodone and similar were made available in ludicrous quantities as a substitute for actual medical care).

Granted, it is probably much harder to put the genie back in the bottle now it’s out there.
In that case I am glad you've only had properly functional workplaces with perfect on-boarding, documentation that properly explains all jargon and tribal knowledge, lack of legacy code with random landmines that would take weeks to understand from scratch, and no directors that will change the entire trajectory of a project on a whim. My reality is a lot more bleak.

That and/or you went straight into a truly elite workplace where a "junior" is still someone with years of experience in industry. It is hard to sympathize with truly green workers when you have none. And industry seems to be leaning towards that as of late.
Shout-out to that one guy who has figured out Denuvo but only appears once a year to crack the latest Football Manager game, refuses to elaborate, and leaves until the next Football Manager game comes out. They know what they like, and it's Football Manager, exclusively.
Nord Meshnet, ZeroTier, Cloudflare Tunnels.

Instead of exposing your applications externally, you create a private network that uses UDP hole punching.

This isn't completely self-hosted, as you need some server to auth / broadcast connection details with. Self-hosting might be possible on ZeroTier, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure.
I think that's what parent comment meant by "tuple": a list-like structure that can't be resized.
Apple Confirms Next-Generation CarPlay Launching in 2024
so does that make the quote I included totally correct?
Obligatory Asianometry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UdNB3ZY4Ks
I’ll give my perspective as a designer turned developer. People have always conflated design with “desenho” (drawing). But design is supposed to be more about information architecture. It just so happens that what’s usually trusted to be architected by designers is materialized graphically. But when the whole ecosystem of training and employment robs designers of their impact by not integrating them in both higher and lower level industrial processes, they’re hopelessly left at their corner, with a lot of energy to spend on what they actually have a stake on: visuals.
It matters only because AI is new/hot topic. AI+TS is the only reason this is news as this has been happening for a long time.

TS needs to protect her image as it's worth a lot of money. Doesn't matter if it's AI, Photoshop or some drawing. The same as any other Trademark owner, they have to protect it to risk losing it.

Nobody is claiming this will stop AI or stop future scenarios, that doesn't mean that TS shouldn't also agressively protect her image.
True, that wasn’t ok either.

At the same time this instance seems more dangerous, due to the obvious - scale, availability, technology advancements in an unregulated field, also the level of explicit content.

I see no elitism. If Kanye distributed explicit AI deepfake, there would be similar outrage. If a “common person” made a wax model of a celebrity and recorded a music video, they would be labeled a weirdo at most.
Yeah, this covers my feeling pretty well. Just navigating the Control Panel in Windows 10 and, especially, 11, is an exercise in sadomasochism. I think 7 was the last sane version for me. Generally, the feeling is that you no longer own your computer. The user interface is a bazaar with a circus. Everything's walled by default to keep you inside the garden. Default Windows settings make sense for a granny who has never ever used a computer before.

With FreeBSD I think I've started with Gnome 2, tried some tiling WMs like dwm (which are pretty cool!) but found myself finally at home with Xfce and Plank. It just gets the stuff done. An old FreeBSD computer feels much faster and responsive than newer machines running Windows or MacOS. With BSD I have to choose the hardware to fit the OS, and not vice versa, so, yeah, it's sort of an asana to run one, but once you get it, it feels good.

I like Linux too, but found FreeBSD to be more coherent and better documented, and I'm ready to sacrifice some hardware compatibility for that. If there were no BSDs I'd probably be running Debian. I also didn't like the shift to ip and systemd, but that's just conservative me. Stuff changes in FreeBSD too, but at a slower pace. Love OpenBSD for its purity, too.

What I currently don't like in FreeBSD is that you have to keep up with its release schedule. It's not that bad, but once in a while you have to do the major version upgrade. While it has never broke on me (I still run the same install I did originally 5 years ago), sometimes some things change unexpectedly as third party packages get forcefully upgraded. And if you don't upgrade you loose the ability to install binary packages eventually, as nobody maintains them for older FreeBSD versions, or you need to create your own repository. I don't think this concept works well for a desktop user, but what you gonna do - the resources are limited. I am very grateful to all the developers and folks maintaining the repository.
I would be interested in reading something similar but focused on less common ports and services, like game servers that run on high ports and more typically use UDP.

I wonder if that’s more or less of a “safe” situation.
I think this perspective comes from a lack of historical experience and hands-on experience overall.

Nvidia more broadly has very impressive support for their GPUs. If you look at the support lifecycles for their Jetson hardware over time it's significantly worse. I encourage you to look at what support lifecycles have looked like, with the most "egregious" example being dropping of support for the Jetson Nano in from what I recall was within a couple of years.

Another consideration - Jetson is optimized for power efficiency/form-factor and on a per $ basis CUDA performance is terrible. The power efficiency and form-factor come at significant cost. See this discussion from one of my projects[0]. I evaluated the use of WIS on an Orin Nano that I have and it was nearly 10x slower than a GTX 1070 which is seven years old and is still supported by the latest drivers and CUDA 12 on whatever OS you want.

Nvidia knows what they're doing in terms of productization and the Jetson line should not be seen as some kind of secret hack/unlock for getting CUDA performance with gobs of RAM. In the case of LLMs I wouldn't be surprised at all if CPU beats it and at that point pickup 256GB of RAM or whatever for equivalent cost.

In the end what do I care what people use, I'm offering the perspective and experience of someone who has actually used the Jetson line for many years and frequently struggled with all of these issues and more.

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server/discuss...
Why do my Bluetooth earbuds crackle near shop security aerials?
I'm curious about why my true wireless (is this even the current term for them?) briefly crackle and sometimes pause the music playing on my phone when going through the security tag aerials on the exits of shops / libraries.

I could understand old school analogue wireless audio that just uses fm as being susceptible to interference but bluetooth is digital right? So you expect it to stop playing or garble it in a digital way instead of noise.

Could it be a current being induced in the actual speaker wire? But that doesn't explain why music pauses the same way as if the earbuds are moved too far apart, unless it's also disrupting the bluetooth signal but I have no idea about what wavelengths are involved and if this is possible?
The British Library is recovering from the largest cyber attack in its history
They used unexpected inputs to manipulate a computerized access-control system. How is that not a hack?
The thing that worries me about this, is it’s a slippery slope to becoming the next GE.

I believe the folks at Apple are smart enough to know how to manage that for now, but you’re always one Immelt away from insolvency when you play that game.