skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nitpick, but no it shouldn’t.
The HASH of your password is recorded. You never submit your password, you submit that hash and they compare it.

Nitpick, but the password is submitted as-is by most client applications, and the server hashes the submitted password and compares it with the hash it has (of course, with salting).
Our universe lives inside the singularity of a black hole. Each black hole has another universe inside it. The reason our universe is expanding is because our parent black hole is undergoing hawking radiation which stretches the fabric of our universe.
> let’s assume that there exists a universal language U such that it always gives us the shortest description length for all strings.

Read on a bit and it looks like proof by contradiction:

> However, let’s bring back the paradox we discussed above. According to that paradox, U cannot exist or U cannot provide shorter descriptions than every arbitrary L.
I was really young. Like 7. It really stuck in my memory. My first disappointment in a show being cancelled
I would, by routine, advise that publicly available boxes are configured to accept connections only from whitelisted sources, doing that at the lowest possible level on the stack. That’s usually how secure environments such as those used in PCI compliant topologies are specified.
I was an apache committer/contributor to a few of the hadoop ecosystem and found this paper to be very inspiring. I totally agree with much of it and it really changed the way I look at the world. I would go farther nowadays especially that databases are so smart.
I agreed with you in my statement. Democracy works excellently when done well.

The problem is that figuring out how to make democracy work is one of the hardest tasks on earth (I’m living in a country suffering from terrible corruption and tribalism under democracy).

Yet, I still said that I prefer a system where people choose their leaders…it’s on them to make it work.
What is the use case for an inkjet printer at home? Photos?

I have owned tons of printers in my life, but never an inkjet.

They're lower resolution, slower, nuch less reliable, and more expensive than any laser in the long term. Are the colors better than a color laser? I've never compared them.
This submission has the same content as the link here (submitted to HN about a month ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501982
https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
More that they have essentially attempted to define "large fast food chain", including what's effectively a definition of fast food.

Companies can potentially escape the law by providing more than "limited service", or splitting the company so they have fewer than 60 locations, or selling food that requires some preparation by the customer.
StarCraft 2 Arcade Lobby Name Exploit
Depends on what you mean by "stable". A distro with known-broken packages can be "stable" in a sense that its brokenness is reproducible with every new container you spin up, and therefore can be reliably worked around. I've had this happen with minor packages in known-stable distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS, too.
Tbh insofar as the problem is the specific image used - recreating the shot with a reenactor doesn’t fix the problems with the model wanting their likeness to not be used for this purpose (and probably with the way some states are going could be considered protected itself, eg the Elvis act in Tennessee), and even opens up the argument that this itself is re-victimization and harassment (eg analogous to CSAM image arguments).

It also fundamentally doesn’t fix the problem with it just being kind of a horny selection of an image in the first place, which is the other half of the complaint.

I’m not saying it’s something that keeps me up at night personally, other than it just being generally a little tasteless. But for those who do argue against the use of Lena, it really satisfies none of the arguments other than the purest copyright one (and it may not even be legal to use in all jurisdictions because of personal likeness concerns anyway).

If you’re gonna get new material, get new material. Not just Legally Distinct Lana.
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This reads as though they had taken issue with some of the movement away from traditional relational databases in that era. I know it's been retracted, so who knows what the authors opinions are today, but the eureka moment to me was in horizontal scalability - not the map and reduce functions. Until then if you wanted something to go faster you simply bought a bigger computer.

In my work many of the MR use cases didn't necessarily compete with activities you'd expect of a database. For example - take the entire Geo database and generate the map tiles. I also must have written hundreds of MRs that essentially transform the entire dataset. You certainly can do that in a relational database but it seems like the wrong approach. Similarly if I was going to perform a bunch of queries I wouldn't write a new MR each time.
That sounds really cool. We’ve been doing call mapping to account plans and it’s pretty useful so far.
My thoughts exactly. If feature X is important enough to do all the silly workarounds they did then why would you in the first place choose a provider that didn’t support feature X?

The choice of IPV4 + shenanigans vs IPV6 seems pretty straightforward.
Well allow me to retort. I have done 2 unicorns in the last 10 years and i have 6 new projects going on. None of them would even have been possible without cloud, almost all are under 100$ a month on vercel.

