skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, my understanding is that this was not too uncommon for some older packages? Especially in early python, it was not too uncommon to accidentally install to the whole system, no?
The root cause behind the proliferation of privacy breaches is that the legal framework against spying/hacking turns out to have a massive vulnerability.

Developing & spreading spyware that collects people's personal data without permission is illegal (you don't even need to leak the collected data for it to be illegal), but wrap it in some flashy marketing, dozens of pages of unscrutable ToS and "privacy" policy, and suddenly not only your spyware operation became legal but you can even leak or sell the data in total impunity.

This is valid in Europe as much as the US. Keep in mind that even before the GDPR, most countries had some sort of legislation around personal data processing, use and storage, but none of it was enforced. The GDPR is no better in terms of enforcement, which is why you see tons of (non-compliant) "consent" flows and spying continues as usual for the most part since businesses entirely based on non-consensual data processing are still alive and kicking.
That's not how it works, not every interaction needs to be onchain
Perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice, naughty.
> Some new military system specifications no longer accept GPS corrections.

Curious: are there specific MILSTDs / STANAGs / whatever that you can cite for this?
Boeing, and the United States as a whole, have been very richly endowed with capital. When you decide to stop adding to your seed corn and start to eat it down, but you began with an enormous mountain of it, you can eat well for a very long period of time.
Mistake to say companies like PW haven't innovated engine design in 70 years
Also called "brand harvesting".

(If you built the brand yourself and did this all intentionally, I think it could also simply be called "the long con".)
That would require actually listening to each other and experts, and not using demagoguery to villainize people who disagree with us on minor culture issues. Again, the financial incentives align for the anti-social aspect, since yelling at each other draws in more engagement and viewers and sells more ad-space.
You know you can hold USDC on crypto networks? The value is stable at $1, so its not an investment, just a way to park your funds. I'm certain FTX had lots of users holding UDSC. Someone could have had their savings in USDC on FTX.
Ignorant Yankee behind the times it is. Much shame. Appreciate being corrected.
Do you remember any specific newspaper or trade mag articles? Or was the conversation more in private/back channel?
Honestly, I'm going off memory on python. In the olden days, it was not at all uncommon for devs to want the ability to "sudo pip install foo".
I run kubernetes as... a standalone node. I run it on a dedicated server with two disks on btrfs RAID1, with a subvolume for each pod that needs it (hostPath).

Not the minikube version, not the kubespray version: the kubeadm version, installed by hand and minimally tweaked (NodePorts 0-65535), with dual-stack networking support.

I have ~3 tenants, 5-15 pods each, and managing this configuration with docker was a steadily increasing pain for the last few years:

- I had docker-compose split-files for each service for each tenant to keep a consistent state, so I used a simple bash script to generate a really long docker-compose line to bring everything together, networking was a real pain

- Dual-stack support in docker does not exist/work in compose v3 to this day, but v2 has it

- Querying the configuration and state of a container was an exercise in debugging the output

- For certificates, I had to run letsencrypt/certbot externally (2 tenants with separate accounts for wildcard certs), but use traefik in docker-compose (the syntax pain was on top of the rest, of course)

Kubernetes simplified all the pain points above:

- I still have the service split-files, but I don't care about network addresses and links between pods anymore, just their names

- better isolation between all the architecture points, and clearer definition and integration

- IPv4&IPv6 native just working

- "describe" gets me all the information I need in a pretty format, "get type name -o yaml" if I need the configuration

- standard nginx ingress + cert-manager, and I can have multiple tenants without resorting to hacks

DBs are regular containers in the pod that requires them, just like any other container. Daily subvolume snapshots are small and effective to make sure the data is safe.

Kubernetes is a much better orchestrator than docker compose, availability is a plus if you really need it. You don't need to build an HA control plane plus 3 workers if you have no use for it.
Both things can be true at one time, saving from persecution and expanding the Jewish population.

Doesn't US money say "In God we trust"? Don't various Christian countries put up Christmas decorations and trees everywhere? Aren't there courthouses in the US with the "bible" statues in front of them? I think the US is more of a "Christian" state than Israel is a Jewish state.

Israel is primarily founded as democratic free secular society, not a Jewish State in the sense you're implying: "will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew Prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex; will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture; will safeguard the sanctity and inviolability of the shrines and Holy Places of all religions; and will dedicate itself to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations."

Anyways, in the sense that Israel is the country of the Jewish nation, like Japan is the country of the Japanese, and China is a country for Chinese, and India is a country for Indians, that's sort of true. But I don't think this is the point you're trying to make here?

