skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, there are documents out there a startup can read, understand, and follow to get reasonable outcomes. Theory is a wonderful place, I'm told. I'd like to visit someday.

In practice, the answer is to hire a consultancy. There are fractional CISO services out there. It's very likely that a startup without significant security experience in-house does not have the expertise to make good use of any guidance they can find. Every scenario is too specific, every personality dynamic too unique, and every new technology question too novel for there to be easy pre-fab answers that a non-security-practioner can find, understand, and apply in a correct and consistent manner.
I'd guess it has less effect than the difficulty in getting fresh food. Most of the population here has to drive for long distances to get to a mini market filled with ultra processed food-like substances.

If we could deliver a doctor or groceries to their front door the later would probably do more good.
PowerShell has that whole execution policy thing, so you can't just launch a PowerShell script unless you wrap it in a batch file or some other script.

I could see how allowing the user to whitelist individual scripts would make sense, but as far as I can tell that's not how it works? A blanket policy of "all scripts are forbidden unless wrapped with fragile and shady-looking hacks" doesn't seem particularly useful.
A Real-World Law-Enforcement Breach of End-to-End Encrypted Messaging (Real Wor [video]
Well, this is still just albumen, so you won't be making custard with it. Actual albumen would be a lot more versatile than existing substitutes, tho.
I like Go's approach to this same idea. The standard database/sql library provides the standard API and the individual database drivers implement their own backend. You can use the URI connection string for your database (ie. postgres://...) though only after including the driver in your file's imports. There's even the idiomatic underscore prefix to the package import to note that you're only importing it for how it's presence affects another package. Unfortunately there's no way to sway which package you're affecting, but its still better than hidden changes.
> advertise speeds in megabits per seconds

"bits per second" is what it always has been for computer communication.

When I got started, I got a 300 bits/second modem, which later got upgraded to 1200/75 bits/s and then 2400 bits/second.

Later on, we had 57,6 kbit/second modems, 64 kbit/s ISDN lines, 2 Mbit/s ADSL, etc.

All the speedtest websites I've seen also use Mbit/s.

But sure, if I'm downloading the latest Ubuntu distro, I want to know the current speed in Megabytes/s.
Are you visiting from the iOS(possibly Android too, but didn't see anyone mention) app? That's where it's generally happening.
Or want to trust him to run a self-driving car. Or save the world from climate change or something.

I think Elon has kind of demonstrated that if you just keep stating that you did something with confidence long enough, some people will actually believe it.
Scripts get complicated when people start worrying about "portability," like we were in 1991 so we have to use "sh".

It's 2024 and you're not developing the next vim or Postgres. Use bash.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to...

> X eventually realized the issue and rolled out a patch later that same day for some of the domains affected by this change. "Netflitwitter.com" no longer shows up as "Netflix.com" for example.

> However, Mashable can confirm that the X for iOS app is currently still changing many other references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com." We noticed that in one instance we found, the change was happening when "Twitter.com" was being used in a subdomain for another URL.
There is a cash flow report that all (public) businesses use -- as I said, it is one of 3 basic reports that capture different aspects of the companies financial performance. You need all 3 for a complete picture. The cash flow statement helps "unobfuscate" certain aspects of the other two reports (which I hope you agree are not pure obfuscation).

For example, see this Apple Corp. financial report[0] -- it includes a statement of cash flows. I think you'd find that all other companies required to publicly share their financials will include the same report.

[0]https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/FY22_Q4_Consolidated_Fin...
In that case it wouldn't matter where they make it available. GDPR protects EU citizens' data everywhere, including in US.
It used to be Xubuntu, but I moved all my stuff to Debian about a year ago.
I closed my Twitter account when this guy took over, for all the obvious reasons. Somewhat to my surprise, it actually turned out to be a massive boost to my mental health. For a week after I closed the account, I'd find myself thinking, "I'm bored, I should check Twitter... oh wait, I can't" and then I'd just go on with my day. It was fantastic and I don't miss it at all. So in a weird way, my life got better when he took over.

Definitely recommend closing your account if you're on the fence. Don't move to bluesky or whatever, just take this opportunity to cut all this crap out of your life. You don't need it.
Wow. I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's pretty. And I do recognise the extended centrelines of local runways, as well as the typical instrument approach tracks into them!

Edit: Having read the readme, I have a better idea of what I'm looking at. Really impressive technically as well.
> Social media has ruined society, indeed, but only because the exploitability was always there to begin with.

Sounds a lot like gambling. Perhaps we should regulate it the same way.
Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows
Revenge for being forced to honor his word at buying Twitter, he made them regret it by killing it.
The article is pretty fresh ("This entry was posted on Wednesday 10th of April 2024 10:28 AM", and the author is from the US. Even if he's on East Coast, it would only be half an hour ago) though.

