skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fraud and slander are not illegal purely on the basis of content of the speech used to conduct the activities. A sufficiently culpable and provable malicious intent must also exist.

Now point me to where the first amendment says "except in cases where a sufficiently culpable and provable malicious intent also exists". It doesn't say that. It makes no concessions and imposes no bounds itself on the right to declare things freely at all. It states the complete and universal right without any caveats whatsoever. And yet here we are anyway with protection laws imposing caveats, and nobody can faithfully claim that product truthful labeling regulations should be declared unconstitutional, because there is no contradiction between the two if read with a clear mind toward building society rather than destroying it.
Since Windows Version 1903 (May 2019 Update) they push for Utf-8. But Windows is a big pile of compatible legacy.
Did anyone try to test any of them?
Animal agriculture uses up 80% of the land and provides humanity 20% of its protein.

All those addicted people will be able to satisfy their food addiction at significantly lower costs and consumption of resources by switching to a plant based diet.

Drastically reduced spread of diseases, reduced overuse of antibiotics, environmental benefits are just bonuses.

Not to mention the fact that your grandkids won’t think you’re moral monsters for torturing and murdering sentient beings.
Interesting. I haven't heard of doxbin. Got anything else I can read about them?
Yes. Nothing wrong with that, when you're just trying to inform a broad audience. Not well suited for giving individual advice that is actually helpful.
It seems to me like the moon is "chatbots which are somewhat convincing" and everybody is landing there in OpenAI's wake. The real problem is Mars - make a computer which can learns as quickly and reason as deeply as, say, a stingray or another somewhat intelligent fish[1].

[1] This task seems far beyond the capability of any transformer ANN absent extensive task-specific training, and it cannot be reasonably explained by stingray instinct:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8971382/
"One would think he was going to have his throat cut," said the Controller, as the door closed. "Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson."
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It did. And goes back to 2019 and earlier.

Very easy example to find: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/30/army-follows-...

One of many, hence not linking.

Every TikTok fan is demanding proof that was provided several years ago and they ignored.
This is why I’m not interested in passkeys unless I can use it with my password manager (which I probably can at this point). It would also be nice to see the spec for these specifically address lock-in and provide anti-lock-in measures.
Absolutely. Anything like bash is not a good language IMO.
I have no idea. Reddit seems to mostly be on this dude's side too, while most other places I frequent related to Nix do not.

There's certainly a lot to break down, but I'll start with Jon calling the behavior of associating him with Anduril "doxing", when it's literally on his linkedin and his buddies are doing full-name callouts in this supplementary article to RFC 175, or how he starts a reddit thread that he says isn't meant to stir the pot, but then goes on in the comments about being a brave fascist-labeled throught-criminal, when he mostly got banned for being extremely abrasive / concern-trolling alongside injecting himself into every single conversation, including approving the PR that removed person with the 4. most commits leaving due to his employer.
First of all, one of my advantages over larger firms like or smaller, well-established firms like Cure53 is my flexibility and personalized service. As a smaller entity I can offer quicker turnaround times and more direct communication with clients. So I can ensure that every aspect of the client’s security posture is thoroughly assessed personally by me. Additionally, while I'm currently a one-man band, I have a network of trusted and certified freelance professionals who can be brought in for either larger or urgent projects if needed. This allows me to scale without compromising on the quality and speed of the engagement. Not even mentioning that based on my experience, when you hire a penetration testing service from a big company you don't really know who's performing the pentest and sometimes it's being done by not really qualified people. (I know about some companies that outsource certain projects and they're not doing a good job at all, this means reporting non-sense findings, or not being able to properly address the impact/risk of them).

This being mentioned, I own well known cybersecurity certifications (for web apps and infra), I'm constantly developing my skills and I also have been awarded by different bug bounty programs. And planning to be a speaker soon!

Regarding the specialty, I'm not planning to focus on industrial control systems, but apart form that specific case, the approach of a pentest is the same for every web application, I mean, the pentest methodology is the same if you are testing a fintech, a bank, an insurance company, an ecommerce, or any other web app. You can show yourself as an expert in ecommerce, but in the background there's no difference at all, since the procedures and methodologies are the same.

As you may have realized, I'm gonna be focusing on web application penetration testing which is my specialty, at least at the beginning. But I have experience in either webapp, infra and mobile.

Thanks!
The DOS era was a bit before my time; I had a C64 as a kid but I managed to break it before I got to do too much fun [1].

