skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting thing that I've noticed is that some of the attackers watch the Certificate Transparency logs for newly issued certificates to get their targets.

I've had several instances of a new server being up on a new IP address for over a week, with only a few random probing hits in access logs, but then, maybe an hour after I got a certificate from Let's Encrypt, it suddenly started getting hundreds of hits just like those listed in the article. After a few hours, it always dies down somewhat.

The take-away is, secure your new stuff as early as possible, ideally even before the service is exposed to the Internet.
That's a lot of mays. One might imagine that before this stuff becomes the latest version of an internet standard, these theoretical qualifications might be proven out, to estimate its impact on the world at large. But it was useful to one massive corporation, so I guess that makes it good enough to supplant what came before for the whole web.
I grew up in the Fort Johnson neighborhood in Charleston, so I was surprised to see that it was listed as a martello. The magazine is definitely still there, a little brick building with very thick walls (especially for the size of the building). It looks like several forts were built and destroyed on the site (https://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/mrri/ftjohnson.html) but the only trace I've ever seen are the earthwork battlements along the harbor side. The location is better known for the point (right by the magazine) where the first shot of the civil war was fired towards Fort Sumter.
Also Soviet civil disobedience. You can’t break the rules or you’ll get punished but you can do things literally and not get punished. You’re not paid to think after all
Not really. It's a cost-cutting measure. Keeping the old UI lets them pretend it's the same plane as the original model from the 60s and pilots don't need training.
It reads as if the first time (of two) it was stuck this way. So, for some reason you tried playing around again with the lock?! Come on.

In any case, on behalf of British train users, please stop occupying the toilet needlessly and playing with the door locks. What happens if you or the next person gets locked in there? What happens if someone thinks you're being suspicious and calls the transport police? The services are delayed enough as it is.
Yeah, the former looks like a grift targeting the wealthy, the latter more promising. I'm determined to make things work without that but I am giving ChiliPad serious consideration.
This isn't a hack
The article itself is solid ... but my favourite part is probably the fact it has a collection of Foone thread links and it seems I'd missed some of them at the time.
Wolves infected with Toxoplasma Gondii 46x more likely to be pack leader
Right, and I’m in neither group. That’s where I get confused, I’m on nobody’s team at the moment, and when I read a story like this I always, always, end up on the side of Louvre, or whatever.
What Do You Call a Galaxy Without Stars?
https://archive.is/BvRTP
Yeah, it’s exponentiating pi with itself, not multiplying. Tetration that is.

I’ll toss in this StandUpMaths video about it too. https://youtu.be/BdHFLfv-ThQ?si=9KypSkX5dbTOck-v
At first I thought it had to do with the Just monad. I need to get some fresh air!
I actually looked into Anki recently, my idea being:

instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media during downtime, why not memorize poems and great song lyrics?

The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local.

I have to admit, I haven't searched on Play Store for one.
In China, the Sacklers would have been a SOE (State-Owned Enterprise). The Chinese gov is no better than the Sacklers, but the big difference is they have to consider the social threat to their authority that the consequences of their actions would create.

I lived in China for years; it's the ultimate authoritarian state--the amount of control, and the degree to which it has been perfected, is astounding--far beyond what Russia or any other authoritarian gov has.
Salt concentration navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Apple has, for very specific reasons for a very specific (and niche) OS, started using rounded checkboxes. They have not (so far) started using them in any of their other, major OSes.

The claim that this is the death of checkboxes is at best too broad and too early. The death of checkboxes in AR/VR? POTENTIALLY. That's about as authoritative as I think anyone can claim to be at this point.

I liked this article a whole lot more when I thought it was tongue-in-cheek, but these comments, whoo boy.
Well Dylan, you certainly are living up to your ‘edgy’ claim.
Years before that, the Israelis waged war against the British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_insurgency_in_Mandatory...
https://archive.is/9ErBf
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Lots more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453
Funny you should say that… https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/12/opioid-se...
> If we had a dozen different languages tailored to different aspects of an application, we could write a lot less code.

I think this has potential. As we all known, natural language is a weak tool to express logic. On the other hand, programming languages are limited by their feature set and paradigmatic alignment. But whatever code language we use to express a particular software product, the yield for the end user is virtually the same. I mean, how the logic is laid and worked out practically has no effect on the perceived functionality, i.e. a button programmed to display an alert on the screen can be programmed in numerous languages but the effect is always the same. If however we had like drivers and APIs for everything we could possibly need in the course of designing a program, then we could just emit structured data to endpoints in a data flow fashion, such that the program is manifested as a managed activation pattern. In this scenario, different APIs could have different schemas and those effectively be synthesized through specialized syntax, hence nano DSLs for each task. It would be not so different, conceptually, from the very same ISAs embedded in processors: each instruction has its own syntax and semantics, it’s only very regular and simple. But for the scenario of pure composability to work at a high level, we would need to fully rework the ecosystem and platforms. I mean, in this context a single computer would need to work like a distributed system with homogeneous design and tightly integrated semantics for all its resident components.
I spent considerable time disabling all options related to Google Assistant and have no sign of it. Don't know what they do to you there in America.
And the scale and quality of 2004 photoshop was unlike anything before it.
Wasn't my post, but ok, misreadings happen, no worries.
I view the comments as a mis-targeted criticism of the poor accessibility and content lock-in of these platforms.