Here's a new one i'd love feedback on
https://github.com/webtimemachine/wtm2/
Modern Java does support directly calling C functions, with structs.
And also upcalls back to java.
All without any JNI style preprocessing or stubs.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/calling-c-lib...
If you're trying to say that Dell isn't a hardware company just because of where they started, I don't know what to tell you.
Let's not forget that before the 1990s, there were the partitions with Pakistan and Pakistan-Bangladesh, Indira Gandhi's seizure of power ...

> 400 million Indians still make less than many sub-saharan African nations.

Yes, and they are more important than all the programmers in Bangalore. Also, non-Hindu Indians, including those who are Muslim, are relegated to second-class status (which also must affect their economic opportunity).
I do mind and not gonna use Helix just for this alone. Lips is the past (I've used it extensively in the '80s and '90s), not the future!
From AT&T, when they told me that, after I told them I wasn't comfortable giving AT&T my SSN, because AT&T is not competent enough to keep that data safe. Case in point: the original post we're commenting on.

Though I will do a better job of clarifying in the future that I am specifically referring to my experiences with home internet and not cellular service, you raised a valid criticism of what I posted.

Hope you're not adversely affected by this breach. I know for sure I'm not.
Do be do be do (2017) [pdf]
This has crippled lobby discovery in StarCraft 2 for multiple days now. You cannot view the lobby list of arcade games because there is a lobby name that causes the client to crash.
What is the cybersecurity equivalent in the US of something like Anduril?

Most cybersecurity companies seem like sleazy crapware sellers for corporations to check compliance boxes. Which companies are actually building good defensive cybersecurity on the sole bet that people will come to it on pure technical merit?
> If crime goes down, they are 'good' dictators.

Crime nearly always goes down with dictators, that's not a good metric. The question is how many completely innocent people have their lives ruined or lost in the process.
I googled this when I first moved to a duvet country and adopted this exact method.
Containers on kubernetes are major part in allowing me to put less abstractions into code directly, if only because I can reduce bits that would be built-in or in messy companion scripts into more or less standardised patterns in k8s
A protection racket fills a power or monopoly on violence vacuum. The current government would seem to be filling this vacuum today.
Also, in a more optimistic scenario without sockpuppets, it's unlikely that malicious and underhanded contributions will be caught by anyone that isn't a security researcher.
What kind of elaboration are you looking for?

> It seems the dairy farmers I grew up with in Southwestern Ontario were living just above poverty.

Sure. Such is the life of owing a business. I mean, why take for yourself personally when you can buy another farm instead?

While not dairy or poultry, I operate a grain farm in Southern Ontario – along with involvement in tech – and I also live in near poverty. Not because I have to, but because the money is better spent on growing and improving the business. That's the name of the farming game.

If you wanted to live a comfortable personal life, you'd get a regular day job instead. That's a perfectly reasonable choice – nay, the most reasonable choice – but once you catch the farming bug...
[pdf]

Weird that there isn't more of a webpage for this instead of only the toplevel domain (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749382) and this odd pdf redirect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

> The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used.[4][5][6][7] The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words of 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bit groupings in the instruction stream were often referred to as syllables[a] or slab, before the term byte became common.

> The modern de facto standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the binary-encoded values 0 through 255 for one byte, as 2 to the power of 8 is 256.[8] The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit byte.[9] Modern architectures typically use 32- or 64-bit words, built of four or eight bytes, respectively.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Buchholz_1956_1...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_ref-Buchholz_1956_1_...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Rao_1989-6

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-Tafel_1971-7

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-ISO_IEC_2382-1_...

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#cite_note-CHM_1964-10
> the foundation of the American economy was built on slave labour and colonisation (even if it was a late player)

I thought the slave states were significantly poorer than the free states, a major advantage of the North in the Civil War? I'm sure it's been examined, but would the South have been better off with paid labor of free people? Countries using that model do far better. Imagine someone trying to compete with slave labor against a modern enterprise.

For colonization, that seems to have played a minor role in the US economy?

My understanding of the pre-industrial or non-industrial US economy is that it's most powerful engine was the Mississippi River basin, which is something like the largest continguous amount of farmland in the world with navigable waterway access to the sea (and thus a way to get goods to market, as overland transport was much too expensive - compare a barge to a horse, or even a train).
Making things out of wood might just be the most environmentally friendly thing to make things out of though. Mining and refining mined products seems terrible in comparison and the Petro chemical industry is definitely harmful.

