skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good fake engagement would be more convincing and harder to detect.

Instead what you see is a post from a fresh account that is a copy/repost of one of the top posts in either that or a sibling subreddit.

This is then followed by a half dozen accounts reposting the top comments from the original as their own comments. This is often where they mess up and it's easily detectable when not the OP responds as the OP.

If you check back in a month or two or so, the accounts are inevitably banned by Reddit or shilling something somewhere else (with a minimum age/rep requirement) themselves and/or using the accounts to express support for something shilled. The "resume writer" was annoying prolific.

I find it doubtful that Reddit corporate is using such an approach to try to drive up engagement numbers.
Quote from the article:

"A tree-of-objects representation is more difficult to publish in a human-readable form. The objects that comprise the tree tend to all be very different, and thus it is tricky to come up with a consistent and simple table representation with which to display the objects. Any any such table representation that you do come up with would almost certainly have more than six columns, probably many more. The problem of rendering a tree-of-objects as a table is sufficiently difficult that nobody does it"

To further elaborate on this important point.

There is an 'impedance mismatch' (conceptual difficulty mapping between the two logic models) between the tree abstract data type and the table abstract data type. Specifically, there are four key differences between the simple table data structure and the more complex tree data structure that makes mapping between them a non-trivial operation.

Hierarchical: A table has a flat representation; a tree has a hierarchical
representation.

Order: The order of the rows in a table typically do not matter (they may have a unique rowid). The order of branches (nodes) and leaves in a tree is important, and the ordering itself in an encoding of valuable information.

Semi-structured: A table has a fixed structure (rows multiplied by columns). A
tree has a flexible structure - an arbitrary combination of branches (internal nodes) and leaves (terminal nodes). Semi-structured data has a structure that may not necessarily be known in advance, the tree has irregular and variable formation; the tree may have branches with missing or supplementary nodes.

Meta-data: The information describing the meaning of the data in a table
is typically stored separately from the table - consequently a schema is often mandatory. A schema is optional for a tree abstract data type.

As an aside, I have been visiting hacker news almost daily since 2010. This is my first comment on hacker news. I want to say thank you to the community for the many valuable insights over this years.
This will only get worse as the incentives shift from purely "propaganda" to actual financial incentives. The SEO spammers are coming for Reddit.

You'll start noticing comments that have been edited months or years after the original, that insert links for a particular product/service. I've already seen this for a variety of IPTV comments I was searching. I'd imagine this is mostly done via mass outreach.

On a different note, I'd imagine the pushback had this been "right wing" propaganda being caught to be 100x with mentions of criminal activity, even more censorship, etc.
I mean you're welcome do whatever you want, but I guess don't be surprised in the future when people are either confused by what you're saying or annoyed that you decided to talk about something else.
You keep pushing this strawman. Just because someone wasn't for something, it doesn't mean they were against it. Immigration was simply not an issue on the Remainers' minds. Immigration was the main Brexiter point.
Why would someone define bot as AI? Bots have been around forever. A bot could use AI, but not most bots currently do not.
That's the neat thing, it doesn't have to. Every kWh that goes into these batteries is a kWh not purchased from the grid. The payback for the solar panels would very quickly add up.

In fact, trying to 100% charge the batteries via solar would not be the most economical way to operate as then you are just wasting money sending power back to the grid.
> don't talk politics( one of my biggest regrets is how political I was in my youth).

Opinion: talking politics isn't politics: it's mostly just group signalling. If you're genuinely learning things, that's alright; if you're organising something real, likewise. But if you're just trying to win the "information war" (i.e., the current internet argument), that's almost never meaningful political engagement.

Example: this comment isn't politics. I'm just advertising that I'm a contrarian. (And this paragraph advertises that I'm a meta-contrarian, also known as a hypocrite.)
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> GPIO:
RPI: 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header
x86_64: Usually none, only available through USB to GPIO adapters

I have a mixture of RPi's, cheap AliXpress ARM boards, and a stack of Intel NUCs from a decommissioned dev cluster. The only one that consistently works are my Pi's. The GPIO breakout pins are they are used for embedded applications and not try to be desktop PC replacement (though they could do that) And they continue to receive updates for even my oldest. Whitelabel ARM boards might receive the occasionnel update.
Finally, I don't trust the thermal management of Intel enough to stick it in a unclimatized closet and expect it to be working a year later. It takes a lot of work to get an Intel chip to run at low power, low thermals. Something the Pi manages to do out the boxx.

This is a apple to oranges comparison that fails to take into account what makes the Raspberry Pi the Raspberry Pi.
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There's also DTrace, which IMO clearly influenced Linux tracing (with the decidedly un-DTrace-like and disastrous SystemTap being replaced by eBPF which... is a lot more similar to DTrace than it's not).

