skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inventing new tech that has very obvious negative uses and zero positive ones isn't 'security through obscurity', it is security through responsible behavior to say 'maybe I shouldn't'. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Just the idea that the perps in this case had the ability to code this all up by themselves is ridiculous, 99.99% of the cyber crime out there is point-and-click from some downloaded tool and maybe 0.01% 'hackers' that use their own tools. Releasing all this junk in easy to use form is a very large factor in the rise of cybercrime. Imagine an outlet on every streetcorner where advanced weapons were given away freely and then to make the claim that since someone could theoretically come up with any of these there is no reason why we shouldn't be giving them out for free. That's roughly the level where we are at.

There is some middle ground between researching how things could be done and releasing those tools to every wannabe criminal on the planet, many of who are in places that you'll never be able to reach from a legal point of view. 1000's of businesses are hacked every day by tools released by 'researchers' to prove that they are oh-so-smart without a shred of consideration for the consequences.
Some people use ruff because it’s much faster. Others do it because it’s one tool instead of multiple.
Name Before Type (2023)
Very few, especially in tech, want to unionize. There’s a lot of fear lately about job security and nobody wants to “fuck up” and be unable to provide for their families.

Of course it’s a tragedy of the commons, but what are you gonna do?
https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...

If they charged me $200 a flight premium to not fly on Boeing planes I’d pay that at this point.
This is a material argument that is totally undercut by the fact that the bomb gave japan an excuse to surrender that they needed and otherwise would not have had. The bomb was directly referenced in Hirohito's surrender speech:

Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.

It gave them an excuse to save face.
My argument isn’t that preparing a tax return is informative per se. Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition.

For similar reasons, companies prefer subscription pricing with auto-renewal. If customers had to look at a bill and manually pay it each month, more of them would realize they don’t need a particular service.
Here is one you won't hear many people say: I met my partner due to GEB.

Some twenty years ago I was operating a muni network and was up at stupid hours due to a maintenance window. The people I normally talk to were all asleep, so I made a script that searched people on live journal that had similar tagged interests and added them to my aim buddy list-- then if they were online I messaged them.

She was awake at an odd hour because someone had pulled a fire alarm in her dorm.

I later went back to see why my program had added her, and there were a number of overlapping tags but it turns out there just weren't many people that listed "douglas hofstadter" as an interest on LiveJournal-- maybe 8 in total at the time-- so it had a lot of weight.
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An earlier link to the event talk page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39220474
As long as they're with upper case you make the correct distinction: these are brands or trade names, not verbs or nouns. 'Zoom' isn't even close to that level. Besides their software utterly sucks.
> Personally I'd attribute it to lobbyists hitting both parties pretty aggressively, but I'm sure some have this idea

FWIW, it's the official position of the anti-tax advocacy group "Americans for Tax Reform", whose pledge all but 13 sitting Republicans have signed.
https://archive.ph/UYEnj
To be fair, though, companies really need to put things like this into their SEC filings, regardless if it's actually affecting them or not. Because if it could affect them, and they don't disclose it, some group of shareholders is going to sue, claiming that the company should have anticipated whatever risk to their business ended up coming to bite them, and disclosed it ahead of time.

Granted, there's a balance to be maintained: put too much random, theoretical crap in there, and people will either think a) you're lying about all this stuff just to cover your ass, or b) the business they're in is a complete minefield and not worth investing in.