That said, I got into web dev when I was a pretty young kid, about 9 years old, and I would have fun hacking together different websites. Eventually I noticed the “edit” button on top of the browser and learned you could mess with other people’s sites as well. I had lots of fun breaking stuff.

Computers are so cheap now, I think it’s relatively easy for most families to have a computer that can be programmed. For that matter, the Raspberry Pi is cheap and has hundreds of resources available to play with, many of which are kid friendly.

[1] before you ask, I am not 100% sure what I did, I was playing around with some code I found in a manual for it that my dad gave my when I was 7-8, and I must have done something bizarre cuz it stopped booting.
Lest you think it's just the UK, we have such laws in USA now making their way through Congress, and already in place around the world: https://community.qbix.com/t/the-global-war-on-end-to-end-en...
You can verify on the documentation by switching the version.

So ... since 3.2: https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.deco...
In 3.1 it was the default encoding of string (the type str I guess). https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.deco...
> The best models

Yes, models. But a model doesn't need to be "real", it just models something real to a certain extent. But models tend to break down if you look close enough, and I think this may also happen to QM at some point.

Bell's Theorem doesn't rule out determinism, it only rules out hidden variables. If the universe is non-local, Bell's theorem fits well with determinism.

> We don't live in a billiard ball universe

We do - at least as long we look at clumps of matter. The billiard ball universe breaks down if we look at the constituents of matter but somehow it re-remerges if we put enough of those constituents together. It's probably the biggest riddle in Physics why this happens. But it does.
What do I do if my signing keys are compromised? Should every developer get the equivalent of a hardware wallet to reduce that risk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

We were in the EU in 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016

And in 2016
Without knowing all the details , that sounds awfully a lot like communism, and trust me, you don't want to live nor work in such environment. It may look great on paper, but its simply not working long term, we humans are deeply imperfect. If there is law broken, system and its protections should deal with it.

A genuine question - can't people simply stand up and vote for better employer with their feet? Amazon ain't some 200-year old business that whole generations of towns evolved around with no other option in sight. Even then this should always be an option unless you live in some communist (eh) dictatorship.
> With passkeys it's literally impossible.

I dunno about you. But I like being able to get my passwords out of the password manager. How is not being able to do so a feature?
When I worked with McKinsey folks (in a group directly under a C-suite who was ex-McKinsey themselves), it seemed pretty clear that for mega-large companies, external consultants can call shots and "get things done" because they don't have to "play politics" and are thus "objective" and thereby, weirdly, more loyal to the company's mission ... than its own employees.

It's pretty wild to watch the McKinsey folks break out their lexicon of mental tools and jargon, "design thinking" etc, and often pretty nauseating. But ultimately, it's the fault of big organizations being pathetically ineffective that they write the big checks to McKinsey and others.

McKinsey in particular seems to have done a good job projecting themselves as the "strategic" folks in these strategy groups that advise the top brass, pilot innovation groups etc. The other big consultancies seem to specialize differently, for instance Accenture I associate with big ERP integrations and such.
Remember, the disease spread from an animal factory farm (even in your comment). TFA is about a disease among animals. GPs comment was arguably about animal factory farms. Of course we need industrialized agriculture, but do we need animal farms?

A slightly more on topic, and more generous interpretation of GPs comment removes any contradiction.
It's funny that this is the exact opposite of what I said. I said "vote for policy". As it stands one party is at least on the right side of most major policies and one is on the wrong side. You'll never get 100% alignment but the two main parties are generally pretty good and aligning with the sensibilities of major blocs.
Oh I studied this, I'm well aware of those theorems, and I don't think they are the death bell of logic some make them to be.

If you somehow find an unprovable theorem (quite rare), you can always try with a different set of axioms. Mathematics are not about proving absolute truths of the universe but rather of pushing reasoning over a set of axioms the furthest possible.

Also as a nitpick, analytic systems that don't contain arithmetic can be complete and proven coherent.

As for the real world, facts that can neither be proven true nor false (existence of an immaterial soul for example), I think should be left at that. It is useless speculating about things we can't ever know of. I leave that to religion/spirituality.
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That's what 8-bit text to speech was for, played from the PC Speaker for maximum effect. It sounded like Stephen Hawking choking on vodka, but that somehow fit the mood.
>> If the UK still was in the EU, this would have never happened.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. The original act passed in 2016 and was already an abomination.
> Einstein's theories influenced philosophers, not the other way around.

