skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CISA is offering a malware analysis service now, requires a Login.gov account to use and the user be a US citizen. Unsure how it compares to VirusTotal, it’s in our backlog to spike a poc in our IR workflow.

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/malware-next-g...
I suspect John Ousterhout https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud.pdf would have other ideas.
> why would anyone use that instead of dozens of easier and more common methods?

Ask Suge Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPTtFv4AkM

You can assume criminals have gotten better at this type of thing since 1995
Show HN: Papermint – Use a simple description to extract key phrases from PDFs
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Yeah, but they were shit.
Reversible computing is sort of hypothetical at heart. Besides cryptography and encoders, it’s mostly “if quantum computers eventually fit our model’s for reversible computing, then Landauer’s limit gives us energy-free computing as long as we never extract an answer!”
It was different than any other university I know about. I'm puzzled nobody else tried to create such an environment. Caltech had many unusual endearing qualities, such as professors were not allowed to take attendance. Perhaps Caltech's best quality was simply having faith in the students, and the students responded by living up to that faith.

It brings to mind the Lockheed Skunkworks, a one-of-a-kind immensely successful engineering operation. Many tried to copy it, but always "fixing" it in the process, and failing.
> As far as I can tell, talc can be contaminated with asbestos, but you can test for this and use processes that avoid/remedy the contamination, which J&J ostensibly did

They tested, found asbestos, then lied to the FDA saying that there wasn't any when there had been, tried to get the FDA to allow certain amounts of asbestos in their products, and when faced with lawsuits repeatedly obstructed efforts to get their internal documentation/communication on the subject.

> meanwhile, the cases against them seem statistically meaningless as described in all the articles.

That's a bizarre metric. How many people who got cancer would have detected it, realized that it was from baby powder, had the time, strength, and money (while fighting cancer) to get lawyers and go to court over it?
At that point you would think they would pivot to using their economies of scale to compete on price. But they're still more expensive than better local alternatives.

My best guess is that the price is inflated by the huge amount of money they spend on national ad campaigns, which I'm convinced at this point do not even work. Any restaurant big enough to buy ad spots during the superbowl is by definition "not cool" to the under-40 crowd. None of the most popular restaurants among my peer-group where I live even run local TV ads, and they don't need to.
But there's really not any evidence that talc for personal use actually contained any asbestos, other than some extremely vague indirect discussion of quality control parameters and testing quality confidence.

Even assuming that there was indeed a microscopic amount of asbestos in talc, you should be aware that you're breathing in probably ~5,000 asbestos fibers every day - that's about the ambient level from naturally occurring asbestos in air. If you do yard work, or you drive off-road, then you're probably getting more than that.
I once worked at a place where an employee started their first day at the start of the shift. They mumbled their way through it to lunch where they never returned. That's the shortest I've personally seen. Absolutely not a c-suite role or anything management related though.
I'm not surprised iPhone sales were down, since the 15 was not much to write home about. You could tell from the product announcement, where they spent a substantial amount of time talking about the new non-leather cases (which bombed, incidentally).

I hope they have something up their sleeve for the 16, like on-device genAI. If they reserve this functionality for the Pro models, or if they offer better performance on Pro models, they'll be able to drive up ASP and margins. While I'd like to get another mini iPhone, I could spring for a 16 Pro if it has enough good stuff.
I don’t think too many spooks want to handle something as dangerous as MRSA. How do you even infect someone with that without infecting yourself in the process.
On Common Lisp, I loaded a nearly 30 yo eliza Chatbot written in CL,
it ran almost straight under SBCL with just omitting an error:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

sbcl --load eliza.lsp
(top-level)
(hello how are you)

Do not use punctuation. Use (goodbye) to exit.

From a Unix user like me, SBCL/CL looks a bit bloaty and non-Unix, but I have to acknowledge that CL and Emacs' Elisp had a great history on compatibility and easyness due to the homoiconicity. In plain English:
everything it's handled in the same way everywhere.
The syntax will be the same on every function.
Infisical is deprecating API keys and service tokens
Or some people are so good at their jobs that even while being completely obsessed, they still have great work-life balance.

I interact with a lot of people like the author in the article from this industry. And while yes, their worklife balance skews "work", they all have interesting hobbies and find time to hang out with friends, go on adventures, and live a pretty full life.