So I don't really take it as gospel that piracy is truly eating into Netflix's bottom line just because they've identified it as a business risk in their 10-K. (I do believe them in this case, though, since it's an obvious outcome of the fragmentation of desirable content across so many streaming services.)
This kind of comment on HN is always fascinating. Is it just simple trolling? Is it cosplay? Is it someone new (or old) to “hacking” sincerely trying to “no true scotsman” attending def con?
Where yesterday’s tomorrow is here today!
You know, why the fuck is DEFCON in August, in Vegas? Like, you know a nice place to visit in August? Kodiak, Alaska. Portsmouth, Maine. Sydney. List of places I would never want to visit in August? Vegas. Houston. Vegas. New Orleans. Vegas. Mumbai? Maybe. Baghdad? Definitely not. Also, Vegas. My friends in Christ, why, does anyone, think Vegas is a good idea in August?
I mean, I read stories about their excellent software teams who optimise the user experience all the time and their analytics are superb etc. Then when I use Netflix (not a lot) I notice that it keeps recommending me movies and shows I just f’ing watched. I have the same thing with YouTube and Prime. Are these devs just really bad or is there some motive here I don’t understand? I am not going to watch anything again that I watched 10 minutes ago… in all of these platforms now I have to use quite elaborate search to find things I didn’t watch but do find interesting, even though there must be millions of those. In my recommended feeds I get crap I either already saw or I would never watch (I watched romantic comedies literally never, so why do I keep them as recommended?).
That's tax assessed values, not necessarily the actual sale amounts. The assessed value of my house has never been the same as my actual purchase price.
I smell potential for the hotel to get (free) help to become the most cybersecure hotel in the world.
> I have no GP (none accept new patients)

Sounds like you are living in Germany. I would consider it public health insurance but is a long way from universal healthcare. Although you may not be paying directly for a treatment, the whole medicine sector is private (I.e. there are no doctors directly working for the insurance provider). That causes some inefficiencies like hours of waiting in ER, doctors not accepting new patients etc.

Compared to other systems in the EU (where doctors work for the insurance provider, most often times the government itself) processes are way more streamlined, like getting a GP assigned depending on where you live. But “you get the healthcare that you need, not the one you want”. Other issue is that they are almost running at capacity, so things like a pandemic tip the system over quite easily…
Last year was pretty bad for digital security in Vegas
The economics behind Migaloo, $2B superyacht business
Ummm, they did get hacked and held for ransom (paid millions) and lost untold millions more in revenue just recently.
>spin stabilized with minimal control surfaces

The modern RAM Block 2 has four independently-actuated fins for agility[0], so nowadays the spin stabilization isn't being used to reduce the number of control surfaces.

Spin stabilization is still quite valuable. If an actuator fails (or worse, jams hard over) the missile won't veer off course, it just has reduced control authority.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missi...
The set of sequences of length n ending in HH (and with no earlier HH) and beginning with a T are in bijection with the set of sequences of length n-1 ending in HH (and with no earlier HH) by the bijection

def f(s):
assert(s[0] == 'T')
return s[1:]

whose inverse is

def f_inverse(s):
return 'T' + s
Crowd funding is easy. I envision a large form with lots of optional spices to pick from.

But then you have to make things for a specific audience (who will scream for more) in stead of the pill of generalized trash that appeals slightly to everyone that is usually cranked out by overly standardized formulas.

Shut up and take my money.
Tiny Titans: Can Smaller LLMs Punch Above Their Weight?
pip install, pip freeze, let's return to our roots and whatnot. But what if there are dependency constraints?
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I would love to see the Vision Pro used for something cool like letting you see into blind spots, but right now there are significant safety considerations, such as:

- 12ms latency possibly not being short enough for driving

- The cameras still being relatively low quality, especially at night

- The FOV being far too narrow to allow peripheral vision

- The screens going black if the headset loses power

I got to use Vision Pro in my local Apple store yesterday, and it's not usable for driving.
GitHub is preparing for IPv6 support for Github.com
"This incident was the result of an infrastructure change that was made to our load balancers to prepare us for IPv6 enablement of GitHub.com. This change was deployed to a subset of our global edge sites."
> That's tax assessed values, not necessarily the actual sale amounts.