Untrue:

"At thirteen, when his range of enthusiasms had broadened to include music and philosophy, Einstein was introduced to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant became his favorite philosopher"

"In 1902, Einstein and some friends whom he had met in Bern formed a group that held regular meetings to discuss science and philosophy." "The thinkers whose works they reflected upon included Henri Poincaré, Ernst Mach and David Hume, all of whom significantly influenced Einstein's own subsequent ideas and beliefs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
Not sure what your password manager is, but 1Password supports them and its a pretty smooth experience.
Chickens eat worms. Feeding them crab or fish meal is fine.

Cows are herbivores. Feeding them meat is abhorrent.
Pretty sure even without cancer Charlie wouldn't be aware of any backlash, even if there was one. His role is ceremonial at best.

I agree the law is ridiculous though. I hope big internet companies boycott the UK, speaking as a UK citizen. This law won't catch anyone remotely tech sazzy.
Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments
I use Foxnews.com. Who should I use?

Isn’t it a mathematical fact that if Americans consume exponentially more resources than others then as more people gain wealth commensurate with Americans then exponentially more resources will be consumed? Or do you think Americans are especially greedy in this respect? I had not considered that possibility.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/forever-chemicals-found-us-dr...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/india-new-delhi-air-pollution-...

https://www.foxnews.com/health/contaminated-beach-water-coul...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/global-air-pollution-persists-...
Crypto Mixer Samourai Wallet's Co-Founders Arrested for Money Laundering
Is there something about the EU that would prevent government spying?

Most privacy efforts I've seen in the EU are commercial facing legislation that I find kinda of piecemeal and naive (granted I'll take naive over nothing, sometimes...). I don't know that I've seen efforts that would seriously curtail government surveillance.
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I think it’s definitely a contributing factor. Folks conflate simplicity with familiarity. It also just feels good to apply knowledge you worked hard to gain.
Vaccine => Vaca => Cow

The OG Vaccine was rubbing pus from cowpox pustules into a scratch on your body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine#History
> If the UK still was in the EU, this would have never happened.

Why do you think people in the government wanted them to leave?

The UK has never squared the "free speech, even when it's inconvenient to those in power" circle.
You could use YubiKey to unlock Bitwarden that can practically store unlimited keys
Wow. That author sure loves to talk about herself. I kept reading, but the whole article feels like an overdrawn introduction without payoff.

If you want to know how you can become better in math and rewire your brain to be math compatible I‘m afraid you will be none the wiser after reading this.
So you chow down on a nice plate of grass? Humans can't derive nutrition that way.
So you're working backwards from the claim that reality is a computer to defining computer.

Yes, by the time you enumerate all the properties of reality, and call them a "computer", you'll find that this is not a computer in the sense of computer science.
> My Debian server has a mix of systemd and /etc/init.d startup scripts. [...] ok, as of version N due in 3 months, we’re migrating everything and going from 100% old way to 100% new way.

You'll be happy to know that this is going to happen. Quoting https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v255/NEWS

> Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please make sure to update your software now to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System V script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
Are you aware of sone of the proposed laws the EU wants to enact?
You can store passkeys in a password manager as well:

https://1password.com/product/passkeys

The super simple explanation is: SSH keys for websites.

You have a unique private key for each website account stored on your device, in a local password manager, or in a cloud synced password manager (iCloud account, Google account, 1Password, etc).

The website only gets the public key, so unlike password auth your secret is never given to the website.

When accessing that website, the website can send a challenge which your browser answers using your private key associated with that specific domain.

(I'm not a passkey expert and there are a lot more technical details to this, but this is my 10,000ft mental model of what's going on)
Mind answering the non rhetorical questions? As it stands it appears you have no adequate answer.
Long ago, it was that a linux system was "linux kernel, big pile of random GNU utilities for userland" while a BSD was "every utility is written by the same team."

This ends up with the documentation "working" and very consistent vs a linux (jeez, no man pages, what the heck is this "info" crap?).

Things are better now, especially in the documentation front, but it remains that the "gnu" ecosystem is still a hodgepodge of different utilities written by different teams at different times and there are still inconsistencies.

I've spent decades in the linux ecosystem and away from "unix" so the memories are hazy and the brain damage (from linux) permanent at this point; the fish no longer notices the water.
> The people who actually do the work?

Surely not even this union is dumb enough to think the workers can control the owners.
They don’t deserve a dime, they’ve been living off the government for generations.
>> King Charles has cancer so he won’t have to deal with the backlash of this.