I did a quick Google for surveys from the Israel Democracy Institute and I failed to find a survey saying Israelis hate Palestinians. Maybe point me to the specific survey(s) you had in mind?

I don't think Ofer Cassif was being expelled for "defending international law". Israel is abiding by international law. Anyways, if he wasn't that shows you democracy in action. How many senators e.g. in the US were "defending international law" by opposing their country internationally post 9/11 e.g.? Israel has a diversity of opinions (of which Ofer is on some extreme) and the freedom to voice them.
SBF lost billions of dollars. How does one work to pay that all back, especially with his crap reputation?
The Pentagon has more image problems than being a difficult customer to work with.

The "mission" they tout as being the main driver to work for then is often ill-defined and what is best known typically has an atrocious public image problem surrounding it.

There are people in the Valley who will work for less money if it's for a cause they believe in.

The Pentagon's work? It isn't a cause they believe in. In-fact many see it as a more noble cause to thwart all military actors - our own included.
Maybe it’s little remarked because it’s not a fact?
Absolutely not. Bitcoin's initial narrative was "digital cash", i.e, digital payments and microtransactions. Given that transaction costs became prohibitive, it switched to "digital gold", or store of value, meaning that Bitcoiners defend the idea that Bitcoin's reason d'être is just to hold it.

I've never seen Vitalik or any of the core Ethereum developers talking about the value of Ether being a fundamental metric of any kind. The incentives are made in a way to maximize utility of the blockchain, not the value of its base currency.
What is your audit schedule/process?
Well I (an American) agree with your sentiment, it appears that the British royalty don't actually rely on tax money, but instead they keep 25% of the money that the royaly estate /makes/ and the other 75% goes to the British treasury.

But I might be wrong. https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-57559653
You know better though right
Here's the hubris of thinking that way:

I would imagine the baseline assumption of your thinking is that things like sleep and emotions are a 'bug' in terms of cognition (or at the very least, 'prompts' that are optional).

Said differently, the assumption is that with the right engineer, you could reach human-parity cognition with a model that doesn't sleep or feel emotions (after all what's the point of an LLM if it gets tired and doesn't want to answer your questions sometimes? Or even worse knowingly deceives you because it is mad at you or prejudiced against you).

The problem with that assumption is that as far as we can tell, every being with even the slightest amount of cognition sleeps in some form and has something akin to emotional states. As far as we can prove, sleep and emotions are necessary preconditions to cognition.

A worldview where the 'good' parts of the brain (reasoning and logic) are replicated in LLM but the 'bad' parts (sleep, hunger, emotions, etc.) are not is likely an incomplete model.
We don't see population growth without immigration anywhere but third world countries any more, and consistently dropping there too as living standards increase.

While I agree it's a bad combo and could be better, there's nothing to support any notion that cheaper housing will be enough to increase fertility rates.
such a chatbot would be very interesting to experiment with, but one bots screw up is another bots success. so who is the e-arbiter of truth for GovernBot9000? hopefully it is not GlobalSuperCorp10k. or maybe said super corp would be OK. interesting times we live in
Just a quick reminder to any potential felons in finance/crypto/corporate settings. If you decide to rob billions from the public, we'll let you out in about a decade as long as you don't beat someone up in prison. Just make sure you hide your money well!

Sincerely

The American Legal System
I think the part about not going through a financial institution is brought up pretty often, but that line doesn't mention the payment being especially small or quick.
On the other hand... I can imagine after testifying, the feeling that one had done all one could do. That it was finished and it was his time.
Prefaced with, while horrifying, that may also have been one of the funnier corporate stories I've read in the last several years. Note, horrifying from the Steiner's perspective. People with private jets who can fly across America to leave bloody masks on your porch.

Yet, it's cartooonishly preposterous. Seven people charged, seven guilty pleas, and the heads of Security and "Resiliency"? They flew across the country to do the equivalent of college harassment and B&E ... in a residential garage? Baugh worked for the CIA? His wife works for the CIA? Running Charlie's Angels as the security team (sorry, Jim's Angels)? Mandatory pop culture videos? What did I just read?

Unfortunately, it always has a Nelson response, no matter how funny. "Aww, those are the people who run corporate America..." They run my economy.

NYT Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201213125301/https://www.nytim...

WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal
It isn't redaction but reasonable and artful substitution. It isn't about dumbing down, but removing dumb ideas.
Three people killed themselves after losing everything. The feds used FTX as an excuse to ramp up operation chokepoint 2.0, which left countless startups bankless. It was a light sentence.
As long as there is greed in human nature, people like SBF will continue to emerge.
That's a pretty bombastic claim with no supporting evidence. What exactly makes the design a clusterfuck, and what do newer chains do that is a significant improvement?

