skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First line:

226.2 Applicability.
This part applies to an entity in a critical infrastructure sector.

So as long as you aren't a "Submarine cable licensee
required to report outages to the Federal Communications Commission under 47 CFR 4.15" or a "A systems compliance and integrity entity, security-based swap dealer, or security-based swap data repository regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity or Regulation Security-Based Swap Regulatory Regime, 17 CFR part 242"

then i think you're good.
Ask HN: Why has WordPress been so resilient?
I'm not much of a Wordpress fan, but I can appreciate how resilient it has been as the top CMS out there. How has it been able to keep being so dominant in the space?
Depends on locale. In Germany something like 90% of murder cases are solved/cleared.

In the U.S., I suspect a majority of the murders technically unsolved by police are cases where the identity of the perpetrators is somewhat of an open secret within communities that don't trust law enforcement (and LE similarly has little interest in working with them either.)
A California 'Right to Disconnect'?
> Efforts are better placed at isolation and hardening of a standard distro

Amen! I love the work Chainguard is doing to push that philosophy btw.

> no-one buys them anyway

Well, there is a very niche market for this at a very specific federal agency (not the one you think) but IBM Mainframes and Green Hills are more than enough to meet that market need.
Out of interest, who's the guy showing it to them? Was he well known, or just at the intersection of 'korn fan' and 'korn shell fan'?
Nitter over IPFS or Torrent
Wrong.

There’s no money or benefits in solving crimes. It could be done easily in many cases but nobody cares about certain people like gang members. Lots of cases where the murderer tells everyone but nobody cares.
https://archive.is/L13FH
I read somewhere that some recent changes in systems would've made the backdoor useless so they had to rush out, which caused them to be reckless and get discovered
I've had a very cheap provider in the US for years that has unlimited tethering/hotspot, and unlimited everything else.

I've "only" ever used it for as much as 1 or 2TB in a month, though -- which is a ton for most individuals. (And only occasionally. It Isn't my primary connection, but sometimes it is a very useful connection.)

(They do attempt to throttle it, but that's been solvable for me with just a TTL hack on a client/router or a PDANet fix on my particular devices.)
> ransomware attacks that are only profitable because some people just decided that an inefficient distributed database was worth some money

What database tech is this referring to? I’m guessing bitcoin, but the phrasing wasn’t clear to me that it meant the payment method rather than an easily exploitable target database everyone was choosing.
That overhead is still just a factor 2x, so might still be fine?

Anyway, TimescaleDB adds compression (including delta encodings) to Postgres. Pretty sure it would handle this load just fine, as long as the inserts are batched.
However, the US dollar, which accounts for 85% of transactions, will remain legal tender and most people are likely to continue to prefer this.
Title should be “information trustworthiness on Social Media stays about the same as it always has been”

I don’t think GenAI is the problem, what we are seeing is the social media snake eating its own tail.

Nothing has changed about the way information needs to be verified over the course of human history. You find the source, make a decision if it’s trust worthy.

With the development of addictive algorithms, that verification effort would take us out of the dopamine hook for too long and they knew this. They profited off of it, harvested our data and eroded our critical thinking skills and attention spans.

People were leaving social media before GenAI, and thefore losing money for shareholders. Less people, less engagement, less data.
If you all remember Meta was in some deep shit before GenAI.

Sock Puppets started taking over, either by the platform itself, nation states, scammers, and advertisers. All of them drove profits and were never delt with.

because they let their platforms become some AdTech, Five Eyes non-kentic battlefield fueld by mass populations in a dopamine drug addiction they have to allow GenAI bots. Because if they were banned, major portions of their revenue stream would be lost, and or no artificial engagement will exist and real users accounts will plummet and shareholders will be pissed.

GenAI came to fast for us, and to
late for them.

Human nature stays the same, people lie to you, propaganda and disinformation always existed because our minds a the most valuable thing to anyone in power
Also, 'VMS' -> WNT.

I'm going get ahead start on the next Open AI by staring a company called Pqfo BJ.

Shit, I discovered the secret of the Amazon alphabet-soup names
<"I'll add it to my list of optimizers to try for new deep learning projects. "

Can you share the list of your go to optimizers outside of the Adam family?
Faithfulness and content selection in book-length summarization
An example of one person being employed and contributing to open source as part of his job is not a refutation of the statement. You don’t have to read anything to know that, just use logic.

To provide a counter-example you’d need to reference an open-source project that makes money selling the source code which, hopefully obviously, doesn’t exist, by definition
I bought a house in when internet mapping was less mature, but still important, and many of the online data sources simply did not have the address. This was good at first, since very few people seemed to have been able to find the open house and bid against us, but it was annoying in the long run because you'd ask for Internet service to be installed and the technicians would blow off 2 appointments driving around the city lost and eventually you would have to talk them to the location turn-by-turn.

