skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite true - and even with democracies like Japan and India, it is quite apparent from their early history that they were kind of autocratic democracies with one large party / leader / family in power for a long period. In India, the Indian National Congress ruled for nearly 5+ decades since independence, and 3 of its Prime Ministers were dynasts (Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi) from the same family. Note also that in Japan and South Korea, the US had a vested interest in not allowing democracy to thrive.
It's a toss up between Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing Up Alive by David Mowaljarlai and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar for me.

Readers who like Kircher might also enjoy: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=C0iGO0Hr95UC and triple check his math .. it gets pretty wonky.
Me too. "The Bluest Eye" - in college.

It was devastating. I'm glad I read it, even though parts of it were really uncomfortable.
> we start making a sentence and then decide halfway through its not going where we like

I'll just add the observation that when we do this it's largely based on feedback receive from the recipient (well, so long as you're talking-with as opposed to talking-at) - we're paying attention to how the audience is paying attention or not, any small facial tics that might betray skepticism or agreement and so on. I'm looking forward to interacting with an LLM that pairs an emotion-vector along with each token it has previously produced.

hume.ai goes a long way analyzing audio, just a matter of time before they're ingesting realtime facial cues to also incorporate their audience's reaction in their choice of what to say next
> though I'll happily concede they're expertly written.

Enjoyment is a deeply personal thing but I can’t imagine dismissing Morrison as not worth anyone’s time.
I hear this stuff for the first time, can you post some info about that?
It was never a solution, Moore's law has more than one dimension as well, not just density but heat dissipation. Can't cool down a transistor that's surrounded by transistors on all sides.
The payload is simply remote code execution. But we'll never know the secret knock that triggers it, and we can't probe existing servers for the flaw because we don't konw the secret knock.

I imagine that we could in short order build ourselves a modified version of the malware, which contains a different secret knock, one that we know in advance, and then test what would have happened with the malware when the secret knock was given. But this still doesn't help us probe existing servers for the flaw, because those servers aren't running our modified version of the malware, they're running the original malware.
It's fine to question it, but when questioning something millions of people do every day, year in year out, you might want to find a different hill to die on.

See also : Time format, waste disposal units etc.
It is probably "somewhat" true when accounting for all possible variables, as the better the weather the more time people spend outside.

Crime rises in the summer in most areas, iirc.
> Whether the bureaucrats lean towards one party or the other doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t compelled out of fear for their jobs to break the law at the president’s command.

I’m thinking about all of the politically motivated “leaks”, the weaponization of institutions like the FBI, DOJ, IRS and I’m just wondering how you are seriously saying above.

The “deep state” or “the state” or “the elites” or “ the bureaucracy class” or whatever you want to call it and whatever you want to claim it exists for… is a different topic than “they don’t break the law”. I’m thinking I must be really misunderstanding your text, because that’s just ridiculous.
I’m not even surprised. I worked at a company whose bug tracking system was an excel spreadsheet mailed around. I’m not talking 2-3 engineers, I’m talking 250 engineers. There was one guy whose responsibility was to consolidate all the copies once a week. You can imagine how much information was lost there.

I put JIRA in there because even that was less shit.

Edit: also their VCS was a giant corrupted SourceSafe database as well.
> Like all educated middle-class Americans, my core understanding of urban crime comes from The Wire

Lol this is accurate for people like me too who know almost everything they do about America from TV shows
A useful tool for ninjas
Yes, Muir Woods rejected them, they're a National Monument under the NPS, and rarely allow commercial filming anyway, and the article says they freaked out at the request for pyrotechnics.

Whereas the Del Norte forest was land privately owned by Miller-Rellim Redwood Company, and already had a timber harvesting plan/permit.

Like when Kubrick filmed the urban Huế scenes in 'Full Metal Jacket' (1987) at London's Beckton Gas Works, which was scheduled to be demolished. [https://www.latlong.net/location/full-metal-jacket-locations...]
It is certainly strange when you find out that other people have different tastes and viewpoints to you.
Your idea sounds nice in theory, but it's absolutely not worth the amount of effort. To put it in perspective, think about xz case, and how the amount of contributions would have prevented the release artifact (tar file) from being modified? Because other people would have used the tar file? Why? The only ones that use tarfiles are the ones that would be redistributing the code, they will not audit it. The ones that could audit it would look at the version system repository, not at the tar files. In other words, your solution wouldn't even be effective at potentially discovering this issue.

The only thing that would effectively do this, is that people stop trusting build artifacts and instead use direct from public repositories packaging. You could figure out if someone maliciously modified the release artifact by comparing it against the tagged version, but at that point, why not just shallow clone the entire thing and be done.
> You can set reasonable price benchmarks to define "shortage" by.

If there is some kind of useful benchmark, exclaiming "shortage" doesn't tell you anything about that benchmark. Again, nothing is communicated. Pointless, indeed.