We need to make sure the wood is responsibly harvested as much as possible but turning trees into part of a home is a actually pretty much inline with how nature works in general.
StarCraft 2 Custom Games list freeze – technical explanation [2024/03]
> I know it’s a touchy point for people

You don't need to try the BS characterizations of people who disagree with you. Just make your argument.

You may know people who make those choices, but those are their choices, their democratic, free choices, and they can change their minds tomorrow if they don't like how it's working out. That's the point - they choose, nobody else gets to choose for them.

> The point I’m making is people are thinking the two options are dictatorship or universal suffrage democracy and I’m saying not only does a middle ground exist but that middle ground used to be the default.

And the same questions apply - see the GP.
I think the camera import on Excel MacOS works pretty well. You could probably call that version through an API.
So don't you want to enlighten us with the answer?
Nope, about a year or so ago we had a similar problem with the same piece of code and instead of fixing it I said “that’ll take me a couple of days the get right” and the guy I was doing it for just went and manually fixed the file format which took him a few hours.

This time when a similar thing happened I was able to fix it before he even had to ask how long it might take and the solution is more robust and able to handle several different formats now.

It was a definite win.
That ferry isn't currently operating. (If you follow the link, the operator's site has been replaced with a domain squatter site.)

I've read a number of articles about the Darién Gap, and they all indicate that there have been several ferry operators in the past, in some cases for years at a time, but that there's currently no regularly scheduled service. For example, Wikipedia states this several times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap

Wikivoyage suggests that you can make it by boat if you're willing to fly part of the way, and/or that you can make private arrangements with a shipping company that can transport cars.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Darien_Gap

My understanding from these and other articles is that people with enough money can buy access to sea transportation for themselves and/or their cars, but that you can no longer just buy a ticket for any kind of regularly scheduled departure. But this could conceivably change again in the future.
> That's irrelevant to the file formats themselves, however. A simple file format doesn't automatically guarantee a simple implementation,

Maybe it doesn't guarantee it, but at least a simple format makes it possible.

A complex format makes it impossible to have a simply implementation.
Quoting from the article:

"The whole point of democracy is to spread political decision-making and create approval-based feedback loops with the population so that good leaders are elected and bad leaders are deposed without resorting to violence. Dictatorships concentrate power to permit more state dynamism but at the expense of this dispersed risk. This makes dictatorships a higher risk-higher reward proposition. A good dictator can do more good without democratic constraints, but a bad dictator can do more bad."
If the hash permits a login then having a hash is essentially equivalent to having a password. The malicious user wouldn't be able to use it to sudo but they could deploy some other privilege escalation once logged in.
Given the recent "treatment" from recruiters, I'm inspired to start something like a Glassdoor but for individual recruiters.

There's far too many recruiters (internal and agency) that behave poorly and or act unethically.
> Crime nearly always goes down with dictators

Wow, I am pretty well informed and I've never seen that. Do you have evidence of it?
> figuring out how to make democracy work is one of the hardest tasks on earth

Lots and lots of places have done it. But yes, it can be difficult - it's up to the people, like everything else. If they want it, they will have it.
What a brilliant piece of writing! As someone who was previously uninformed about the Guatemala belt of countries, this article provided a thorough understanding of the issues. Although it took me an hour to read, every second was enthralling. Thank you, Matt, for such an enlightening piece!
No, it’s a very specific regex for parsing a very finicky file format. It’s definitely the best tool for the job, although funnily enough ChatGPT couldn’t get it right in a single regex but Claude could.

ChatGPT chickened out and kept giving me functions that looped through applying various filters and regexes.
Are there any plans to support type inference? It seems like it currently shows all variables as generic64_t. Would be nice to automatically detect their types like Ghidra does (albeit sometimes incorrectly)
Wouldn't everything produced by an AI explicitly have to be checked/reviewed by a human? If not, then the attack vector just shifts to the AI model and that's where the backdoor is placed. Sure, one may be 50 times more efficient at maintaining such packages but the problem of verifiably secure systems actually gets worse not better.
That’s not apples to apples. You can host the spreadsheet online to solve the syncing issues. When doing that, Jira becomes much less advantageous.