I, too, find long twitter threads largely unreadable, because of how distracting it is to have after each post the retweet and reply counts, timestamp, another the user's avatar, and sometimes ads.

I can't blame the author, because twitter obviously works for them as an easy platform to post from. But the fact that I have no other means to access their content makes it inaccessible. I used to be able to use Nitter, but that's gone now.

And that's OK. There are also large portions of this city that probably have all sorts of interesting and great people that I'll never meet, because I don't tend to frequent some places. I can't read all the content on the Internet; platform-based elimination saves me a lot of time.

Most of the time, I have noticed that platform quality correlates with content quality, and the things I can read only after dismissing a cookie banner, followed by a newsletter pitch, followed by a registration proposal, were not worth my time to begin with. On the rare occasion it sounds like I really want to read it, I use a helpful service such as archive.is. But most of the time, I just close the Tab, thank the platform for saving me some reading time, and move on.
These people are idiots who do nothing but hurt their own cause
And why did the UN propose a 2 state solution?
> Just make high quality opioids easy to get already. It should be as common as beer.

wtaf? this is literally what caused the current crisis in the first place
So why would anyone do an actual strike? This sounds better and more convenient.
Even if they didn't think doing this would harm the painting, they should still face stiff consequences. Lest we incentivize more groups to do this kind of thing.
It's trivial to figure out that apnea is a possible culprit by virtue of the symptoms. If you can buy a fitbit, you can do the bare minimum research to explore the possibility.
Kubernetes Native Sidecars in Istio (2023)
Given that browsers discourage HTTP traffic (warning that the connection is insecure), given how easily free SSL certificates are available, and given that HTTPS is already the standard on small hobbyist sites, I don't expect The requirement for an SSL certificate has been a blocker in HTTP/3 adoption.
Differences of quantity can become differences of type. It's one thing for instance of a handful of governments have nuclear weapons, it's another if a few million individual can get their hands on them.

I think it's not really clear if the AI flood is just like Photoshop, and what the long-term effects are.
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'
> The PLO was willing to negotiate and Hamas is not.

The last negotiations between thr PA and Israel were broken off by Israel because the the PA and Hamas both agreed that Hamas should be involved.

And then Israel specifically targeted and assassinated Hamas leaders that were leading the internal support for negotiations.

> Which is why Israel and Gaza have gone to war many times, but Israel and Ramallah have not

This is false; Israel is waging a significant campaign in the West Bank now as well as Gaza, and has essentially every time they have engaged in active combat in Gaza.

It’s not “against Ramallah" in the same way as it is “against Gaza” because Gaza is essentially a single administrative zone where, when Israel is “withdrawn”, is continguous and able to be centrally administered, and can effectively be controlled by someone during that time. The West Bank has parts administered directly by Israel, while the parts nominally administered by the PA are divided into 79 tiny noncontiguous areas separated by Israeli-administered areas. The PA innthe West Bank is sructurally impotent, but that doesn't stop Israel from going to war against the Palestinians there as well as in Gaza.
yes and we'd better be grateful for it - it acts as a shield against cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun and the Van Allen belt.
Big companies can run as 'safer' startups. We took something that was a sales pitch/demo and expanded it into a nicely engineered production system that was making 8-10M a year internally. That was eventually gobbled up by another group who made even bigger promises. For that financial safety, there is no great financial reward. Every organization runs differently - some feel like excellent navigators, some real chuckle heads - and that part can shift. The flip side is it is easier to shift yourself internally too.

For every cool project, there are probably a dozen legacy programs that need work. Fixing broken can be interesting - but leadership needs to be interesting in improving things vs seeing how long they can drive it without changing the oil. Flee those organizations or be the agent of change.

Individuals can matter, but generally one has to have impact beyond their 'day' job. An excellent line order cook won't really have impact. A sous chef / master sergeant can change an org, which can also change something larger.

Don't underestimate the domain knowledge. It really helps to understand what the business actually does (or needs to do). Coding to a spec without understanding the why usually produces mediocre results, which is often the norm.
Yes. At the bottom - it says coming soon. I should probably move it to the top.
It was just Chrome on MacBook
Credit Card. I lost my CC account. Can somebody suggest a good credit card?