> Price is always able to select a buyer.

Always, except for when there is a shortage. There are all kinds of examples of where price cannot select a buyer, most commonly as a result of government intervention making it illegal to pay more than a certain price, leaving many buyers all willing to pay the maximum allowable price for a given good or service, thereby requiring some other kind of mechanism, such as a lottery, to determine the 'winner'.
CGP grey did a great video on The Dictators Handbook: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers

It is well worth a watch. Anyone with an interest in democracy (or corporate politics or dominance hierarchies) definitely should watch it. I feel that his discussion of the making of the video was even more interesting (although long winded): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD7zVN2jo

The interesting conclusion that he draws in the discussion of the video is that all systems of governance are dependent upon responsible people getting into positions of power and then choosing to act responsibly rather than selfishly. The key insight is that getting into the position of power is corruptive and you have to make personal sacrifices to not be corrupted.
Yes, correct. That is why we are extra cautious even if we focus only on the Indian side. Enough water bodies flows from the Himalayas through that region. For reference, the Chindwin river runs very close by.
100% agree with this.

Also we still need people who truly understand hands have 5 fingers and dogs have 4 legs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
Shades of Snow Crash.
I sometimes ask this as an interview question. Hardly anybody knows the answer.
> focus shifts more towards the overarching goal of adding value, which, for most programmers, is often about shipping or refactoring code.

Shipping and refactoring code doesn’t necessarily add value. What business objective is it solving? What are what are the requirements? Where are the design/research artifacts? All of these “trivial” tasks are what help enable you produce something valuable.
Can you really disregard its imperialistic history here - the foundation of the American economy was built on slave labour and colonisation (even if it was a late player), and you wish to completely ignore the role of the early western settlers in America.
World War II Began [video]
1) Debian includes this downstream patch, also.

2) A potential explanation for "why now" is that systemd DID prevent these dependencies from loading automatically in a patch one month ago [0], and the patches to lzma enabling the backdoor merged a few days later, followed by (as we know) an immediate and somewhat heavy push to get distros to upgrade driven by sockpuppets. It could be a total coincidence, or it could be that the attacker jumped to pull the trigger before the window of vulnerability started closing on them

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31550#issuecomment-1...

I think it's a bit cheap to blame systemd here, and systemd does not equate directly to Red Hat either.
Stopping Violence over Prison Phone Time? There's an App for That
It’s clever but not entirely novel, this is kind of the intended usecase for these
Some might say RMS was right all along.
But do you need to also possess the trusted privkey? I wonder why the attacker would build an unauthenticated kill switch.
Yes details matter. And you don’t pass a law without thinking through those things - the obvious one is that you would have to block sites outside of the US that don’t follow the law
I find that I generally love most of the books I was forced to read. Even if I didn’t at the time.

I make time to re-read Grapes of Wrath once every decade and I connect with it differently every time I do. Catcher in the Rye has also taken new meaning as I’ve aged to where I can imagine Holden as my troubled, disaffected teenage son.

I hated Romeo and Juliet as a teenager because everyone saw it as a beautiful romance and I thought I was so smart recognizing it as a cautionary tale of the impulsiveness of youth. But now I see it as a beautiful love story.

I’m grateful that I was forced to read these as a young teenager because now I can reflect on these works and my reaction to them as a reflection of my own life.
Putting random Unicode confusables in source code would be far easier to consider malicious
I always thought people borrowing books meant fewer sales, not more. Stephen King will be happy to hear it
Yes, this is intentionally how autoconf is supposed to work.
(1) Individual independent restaurants aren’t effected by this, it applies to large fast food chains.(“large chains” is embedded in how the bill defines “fast food”, even though its not part of the usual definition of the term.)

(2) They’d have to go back in time to do it (even if they did when the governor signed the bill), since the cut-off date was in the past when the bill was signed. If they were really pro-active, I guess a chain could have bought bread machines and changed its menu in the four days between the final bill text being presented in the committee and the cut-off date, but my guess is none did.

(3) The main thing this bill does is create a uniform state wide regulatory body for fast food (large chain) working conditions including any potential higher-than-general minimum wage, exempting them potential local regulations doing similar things, possibly inconsistently, throughout the state. Wiggling out of the coverage of this bill would wiggle them back into that kind of potential multi-jurisdiction regulation issue; the $20 minimum wage is an initial wage boost for the industry included in the bill before the council is up and running, but not the main focus.
The Upload
Yes, they claimed PS3 can simulate earth.
I try to get by with slice() since it is simpler to understand. Semantics is "taking a slice". splice() has a meaning of not only splitting but also putting slices back together, and is used less often. I too always have to look up its definitions from docs, partly because I use it so infrequently.
> Every school library in the US has 120 copies of this book.