When things need to get done, I see people writing spreadsheets for fast adaptive tracking and then once they are done, they sync it with Jira manually post-factum just because they must. Jira becomes a tax to pay, and a slow centralised versioning system.
Written like classic cyberpunk noir! Except it’s real :(
They are usually much higher resolution than a laser printer. The colours are also much better (there are many different types you can use for different processes) than a laser and there is a wide choice of medium for printing on. They are also very reliable if used regularly.

However, I think most people buy inkjets because when they need to buy a printer they see one for $30 and think that will suffice. And you are buying anything but a good inkjet at that price.

I own a colour laser for personal use because I print low tens of sheets a few times a year, and experience has told me that will result in dried up ink cartridges if I had an inkjet. I’m still using the manufacturer supplied laser toners from when I bought the printer 7 years ago
> Now, you might object that there is no such thing as an ought-truth---"I ought not murder an innocent person" is just the same thing as saying "I believe I ought not murder an innocent person" or "Most believe I ought not murder an innocent person" or "I have bad feelings about murdering innocent people" or something like this. That's fine---but then we're talking about completely different when we talk about "purpose".

Statements of oughts are values not truths. I'm not sure how you've come to the idea that an ought can be a truth.

> Your response here indicates that your destination isn't in fact the grocery store, or at least, "My destination is the grocery store" is not the whole story, it's actually "My first stop is the zoo, and my final destination is the grocery store," or something like this. To believe otherwise would be to misunderstand what "My destination is the grocery store" means.

Tradition is a highly complicated system of values; a lot of values have been made indirect and abstracted far away from our instincts. I think you've constructed an analogy that doesn't really bear any useful resemblance to reality, because it's hard to see how going to the zoo can help me go to the grocery store. I can see how my curiosity leads me to being creative and learning, which are both helpful in the tradition I belong in.

> Purpose in the sense that it is an ought-truth is what I am talking about. I'm not talking about truths about human biology. Those truths are irrelevant---well, not really irrelevant (like I said, ought-truths aren't truths by virtue of is-truths alone, but they can be truths by virtue of is-truths and ought-truths, so there may be relevant is-truths to our purpose), but they are not the whole story.

> And this isn't some weird meaning I've arbitrarily ascribed to the word purpose. No, purpose in this sense is what actually matters. It is not a description of the way in which a bunch of physical stuff is organized.

You keep referring to the truth of reproduction, whereas I am talking about feeling purpose in it. Purpose is validated by the meaning that is gained from it.

> For some further intuition on this, it might be fruitful to reread my example of murder in a previous comment in this light. Even if it really were the case that murder was natural, that would have no bearing on its immorality. I'm sure you can come up with other examples where what is natural is immoral.

Killing is natural. Murder is an immoral act due to the traditional set of values that we have inherited. We react to killing instinctively, but we react to murder because it violates the traditional order. If the traditional order is warped so that people are no longer connected to it, you will see the inner animal emerge from them. If anything natural is deemed immoral, it is from the standpoint of the traditional order.
I've found his work on inequalities, but the article mentions in passing that he did some good work on the teavellimg salesman problem and I can't seem to find anything about it. Does anyone know where I could find it?
The North also had twice the soldiers which probably doesn't hurt.
I like https://www.redmine.org/. It’s stable, contains all features I expect from issue tracking, fast, easy to export and configure. And if you must, very easy to go into the code or database and change.
Ah right, that's useful, thanks. Presumably if you need to login from an untrusted source (e.g. in an emergency), then you're out of luck in that case? Do you maybe keep an emergency access cert stashed somewhere?
Yes. It is good to not trust Microsoft. I have an account on GitLab, but all of my repos are elsewhere.

There are other places to go, without hosting your own: GitLab and BitBucket are two possibilities.
It fails that small build that is testing for landlock functionality. Hence it doesn’t build the support for it.

It doesn’t fail the overall build.
> A ton of these jobs are essentially low-value marketing copy for things like banner ads, social media marketing, SEO-targeted blog posts, etc.

An interesting aspect of LLMs today is that it seems to mainly replace the white-collar jobs that are basically were useless to human society anyway (but that workers need to do to in order to survive), or to put, "bullshit" jobs.