skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the influence of internet technology and near-light-speed communication and advances in military technology versus WWII conditions/state?

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This document is referenced in the article regarding analysis by the Pentagon on its own capabilities: "National Defense Industrial Strategy" [https://www.businessdefense.gov/docs/ndis/2023-NDIS.pdf]
Are you a Balaji S fan?
My CPU from 2011 has 16 cores with ht... that's over a decade.
:shrug: - they didn't elaborate on that. Probably just not worth it.
That begs the question pretty hard.
Yes, contracts for difference are neither.
Even by your analogy though, GP’s concept makes sense. I would cringe if an old guy at a music store started rambling about how kids these days with their fancy electric guitar don’t even respect the great Lord Maxwell, without whom we wouldn’t understand electromagnetism enough to make an electric guitar.
Two months ago I fired my co-founder/best friend
IFTTT is in a perfect position to creep prices up, because when users have put effort into setting up little bits of automation in their life ('email me when my bank balance falls under $1000', 'turn my kitchen light on on workdays only', etc.), users don't want to lose that time investment or utility.

IFTTT knows that migrating to a competitor is a load of work.
The Israel situation is unusual in that the jews came from there, got dispersed a couple of thousand years ago, never really had a homeland elsewhere and then some of them decided to come back. There's not much else like that. It's not like the Italians were driven from Italy and have waited centuries to return.
But the OP was concerned with security, namely that someone was intercepting his http connection and messing with it.
I'm on Android and see no lines at all.

(Firefox)
quick question I have 24GB VRAM and I need to close everything to run MIXTRAL at 4 bit quant with bitsandbyte. there is no way to run it at 3,5 on windows?
What are a few? I'm curious. Do they all involve monitoring the client itself?
Nice graphs here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1684

So for example, 2 bit version of the 30B is much worse than the original, but still better than the 13B model.

Also, there are lots of extra details, eg, not all of the weights are 2 bit, and even the 2 bit weights are higher than that overall as groups of quantised weights share scale factors stored elsewhere.
AI's Greatest Danger? The Humans Who Use It
I would suggest to fix the orthography to “PS: Nothing is broken about this page. It's just simple on purpose. :)”. Simplicity is nice, but correct punctuation and capitalization is also appreciated as a proxy indicator for professional diligence.
All Palestinians deaths are civilians by your measures.
Even if they know now, that doesn’t mean they knew when setting up the AD domain back in 2000.
https://archive.is/jvFML
Researchers bring dream of bug-free software one step closer to reality
Perl and eval, not what I'd have expected from the title!
Brave's ad blocking is compatible (and uses) the uBlock Origin lists, so you shouldn't really notice a difference between having uBO enabled or disabled in brave.
And when you're using it to connect to devices not physically on your LAN, like servers reached via tailscale? `.internal` implies your internal network, however it may be setup, `.lan` implies your "local" area network.
Maybe THAT is the reason why there is so much hush-hush about the detector vans?!

If they used a technique which essentially was considered military secret not too long ago. (Compared to the time when the vans started to appear.)
and improved intelligence, so nations hopefully don't underestimate each other... ?
Nope. Here’s the actual guidelines for Europe and the USA:

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/apply/plant-patent#head...

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/formats/plant-patents/patents

Europe:

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/press-centre/fact-sheet/4....)
The same example is mentioned in The Adventure of English, a series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
I've been re-implementing a bunch of coreutils as an exercise, and got stuck on dd input/output block sizes, AND disk/partition block sizes for a while. (As far as I understand it, for dd I need a ring buffer the size of max(ibs, obs), and then some moderately clever book-keeping to know when to trigger the next read/write, perhaps with code specific to ibs>obs, ibs<obs, etc; partitioning on the other hand is plainly stupid, there's decades of hardware and software just lying to each other and nothing makes sense.)