Unless Twitter just fixed it within 1 hour, I think the author should mention it has been fixed (edit: or that it was limited to certain platform [iOS?], since it's not reproducible on web at least.)
> Also of interest, he has won the Abel Prize in 2021, making it a rather unique combination of winning the top honors in both theoretical/abstract math & CS

The overlap between theoretical CS and math is way larger than most people know. For a simple example, check out the theoretical CS course catalog at MIT: https://catalog.mit.edu/subjects/6/ and how many of them are cross listed as course 18 (math) classes.
Optimistic visions pretty much ended with the 1971 oil crisis, in much the same way as all those graphs showing wage divergence starting then. It became apparent that progress was not linear and only upwards, and there would be significant downsides for at least some groups. You don't have to presume that it's all propaganda.
anthropomorphizing the accounts is not the problem. the problem is that in the example the two parts of the double-entry are the two partners of the transaction. to anthropomorphize properly alice and bob would be two employees of the company buying a book from a bookstore.
The now rare clbuttic self-inflicted wound.
He's been obsessed with this since the beginning with x.com in '99
Seeing this, I have to rant for a bit about paying for QR codes. Some not-tech friends hosted a pub quiz some time ago, paper with QR codes on each table with a URL that in the end points to an e-mail address for ordering drinks. Worked like a charm.

But halfway the evening, the 'QR code stopped working'. The paper didn't degrade or the ink or whatever, no, the redirect went out of some limit.
That pissed me off, because a QR code doesn't expire, it still pointed to the same URL but that now wanted some money. The generator they used funneled everything through them so they could do this.

Told them to ask me next time, so I can just embed `mailto:beer@their-event.nl` into a QR code which will never stop working.
I once worked at a company where the head of our department announced we were doing a re-org. He later explained that another department did so and at a board meeting the news was well received by the board ... so he was doing it too.

Sometimes leadership just feels the need to put their stamp on things so everyone knows they're there.
Thanks to this I found the source data which is really cool: https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenNames - you can download a zip file full of CSVs with a huge number of geographic names (with British National Grid (EPSG:27700) coordinates).
I was 12 and they sent a CD to me in India from the US for free! They have since discontinued the program. But meant a lot to me as a kid
Do people really ask for a "32 Gibibyte RAM stick" in the store?
here's some examples[0]:

this one scored high:

Pinned Down - Powerful Analytics Without the Need for Engineering or SQL

this one scored low:

Analytics Made Accessible for Everyone.

Each time I've compared the top scoring results to those at the bottom, I've always preferred the top scoring variations.

0 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hdu2BlhLcLZ9sruVW8a_...
No, it wouldn't help they don't publish it in EU. They would be in violation with GDPR either way.
-mouth is another good one, lots of river openings!
If you're on a Transport for Wales train you'll hear it said as Amwythig as well. There's a surprising amount of Welsh names for English cities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_exonyms#United_Kingdom_(...
Normal world things usually scales by unit. You can have 1 apple, 3 apples, or 10 apples, so the shortcuts for amounts of digits matter.

In the digital world, a lot of things scale by powers of two. You can't have 2 isolated bits. You have 1 byte (that is 8 bits), the numbering system used to put addresses is based on powers of two (1 byte can be used to tell between 256 addresses, because that is 2^8, then 2, 4 and more bytes) and a lot of bases for packing information followed or required that (like storage, with 512 or 2048 bytes per sector). The kilobyte was then the closest binary number closer to 1000 (2^8 * 4 = 2^10) so from there it was the standard for scaling and you get a kilobyte of kilobytes as 1 gb (2^20) and 1 kilobyte of megabytes 1gb (2^30).

With networking it is a bit different, because down to the layer 1, you don't transfer whole bytes, but bits. And you have things like stop bits, parity bits, frames, retries and so on that mess a bit when you are talking about individual bits or higher level of abstraction bytes, but as it is close enough for big numbers you can usually consider that for transferring 1 byte you transferred 10 bits, and more or less match the power of 10 network speed with the amount of (byte packed) information you transferred.

In any case, switching measuring units for things that scale in binary, bytes and higher, to things that scale in individual bits is more a common marketing reason than a technical one. You get the next big number just taking out a letter that most don't notice from your unit name.
I use the website.
I'd like to see this backed by data. I believe the anonymity of the platform helps remove a lot of the stress, bullying etc. that make instagram so toxic for teens. There is shit content on both platforms. But no one at school associates your social standing with your reddit account karma.
There's a lot of good in that script - it's just that it doesn't seem to cover functionalities that I'm used to after years of deploying side and "real" (business, etc.) projects to Heroku and Render.