It has nothing to do with him in reality. The monarch has to give ascent to new acts of parliament and by convention always does. They don't (overtly) interfere politically.
Middle Ages peasants ate meat rarely. They were not obese.
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Yes. But that's the high-level API's problem. That's a problem with any abstraction really. "What if there's something in the thing we're abstracting that doesn't fit the abstraction" isn't really a problem with the "two API" approach, it's a problem with abstraction.

The high-level API needs to handle that case, if nothing better than having internal assertions that throw if it hits a case it's not designed to accommodate.

(also I'm annoyed with myself that I wrote buffer underrun in my first post instead of buffer overflow and now it's too late to edit).
Certainly. There's a feminist case for it as well. Interestingly, that article opens with a left/right framing.
Underrated game that is the most fun I’ve ever had doing assembly.
> The reality is most people don't care, and complaining on a forum online does nothing

It has to start somewhere. Last time the King faced adversity from the people, it was due to an anonymously distributed pamphlet.
It may be once in a generation, but I don't think they're going to be the ones to capture it. I've been working with Gemini 1.5 in the past few days and I'm pretty unimpressed. The tool calling system in particular is not really usable
This is not the slam dunk "no" you think it is.
it's definitely been in its 'clapter' era, where there joke is: you should find this funny because you agree with this viewpoint. Every joke about jk rowling barely qualifies as a joke but they go viral for the sake of insulting her.

It's best when it's subversize and zagged somewhat unpredictably.
I'm totally with you.

These issues won't be solved unless passkeys work absolutely everywhere the user has to authenticate. Logon required or weird and funky domains is currently due to service providers being a mess themselves (I'm looking at you, Microsoft). So should we expect them to miraculously get their act together and have each of these system flawlessly work with their passkey auth. from now on ?

That's where I think we're stuck with that class of issue for as long as there are multiple auth systems, passkeys or not.
> Expectations-based giving should honestly always be frowned upon. Once you give something up it's no longer in your control.

Licensing something as Free Software (i.e. under a copyleft license) isn't "giving it up", so there's no contradiction with retaining (some) control.

> If somebody has a problem with that, it's actually them that's the problem.

Or the problem is with the people who want to take control because they thought the original creator "gave it up".

> I think a lot of folks don't think through the licenses they choose before they use them.

Yup, better make sure to go with a copyleft license.
I’ve just started reading the Introduction to Internal Family Systems and your comment resonates.

Here’s a short overview of what it is, from the IFS Institute website:

> IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
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Howdy HN folks,

We are a 2-man team trying our hand at building DropFi, an app to help people share their links and media across their local devices without a server. Right now we have a beta sign-up for people interested in testing the app out. We are open to any kind of feedback and want to know what others think about the idea or if they even find it useful.

The beta features sending text/hyperlink content across device clipboards, but we hope to further expand it to support files, media, and any other arbitrary data. The current direction we are thinking of is to provide cross-platform functionality akin to Apple's AirDrop, but if users find it could be helpful in another way, we want to keep an open mind. The true goal is to build something people love and can use to eliminate their own inconveniences.

Let us know if you have any honest thoughts, good or bad, we are all ears!
If done correctly it doesn’t matter. SSR can yield an accessible HTML page and you won’t notice the difference. Client-side JS can adapt the web site to your needs -a personalization that is hard to achieve in static.
Rich coming from a union that supports spying on citizens every chat.
There’s so much more SF out there, even in the space opera subgenre, than Star Wars and Dune. If you don’t know how to navigate that, there’s no way you’ll produce anything of worth.

Start reading.
I believe you're joking, but if not, it's about tradeoffs and Pareto optimal solutions.

Lifestyles and civilization doesn't significantly change if we all halve or eliminate need for factory animal farms in developed countries.
I think this VR generation ends with "nobody gets the cookie". It is an experience to try it and you could do some fun things with it.

But none of the VR vendors was focused on user demands. Valve probably had the most user orientation, but their devices had still a huge cost barrier.

I had a Rift S (or still have) and I looked at how I could interface it for dabbling. Wasn't all bad, but I still lost interest immediately because of artificial vendor lock-in.
Raw HTML: potentially. Big blocks of undifferentiated ASCII art: no.
So I don't even need to know how to bypass it because it happens automatically behind the scenes. Nice.
Yes, I would prefer the investors, because I believe in property rights.
The people who make the laws about prostitution are the set of people under discussion. Not Americans at large.
My friend pulled a similar prank on me a few years earlier than that. Involved different tech like BBS software, ZMODEM file transfer, and Sound Blaster command line utilities but same effect. I nearly died.