The solution was to complain vociferously to the folks that maintained data sources. In those days it was Google, someone else, and it turned out the remainder of the defective commercial products were put out by a predecessor of, I think, the folks who eventually published or supplied the data for HERE We Go. Basically, every few months I would call them or write messages to them, social engineering who might be in a position to fix it. They did respond pretty quickly, for a bigcorp, but it took a few years for the prior versions of their database to cycle out of usage.
Arguably this is less brutalist than the current HN site; it has actually added ornamentation.

A brutalist site would probably just use the default browser or user styles.
Should You Pay for an Identity Theft Protection Service?
I’m the second of my name. Legally lastname II.

My airline tickets always print lastnameii
Imagine these on SRE dashboards to determine system state
That's not quite right. Linux btrfs supports raid5 in general, but has known edge cases which make it not safe to use. Basically it's "available, but experimental, for developers only".

Winbtrfs only says the raid5 mode is one of the features, but doesn't really address how well it works. The questions in a related issue (https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs/issues/293) have been closed without real answers. I wouldn't risk raid 5/6 on it without getting good answers about the status / testing from the developers first.
This trend of "All You Need" in paper titles needs to die. The original "Attention is All You Need" used that title because it is literally true in their case. So many papers just use it as a meme now, and it distracts from the true insight of the paper.
This is one of the reasons I dislike feature flagging. Hard to teach people how to use software if their copy is different from my copy.
Oh wow, it's a tiny world! Glad to hear it worked out and you're more than welcome! :-)
Effectively removing the ability of states to regulate businesses in their own jurisdiction.
Climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080
It became popular when there weren't many CMSs that non-tech people could easily install and use. It now has first-mover advantage and an entire ecosystem of plugins. In addition to this, there are entire companies dedicated to making sites based on Wordpress.

To overcome this is a daunting task because you need to convince non-tech people to move to a new solution and have something that already has a 15-year head start.
You can get basic liability coverage if that’s what you desire. But be prepared to pay out of your pocket in case of total loss. If you have a mortgage you’re almost certainly required to hold coverage.
> I have no idea what you are even trying to say

The person is (correctly) pointing out that Engineering/Technology is only 50% of the cause of a breach.

Security breaches are equal part technical issues (eg. Bugs, misconfigurations) and process failures (eg. requiring multiple VPs giving the go-ahead on upgrading your Artifcatory server).

Purely technical solutions will not stop breaches.

The belief that bug free formally verified code for something as complex as a fully functional OS (not an embedded or RTOS) can be developed and scaled out is unrealistic and wouldn't solve plenty of much easier vectors of attack.

I'll let Trail of Bits explain for me (thank goodness they recently published a blogpost about this very topic) [0]

[0] - https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/03/22/why-fuzzing-over-for...
Imagine a world where only the people like you can be insured. Everyone else, “of which there are too many to count,” has to go without insurance because they can’t get approved or the premiums are so insane they can’t afford it. Some of those people may take it to heart and change their behavior, but some will not.

Now imagine one of those uninsured people causes an accident, and you get seriously injured. You sue, but this person is broke as a joke, so you never manage to get anything meaningful back. In fact, you probably wouldn’t even be able to get a lawyer to take your case, since they know they wouldn’t even be able to collect enough to cover their fees. That’s why you “have to pay for every ridiculous idiot.” I suppose could round them all up and put them in camps, and then your premiums would be lower.

Or consider major medical insurance. Before the ACA, in the US, people with pre-existing conditions couldn’t get individual health insurance, or if they did, it was incredibly expensive. These people didn’t necessarily do anything wrong, but their healthcare costs were higher than any individual could reasonably afford. Did they not deserve healthcare?
Using the "faces.js editor" link at the bottom of the page, it shows that you can use any color you want for the hair. Also, if it didn't allow blonds, it would probably just be called "no blonds" since there are more than 4 possible variants
Where does it end, fellow person? What is going to be the excuse/defense/workaround whenever Nitter instances are completely suffocated? Just suck it up and sign up so you can continue to participate on a increasingly hostile, toxic, manipulated platform in service of a narcasists deranged ego? Because Joe Bob Expert is too lazy to post elsewhere? No, I'm sorry, but when is enough, enough?