Thank you and everyone else in this thread for the know-how and references! I would like to eventually write an article (or at least heavily commented source) to hopefully explain all this nonsense for other people like me.
We just use the same domain internally and externally with split DNS. Works fine.
Matthias Wandel did some experiments on this recently and came to some conclusions of his own it seems.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ued2cEcfAio

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3scTRJCm7w
> I don't know why this is and why they can't (or won't bother to) get their act together

It's because you're not their employer, so they can do (or not do) whatever they want.
>Caution: never use eSIM with your real phone number; always get a new phone number just for use with eSIM.

Yet again, having ported my phone number to Google Voice (GrandCentral back then), and never giving out whatever my current SIM's phone number is, pays off
I was responding to your point that you can’t share code between the platforms. It doesn’t have the same presentation, but it’s no less usable with the <hr> than without.
The problem is that most volunteers are B/C players.
It's a prompt. Writing anything for that purpose is code gardening, but hey it's in rust so I'm supposed to be excited?

That, in essence is the problem "X in rust" normally means "I've written something of low value IN RUST. Gimmee upvotes". Come back when the project is interesting regardless of the language.
> Is that unfair? Absolutely

What's fair to you then? What's the fair solution?
thats a good indicator that you should stop commenting in online message boards. This (and a litany of other reasons) is why "internet comments" have a terrible reputation. Comment boards have been around 20+ years and no one has yet been able to create a system that doesn't encourage degeneracy.
This view on the Mandelbrot iteration seems much more interesting than the original set:

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

It is the probability distribution (i.e. the most frequent locations visited) over the trajectory of the points that escape the plane.
This really made my day, what a fantastic blast from the past.
Well there is section 'popular products' directly on landing page so it is not hard to guess.
> During the bug-bounty report & triage, the developers tried to implement a block because when I tried to reproduce it again for them, it came up with the following error message ...

Hardly in the spirit of a bug-bountry program.
Did you just make it up?
I don't know how much of a joke this is, but it does seem like a pretty good solution. I wonder how easy it is to get in and out of it though.
Teams is buggy and the native client is less buggy than the browser version.

Also, the browser version doesn’t have all the features of the native.

So if I’m in an interview, I want to make sure that as much as possible works. If I was just joining a conference call or something I would use the browser.
Thank you (I assume) Dang for adding the year. I got the following email yesterday and then went searching for news on it (I must have missed it at the time):

> Your current Legacy Pro plan is becoming Pro+. You will have access to new features such as multi-account support, increased rate limits, and priority customer support.

> This change, along with a price adjustment, will take effect on your upcoming renewal date, January 30, 2024. Your new monthly billing rate will be $3.99.

> If you have any questions, please connect with someone on our friendly customer support team.
A domesticated crop cannot generally survive without human help. It’s really unusual to find an exception.
What the top Finnish conductors earn
Humans do it better: GitClear analyzes 153M lines of code, finds risks of AI
The answer is the classic desktop model, local first than "connected" (these days we would use more the synced term instead). Meaning some do NOT want people own their digital infra and know the power it give for business reasons, meaning big money. While most to not even know what they can do with their own "endpoints" or modern dumb terminals that actually do have much more power than old dumb terminals and they cost much as well.

The answer is "hey users did you know that you can have GMail on your iron? All you need is to pull messages from a server to your local maildirs and run a local indexer with the relevant UI. If you do that perhaps with a personal domain you can change the provider or be yourself the provider without change NOTHING nor the UI nor the addresses/aliases. YOU WON YOUR DAMN DATA". Or as well "hey, did you know you can damn work with some files locally than have them auto-sync-ed back to the server? It's easy. And so on.

The answer is that we need damn desktops also in hw, meaning not using craptops as desktop replacer no matter if docked with a decent screen(s) and input devices or masochistically used directly on their small bad keyboards and small screens. We need the concept of home-office and tools to be on-the-go ONLY when we need them, we need the concept of a damn homeserver per home, to host personal services in an IPv6 internet with a static global per device (allowing privacy extensions, but still knowing a static address if needed) and so on.