This seems improbable.

It seems even more unlikely when The Bluest Eye has been banned so often:

The ALA placed it on the Top Ten Most Challenged Books Lists for 2006, 2014, 2013, 2020, and 2022.

Ultimately, it became the 34th-most banned book in the United States 1990–1999, the 15th-most banned book 2000–2009, and the 10th-most banned book 2010–2019.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bluest_Eye

Can you back up this assertion at all?
Could be risky to put a person known for victimizing themselves on the spot. That can even blow up in ways not limited to the company.

I do agree with the sentiment of addressing things head-on, but these employees can be very delicate. This is the only type of employee I handle with kid gloves.
Nope, everyone these days wants to use Jira or Gitlab or something so that's what I use. I'm back to an IC role (and have been for a while) and am trying to stay out of project management in general. I hated the politics of it all.
I asked ChatGPT 4 based on Jia's Github avatar image:

The timezones that ChatGPT thinks the avatar comes from aligns with +2 and +3, see what how it ranked and at the end the description of Jia's avatar:

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Rank, Score, Country, City, Timezone, Criteria

1, 10, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, AST (UTC+3), Heartland of Islam, deeply rooted calligraphic traditions.

2, 9.5, Iran, Tehran, IRST (UTC+3:30), Integral Persian calligraphy with a distinct style and history.

3, 9, Turkey, Istanbul, TRT (UTC+3), Historical significance of Ottoman calligraphy, actively preserved.

4, 8.5, Egypt, Cairo, EET (UTC+2), Home to Al-Azhar University, with calligraphy in the curriculum.

5, 8, Morocco, Marrakech, WET (UTC+0), Calligraphy integrated into architecture and crafts.

6, 7.5, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, GST (UTC+4), Promotes Islamic arts through festivals and museums.

7, 7, Syria, Damascus, EET (UTC+2), Historical center of Arabic calligraphy, despite recent conflicts.

8, 6.5, Pakistan, Islamabad, PKT (UTC+5), Rich tradition, hosts several institutions and events dedicated to calligraphy.

9, 6, Indonesia, Jakarta, WIB (UTC+7), Largest Muslim-majority country with calligraphy in art and monuments.

10, 5.5, Spain, Cordoba, CET (UTC+1), Legacy of Islamic culture and appreciation for calligraphy, particularly in Andalusia.

--

GPT4: This image appears to be a stylized representation of the letter 'J' within an intricate border, possibly inspired by the art style of Islamic calligraphy. The ornate background is typical of arabesque patterns, which are characteristic of Islamic art and consist of repeating geometric forms that often echo the shapes of plants, flowers, and sometimes calligraphic writing. The letter 'J' stands out in a vibrant yellow, contrasting with the dark green of the surrounding design.
This is literally what the top post link is about. The backdoor functionality has been (roughly) figured out: after decryption and signature verification it passes the payload received in the signing key of the clients authentication certificate to system().

C/C++ is not a problem here because sshd has to run things to open sessions for users.
And why not adopting a CMMS system? I'm missing something? Of course that you need to pay for it, monthly or one time payment, but they are made for this kind of job
A way to get a more positive conversation would be to post something nice about Wayland, rather than something relentlessly negative about X.
What does "Reset the test point" mean in this piece?
All analogies are flawed, and we are rapidly approaching the point of madness.

Still, let me try. In this case, someone on the inside of the building looked in a dusty closet and saw a strange pair of hinges on the wall of the closet. Turns out that the wall of the closet is an exterior wall adjoining the alley back behind the building! At least they know which contractor built this part of the building.

Further examination revealed the locking mechanism that keeps the secret door closed until the correct knock is used. But because the lock is based on the deep mathematics of prime numbers, no mere examination of the lock will reveal the pattern of locks that will open it. The best you could do is sit there and try every possible knocking pattern until the door opens, and that would take the rest of your life, plus the rest of the lifetime of the Earth itself as well.

Incidentally, I could write the same exploit in rust or any other safe language; no language can protect against a malicious programmer.

As for detecting use of the back door, that's not entirely out of the question. However it sounds like it would not be as easy as logging every program that sshd calls exec on. But the audit subsystem should notice and record the activity for later use in your post–mortem investigation.
Men and women stopped relating to each other with the advent of social media. AI is a consequence, not a cause.

No, I take that back. Not social media. It was the widespread availability of effective contraception. #WTFHappenedIn1971.
I don't think these two words will buy you HA automagically. You will need 3 layers of various open source components on top, and I am not sure if they will improve or reduce HA at the end.
I found a user who seems suspicious to me.

https://github.com/snappyJack/CVE-request-XZ-5.2.5-has-denia...

