skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation of Japan was obviously completely different, considering that it was an openly declared war against a nation that was actually capable of conquering its surrounding territory. Plus, the US had no interest in making Japan a part of its own territory. The nukes prevented a land invasion, which would've cost both sides millions of lives.

We have precedent from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, that the US would occupy the area and spend vast amounts of resources trying and failing to do precision strikes to take out the leadership, and then eventually give up and go back home.

If you've seen any of the images coming out of Gaza, you'd know that there isn't that much of a distinction between Israel using this AI and just bombing the shit out of everyone, which is why it's being suspected of being morality washing. They can just continue to bomb the shit out of everyone and claim to have blindly listened to the computer when questioned.
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> This is such a common view, but are software backdoors really that much less common in the US or EU?

Yes.
The key word is intentionally, meaning civilians are the intended targets rather than combatants.

How is phoning/texting occupants, roof knocking, leaflets, etc. not reasonable lengths to avoid civilian deaths? If you were the commander what would you do differently while still accomplishing the mission of eliminating Hamas?
Just to add my 2c on this; I browse with a sandboxed text-only Links
or W3M for 99% of all web interactions. I've got into Qubes, and for
those 1% of times they hold a gun to my head I can create a single use
Firefox routed through Tor.

The experience of text-only is that I click on loads of links! It's
very liberating. Highly recommend it for sites like HN that are high
on content and low on silly eye-candy.

I just never see the belly-dancing models selling me stuff, or the
entire page bugging-out like I did a whole bag of speed. Maybe I'm
missing out!

The links load instantly in a new tab or they don't load at all. I
set the timeout to 12 seconds. About half the time the page doesn't
load at all because it wants to run javascript or some nonsense. I
just move on without thinking about it.

Honestly it's really changed my psychology. Instead of getting annoyed
that half the web is user-hostile, I just take the attitude that it's
great that 50% of things do still load and contain real information
like its 1990! Because text-only browsing is so fast and effortless
it's no overhead. The "shit web" just slides past like water off a
ducks back.

btw our cybershow [0] is designed to quite Suckless [1], minimalist
standards.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/

[1] https://suckless.org/
I can only assume attitudes towards plastics are different in the US to Europe? Here, sustainable packaging has become expected. If there's a non-plastic way to package a product, that is what consumers expect.

Just today I watched a video about Papa John's where they proudly proclaimed moving from cardboard packaging to plastic for "visuals" (https://youtu.be/9RXObjS639M?t=457). This just wouldn't wash in Europe.
And then the Israelis put that target they only have partial confidence about into a system called "Where's Daddy?" which will track their target until he goes home to his family at which point a kill order is sent out to drones and warplanes to massacre his entire family. [0, 1]

Is that the "pro-Palestinian nonsense" you were referring to?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

[1] https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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I used this wrapper to implement an opening and ending detection tool for “fun” [1].

However, it seems that many programs opt to instead shell out to the ffmpeg CLI. I think it’s usually simpler than linking against the library and to avoid licensing issues. But there are some cases where the CLI doesn’t cut it.

[1] https://github.com/aksiksi/needle
Although historically Eduroam, like Internet access itself, began at research institutions and where they do tertiary education, there's nothing stopping a K12 from having Eduroam.

They need to be able to tie all the Eduroam enabled account credentials to specific humans so that when the University of Plymouth says "This user was downloading porn videos and that's not OK by our usage policy" you can tie that to 15 year old Steve Smith in class 8F and tell him to use his WiFi network at home to watch porn.

But it's not about adulthood, universities have always had a small number of non-adult students, acting "in loco parentis" to try to keep them out of harm's way as much as real parents likely would for a teenager. Eduroam doesn't care what your country says about majority, ages of responsibility etc. it just wants to tie every user to a member institution via an NREN.
I see. But in this case it's best to just memorize `truncate -s0` which is shell-neutral.
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> However, it has been criticised over its failure to foresee and prevent Hamas’s deadly 7 October assault last year on southern Israel, in which...

Does anyone believe that they didn't know about it?
I'd concur and also add one other aspect here. The reason a person hires a e.g. janitor is not because they themselves are incapable of janitorial work. It's because they have different tasks that they would prefer to dedicate their energy to. Even if there were absolutely perfect LLMs capable of e.g. generating code precisely to specification, you still end up with the issue of actually creating said specification, deploying the result, managing with various local constraints/limitations, updating all of this when it turns out there's an unforeseen issue, and so on.