Unfortunately most people do not care until they discover they are trapped and that's too late because they use walled gardens and there is not much modern sw to work in the classic way while few profit from the most and to their best to avoid such knowledge.
That seems like a great way to go - get it signed the normal way and TLS will 'just work', no messing about configuring trust on your devices.

Will this be possible with .internal ?
Thanks for the follow up. 1% slowdown easily worth that level of memory savings IMO. I guess the goal was simply different than I expected.
That’s an interesting question, I wonder if there is an analogy in quantisation to image dithering?
It does not work on iOS either :)
Well white laser cannot be blocked with normal Kameras.
“Peace while continuing to seize land” is a peculiar-enough type of peace to not really qualify for simply “wants to live in peace” by many people’s definition.
I don't know what the ratio of integrations IFTTT gets paid for vs the ones they develop for reach, but getting on IFTTT without them reaching out to you is (or at least was) absurdly expensive (and creates a lot of junk on their integrations listing)
If Israel really wanted to wipe the Palestinians off the map they have the resources to do it. But they don't. Based on claims Hamas have made, in their founding charter and other public statements, if they had the resources to wipe the Jews off the map they would do it, without hesitation.

That's the difference.
Five-year plan on decolonizing and Indigenizing curriculum and pedagogy
Less discoveries are made because of patents, as there is no reason to develop patented things any further.
I'm with you on this one.

The Internet already has a big Garbage Patch, and this will make it worse.

Maybe it'll make evident that this frog has been getting close to boiling, and many of us will sharply reduce our usage accordingly.
What is the future of Fintech? Is it AI?
Since the Mandelbrot iteration happens on the complex plane, is there any recommended reading / research about its relation to scientific fields where the complex plane is applied, like mechanical oscillatory systems, quantum mechanics and electromagnetism?
Hey guys, Recently I have been working on a small project on Fintech+AI and wanted your feedback.

I have few years of experience working in the Indian Fintech ecosystem but I see saturation. I have seen digital wallets, P2P money transfers, BNPL, Neo-banks and everything new that can be done. But what is the future or is it the end of Fintech innovation?

I have tried to build in Fintech and adding AI to make a personal financial advisor but people have a lot of concerns with privacy. "Will my info be used for training", "Where is my data going into" and a lot of similar questions I am seeing.

What can I build and how can I build it? While adding AI to everything is getting hype how can I make it sustainable?

I really wanna solve a "Real Problem" for users and innovate in this area. Currently it's just a SISP.

Link to my project: https://project-hermes-ai.vercel.app/
I don't know, it's a good question and it might be unsustainable.
Another question is how do you dismantle a country threatened by war and genocidal intentions on all borders , a country that's a nuclear power? What's the end game here - let Israel die and hope the population makes it out OK and that Palestinians happily co exist with Israelis? While some use South Africa as an example where this happened peacefully, there are many more examples where this ended up in a huge massacres - Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq etc.
The realistic best case scenario for Israel is Israel collapsing and the vast majority of the Jews fleeing alive to wherever they can. Other scenarios are Jews getting massacred in huge numbers and even nuclear war.
Microsoft has thoroughly embraced and extended your little open source community, show some gratitude.
It's because reading and writing happen in separate processes, i.e. simultaneously instead of interleaved.

In general writing to disk is handled asynchronously by the kernel (`write` just copies to a buffer and returns), but metadata operations like creating files are not, so this should help the most for many small files.
Volunteering money doesn't exactly expand social life the op is talking about.

For some social interactions you get from volunteering is why they do it.
The telegraph already reached nearly everywhere, and telephone connectivity had reached pretty much every capital city by 1939.