So far all of the alternative chains have been plagued with downtime and centralization of nodes into supernodes (at least in the ones that weren't centralized from the start).
Yeah, it clearly does. Lot of sweating collars.
You can't have one local maxima, it would be the global maxima. So by saying local maxima you're assuming the local is just a piece of a larger whole, even if that global state is otherwise undefined.
You can probably guess - older demographics lean towards supporting the monarchy, younger demographics skew towards not being fans. There's a loose consensus that the royal family is a net positive for the countries finances, but I believe that involves some creative accounting where all tourism to royal-adjacent properties and the surrounding areas is attributed entirely to those properties still being owned by a living monarch rather than the state, and also implicitly assumes that they are entitled to keep benefiting from the vast wealth and estates they have inherited from those who took them by force. There's no politically neutral answer to how much they cost, you'll get vastly different answers depending on where your lens is calibrated on the royalist-guillotine scale.
I meant software only products like websites, apps, games, etc., but it should be clarified, good point.
The only reason I was on the radar is because I knew who to socialize with and what they wanted. After early senior engineer every promotion thereafter is typically political.

My first order of business at any company is to sort people into buckets of "they can help me" and "they cannot help me" and focus entirely on the first bucket. Those "after work beers" (or the remote equivalent) is where most of the work is actually done, imo. That is not to say I am without merit. But the assertion I am making is I could've probably bullshitted my way into even more positions if my moral compass was just a little bit more skewed.

I suppose changing the way you act around a certain person with power is a skill and the reward is the promotion. I know several people at or above my skill level that were promoted either later, or not at all, due to not realizing (or not caring) that merit means almost nothing. Of course, merit is what seals the deal - but "managing your manager" is more important than merit. Similarly, I've used a promotion of my own to put people I like on the right person's radar. It pays to know people. In this case, literally.
It's been the "standard" editor at my place of employment, but no one objects to other editors or IDEs being used instead. Our workstations are all Windows, so it's a decent default to install for everyone.
That’s starting from misunderstanding how federal sentencing works - even the prosecutors only asked for half that. Ken White has a good explainer of how federal sentencing actually works and why the numbers people toss around are too high:

https://popehat.substack.com/p/beware-the-flood-of-trump-sen...
? There's DoD research labs. Every service has one. They're not even hard to find. Literally google a service name + "research lab".
>I realized they couldn't read Spanish.

They're from indigenous tribes from the highlands in Mexico and further south. We are allowing in illegal aliens who aren't even literate in their home countries' dominant language.
Postmortem of AO3 DDoS Attacks
>Why does the stock market reward idiot shit like this?

Because Boeing is in an absolutely unique position where they are part of a duopoly in a market where demand for airplanes massively outstrips supply. Boeing's customers have no alternative and Boeing will be selling them planes and the market knows that.

Additionally the stock market can only look a tangible results. There is no measure of "engineering competency" which you could track year over year, which makes these mistakes hard to realize unless you are inside the system.
Here's a bunch of usecases I put together a while ago https://gist.github.com/hanniabu/32b0f933618a3229efe3fbc01cb...
My understanding was that that wasn't proven in the case, or part of the charges? Making it pretty messed up that it's what drove sentencing
I'm not sure what made you think I believe that Jews have any more capacity to change their minds about Palestinians than Palestinians about Jews.

I also don't know why you think we should be destroying ideology of some Israelis (which would require killing them). I don't think we should be destroying ideology of Palestinians which would require killing them too.

However their ideologies are in confrontation and one has behind it a local superpower with plenty of conventional forces and even some nuclear and the other has rockets made from repurposed water pipes, aviation that consists of paragliders, human shields that lives neither side respects or values and zero allies, even willing to do as little as accepting civilian refugees.

It's clear which ideology will get broken or eradicated, along with the people subscribing to it, if they are stubborn enough.

You seem to make some arguments about morality and symmetry. There's no symmetry because force vastly differs and morality is an afterthough. Where morality solidifies it is history. And the history is written by the victors.
That's what Bitcoin used to be about, before its development team was taken over and it was crippled.
But he wasn't finished testifying. He was found dead on the morning of what was supposed to be his final day of deposition.
I think Krzysztof's objection was mainly about size (memory/disk). He set pretty high standards for SumatraPDF in that regard. The full statically linked executable is only 8MB, while the Qt Core and UI libraries by themselves are larger than that, and that is before you start talking about dependencies like the 20MB ICU data.
> The view that the monarchy is ‘very important’ has reached the lowest percentage since data collection began in 1983.

https://natcen.ac.uk/news/public-support-monarchy-falls-reco...
I build python servers. I've replaced most of the dependencies with just standard library code.