Even if its work that a wider range of people could do, it's still work that's going to need to be done, and it's not going to be done by a chatbot. So it seems that even for many jobs that LLMs could ostensibly replace, it's more likely to widen the labor pool rather than literally replace people. If anything it might increase the number of businesses and opportunities, because it would enable the breadth of domains that micro and small companies could perform in.
Another 27-year-old brigadier general?
Yes, I see no other way than trusted humans; my problem is that I've worked with salespeople and there are vanishingly few that I trust.
Having done this, it’s not worth the effort to implement if you using more than a handful of gems and a handful of gems is really easy to inspect using diff.

And bundler isn’t aware of external C libraries you’d need to inspect.

Auditing tools using a database of known vulnerabilities is the only scalable solution I know of.
Search is still as bad as it ever was, unfortunately it remains the most feature complete alternative (and free).

And of course, Microsoft makes it impossible to use their services with it. Or so difficult you just give up after it breaks for the 5th time in a month.
that sounds like a Debian problem, not a RubyGems problem, then.
”Machines never make the decision, they’re merely collecting data to assist human operatives”

They’ll keep saying this forever, and there’s a shroud of plausible deniability to it! Not to mention it can soothe the conscience of the operatives who have to live with their decisions - they don’t even have to look through the family photos - the AI has already filtered out the suspicious parts. In reality, it’s a good ole recommendation engine, just like Netflix or TikTok. And when you’re tired, have too much work stacked up, you’ll be more likely to let autoplay take over – or approve the strike of someone’s home.

To those that think this is harsh: please read the article. It’s that bad.
870MB ISO file from Google Drive without any signatures. Have we learned anything from last week or forgot already?
which is definitly the case for me, but at this point it just comes from the fact that ok, i just know i have the capacity to work hard so i dont the confidence will come
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Aspirationally, I'm with you – but practically, there are parents that know how to set up the (much more effective, given ubiquitous encryption, VPNs/private relay etc.) on-device controls, and there are those that don't have the resources to do that.

You could say that it's a lost cause, that their kids will just find public Wi-Fi elsewhere, that their classmates with mobile data can just open unmonitored Wi-Fi hotspots from their devices etc., that the better approach is to educate kids and give them the skills to deal with the complete unfiltered internet rather than to build more guardrails, and I'd even agree with some of these arguments to an extent.

But you'll almost certainly find parents within the same school that view it differently and you will be fighting an uphill battle.
Maybe 13 years ago when I was a fresh and inexperienced dev in my first job, I was once asked to work on a C# side project at work where people could run common dev workflows (think running database migrations, deployments etc) by specifying them as XML instead of scripts.

I had fun, eventually they wanted things like conditional workflows which I had to think how to model in XML.

To anyone with even a bit of experience, they can tell that it wasn't long until this not-invented-here-driven-monstrosity of an idea was abandoned as it's not something you can do as a couple of hours per week side project and have it be massively useful in a short timeframe.

So it was a useless effort for the company, but as a very inexperienced dev, it was the first project where afterwards explanations of how things like lisp worked started to make sense to me intuitively considering how backwards I was in my naive attempts.

Even the project you're describing, learn to be ok with looking back on parts of your career and being thankful that only your employers money was being burned on "useless" things while you were taking forward the valuable lessons.
Yah, that's the possible patriarchal effect mentioned elsewhere. But it's unclear how much that actually happened "in the wild."
Every single return Ive done or seen at my drop offs goes into a single use plastic bag + plastic from the tape they use. 99% of my items could ship in a paper bag and don't need plastic bubble wrap. The bubble bag or plastic bag is always completely oversized for the item. I could go on but I think everyone knows the same form their own experience with amazon.
I think Amazon has two niches where it's still good.

* If you know exactly what name brand thing you want to buy Amazon is the best buying / return experience, usually the cheapest way to acquire it, and the fastest delivery.

* If you don't know exactly what you want it's a pretty good search engine on top of AliExpress. As soon as you see two of the same pictures you can get it for at least half the price buying direct.
In case you didn’t see, the comment you’re replying to says “sunken cost fallacy fallacy”.

See-also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942634
I think it's more a question of authoritarianism rather than "Communism". If the state (or a corp) can take away anything you have without reason, then it's really hard to plan for the future. In some places all land is considered state land and you can only lease it, in other places the politics are so fluid your property could be handed out to an oligarch in good with the regime. Both of them have major discontinuities that disrupt decision making.
True, the problem with it though is that it kinda half ass everything, and the design for it is kinda mediocre.