How do you manage domain names, who deals with the ssl certificates, how do you set environment variables i.e. "secrets", how can you run postgres, how do you run remote commands i.e. dbmigrate.py, etc.

A friend and I have been working for a few months on a project to simplify this - we're not the first to do an open source IaC, but we're scratching our own itch on a lot of features that we've been missing. It's basically "deploy with git push to your own VPS and manage everything with a CLI".

I'd love to ask - what do people feel is mostly lacking from OP's script? Which features seem like the most important when deploying/managing a remote server? How do you choose if you're going to use Ansible or K8S or a script, or a full blown IaC i.e. Heroku? Is it price/ownership (i.e. having full control over the machine)/ease of use/speed of deployment/something else? Thanks!
It would be a fine question to ask, if the rest of the rethoric wasn't so biased and lacking imagination.

Haidt isn't looking into what actually happened during these periods, he's just throwing his hands in the airs preaching "I can’t see a causal path linking X with Y outside of social media".

A lot of things have been happening all around the globe that were also fundamentally different from the past, including sensitivity to corruption and awareness of global warning, which younger generation could arguably be more prone to take seriously.

A lack of clear link can't just be brushed off as a proof of irrelevance of the other probable causes.
Soul-sucking, yep. This is the correct expression.
Is speech "free" if you're being manipulated? Someone goes on "social" media to look for political information on an upcoming election and finds themself drawn in to cult-level manipulation of facts all for engagement, is what they say after that truly "free" speech?
So, Twitter did a clbuttic mistake in 2024 and went live without testing this, presumably?
I believe it only happens on the iOS app. Strange the article doesn't mention that.
Uszkoreit has mentioned that the global/quadratic attention was (paraphrasing) considered as overkill, but the brute force parallelism this simple approach allowed made that irrelevant.

But of course that changes when you scale up the context size enough, and the fix is simple since the key insight of the architecture was the hierarchical tree-like nature of language and thus dependence mostly on local (within branch) context, not global context. In Google's Big Bird attention (from their Elmo/Bert Muppet era!) they basically use sliding window local attention, but augmented with a fixed number of global tokens with global attention, and some random attention to further back non-local tokens. This mixture of attention patterns performs almost as well as global attention. Part of the reason (aside from the mostly local nature of language) is that as you ascend the transformer-layer hierarchy, receptive field sizes increase (same as they do in a CNN), so even with the attention gaps of random attention, there is still visibility at higher layers.
Been using and contributing to (and working for) Ubuntu on everything since 2005 or so.

I still use it for everything. I don't have time or inclination to switch. However I have been somewhat convinced to take a look at Nix (packaging) for some of the tools I use. But all my existing systems are fine. So likely when I next get a work machine (next week) I'll probably (if allowed) use Nix to install anything developer related over and above the stock image and supplied packages.
Reddit is so huge that making general statements about it is as useful as making general statements about the web.

You could be reading about interesting places near you where to go swimming. About swimming techniques. Cool adventure stories related to swimming. Etc.

There are plenty of useful posts and comments. They are also hidden in a sea of shit, just like the rest of the web.
I had no idea that regular black plastic IC packages were transparent enough in infrared to be able to image the underlying silicon.

Is this by design? I wonder if this transparency causes problems with photo-sensitivity in some circuits.
But the problem is the accounting jargon is counter (contra?) to the layman's gut understanding.

If I get credited or I use a credit card money came from nowhere, woohoo. If I have a debit well that sounds like debt and my money decreased, boo.

I get that actually there's a good reason for the names but a field that doggedly sticks to non intuitive jargon that runs counter to every usage yet encountered for outsiders could do with some different non-overloaded terms.
10 years ago, the best tech skills on the marketing team were held by the person who knew Excel really well, including VBA calls to remote data sources. Maybe they were coding from copy/paste examples, but they were coding.

Today, give that person an AWS account and they can absolutely build cloud-based data solutions by clicking around and following SO posts. Add ChatGPT to guide them and the sky is the limit…on how much data they can expose.
If Europa Has Geysers, They're Faint
"ALMA Spectroscopy of Europa: A Search for Active Plumes" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05525
When was the last time you said "Gibibytes" out loud in a conversation?
The world is full of people who disagree with you,

Don't you think it's worrisome that we can't agree on anything? And that includes things that are supposed to have objective answers. Why can't we find the truth? We now have instant global communication available almost 24/7, shouldn't it bring the period of unprecedented unity?
OverkiLLM: Thousands of LLM Calls to Write an H1
It isn't something I struggle with, because it isn't something I choose to deal with at the moment.
Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, although now pronunced by most people as 'God-Man-Chest-Er', used to be pronounced (and may still be by some locals) as Gumster.
Please forgive my ignorance but who pays for these funerals?
Here in the USA, funerals easily cost thousands of dollars, even without a casket or burial plot. To my knowledge, unclaimed remains end up in a mass grave with no fanfare.
It’s nice that in the Netherlands, EVERYONE gets a little dignity at the end, no matter who they were.
> People like me live an extremely healthy and social life without any traces of our identity online

With respect, I think you've failed to grasp what is being discussed here. 'Attacking' people who post ill-conceived content anonymously on the internet has most definitely grown tired (case in point), but is not really a problem. It's not a person, it's just an internet account. It doesn't matter.