Communications between country leaders were fast and reliable, so I don't think 'I didn't get your apology letter so we went to war' was a factor in 1939, nor will it be in 2027.
> They are very cumbersome to use in real life, encrypting and decrypting is done by hand, it’s error prone as a result and very slow. Nobody likes using them at all.

There's no need for that to be true.
> Big difference is that Israel is not targeting civilians on purpose

I think this is not a justified statement. Keeping in mind hat israeli government is clearly very far right, and on multiple occasions have brought up deranged things about Amalek, about "no innocents in Gaza", I think one can establish a reasonable doubt about the true intent of idf actions.
Possibly very precisely if there is something like a satellite streak in the picture, which is very common
Classic hwcursor shenanigans.
>The lack of immigrants is lowering the standards of this country

What do you mean by this? There seems to be a divide here and NYC is currently in the middle of a immigrant crisis with nowhere to house immigrants.
> Who are the philosophers of today (the serious, intellectual, professional ones)?

RMS
Same, and it’s not only about the price either. I value stability and certainty that things I use and rely upon aren’t going to be shut down.
what a crazy, interesting project and video.
Agreed. I was disappointed too. This just feels like another “use Linux, big corps suck” article.
An effective test for determining if reading an opinion is a waste of your time is: watch for language that assigns an explanation to the behavior of others.

Basically: they don’t describe what happened. They describe how other people are less good.

“These concerns are drummed up by people who what to add every conceivable resistance to wealth redistribution possible”

Not the language of an open hearted soul. I’m going to default to “unconvincing argument” as the infinitely more plausible explanation.
Fwd: Cloudsec North America 2024 CFP
The recent updates have stabilised things a while lot with nice features like atomic updates.
The sentence is not finished.
Which way is it biased?
Indeed telegram existed. But now we have "telegrams" everywhere, in pockets, with advanced analytics possible on the myriad of types of "telegrams", etc. Video can tell a much more compelling, convincing, and detailed story than a telegram.
fixed the capitalization https://github.com/opral/monorepo/commit/6127c6899290b35442c...
> it’s no less usable with the <hr> than without.

Sigh, you still don't seem to get it. The point of code is to provide functionality to the user. If I want to visually separate the options, the <hr> on iOS does not provide the functionality. Thus, I need to do something else on iOS in order to visually separate the options, and thus I can't share the <hr> code with other platforms.

"no less usable" is a misleading way of phrasing the problem. The <hr> on iOS is not usable at all as a visual separator between options in a select element. It's pointless, with no use.
When I was a teenager I dreamed of having a huge bathtub. Now I own a tiny apartment (EU) with a bathroom that is too small for even a tiny bathtub. Ironically my working-class parents' apartment has a much bigger shower.
Get an endurance SD card and those have decent lifespans.
Companies should never use words like "forever" when talking about recurring costs. If they hadn't made that statement, we wouldn't be here talking right now because it would be just another service bumping prices.
The cheap ones yeah. Get endurance SD cards.
On one hand, people yell from every rooftop that they, in the US for instance, are for equality of everyone, regardless of colour of their skin and sex. On the hand, they, or others but within their society still, start coding groups for "black women".
tnbp nailed it

To explain the other side of the comment, "cargo cult security" refers to some groups of tribal people in New Guinea who build giant wooden airplanes and control towers in the hopes of attracting airplanes delivering food[1][2].

It's very common in the security space for people who have zero understanding of underlying security models to build elaborate structures that kind of look like and feel like they're doing security, but it's actually providing no value. These practices get blindly passed on for decades despite all the best effort of actual experts to explain to them why the practices are, in fact, completely useless. Password rotation is a mindbogglingly persistent one, as described in the other comment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlYe2KS0-Y

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
They are apps because they're almost universally used on phones and apps can provide a much better UX than web sites (fight me PWA delusionists). I think you can probably do it on the web if you want too though.
I’m not actually a crypto guy and I know of stories where people have done this in serious environments (check the link I posted above for an example) but my understanding is that non random letter distributions like you will find in a book for example will potentially change the level of security you can expect from a OTP substantially against a sophisticated enemy and as a result the randomness is actually very important regardless of key length.