Unless you're on the Starship team at SpaceX. Truly, hats off to y'all at Boca Chica some intense hours you are pulling there.
How many people have died on boeing plane in the past year?
The author's name is the first hint, and the lack of ray tracing the second
at LEAST one more...then i'll raise an eyebrow!
I guess that's fair. Americans see it as their role to prevent other people from their recurrent Holocausts. You leave Europe alone for a century and a genocide will ensue. Leave Europe alone for a decade and a war will ensue. Leave Europe alone for a year and violence will ensue. I suppose one could let that happen. But it's hard to say that the extinction of some racial group is a generally acceptable thing.

Irrespective of the origins of America, that is a categorical difference in the scale of death and destruction. To Americans, that is barbarism, but it's possible that Europeans do not see it as such and perhaps see civilization as inherently violent.

They are foreign to us here and speak different languages so perhaps their true minds are forever opaque to us, but we can see their actions: and that is repetitive quarrels with their neighbours with frequent attempts at ethnic extinction. From that, some conclusions can be drawn.
Yes, but compared to the alternative where the parent company is responsible for an unknown amount of liabilities, capping ones liabilities at 6.5 billion might be better for shareholders.
You’re putting yourself at a massive risk though. This is an airborne bacteria, the “assassin” is probably going to get infected too.
Do you know what the toxin was?
Rent control limits supply. It may not be a problem in the past when there was less demand. It is a problem now.
Era of the Onchain Organization
I’d imagine it’s closer to giving most employees 2-300k and a few employees several million though
Pentagon warns Russian anti-satellite nuclear weapon could be devastating
I see two different instinctual kneejerks here from HN. One, that this person's death must be a conspiracy, and two, that there is never accountability about any of these things. I understand why that is intuitive, but I think it betrays an understanding of the world that is closer to a movie-plot rather than reality(which is slow and boring and doesn't always result in satisfying "justice" delivered).
> My children's school district contains way more than a trace amount of asbestos.

They should probably be warning people of the danger and if they are in violation of the laws concerning asbestos the school district should be taken to court.

One thing is clear, don't grind up your children's school district and then rub it all over a baby's genitals.
Last I checked they haven't killed any passengers in awhile.

Really not since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302#...
Which was due to MCAS malfunction and pilots responding poorly to it.

I'm all for holding Boeing's feet to the fire, but, lets not devolve into hyperbole here.
That would make sense if they cared about solving the issue. Rather than about proving they're right and showing they're in control.

The specific issue and facts don't actually matter. Y'all said something that was different from what they were already doing/thinking, therefore, you must be wrong.
Aluminum is magnitudes cheaper than Inconel. And since volume is cubic, and pricing mostly on based on powder weight, you are about an order of magnitude or two off for the size of engine ABL is producing here.
GTK widgets are indeed offputting in general. I think it's partly that GTK is very easy to use, which means we've all used a lot of shitty GTK software due to the lower barrier to entry, and partly that at some point it got tangled up in GNOME's misguided efforts towards "convergence", which has left it looking big and clunky and in deliberate violation of 30+ years of UI tradition.

Purely anecdotally, the best software almost invariably uses either Qt, WxWidgets, or something homegrown.
“A pointer type that owns a heap allocation” is a more broad definition to me than specifically “a pointer pointing to a single allocation”
The two best SDF modelers in existence are MagicaCSG[1] and Adobe Substance Modeler[2]. There are also a few others, like Womp, but those two are the most feature-complete. Blender is also adding them as part of geometry nodes, and there is also an add-on that is working on adding SDF for hard-surface.

[1] https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=magicacsg & https://www.patreon.com/magicavoxel

[2] https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d/apps/modeler.html
>I looked [1]...

Your AI looked at it, you didn't. I also have the hunch that your research was limited to US whistleblowers only, can you confirm?
I choose to interpret it as: How do you know that *the author* was not named after ray-tracing?

Which is amusing :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibraurea_tinctoria

There are all sorts of beneficial chemicals in nature, way more than we've accurately assessed and documented. Because plants can't be patented, they're left largely unknown - the incentives that might bring access to things like this are almost entirely missing from the modern Western market.
You missed the joke, so let me ruin it by explaining it:

What if Ray the person was named after ray-tracing by his parents?
lol, of course the first comment is essentially “it would probably be easier if it were written in Rust”.
No, it did not. It shut down due to accusations of not doing enough to police users.
Show HN: A Phenotypic Age Calculator
Hi HN community, are you younger than your chronological age? I created a simple calculator where you can enter your biomarkers from a common blood test and see your actual biological age or "phenoage." The enhanced report includes your percentile compared against peers born in the same year, detailed explanations of each biomarker's importance, and recommendations for improving each.