Scroll like 12.5 more pixels. The next section immediately below tax assessed value says "Sales Data" and includes a column for "Sale Price".
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If by "billionaire" you mean "making a hundred dollars a minute" then I think I see what you're saying, but I would word it very differently. If you were even a paper billionaire you could sell a big chunk for something that wouldn't immediately crash. But if everyone knows you're about to crash back down, then that will be priced in to your "stock" and you won't even be a paper millionaire.
Be sure to subtract expenses. So for 2022 you have 2500 for casino, 500 for food, 1500 for hotel, 800 for "other." And there's definitely some counterintuitive accounting going on there, because that 2500 would imply a profit margin of 41% on casino, but Vegas regulations require gaming machines to pay out at least 75%, leaving a profit margin max of 25%. The card games and other games of skill wouldn't have such restrictions, but it seems pretty difficult to imagine that they'd be high enough margin to result an overall of 41%.
> Yes I think everyone would be enthusiastic about submitting taxes that are 87% accurate.

This wouldn't change accuracy, if anything it might increase accuracy by simplifying it for the vast majority of filers. Nobody is saying you wouldn't be able to file just like you do today, but being able to just review a card of what the government already knows and OK'ing if right would make it massively simpler for 87% of tax filers. You could still have fun spending hours filling out several forms for your odd tax situation.
The arrogance in just assuming you know this with confidence after a few seconds of googling is truly something.

Here, I have a link of my own: https://www.attomdata.com/news/most-recent/do-you-know-what-...

That site may use voluntary reporting or MLS records, but nobody is under any obligation whatsoever to report the price for private sales.
No, just was thinking OG Transformers. All though some of the very new stuff isn’t my thing.
Because there's much more variation in what it costs to make a TV episode or movie than what it costs to make an album of music.

If there was one fixed royalty for every movie, it would presumably be too low to recoup the cost of blockbusters, so we just wouldn't get those anymore (I know some people wouldn't care, but most people would). And low-budget stuff would get "too much" (maybe less of a problem ;) ).

Then again, most successful blockbusters make back their budget and then some from theater ticket sales. But there's a lot of stuff out there that goes direct to streaming, or that doesn't find a following in the theater. Not to mention TV shows never end up in theaters, so they rely a lot more on streaming revenue to pay the bills, since selling television advertising is no longer as lucrative as it once was.

I do agree that compulsory licensing could work, but they'd have to come up with royalty tiers, or some variable pricing that depends on some objective measure that is difficult to game, if such a thing exists.
Hilarious.. The cook in prison reminded me of an old mad mag parody on Nixon. He gets assigned to kitchen in hell. He goes, 'I'm not a cook'
Vegas is great in August. It might be super hot but it's also dry. Whenever I go out to DEF CON, I take a day to go out quadding around the desert and shoot some guns outdoors.

The whole damn strip is air conditioned and misted so it's not really a problem. A few years back I participated in a scavenger hunt during DEF CON and it was taxing but I would do it again.

New Orleans is hell on earth that time of year though -- never again.
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True but not relevant. Police and legality do not need to be involved with certain kinds of casino justice. Security may just offer to beat your ass if you won't cease and desist, avoiding the paperwork. Could be bluff but they know where cameras are and have cop friends..
Sign me up for that, I made my own out of legos as a kid. I managed to make two of them that looked like robots and vehicles. Using just hinges and the small squares with rotating centers.
Those antennas on your motherboard/WiFi-card are for both WiFi and Bluetooth
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An interesting deep dive with code into how sidekiq job processing in ruby works. Articles like these are a great way of reading (or skimming?) code and absorbing patterns without having to puzzle everything together yourself.

Would also be interesting to compare this to GoodJob or basecamp's Solid Queue which work with relational databases instead of redis (and might be more specialised for use with Rails/ActiveJob).
There are actually very few people with pentesting skills at Defcon stronger than running burp suite, and fewer still of those that are blackhats. Those with skill can do very well for themselves legally, and know better than to risk their careers getting caught messing with casino systems.