I might be wrong, it’s not my area of expertise.
What is unclear?

we know that we haven't nailed communication yet. one team member is working full time on communication/the website
> draw attention from security admins

How? I’m not saying this is great practice — there are certainly better options — but no one outside your network will ever know about it. It also won’t matter if you switch ISPs.
The way things are going, the earlier West understands/accepts insustainability of current israel, the less bloody will be the end result. israel could even survive as a Jewish state, but that would require massive diplomatic effort of many forces.
Right, there is no question that today intelligence is better / more capable.
Until it doesn't.

And having a website on the domain.tld adds shenanigans.

One of many examples I had is when Outlook loses connection to Exchange (eg S2S VPN is down) it starts autodiscovery process, hits domain.tld (because users have email@domain.tld, duh) and complains to user with a scary messages (which are also blocks the process until the users hit something). Which is totally understandable, because the website is on some public hosting, so CN in the cert is from the public host at best and != domain.tld.

Using corp.domain.tld or even techdomain.tld solves this totally and also let you use public certs (LE in the current era) even on the 'local' side of the network.
Yeah, developers nowadays don’t know their Pauli exclusion principle.
I did some research on this on the side for my dissertation, but never published it. The fact centers approximate the boundary generalises to almost any point in the plane as a consequence of normality of some sequences, and generalises to most families of complex iteration under very mild conditions. I’ve had a preprint that I never felt like finishing for something like 15 years lying around.
What's new with SXMO? Haven't been keeping up since 2021. Is there a stable phone to run this on now?
> Honestly there are so many "pinephone is great" reviews out there

The only one I recall is "I love my PinePhone" (published last year I think). Most of reviews I've seen is variations on "interesting, but not there yet", usually with high expectations, if not outright complaints.

> The bluetooth disconnects alone make me throw this thing into the trashbox

Haven't used bluetooth on PinePhone much, but for comparison, my previous iPhone 12 Pro (a "flagship" at the time) had tons of bluetooth issues and disconnects and worked terribly with in-car speaker. YMMV.

> If I cannot make a phone call and cannot use WhatsApp on a phone in 2024, it's utterly useless and can only be described as an expensive brick.

While I agree about phone calls, WhatsApps's availability has nothing to do with PinePhone or Linux. I heard it runs through Waydroid fairly well. I bridge WhatsApp to my Matrix server and chat through Fractal.

> Linux on the phone will fail as long as this cultural problem of "not invented here so I can do it better" isn't fixed.

From what you wrote above it, that is also exactly why Android succeeded, going their own way instead of using what existed before.
Software is about people, not code (2020)
The server authentication story is fairly weak. Multiple companies may use the same .internal domain name and none of them can get a TLS certificate from a public certificate authority. This means they'll each need to operate a private CA if they want to authenticate connections to the server (and encrypt with HTTPS). A major problem with this approach is that computers (especially laptops) travel between networks and can end up trusting more than one private CA. This means that you can have multiple servers using the same domain name, but operated by different orgs, and each appears valid to the end user. Session cookies and other data can leak when this happens.

I think the right solution is that we should require domain registration (google.internal, microsoft.internal, etc.) to avoid these conflicts. A public CA may be able to verify ownership, avoiding the need for private CAs.

I built a service [1] that does this and is compatible with Let's Encrypt. The trick is that I only allow users to set ACME-DNS01 TXT records, not A/AAAA/CNAME records. So you'll still need to run internal DNS for those.

[1] https://www.getlocalcert.net/
Nice! I see that it's got two flavours in PmOS:

* sxmo-de-dwm: Simple Mobile: Mobile environment based
on SXMO and running on dwm
* sxmo-de-sway: Simple Mobile: Mobile environment based
on SXMO and running on sway