I know I'm missing out on good content, and I don't care. I have _some_ self-respect.
People think in binaries whether they realise it or not. The idea that something was lost or weakened when writing became the dominant means of encoding information for long term storage is a difficult idea for most people to grapple with.
The Chapwood Index reports the cost and price fluctuation of 500 items
It's probably need a very large number of bananas to even show up as a pixel in the video. :)
ClearCase was basically a spinoff of Apollo's DSEE (same engineers), which didn't need kernel patches, because Domain/OS actually had an object filesystem and so the reference-to-repo was just a filesystem object. (As with ClearCase, it wasn't so much the software cost as the 1-3 FTEs you needed to be sacrificial experts to tune and manage it.) (insert "mimic a fraction of our power" meme here, though that applies to a lot of Apollo stuff :-)

RCS had tags but they were single file tags; the two big things CVS gave you were "this collection of RCS files means something as a whole" (which made tags and branches meaningful) and "you can sort-of-efficiently update from a repo on the other side of the country". (The former was the entire point: CVS was written so Solbourne could maintain their multi-cpu-SunOS fork and still pull changes from upstream; the latter was from Cygnus having a similar upstream+local problem and developers distributed across the planet.)
So ifunc is a link-time thing and not a runtime thing, then? (My background, when it comes to linking, is DOS and Windows.)
Civ2-clone: An open-source re-implementation of Civilization 2
Cars are gross.

Exhaust. Oil. Tire wear microplastics.
it's uncreative/tired but at least to the point. Too many papers are confused / opaque agglomerations of a year's worth of research shoehorned into a paper. At least with these you can fairly easily assess whether the claim is supported or not.
Strangely same LLM seems able to use lobotomy as well despite no lobes present. Should've used that test originally, eh?
You need to review the modern day meaning of the idiom I used:

https://www.idioms.online/my-heart-bleeds-for-you/
One command: npx.
How do they look? Do they look differently?
And et voila, you have the script of inside out. \s

But honestly I do think this is how we operate. Depending on our state of metabolism and other psychological factors, the dominant version changes but as a whole we remain the sum total of all these versions.
Events can happen to anyone, even competent state-sponsored organisations. And intelligence agencies are sometimes rather less ruthlessly competent than imagined (Kremlin assisinations in the UK have been a comedy of errors [1]).

Maybe another backdoor, or alternative access mechanism they were using, got closed and they wanted another one in a hurry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
Talking with some elder developers, it always seemed to me that VM/CMS combination was mainly popular at universities and labs, so arguably a related environment.

Probably was helped once people figured how to also run DOS and MVS under VM.

Airline Counters of course ran (and some still do) TPF, and serving massive amounts of users with standardised forms was much easier with CICS (I seem to recall a story about some retail chain actually running their POS on single mainframe in 1970s with each retail clerk using a 3270-compatible terminal to access CICS forms).
Using Aurora is also not free in terms of cost of development. Developers need to be trained on it's implementation, features, constraints, performance implications, keeping up with API changes, etc
Great Firewall of Texas.

I could legit see them investing insane dollars on this project.

I don't think this is federally illegal either
BMW models with direct shaft drive and horizontally opposed twin pots are better for safety in several ways.

Lower centre of gravity, some "extra" leg protection in sideswipes | converging hits on roundabouts (from the pots and pot crash bar protectors), and zero chance of chain wear with better direct power pickup | engine braking from the shaft.

These are all grounds for some heated debate wherever two wheels gather, but I'll swear by them.
> "If a group of ten people all have a one in one-thousand per year chance of a million-dollar loss each year"

More importantly, each person in this group has a different chance of a million-dollar loss each year, and it's important if you're going to write a policy to get that chance as accurate as possible.

Some members of the pool have a 1-in-1000 chance per year, others have a 1-in-10 chance.

An efficient insurance market assess who has what risk, and offers premium commensurate with risk. If you're one of the 1-in-10 people you pay more.

A risk pool combines resources to pay out for losses that are otherwise individually unaffordable by each member of the pool. It is explicitly not a mechanism - nor is the intent to - have members with wildly different risk exposure pay the same premium. In fact the only way it can sustainably function is if each member's risk level is accurately gauged to some level of precision.

There are risk pools where the intent is to subsidize higher-risk members, where we believe that such subsidy is a social good - health insurance for example is one of those things.

But I don't see a good argument that home insurance is, or should be, one of these types of risk pools.
As long as the relationships are also defined in the DDL, the DDL is the only thing that is needed. You can use an automated diagrammer such as the one in https://visualdb.com/ It shows tables and relationships graphically, and you can click on a table to see its columns and data types.
Property insurance and health or life insurance are very different markets.
wimmenz in kitchenz, got it.
I couldn't agree more. You should check out LLMWare's SLIM agents (https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware/tree/main/examples/SLI...). It's focusing on pretty much exactly this and chaining multiple local LLMs together.

A really good topic that ties in with this is the need for deterministic sampling (I may have the terminology a bit incorrect) depending on what the model is indended for. The LLMWare team did a good 2 part video on this here as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oMTGhSKuNY)

I think dedicated miniture LLMs are the way forward.

Disclaimer - Not affiliated with them in any way, just think it's a really cool project.
A hypercardioid and any manner of soft surface behind the speaker - even pillows or curtains - will get you >90% of the way there for most podcast purposes.