In practice the biggest abuse from Defcon to the venues is in the form of a subset of people constantly defacing casino property which no one reports because no one has sympathy for casinos.

My favorite trolling of casinos at Defcon is the people dumping prop money everywhere. Casinos do not -like- that and spend a lot of resources running around picking them up which is funny to watch.
There is a standard for browser extensions. I build also browser extensions before the standard.
So you can build now a browser extension that works in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.
But indeed, you can also use some specific api's for only a single browser.
That is really bad, like you build a site only for a single browser.
But the base should be compatible.
And because you always can see the extension source code, you can modify a version for your own that works well in your browser. (And you can share it again off course)
For users, PayPal ensures a high level of trustworthiness.
I can't read the article but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Groves book "Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project" documents it well

The Oppenheimer movie was a much more personal biopic, rather than about the project itself, unlike some other older movies.
Users will report it. 3rd parties could collect statistics.
I think you underestimate how much we all are these resourceful idiots under the right circumstances.
Maybe Netflix should try putting on good content. They lost so much to Disney and HBO and Hulu. Overseas shows like Rick & Morty were on Netflix a day after they came out. Not so in the US. Where all Netflix seems to have are the “Paul Blart Mall Cop”-quality shows.

Where can I go to watch classics? Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire… even AMC shows aren’t on Netflix anymore. Yet they want to charge more, and I can’t watch Netflix when I travel for work from a hotel
room anymore. It’s terrible service. Then they complain about piracy like it’s not their fault for making it harder and more expensive for people.
> They invented these dishwasher detergent pods that are actually a downgrade - slightly more time consuming to use than powder, more expensive to manufacture and purchase, worse for the environment,

But you don't get any of the powder on you, you don't need to measure, and you don't need a spoon. If you are old and have shaky hands, it makes a mess. If you are weak, you have to lift this heavy box and pour. If you have kids being taught about the dishwasher, they might lick it. They are more expensive, but for things like soaps, the cost of both is so low as to be near irrelevant.

Powder is still available in stores. If it were the clear winner from the consumer perspective, people would continue to buy it. Nobody in my family, even the really old people who used powder for decades, uses powder.

And this is the problem with this attitude and restrictions declaring something to be "peak." Someone deciding that something is good enough and preventing further exploration.

The reason we don't have nice software is for the same reason. Software that does more is more important to customers than software that is reliable or uses less RAM.
I can stay in an acceptable room for two digit dollars a night in Vegas. That’s not true even in Mumbai.

Cheap flights too.
I must know
By "safety concerns" I do mean the existing hardware issues with the headset as well, such as the 12ms latency, bad camera quality especially at night, extremely low FOV (should be 180+ degrees at least), instant shutdown when power is removed, screens that go dark when power is removed, etc.

Your glass windshield doesn't need a source of power to stay transparent, but Vision Pro does.

I absolutely do not believe that the current iteration of the product should ever be used while operating a moving vehicle. You are right to call it dumb.
Eh? We're locking the version of the dependency, we don't need to look the particular compiled version of it, because they only differ in which architecture they were compiled for. We want 3.2.0 of dep_x on ARM and on x86_64, the last thing we want is running different versions of a dependency in different environments, that way lies madness.
Related recent discussion:

Daunting papers/books and how to read them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235484
Yeah, but people want the big names, and the big names already have guaranteed income. You have to make a higher offer.

I've decided I'm kind of "meh" on the whole salary cap thing. I want to see some star defensive linemen play. I want to see a $10M/year punter. Let's go CRAZY with this new league.
we really should spend more time on other woman flight pioneers

Starting with Jackie Cochran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran

* Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew the Sabre 3 at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.*

Per her wikipedia page: "During her supersonic run, Yeager flew right on her wing."

Analogs of each other. Yeager said as much in his autobiography.
House sets the mean and variance, how could they ever lose? Only thing left to make it work is volume, transactions volume, so variance can be minimized.