I would welcome feedback on anything and, if anyone ends up buying the report, would love feedback on that as well, or thoughts on upgrading the pdf formatting. I ended up using node express server and the following apis: stripe, sendgrid, google cloud storage, and openai although currently not using openai for anything but might be cool to add for personalized health recommendations? Let me know what you think,

Best, Adam P.
Ohio
FYI to other applicants, they appear to use "evalground" for interviewing, which seems to require you to install anti-cheating software and be recorded by camera the entire time. If you don't want to do this, you might want to save your time applying.
We're a few months away from these "on chain" companies exhausting their runway and these posts stopping. Can't wait.
What a fucking mess.

I got tons and tons of outreach from these guys for my company. It was pretty well written didn’t come off as overtly scammy unless you already know to run screaming from an accelerator or any other “investor” that wants you to give them money up front.
well yeah but the previous whistleblower committed suicide after literally telling his family "If anything happens to me it's not suicide".

A month later another whistleblower who was in good health dies suddenly and unexpectedly.

I don't think it's surprising to think that this combination of events is extremely unlikely.
It got good traction a couple times before, many more fun examples in the comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462516

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725
>Does boeing have the ability to infect people with MRSA?

Reminds the old soviet ricin umbrella injector

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella
AIUI the UNIX subsystem was there entirely for the purpose of getting Windows NT certified at C2-level security.
Nice find, thanks! and wow, yeah that's really disappointing and .. borderline fraudulent?
Please install an ad blocker such as [1]. If you are on iOS look into a VPN-based ad blocker.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ublock+origin
Agreed, orders maybe wouldn't fill quite as fast, but it's not like markets would fall over and die.
"I'm baffled by this comment. It's exceedingly rare for two middle-aged and otherwise healthy people to die without warning."

That statement is not even limited to whistleblowers.

If you restrict the population to known Boeing whistleblowers whose first name starts with J, the odds get even longer.
There is nothing less moral to me than the idea of people only doing good because they fear punishment.
And I used pdfmake for the pdfs
Good point, the statute of limitations for killing your customers should probably only be two years. That's, like, ancient history in tech years! GPT 4 wasn't even released at that point!

We can't keep holding them accountable for such negligence, after all they've been really really good in the two years since- they only let a door fall off of a plane once! And no one died from that! We don't need to mention that if the seat next to the door was filled and they were not wearing their seatbelt, it is highly likely they would have died.

EDIT: My bad, it was 5 years ago, not 2 years ago. I skimmed the Wikipedia page too fast, much like Boeing's engineers did while trying to bypass FAA regulations. I should be punished, but Boeing did nothing wrong.
That's correct, but it's still interesting that you have that opportunity to shave - slash? - costs here.

And also the other engine mentioned isn't an aluminum one.
Why AI Fails to Create Compelling Written Content
> Seems like a pretty safe bet that there's good spooks who are good at hiding their works.

But that's not true - actually, we learned about the mass surveillance reasonably soon after it started. They aren't actually good at hiding. True, there was a period that somebody could say "we haven't learned about it yet so it probably doesn't exist" - which would be fallacious - but within a reasonable period of time, that option had disappeared.

Now, with assassinations, the biological weapons option has been existing for almost 100 years. If that were so common that even corporate machinators don't hesitate to use it to silence a witness of fairly low importance - we'd have heard at least a couple of cases, at least some rumors or defector reports. Just as we did with all other means of getting rid of witnesses. Since we didn't, I attribute very low probability to the possibility that this is how we learn about this being common.

> You don't know about the assassinations that were successfully kept secret.

Yes, I mentioned that in my comment. However, as I also mentioned, we have, over the years, pretty generous sample out of the mass of all assassinations. It would be rather weird if assassinations specifically using biological agents were somehow so special that while we have leaks about pretty much every other kind, we don't have any indications specifically about those. One could assume that is because this method is used only by the very best operatives going for very high-value target - but then we'd need to explain why suddenly Boeing corporates have access to it to deal with a pretty low-grade issue (and frankly I don't even see how it helps them by now - they are so deep in doo-doo anyway that one less witness is not going to save them). Such assumptions do not form a coherent picture if you look at the likelihood of the events involved.
Corporations conspiring to kill not just one but several undesirable employees is very rare. Actually, I don't really know of any other example.

And here it also doesn't make any sense; the cat is out of the bag, there is nothing to cover up because we already know about Boeing being a clusterfuck. Killing anyone doesn't really make much difference.