The only reason it's so ubiquitous is the office/outlook bundling sold to most companies.

It a chimera that's the outcome of multiple grafting procedures
And no matter how much makeup it still show when you use it long enough.
Expected value on some jackpot lotteries does occasionally go over 1. For example, I did the math on Canada's 6/49 about 20 years ago. Whenever the jackpot was over ~$30M, the expected payout was over 1. If you bought a ticket for every jackpot the expected payout was 0.5, the expected payout of any lottery without a jackpot was < 0.2 in hindsight. For $30M prizes the number of players and the odds of sharing a prize went up, but not enough to compensate.

It would have had to go well above $45M to make the "buy every number" strategy have expected value of > 1 since buying every number increases the expected people sharing the prize by 1.
The Document Foundation is a German organization.
I imagine it stops some non-targeted attempts that simply probe the entire v4 range, which is not feasible with v6. But yeah, not really buying you much, especially if there is any publicly listed service on that IP.
I hope this is not a bomb...
Keep the jokes to yourself. Our time is far too expensive for them at work.
Israel gets to define anyone killed as a terrorist so the AI can never be wrong

Alternatively they can just label anyone resisting extermination as such so the entire population can be cleansed
Which part of the parent comment suggested they wanted to connect to other platforms and that would somehow violate the TOS?
While this is great news, in my opinion, given the facts surrounding this backdoor, I think this article is misguided due to two reasons:

1. the scope of the known backdoor is very constrained to only be inserted into native OS packages. As such, I don't think we need every other user of liblzma to post blog posts that they are not vulnerable independently of which version they embed. This is at best noise and at worst dangerous because

2. the bad actor has been submitting patches to liblzma for much longer than the 5.6 release and given the ingenuity of the attack, it's too early to claim that a project is not vulnerable to backdoors simply because there might already have been other "presents" left by the threat actor.

Given these two points, I really believe we should not be posting "hey we are not vulnerable" blog posts here because at best they are useless noise (nobody aside of debian or redhat and their downstreams is vulnerable) and at worst false assurances.
On 1998, the US started giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the telecoms to roll out fiber natinwide.

This incredible event led to the US becoming the first country to have fiber deployed nationwide.

Wait, I'm misremembering that slightly... Oh yes, I remember now: The telecoms pocketed the money instead of delivering the promised infrastructure, and now the US lags much of the world on Internet connectivity.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
'spread the blame among civilians' was the wrong phrase. It should have bee impact, not blame.
The fundamental reality is that compressing decision timelines creates more effective military outcomes.

Everything else flows from that.

At a high-level, that decision compression will be an arms race between competitors for military advantage, where the argument to relax human-scale decisions will be "If we don't do it, we'll lose to someone who will."

You saw the same thing in the nuclear arms race, as launch-to-impact time compression (as technology advanced) eroded available human decision time.
Came here wondering the same thing. It's not like Woods would even had a reason to come up with Keirans' name, so did Keirans provide it when the bank was investigating? Like, "Oh, I'll bet I know who you're talking to. I'll bet it's Matthew Keirans. We've had issues in the past"?

If I were Keirans, I wouldn't even want to bring the Keirans name anywhere near Woods, lest someone realize they were switched. I'd have acted like I had no idea who might be pretending to be me.

So how did Keirans' name end up associated with Wood when he was arrested and charged?
Ending scarcity. The question is, as always, how to get there and if it is possible at all.
I recall this article too from 2014 on the same topic:
https://www.ft.com/content/937b06c2-3ebd-11e4-adef-00144feab...
Chat, Audio/Video Conferencing apps are other examples.
In other words, the companies set to gain the most from dismissing any fears about the negative effects of AI join forces to fund dubious research that argues in their favour.
A lot of restaurants have moved to this style of packaging. Even if it does improve heat retention/reduce sogginess[0], it's frustrating.

[0] They claim it does, but I'm not sure I notice any difference.
In my experience, the nags aren't really that bad. But you're right about installing applications.

With the upcoming sideloading and app store changes, that might change and these devices will remain useful for longer.
> Eduroam doesn't care what your country says about majority, ages of responsibility etc.

Oh, I'm not saying that this was an explicit design goal of Eduroam, but I strongly suspect that there would be a whole new set of challenges the organizations running it might not be prepared for if they were to extend it to K12.

Your customer base heavily influences the types of issues people might try to hold you responsible for, whether it's reasonable or not.
Need to start enabling a pre-filtering of unbearably silly titles.