The problem is that the same behaviour has started moving out into real life, where you find real people with real identities. There is no hiding from it beyond an anonymous username. Your face is out there for all to see when you step outside. Certainly you may run in circles of older people who established that compassion for real people while the lines were still clearly divided, thus not feeling it as much, but there is a generation coming up – you know, the one the article is about – that do not know the world before Reddit. They fail to grasp that there is a difference, treating real people like they are Reddit accounts.
Apparently people do watch parties for Trust Code around these parts!
Elon fired all the people who would do QA.

Something new on twitter breaks every week. It's wild.
Everything about this rebranding has been baffling to me. First, the original brand was great and pretty much untarnished, and there was no split/merger of business happening that would encourage it. There doesn't seem to be a business purpose to rename it. Second, these hamfisted attempts to try to get the new (terrible) name to stick. It's just not going to work. The huge number of existing users will always think of it as Twitter. It will at best become The Service Formerly Known As Twitter. It just feels like in software when you get a new Product Manager on the project who just wants to superficially "leave his mark" on the product in some way and then move on. Except this PM paid billions to do it.
“Now you have two problems”
Make single adult life economically infeasible for the masses, as it was for most of human history.
> On the face of it, the US is a pretty difficult place to simply remove posts

Elon Musk exposed that removing content was routine by a large list of US agencies as part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files

Zuckerburg publicly confirmed that the same thing is occuring at facebook. Especially in context of the Biden laptop story for example.

This seems to be true here on HN, which is rather surprising. I expected HN to be too small potatoes for the US government.

The important legislation to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_...

>In both the House and Senate the bill was included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017.

So this is a department of defense effort; cyber command obviously. Which is quite interesting because in the twitter files, they never mention DoD at all. Most focus was on the FBI. Obviously a factor of national security you might consider?

>and has a massive domestic propaganda industry.

You have to be careful with this though. What's the attribution here? Snowden never revealed this right, surveillance is obviously true but not necessarily propaganda.

There is perhaps the CIA mockingbird program which is still operating, but much smaller then during the cold war; so it's difficult to suggest this is massive.

A big one though started under Obama isn't so public to be able to make those conclusions. We are simply seeing the consequences and collapse of the USA journalism because of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...

It's important to note, this is fully bipartisan supported. Seeing from a Canadian point of view where this isn't happening, it's a much worse situation.

>You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

Welp, got shadow banned on HN again for this post. I also see I'm censored and quite negative on the parent comment... i wonder who it was lol... none of my other posts have gone negative votes.

I always find it funny when I get shadowbanned on HN and I'm obviously not posting too fast.

guess I'll be taking another break from HN?
Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point
The "X" makes it sound cool. At least that's what Bender from Futurama taught me.
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
If I felt this way, I'd try to get my sister to realize what's happening to her, get to the bottom of the issue together, and help her get out of it.

And be persistent to a degree, show her that you care and you are there for her (and actually be there for her, do something with her). Be understanding, some amount of video entertainment is okay. Be there for her, be patient, and know when to take a break about trying to change her bad habits.

I assume you also need to be prepared for the unfortunate possibility that she just won't budge and decides to spend her life in the matrix.
Oh I also don't deal with overlays. I have an extension installed to block all of them.
Configuring microservices is a pita that drains resources.

I wish AWS had an llm to just create all these stupid json files.
It’s probably too late for most of us. Kind of like how anti-smoking education has pretty much killed smoking among the younger generations (until vaping came along) but it’s much more prevalent among the older cohort. Only a small fraction conclusively quit for the rest of their life, they mostly just die off.

We can lay down the foundation for such a culture for the future but it might be too late for most of us to right the ship.
It's not a replacement, it's an alternative. Sometimes it's nice to have choices.
Since most of my tweets where related to work, I moved from Twitter / X to LinkedIn. Twitter under Elon is a huge mess. The irony is that he kept complaining about spam and bots before. Since he took over, my new followers and many of the likes I received were from new only fans like users. Maybe it's by design and he wants to make it an only fans clone. But I'm out. I don't even bother reading my feed yet alone posting.

LinkedIn has its problems too. I would say it's the least bad among the two.
You can use older models with the api.