"Surely it can't be coincidence", "corporations conspire", and vague references to "military industrial complex" are exceedingly poor arguments – actually they're not really arguments at all because you can say that sort of thing about almost anything.
No longer a coincidence.
OOP would work fine for a text adventure, such as Inform6 against the Z-Machine, which pretty much the gameplay rooms->objects it's perfect for this. For everything else... well... maybe just CLOS it's usable enough.
Its fairly easy to get setup and after done correctly pretty low maintenance. But i have done it a few times at this point.
"Passkeys, on the other hand, can’t be stolen or forgotten. They’re strings of letters and numbers that are unique to your account, stored on your device or in a safe cloud environment. You don’t need to memorize them — they’ll automatically unlock your accounts when you go to log in."

What prevents passkeys from being stolen or copied?

Can you export or backup your passkeys? Can you arbitrarily expire a passkey and re-key where it was being used?

If you cannot, then they are not your passkeys--they belong to Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. and they have locked you into their ecosystem.

If you don't control your passkeys, what stops those who control "your" passkeys from using them without your permission?
unable to DM, will appreciate an inbound email to my inbox in bio, also just followed you on github if it's easier to connect there.
Is there a source code for the visualization?
As someone who has difficulty in detecting irony, could you explain the irony in this statement?
90s Java didn't do that because Java doesn't support multiple class inheritance.

90s C++, however, did.

Funny you should cite a game example. I once read about how the developers of StarCraft[0] ran into the same Goddamn inheritance problems I did when trying to build a custom game engine and a game with that engine. Adding behaviors via inheritance seemed like a good idea at the time (mid-late 90s), especially given all the propaganda we read from our C++ compiler manuals and such. But it turned into a situation where you either accepted multiple inheritance with all of its complexity and suck, including "which of the multiple base classes that implement 'foo' do I want when I call derived::foo()?" -- or resorting to delegates or other methods of composing behavior.

Me, for gaming, I became an ECS convert and haven't looked back. There are some pain points when writing a game in ECS style... but the advantages pay for the relatively minor pain many times over.

[0] https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-...

CFlingy is a particle spawner. Why does that have to be in the inheritance chain, instead of a trait you add to an object?
Some unit sizes are calibrated to geometric affinity (temperature degrees to 180 or 100, currency to 100, etc), and some are not (soft drinks).

It's likely that in a base-12 world, we'd still have "100" "cents" in a dollar. But there would be 144 (base-10) of them. That alone is interesting! But it's fine, because the collation is geometric, but the cent unit size is arbitrary.

Similarly, who knows or cares how many base-12 fluid ounces would be in a food product -- the collation (packaging) would be humanely-sized regardless.

But some units are not arbitrary, or conveniently divisible, and some collations still tend toward geometric affinity. Humans have their idiosyncrasies.

Would there be 10 base-10, or 10 base-12 amendments in the US Bill of Rights? What would the additional two amendments be?

Would there be 10 base-10, or 10 base-12 commandments in the Hebrew Bible?

Would we talk about a US president's first 100 base-10, or 100 base-12 days? Would the extra 44 days matter?

Again, none of this is profound. But if you think it isn't interesting, we'll just have to disagree.
Appears to be an exe. Any reason why not just a `.reg` file?
That paragraph makes no sense.

A bank is offering her a grant?

And this grant was supposed to remove the warrant holder from the cap table, so why would they have a problem with that?

And having some unknown warrant holder is the reason to shut down?

I call BS.
async/await is built on generators.
There’s magic in the Box: ability to partially move content out of it, where any other type with Drop couldn’t handle it. You can implement traits for Box<Foo> even when Othertype<Foo> wouldn’t be allowed.

But noalias is not very special for Rust. &mut and & have a bunch of limitations too.

But there’s no need to give up on them, because Rust has the UnsafeCell wrapper type for doing crimes with pointers. It selectively disables noalias, thread safety, etc. Instead of weakening guarantees of Box in general for all types, just insert UnsafeCell where you need to be clever with pointers.
That's a phenomenal idea! Time to find some parents.
All of this just doesn't seem like it flies with consumers in 2024.

I think people value quality over consistency when it comes to their leisure spending, especially when small restaurants can still be consistently good. Why do I care that the pancakes at an IHOP in Tampa taste the same as the IHOP in my neighborhood when the local diner across the street makes better pancakes than either of them?

Having lots of options doesn't mean a whole lot if all of them suck.

The national presence I think works to their detriment. Being able to buy ad spots during the superbowl makes a restaurant categorically un-cool. The number of times "I don't want to eat at a chain restaurant" comes up when discussing places to eat with my friends has practically turned the sentiment into a meme.

I imagine social media has played a huge role in this shift. People posting actual pictures of the food they got somewhere does a lot to undercut deceptive advertising and elevates meals that actually get people excited.