He understood the software architecture quite early on while working on the following repository. He connected the dots from his other projects and went rogue. (probably to benefit from crypto?). Take a look at his other repositories and code style and recent likes on github. Is he our Jia Tan?
"The Journey So Far ...
The test involves driving slowly to find kangaroos. Once spotted and within range, the driver plays a random sound and captures the kangaroos' reactions on video"

So still very much in 'pre-testing'.
And be burned out 100x faster
This sounds very interesting. Any chance that you would consider a blog or social media account with more information or progress updates?
Nvidia has dabbled before in similar undertaking, Keyhole in 2001 raised first round funding from NVIDIA and Sony Digital Media Ventures, making official its existence as a standalone company. Keyhole’s first product, EarthViewer 1.0, was the true precursor to Google Earth.
Everything I said pertained specifically to San Francisco. You were replying to a sub-thread about San Francisco. Top of thread I said "You don't need a car in San Francisco." Were you expecting me to provide international options? I'm honestly not sure what the availability of Turo or Getaround is even in the US outside of SF.

Further, I said a car rental was $100 for the weekend, and yeah, I guess it was $106. The average American spends $800-1000 per month on their car in excess of the base price according to the AAA, so yeah, $53 per day seems pretty cheap within the context of this conversation.
Really? How about the attitudes towards vibrators versus fleshlights?
I admit some confusion of the idea that Toni Morrison is successful only because she was taught in schools. Schools aren’t known to push literature in classrooms published within that year on a nationwide scale (outside of specifically librarian association recommendations or something like this, a scholastic books thing). From a brief Wikipedia read, The Bluest Eye was published with Toni Morrison was nearly 40 and didn’t sell well, so it makes no sense why that’s the one taught in schools.
I think what this really points to is how important it is for AI and human to work together. Most people can write. Now, instead of hiring a writer, they can use ChatGPT to help them write. They know they will need to fine tune, edit, and be responsible for the finished product.

This doesn't apply to the more technical professions because people with those skills are not usually hiring someone on Upwork in the first place. And those are the only people available of using ChatGPT to do their jobs better.

Sorry if this wasn't clear. It's late!
I was assigned to read many books in schools, but I was never forced to read any of them.
They could because it’s his work phone get the push notifications stream and analyze that... that would leak the metadata needed to connect him to the reporter.
"I drove the entire pan American highway from Alaska to Argentina ..."

How did you cross that part of Colombia that is impassable and has no road and blah blah blah ?

Genuinely curious as I was dissuaded from a similar trip by the supposed inability to go all the way through Columbia.
in your little woke bubble, a high marginal tax rate == a gift to corporations that spend a lot. Duh. Do some math. That's what marginal rates mean.

[2] doesn't work as a link.

In any case, all your links seem to be current, not 1970's.

Give us ANY Xerox product that was government-funded. Don't say "ARPANET" because that was not a Xerox product. Nor an IBM or Microsoft product.

As for the CHIPS Act: that seems to be fairly recent, doesn't it?
It's honestly the same for "incidental art" like blog post headings. It's just that pay less for worse (in terms of artistic merit) wasn't on offer before.
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It seems to me like neuroticism isn’t fixed in people. Perhaps there are genetic predispositions, but it seems to me like it can be learned at certain stages in life, and later unlearned as a set of behaviors.
> You just have to be a bit more specific. I have had success with AI writing code but I have to drive it.

"Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him."
NSA makes the cut and China picks the public key to use.

In all seriousness, those people will quickly find some middle ground and will just share keys with each other
The thesis that started this thread: the deep state protects democracy.

Obviously if you interpret “deep state” as “secret cabals of evildoers” then yes, that’s a nonsensical argument.

My personal interpretation of the “deep state” argument that Trump has been bandying around is that he means “people who resist my desire to do whatever I want as President”.
Pretty sure this is just a typo...
(first I had to figure out who "you" was :) )

You're right. He's just throwing wild numbers around and mixing up eras.
On the other hand, this was a two year long con..
Are you offering to help with that or want more information in those medium? I'm occupied with quite a few things happening and have no energy to focus on a blog/social-media for this. If you need more info, email me with some context and I will send you the details - brajeshwar@oinam.com
Wish that Twatter wasn't the main point of contact/following for this.

I'd love to support this kind of thing, but just no given that option.
Hey that's nasty, it's nice road-trip material, redwoods, coast, historical towns; Mendocino to the south, and Oregon to the north. Some people live there by choice.

You know you've been in SV too long when your first association for 'sequoia' is 'VC' or 'portfolio' not 'tree' or 'forest'.
Yes, most organizations have inefficiencies. Reducing or removing those would likely add business value. But those inefficiencies don’t go away when people ignore them as trivial. If you identify an inefficiency do something about it. That may be in the code, or it may be in a business process.
Overcomplicated design, sloppy opsec and Eastern European time zone altogether sound more like an attempt to snatch some bitcoins by a small group of people in places.
Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall (2022)