This looks pretty decent: https://www.fidelityrewards.com/credit/welcome.do?exp=&lang=...

Someone wrote that 1.5% gets invested in your Fidelity account.

Cash back would be nice. No exchange fees. Ability to create virtual CC. And strong fraud protection. I dont use Apple products, so I guess no Apple CC for me.
A computer can generate billions of unique seeds, but not billions of relationships with your sales team.

Maybe don't allow companies you don't trust to buy ads?

If only companies with a relationship with your sales team can buy ads from you, and they know they'll lose that ability if they run a fake AI ad, then you have far less to worry about.

It could be argued that this may work for newspapers, TV, and radio stations, but can't scale for serious websites. Serious websites won't be taken seriously if they can't get this under control, and folks will be turning back to newspapers, TV, and radio stations to get away from it. Don't make them competitive again.
you might get similar percentages in the other direction...
Not to take away from your humor by answering seriously, and this is pure speculation, but the choice might be a deliberate attempt to minimize the risk of any damage, since pumpkin soup is low acidity and very easy to clean.
It matters now because it's easy to do?
Innovation in Automation: How N8n Is Outpacing Zapier in 2024
> The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local.

Anki does not require your web credentials, so it's very well suited for you!

You can create an account if you want to sync your decks between computers or to your phone. It is not necessary or required.
New strain of the Phobos ransomware discovered in VBA script
When people take prescription opioids, the dose is right there on the pill. People are going to take them anyway, wouldn't you prefer they know what they are taking? That will never happen in the US because we consider it a moral failing, but it's obvious that taking a drug with a dosage stamped on it is better than taking something mixed in a basement somewhere.

Let's take the moral failure out of it. Imagine if Tylenol was random dosages that ranged from fake to a dosage that would induce total liver failure. That would be absurd.
How common are those disabilities, compared to people confused by the buttons? Is turning the lock really that different to pushing a button?
Thermohaline circulation might not be the cause of warmer Europe although many people believe it is.
Its probably mostly because of the planetary effect which lets the wind flow in a typical pattern. Europe is a sea climate. Eastern US is continental. Western US and Canada has the same warming as Europe. Because the wind does something similar.
"The most reliable ways to avoid transmission of STDs are to abstain from sexual activity, or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner"

Sounds very much like some Christian agenda bring pushed here.

50% of the population gets herpes and syphilis gets cured with antibiotics. HPV has a vaccine.

The article itself says you won't get anything if you use a condom properly.

But hey -- don't leave the house for fear of a car accident type thing...
I am just learning about the GIS space and the ubiquity of PostGIS being built in to postgres is very helpful! On most cloud or local postgres installs you are one “create extension” away from having the features available.

This sqlite library looks great but having to install these extensions separate from sqlite seems like a hurdle.

For example see the Django docs.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/contrib/gis/instal...
Nuclear Missiles in Danvers – Specters of Salem Village
I was going to say the same... that would be literally more impressive than anyone ever on HN.
Are these separate decks or a single deck for your son? Do things come out of the deck(s)? What triggers that?
There is a hum bio lecture on this topic in apes by robert sapolski. Regarding herram vs nonherram ape species and how that has rippled out into many other physical differences between males and females. emergent sexual dimorphism. check it out. its from stanford. on youtube
This is already the case in Canada's carbon tax. The amount of tax you pay is proportional to the amount of fossil fuels you consume. But the amount of refund you receive is equal to the total tax collected divided by the population; you receive the same refund regardless of how much you consume. It is a revenue-neutral scheme.
> To emphasize this point: no modern browser will open 50 concurrent connections to the same server for 50 GET requests.

They will. You just need to go bump that number in the settings. :-)
Not exactly; these constants in sudo are an enum of sorts (actually preprocessor macros). It's not just bool (and won't just be bool in many situations). It is cool to see GCC exploring automatic protection in this space; I just don't think it is relevant to what sudo did here.
I’m a YC alumna, and didn’t find this acceptable at all. Comments like these only hurt the cause. YC and its leadership should be a pillar of civic discourse in a respectful, impactful manner.

YC - calling on you to take action and hold Garry Tan accountable.
We just fundamentally disagree on the criticality of hydrocarbons.

In your version of the future, we’re all dead. In mine, the future might include a better life for all.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I had wisdom teeth out recently, and took ibuprofen and nothing else (they did give me a prescription for a heavier-duty NSAID, but from past experience those are no fun). It was _fine_, there was some pain, but that’s par for the course.