Really, after just fitting out a (very shoestring budget) recording studio, the first thing is reducing flutter echo by covering most hard flat parallel surfaces. That alone is like, worth double digit percent of the solution.
Ask HN: Could predicting software output be used for synthetic data?
I’ve been reading a lot about the cliff that AI frontier models face as training data sources dry up. I’ve seen synthetic data mentioned as an option but haven’t seen a lot of details (maybe I haven’t looked hard enough).

I’m curious whether you could create an unlimited resource of synthetic data and improve coding/logic performance by having an LLM generate code and then train on predicting (1) whether it compiles and (2) what outputs it would generate for an unlimited series of generated inputs.
Methane is pretty directly usable. Generally it costs some additional processing to produce higher hydrocarbons, which may be worth doing. But a system that makes pure methane can be used as the first part of some other, optional, system to make other hydrocarbons from that. You don't need additional equipment and processing facilities, which is important for Terraform Industries because it wants the sytem to be as cheap as possible.

Making methane is the cheapest way to get a transportable, useful output (hydrogen is notoriously difficult to move around, methane is a lot easier, and of course propane etc is a lot easier still).
During the app store review process they'll find the use of the undocumented API and reject the submission.
And then remember all the relevant details for the next 30 years…

It’s frankly unrealistic to expect most people to remember their home insurance asking about trampolines 15+ years ago.
I've noticed some changes in my website's performance since the March 2024 core update, particularly on https://www.sunrise-casta.ro. It's possible that the update has affected its ranking. Let's keep an eye on any news or updates regarding this core update, hopefully, rankings will bounce back soon.
I’ve gone from using it all day every day for a decade to deleting all my posts and locking down my account. I’m not the only one.
"hide your country from Netflix" This is the advertising I have seen for what has to be close to a decade at this point.
It's not uncommon to be able to get a few MBps via Tor. The latency tends to be crap, but once everything is set up it can go pretty fast.
> jumped the shark

Genuine question - what does that phrase mean to you?

I've only ever heard it in the context of television shows (meaning "has been renewed for so many seasons that the writers have run out of ideas and have started forcing the characters into ever wackier situations to generate novelty") - and while it's intuitivve to map from that meaning to a more generic "has gone on for too long and thus become bad", the translation is fascinating. When you said this, were you intentionally using a term from another domain with a different meaning in the confidence that your audience could translate it appropriately, or does the phrase "jump the shark" really just mean "be old, and thus bad" to you?

(Asking from a purely non-prescriptivist non-judgemental perspective! I'm interested in understanding your thought process, not in judging or correcting you)
>The Personal Iris was a deep purplish-brown

>Personal

>Iris

Must have been the color of their lover's eyes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(given_name)
I don't think it's as intractable as people make it out to be: require porn sites to do some level of due diligence. "But what about sites outside of US jurisdiction (e.g. Russia)?" Require ISPs to have a setting for customers to opt into blocking them. The reality is no one in my household ever has any reason to communicate with Russian, Chinese, etc. or even almost any European servers (maybe there could be exceptions for news, government, and university orgs), so it makes sense for us to just block them.

There you go. You just eliminated pretty much all access for children to online commercial providers.

It's not perfect, but that's a silly reason not to do it. We don't let kids into adult bookstores just because they could (currently) easily get it online. We don't let them buy drugs and alcohol at stores just because they could find an older friend to get it for them. It is already illegal to provide porn to children. Businesses (mostly ad-based ones) have just been getting away with being completely negligent about it for the last 10-20 years.

The Utah law for example seems to specify that either the user provides a digital id, which seems to be a sort of signed message from the state that they've saved into a secure element (so not doing realtime checks with the government. It's not really specified how it works, but it says they can save an ID file to their phone), or use a commercial knowledge based auth solution. So yes, it seems that it's been specified such that the government does not get access to that information.
Unless your phone is rooted, TTL mangling happens on the hotspot-using client devices.

Specific details depend on what that client device uses for an operating system, and this makes it impossible to neatly summarize.

But it can be done fairly easily with things like OpenWRT or Mikrotik's RouterOS, or a regular stand-alone Linux box, and IIRC it's a simple one-liner on a Windows machine.

Because it can't be easily summarized, Google is your friend here. Generally, you want the TTL of all packets leaving the client (router, tablet, laptop, or whatever) to be set to 65 -- which is one more than the Android default of 64.

That's all the information you need to know to Google up instructions that work with your particular devices.

(I may or may not keep a Mikrotik-based hotspot-abuser in my work truck as a problem solver.)
wholly unimpressed with the aurora line but my mgmt has swallowed it hook, line, and sinker
Nothing beats dbdiagram [0]!

[0]: https://dbdiagram.io/
You could call it “bootstrapping is all you need” :)