This title raising the question of whether an elephant in a porcelain shop could possibly affect the porcelains.
Just from a visual perspective, it's amazing what a colour palette can do
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"But what about..."

Your comment is basically unrelated to the parent comment. Parent said nothing about any specific country, just that it is unethical to use AI to decide who to kill.

USA bad. Yes, yes.
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I (as well as a few others on the team) spent six months working on a new web app that my company had decided would be the future of the department (my boss said those exact words to me), and that they'd sell to two different major clients (one was a major pharmacy and another was a major health insurance company. You've almost certainly heard of them).

We already had them as clients for other services we provided, this was just something new that the higher ups were sure they'd go for (I think it solved a real need of theirs, their call center people were doing a lot of looking things up manually across like 60 excel spreadsheets during calls, IIRC, and part of what this did was combine all that data into a central area that's easily searchable, plus some other nice-to-have call center features like being to schedule appointments or something, I think).

We got a nearly production-ready MVP in front of them and demo'd it, they seemed interested but we could never get them to sign a contract, for months. One of them eventually decided to recreate something similar in-house and actually had the gall to request that we send them all the business logic we came up with while doing it (for free), the other just never signed a contract.

Well anyway, after failing to get those two clients, the execs must have decided that it was no longer the future of the department, and was quietly shelved.

I might as well not have done anything that six months. Although I did get a bit more comfortable with using Angular at the time, thanks to that project.

That company did that multiple times, btw. Because of the nature of the health industry, and how often they drag their heels for contracts, they often decided they had to start work without a contract in place or else wouldn't have it ready by the annual health insurance open enrollment period, which is when health insurance companies were busiest and where companies that offered services to those companies (our company) made all of their money (think of it kind of like how game companies don't want to miss the holiday season for their new releases). But it resulted in them doing work and not getting paid for it. I wasn't surprised to find out the department was eventually shut down a few years after I quit.
That's actually astonishing. As so often it feels like the reactionary culture of the US is actively dragging the world down. Especially in relation to environmental protection, privacy rights and conflict escalation.
I am just assuming. I use many different sources for finding information, and this is how results have been for years:

Social media: Mostly not AI generated

YouTube: Significant part AI generated

Google: Mostly AI generated

Kagi: Significant part AI generated

Anna's Archive: Never seen any AI generated results

LibGen: Never seen any AI generated results

Google Books: Never seen any AI generated results

Google Maps: Never seen any AI generated results

Are there any other huge online resources for finding information that I've missed?

Considering that the amount of information available in a the shadow libraries rivals the general Internet in size, I think it is impressive how they have managed to keep relatively clean.
no. We have to assume any commit of the threat actor to have been malicious. Given that 5.4 contains code by the threat actor, it's not safe to claim to not be vulnerable. Not vulnerable to this specific backdoor, sure. But I don't feel like 5.4 is safe either.
I think it's worth it, but just a warning, I'd be skeptical of the claims that some people make, where they act like "learning Vim made me 10x faster at coding!"

I do feel like Vim allows me to "translate my intent to the screen" really easily, and I avoid context switching as much, but I doubt it makes me appreciably faster at writing code. It's pretty rare that typing speed or "how fast I can edit" is the blocking factor for writing software.
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You are wrong because one bad bomb that killed the 7 kitchen workers made world headlines. If they bombed the shit out of everyone, then there wouldn’t even be any kitchen workers going in. The fact that this war is going on for months and this one is the first that killed people who it shouldnt have would tell you otherwise. Also a big difference is in the other wars you mentioned, the fighters wouldn’t disguise themselves as civilians, use hospitals and civilians as shields did they?
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Is the UK preparing for war amid threats of conflict?
This is how sentience develops. The need to distinguish garbage. I wonder if our multicellular predecessors started storing in DNA who were the bullshitters on the area that would become the brain.
Fully autonomous drones, from other countries, have been killing people since at least 2020. It's not just the IDF using AI.

This was the earliest official report sourced by the UN, pegging Turkey: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/fully-autonomous-drone-was-used-...
Durable Objects have a bit weird programming model for me, I hope this one will be easier.
Is it really OpSec if you're putting your initials on a self-published Amazon book?
Isn't this because Windows uses a kernel driver and macOS a user space one? Some overhead is to be expected.

I know macOS is a lot more keen on putting things traditionally in kernel into the user space to decrease the attack surface.
War crimes do not justify war crimes.
My argument is AI not bad, AI help minimize civilian casualties even in such difficult grounds.
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