Opiods seem to be treated as almost essential for dental surgery in the US, and as a rare escalation path elsewhere.
Toyota warns BYD of the dangers of "blind ambition"
It is also useful to rely more on wildcard certs, as it makes it difficult to determine from CT logs the specific subdomains to attack.
I like the original much more. Same thing with all other "better hacker news" stuff.
[dupe]

Fix url: use the main url not text.npr to avoid dupes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165054
I’m absolutely tired of being accused of being the source of all problems, including “fucking up the planet”.

Just look at the world. Look. Only heavy indoctrination may make you interpret the world as I be fucking up the planet. I feel like a German guy who was born during WWI and who is accused of being the source of all problems in the world, squeezed between having to reimburse France for war damages done by my parents (which Germany did until 1991) AND squeezed with the economic recession of 1932 in Germany.

Just leave those paintings alone.
In addition Einstein's theories were denounced by a group of physicists because they were considered "Jewish physics" and not "German physics":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

I think it is remarkable that a racist argument against a description of nature could even gain a foothold in the physics community. Fortunately, people like Planck and Heisenberg could see the insanity of it all.
This add a new reading for me of the story, given by the author himself.

My first reading was about all the stories of uploading, having our digital selves somewhere, some way of immortality and so on, and how in reality things should surely would go wrong, at least for most, in this way.

Then it was the Lena title of an mmacevedo wikipedia-like entry, and all the idea of that our digital content would degrade with time somehow as happened with the digital photo of that model.

Then ChatGPT came out, and saw something similar to the use of mmacevedo in reality. What if the AIs that power ChatGPT or their future versions have consciousness, feelings, etc, but still are still used that way? What about our creations, our content, what we do, being used as training those AIs and in some way we are the ones trapped there, or at least something at which we put a lot of ourselves to produce?

Then there is the uploading edge, that is something similar to the Star Trek teleportation, at the very best we will have something that think that is us inside a computer, while we keep living and being ourselves in our own body, or being outlived by it, but the original us will eventually die, and the digital version may behave like us but internally is something else (like, not our full memories, or behaving different in different situations, or whatever). Zendegi by Greg Egan a bit touches this approach.

But this new reading is about the present, our western capitalistic trends and how most of us is used by them. It is not just about work. And usually we are not aware of the chains that ties us.

In any case, for all the readings it is a great story.
Lights at Sea – Lighthouse Map
This article answers one of the questions I had about this year's Hugo awards.

R. F. Kuang's Babel was on many other lists of top book of the year. I was surprised that it did not even on the nomination list. Now I find out that it was pre-emptively removed from the nomination list before the vote!

I am not a big fan of Babel (and posted my issues on Goodreads) but I do want the vote to be fair.
> Chrome has long supported ARM for Linux

Really? Where we can downnload ARM build for Linux?

AFAIK, until now, only MacOS had arm64 build.

(Chromium is a different matter).
What they are really throwing soup at is the bulletproof glass in front of the painting.

There’s a world of difference between knowing you’ll destroy the painting and making a statement by smearing something icky on glass.
It was a great indie development community, gaining experience on what it meant a console like dev experience, sadly spoiled by tons of folks porting emulators instead of being creative.

Most like the reasoning behind PS3 Linux no longer having GPU libraries like the PS2Linux, only 2D acceleration, and eventually migration to FreeBSD as basis for PlayStation OS from PS4 onwards.

Still have my PS2Linux kit.
For blocking you could use AI to determine if this is a picture of a celebrity that is nude. You'd probably whitelist the nude pictures of celebrities that have intentionally been photo'd nude. It's another question if any of the social media sites out there actually want to do this. Meta might, they seem interested in that type of research.

The only way this will effectively be dealt with is:

1. Banning the people caught doing it from social media.

2. The law enforcement/judicial way.

I don't know if new laws are required, there's probably something that already applies. E.g. if you Photoshop people in various ways and distribute the images, I'm quite sure the perpetrators get punished.
It's actually the first association for me, when I hear "damage valuable cultural artefacts", so I personally find it quite fitting. And I agree with you, both actions can be (and IMHO are) bad.
I know, that is why I do not support this style of protest. It is venting of frustration, activism for the sake of it - getting the feeling that at least something was done (and being too blind to realize that it is not helping the cause).
My guess is that it is 90% hate Elon, and the 10% extra (while true) is because most people want to sound balanced and not hinged.
University researchers and ByteDance, develop AI enabling instant voice mimicry
If that is truly the case, then perhaps you need to reassess whether you are genuinely in neither group.

I'm not kidding. This is an asymmetric conflict of the powerless against the powerful. Obviously their methods are going to have to be asymmetric. If you end up siding with the powerful, well, you are taking a side whether you like it or not.
Why do I get a feeling this is done to recruit all these illegal immigrants more easily?