Bytecode VMs are all over the place.

TFA added PostScript and TrueType, and comments here mention others. There's also Java, which is oddly not listed. And Lua. And...
It's worth hearing all opinions, but I don't agree with this sentiment. This applies to many people in a variety of fields. Contrary to our values about achievement we line up for people that purchased their way to credibility.

Same with companies. The truth is that you kinda do know what you're getting more.
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There is still a massive difference between gigacorp Airbus, Siemens, SpaceX, ... or whoever does defense stuff as a side hustle, and a pure defense company like Anduril or Rheinmetall to plaster their logo onto things, or recruit at events. There is no plausible deniability with these companies' intentions and product consequences.

To me at least, there is even a difference between the military and private companies profiting off war and suffering. I would rather have the Bundeswehr around than Anduril. Just because it's something of a necessary evil, doesn't mean I respect the people who seek this career, who want to engineer and sell death.

My stance on the issue is irrelevant. The devision caused in the Nix community was predictable. It was objectively an idiotic idea considering cultural and consequential differences. Even a pro-MIC person should realize this.

And let's not forget the conflict of interest of Nix's VIPs here in this particular matter, greatly shading any presumption of good-faith arguments. It's been wildly stupid.

And lastly, FYI, these sponsorships do have strings attached, especially when money matters:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1338390/darpa-pulls-fu...
CUE is building out language bindings for various languages right now

Since CUE is written in Go, you can output a .so that is then used like your C based desire, if I understand you correctly
I absolutely love having access to so much information, but it really seems like most people just don't even care. The ability to access experts of all kinds for advice or just to fill curiosity has been a boon to me, and I like sharing what I know with people who are interested. But when I look around at the people I know -- some of them are incredibly smart (much smarter than I am) but instead of making a reddit post or going on a topical forum, they just watch a youtube video or try to attempt whatever it is poorly themselves or just don't care to know more about things.

When I was a kid I wanted to learn electronics, so I got some books and parts at radio shack but certain things weren't obvious for someone who knows nothing, so I didn't know where the ground was supposed to go in a schematic diagram for instance. And the adults around me didn't know -- so I just had to figure it out. Now a kid can go on /r/askengineers and get an answer from an engineer in less than 20 minutes.

But overall -- maybe the 'information age' has backfired for society in general. Those kids will figure out what they want to know regardless of how easy it is, and so many people just look for information that confirms what they already think then weaponize 'facts' so they don't have to budge.

I'm really not sure -- it is so useful to me, but every time a nice place gets an influx of people it turns to shit, so I tend to lean misanthropic in the long term.
Also don't forget that statically linked executables pull in less code than dynamically linked executables, so DISTINCT_EXECUTABLES_RUNNING*sizeof(libc) is very much a worst-case number rather than a typical number.
This is pretty sensible cybersecurity policy. Just don’t do what BT did on their HomeHubs and generate a brute forceable password based on a hash of the ssid and some serial numbers.
There are other implementations that might do other things.
> as a way to hinder China it’d have very little impact since Chinese companies aren’t dependent on it

Have you missed the whole "China developing RISC-V as an alternative path forward" thing then?
This will be great. We can finally deprecate sudo on systemd systems. Then we should be able to deprecate PAM, setuid bit, etc.
Yea the meta empire is better positioned to build real identity legislation and benefit from it.

I think Reddit could be enjoying a short term boost but once Google drops them it’s a bust.
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I'm pretty impressed by Intel's N100s, and I think they have more recent N200s and N300s but not as common as the N100/N95s/N97s.

The killer feature for a lot of home server and pet projects is hardware accelerated encode/decode; with modern codec support. That is a complete deal breaker vs the RPI 5.

Also, don't forget upgradable RAM, and storage without needing a HAT or anything like that.
...but, but... bow-wielding club of vigilante women, you say? ;-)
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Yeah, I'm suprised the original article didn't mention that. One of the main reasons that smaller icons are stored as separate files is that they need to actually be designed differently, not just scaled down.
The only evidence is that developers think they need to do these things because of piracy, which is not the same as actually needing to. A moral panic about a thing does not prove the thing is actually a problem, and the effects of the panic itself shouldn't be blamed on the thing, either.
I also see that communication and a clear understanding of what you want is always the biggest hurdle in software development, not the technical issues or understanding the underlying infrastructure. Most of the time, users realize only after a long struggle that what they want is impossible or in strong conflict with other requirements. Only a human expert with experience and knowledge can advise in such matters. No generative AI will be able to point this out, not even its next generation.