Removed Flask for http.server
Removed requests for urllib

Removed requirements.txt
Removed pip

Life is good
> "It's clearly causing confusion for some portion of users. We recognize that the average user doesn't have a law degree,"

I'm no mechanic either but I can identify a flat tire when I see one.
It still is, you just have to publish the whole derived work that you created under the SSPL - not just the source to create redis.exe but also the whole source to create the backend of myhostedredisservice.com
Cody: The AI-powered tool helping support engineers unblock themselves
100% agree.

Had a manager that does this try and tell the Challenger story once. He had the lessons of the report exactly backwards. Instead of the managers creating an environment of risk by not understanding the engineering and overriding the engineers, he claimed it was engineers not listening to or informing managers properly.

It was wild to me to sit there and hear this manager say the exact wrong lesson of that tragedy.
> What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

That's not fair. They didn't murder all of them, at least not yet.
I got a laugh from the author's assertion that the Lewis book examines "the psychology of an impulsive, chaotic, misanthropic genius". I mean, "genius" has long been a ludicrously overused word, but even so, this is a new low.

Isaac Newton is an example of an actual genius, someone whose work changed the world. Sam Bankman-Fried is an epically hubristic confidence man who stole/lost eight billion dollars and will as a consequence be spending a long time in jail.
It doesn't have to be a Russian psyop to be skeptical of the US government line.

They had been telling us the Cubans have a secret microwave superweapon in the weeks prior to Ukraine going off.
It's been said before: power corrupts. Best to keep anyone and everyone from absolute power.
While it would be completely unsurprising if this is yet another royal mail cockup, there's been loads of suspiciously cheap stamps all over places like ebay, so it's possible people are just getting scammed.
It is codified...
The origin story of the snake oil trope is kinda cool. Apparently the concept was brought over to the US by Chinese railroad workers. It was made from the oil of the Chinese water snake which is high in omega-3's that actually do reduce inflammation. Unfortunately there were no Chinese water snakes in America, and the American hucksters started juicing rattlesnakes. And then... other even cheaper substitutes like beef tallow, mineral oil and turpentine. [1]

I suspect the Erabu sea snake is the Chinese water snake that was originally juiced? I don't think rattlesnake oil would have the same effect :)

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377...
I fall in the middle of the camps -- pretty sure we still get a good RoI on our marketing spend on the royals, unconvinced the family wouldn't actually be wealthier if they'd abandoned the throne and taken all their stuff with them instead of it "belonging to the country", feel rather sorry for those who get the most tabloid attention.
Wut! Did they really have a social network style ToS on a hosting platform? That’s wild!
A related point is this:

Microsoft traditionally did the OS, and left hardware and apps to others. This led to a huge market for PC hardware, open to true competition. It also led to a really robust market for windows apps, also open to competition.

Love or hate windows, but this greatly benefited computer users and led to a great year over year decline in the cost of computing.

Apple on the other hand has inserted itself to tightly control hardware and software on its platforms (somewhat less on macos). But it is only passably to the benefit of computer/phone/tablet users. It drove the price users were willing to pay for software to zero, and maintained or inflated the price of its hardware year over year.

and the worst part, users don't really have sovereignty over their devices or software. You can't know what your phone is doing. You can't see who it communicates with. And you can't control or opt-out of anything unless apple allows it in the ways apple allows it.

I would like to know what's running on my phone. I'd like to see what apps are doing, who they are communicating with and what they are sending. And I'd like to be able to say no to what I don't like, possibly in a way that apple hates. I'd like to run my own apps, without asking apple for permission, and with no restrictions.
Of the people stealing money in crypto the vast majority seem to get away with it for what it's worth.
Dependencies are liabilities, and any package manager that includes something like build.rs, setup.py, etc is vulnerable to RCE. None of this is news, but it's unnerving that a vast section of our industry seems to either be totally unaware, or totally apathetic.
Then you believe people will use this at a scale worthy of being called a killer app?
>"Black American students have average literacy scores below students from Russia and Chile.

>U.S. Asian students, however, topped the global ranking, with White students not far behind"

Americans do well on PISA compared to their ethnic relatives. <https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco...> Asian Americans do better than Asians; whites do better than Europeans; Latinos do better than Latin Americans; and blacks do better than Africans.

Hispanics and especially blacks' scores (as you note) drag the US average down. Both white and Asian Americans score higher than Canada (and white+Asian is essentially Canada's racial makeup), and higher than New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Norway, and the UK; Estonia is below US Asians but above white Americans. Norway is by far the wealthiest Nordic state but its average is only two points higher than the US national average, despite not having a demographic that is 13% of the population and scores 85 points below the white American average.