So the process of creating software with the help of AI for a consumer will result in a highly stressful process with many trials and errors. Without the ability to understand the generated code, and relying only on guesswork from both sides, I highly doubt that any consumer will ever want to undertake such ventures. Even for the sake of novelty and fun.
So, 5,000 electric semi trucks in 2029? I mean, I would think that would be a drop in the bucket. Volvo alone appears to have delivered 2,000 of them last year.
Many such cases. Google is responsible for a wide variety of what security researchers refer to as "malvertising."

This often leads to intrusions/breaches. The initial payload drops, the actor deploys a C2 framework (often Cobalt Strike), pivots laterally, then drops ransomware binaries for encryption. If I had to put a number on the amount of intrusions caused by Google PPC ads, it would be an upwards of 500.

This has been a growing problem since last November, and Google is effectively taking its cut from malware distributors and aiding/abetting organized crime.
It is an impressive track record. And something that does frustrate me is people who want to entirely dismiss his track record in order to bolster their current criticisms of him. I think that is motivated reasoning.

But I think your benefit of the doubt in his judgement is similarly misguided.

What I think is that he has been very adept in having a bold vision, using his showmanship to get the funding, talent, and visibility to get it off the ground, and then leveraging that into a feedback loop that bolsters his credibility for the next bold vision. I think it's very admirable that he has executed that playbook so well for so long! (And I think it's good for society that Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and Neuralink exist, and I certainly appreciate his role in that.)

But I think his track record for things that aren't part of that playbook is pretty bad. Buying Twitter was not a bold vision, it was dumb very-online pettiness. And there's now a history of specific business decisions that seem to come directly from him, which I think have just been bad. Not bold visionary risks that didn't work out, just foreseeable bad outcomes from bad, impulsive, ego-driven decisions.

So sure, next time he's spinning up something visionary in AI or biotech or energy or who-knows-what, I'll pay attention and suspend my disbelief. But on the boring day to day executive decision making that every company has to do, I think he has earned less credibility than most (maybe all) leaders of businesses of similar scale.
I do think the term has broadened to just capture the general decay of quality across services and software, which is probably fair since we often can't make evidenced claims about why it's happening in any specific instance.

Here, it's probably fair to say that spam strategies continue to innovate and reduce their operational costs while Reddit (and most of their peers) drag their feet on responding to it as long as the spam satisfies the quality norms of the site (as sufficiently delayed replays do).

Reddit (et al) presumably puts a fair effort into suppressing obvious noise, but much less effort into generated content that creates engagements or appears plausibly real, and that this *amounts to a decay over time as the implicitly permitted generated content itself becomes cheaper to produce and more widespread.

Their self-benefiting inaction satisfies the original usage of "enshittening" even as the term has expanded in common use.
Yeah the problem is that academia has the same issue with garbage papers. As long as information has some ad value, be it commercial or political it will fill all spaces with garbage to make a buck.
Reminder, this browser requires a login to use on all their products which is a massive red flag.

How will they make money is a mystery but I am willing to bet it is the usual AI, LLM summarization, browse for me features.

Other browsers will add BC's features into theirs for free, offline, with an open source LLM with no login wall at all.
I agree that it isn’t as easily verifiable that it is privacy-respecting without the source code but that’s a couple steps from saying that it is “a falsehood” to say it is.

What made me wonder about it is that this is very specific wording that indicates that they proactively know the author is lying, when it would be very easy to instead say something along the lines of what you said, that it is too hard to verify without access to the source code.
Certainly, I’m not an expert and the experts believe generally believe P != NP. That’s why they spend their time trying to prove it. They also spend time trying to prove that we will never know. There’s comparatively not much effort given to prove the opposite. See the opposite doesn’t mean all problems are easy. They could still be hard, e.g. N^M with a really large M. In addition, we often prove things by contradiction. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the proof by contradiction involved finding a solution to another hard problem that today we cannot easily find. Deep learning models trained and scaled on instances of the subproblem may be able to help us do that.

Anyway, it’s just a thought. Think of it as complexity-poetry.
More like a wannabe stuxnet.

Whoever was trying to get this into the wild was really sloppy in execution of an otherwise “beautiful” attack.

Stuxnet effectively put a stopgap in Iranian’s nuclear program. This backdoor could barely make it out of the alpha phase of development.
understood. I am only extending that to say that virtually all software is built with the headspace of "some amount of maintenance" is to be expected. To overcome this, it needs to be delegated to someone. That someone will cost money. It's unclear to how this cycle will ever be broken unless the entire solution is somehow also controlled and produced with uniform open source hardware.
It’s hard to tell because the small communities have their own newspeak which seems weird to outsiders.
To an extent I concur that people are giving his opinion a weirdly large amount of attention relative to its value. They're all worn out arguments in rocketry circles, very reminiscent of all the dumb claims Blue Origin made when they lost the first HLS contract, only to settle on a very similar architecture for the second one.

However, IIRC he has an aerospace masters, is currently pursuing a PhD and used to work on testing missiles, so he's not a complete rando.
That's a good point, but leaking this tidbit to Reuters seems like a nuclear option (like Tesla's customer retention program failed and PepsiCo is trying to break out of the contract now).

Like I've had customers pissed off about missed deadlines, but they didn't leak or churn because we tried to keep them happy.
Yeah, I'm not really saying that mods shouldn't have discretion or flexibility, but a community is not healthy when its mods decide to remove any posts/comments that contain the word "frank" because they don't like a guy named Frank. Yes, that is a real world example I've encountered. And if I get banned because I can't read the minds of the mods, then I welcome said ban. I'm not on Reddit to play childish games or to join cults.
Thanks! Yeah, it takes a look at your requirements.txt (or environment.yml) and uses that to install on the remote machine. So as long as that doesn't specify a particular arch, it'll chose whatever it's running on.
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He missed concepts and modules which are also c++20 features, modules are just not properly supported (yet). Concepts are a massive QoL feature and modules might help with compile times.

> IMHO by far most things which the C++ committee accepts as stdlib updates should actually be language changes

From my experience thats not how the c++ committee works. They generally decompose requested features into the smallest building blocks and just include those in the language and let the rest be handled by the stdlib.

The thing that makes C++ unreadable in my opinion is template code and the fact that the namespace system sucks and just leads to unreadably long names (std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(.....)).
This is where it gets crazy though -- officially CA is requiring something like that starting in 2034, which would mean that the Port of LA/Long Beach would require like a second CA worth of electricity to charge trucks for the amount of traffic coming in and out. Everything I read about it basically claims that CA cannot actually function with this requirement, but I don't see the evidence of a future walkback...
That sound a lot of Pixels[1] but with first-class menstruation tracking?

[1] https://teovogel.me/pixels/
They did not announce they were working on affordable cars, or at least not a new model that would be more affordable than the models they have now.

Musk pushed all questions about new models to the Robotaxi event in August and the media filled in the blanks and ran with "new, cheaper model" putting words into Musk's mouth.

He did say they weren't going to build a new production line.
> Raspberry Pi 5 4GB

Has the Pi Foundation ever explained why they are saving $2 worth of memory chips to make these unbalanced versions with pedestrian amounts of memory? The Pi 5 should be firmly in the 8-16GB range given the compute power it has and the tasks it'll have to handle as a result.
There is a framework in every language I've worked with that will generate the OpenAPI schema for you. That you have to sketch the API in a language is not necessarily "code-first", it's just a different language than yaml/json, (go,py,js) without the implementation, just write the same types in example
Because it is? AI is just artificial intelligence. It does not say this has to be done with ML (machine learning), LLMs, or even any statistical methods.
You are correct. I made a mistake with the title, it should say that access was acquired through a Citrix account without MFA as opposed to a direct Citrix bug. My bad. I will email mods to change it.

This Reuters[0] article is much more specific about saying it was a Citrix vulnerability, but since Citrix has not issued an official statement, it's better to have it changed to the default title.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/unitedhealt...
maybe you could answer the questions I asked your your CEO here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40208741

I fully believe that you aren't paying him directly to do this, but I don't believe that any human would shill so hard (and always mentioning the price and the same gist of 'it's fantastic' etc). Any chance it's a replyguy or similar test, either by someone else in your org without your knowledge or just by the creator themselves as I guess they need to do some 'live testing' before charging real 'customers'.
It’s absolutely terrible on the big subs now. Smaller subs seem to be okay, but it seems a lot of the content has gone elsewhere.
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The lecturer did state this was very dangerous and should never be done in a real machine.

ldd has an unfortunate side effect of actually executing code within some libraries (the exact details, I don’t know. Maybe it’s library specific)
You're blaming the lack of a spec for all the wasted time but that's not the cause.

The cause is that CSV is popular and is popular because it is incompletely defined. (See also: HTML, RSS.)

Making a CSV spec post-hoc solves nothing, as others here have pointed out, because there is already an "installed base" so to speak. If anything it's worse because it might mislead some people into thinking they can write to the spec and handle any CSV file.

The right move, if you want a nicely precise and strict spec, is to admit it's a new thing and give it a new name, maybe CSVS or something like that.

But good luck making it popular - there are plenty of CSV libraries out there that handle most CSV files well enough, just as there is tons of software that handles HTML and RSS well enough (which is why I am a fan of both those formats).