skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that the Greeks leaned into a practice that was already well-established as part of rulership in the region. At the very least it seems we have evidence that Tutankhamun's parents were brother-sister and he appears to have had some severe abnormalities as a result:

> The results of the DNA analyses show that Tutankhamun was, beyond doubt, the child born from a first-degree brother-sister relationship between Akhenaten and Akhenaten’s sister (see Fig. 3). ... Pharaoh Tutankhamun suffered from congenital equinovarus deformity (also called ‘clubfoot’). The tomography scans of Tutankhamun’s mummy also revealed that the Pharaoh had a bone necrosis for quite a long time, which might have caused a walking disability. This was supported by the objects found next to his mummy. Did you know that 130 sticks and staves were found in its tomb?

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2018/08/16/co...
I don’t agree that there is no general right way of comparing strings. I think most people would agree that strings are considered equal if they are made up of the same characters in the same sequence. That means Cyrillic characters are considered different characters than lookalike Latin characters. It also means that for string comparison, different methods if representing accented characters should be considered equal.

The points you mentioned about matching strings without considering accents or matching different ways to write an address are relevant in applications but that’s not really string equality, I would call that string similarity or fuzzy search.

As far as I know, the correct way to compare Unicode strings is to normalize them and then compare the bytes.
Crime happens because it is profitable. As far as there is a good chance of winning from hacking, people will hack. So, I'm on the side of good security defaults and practices so that one should invest in crime more than they are likely to earn from it. Harsher punishments won't help because the ability to enforce those punishments is what matters.
Im impressed by your psychic ability to read a person’s chromosomes just by looking at their face, cause if I saw them out of context I’d assume they were female.
Depends on the rest of your type system. If your language is capable of tracking whether a list is empty then it can allow dropping empty lists without a runtime check.
Which is great, but the point is that we should "fret" about making sure that's the case.
This is true, but I think much of it is also true of the public. Many abhorrent policies and acts were the result of what the public thought was best and demanded at the time.
It seems to have created a two-tier system.

You can get a "real" monthly plan from AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile for $50/month with unlimited data and prioritization.

Or you can get a prepaid plan with data caps and no prioritization for $15 - 25 / month.
Merger was in 2020, which implies that Connect ends next year.

If 2024 wireless price competition is lacking, can US regulators extend Connect beyond 2025?
Why don't you ask him about it instead of assuming an ulterior motive? I believe he did state that he could not verify if the records were real/accurate or not and questioned it himself, and only published it after that other user obtained one of the same documents via FOIA request (maybe this was enough "proof" that Josh's documents were likely genuine). I may not be 100% accurate on that but that's what I recall happening.
> We offer Customers a choice around these practices. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping train Slack global models, you can opt out. If you opt out, Customer Data on your workspace will only be used to improve the experience on your own workspace and you will still enjoy all of the benefits of our globally trained AI/ML models without contributing to the underlying models.

Sick and tired of these default opt in explicit opt out legalese.

The default should be opt out.

Just stop using my data.
I VERY strongly disagree with everything you wrote.

I think it's a tiny minority of people doing this, with the Internet amplifying their reach.

This world runs on trust. For example it's extremely easy to shoplift, yet the vast majority of people don't. Because people are not like that. It's easy to forge things, yet most people don't, it's easy to snatch and grab random objects from people or places, yet, people don't.

The next time you are out, think like a criminal and see just how much stuff you would be able to do, yet you don't, and neither does anyone else.

It's a tiny minority who do abuse that trust.

(And we are not "one evolutionary step", we are several orders of magnitude steps away from chimps. In intelligence chimps are more similar to dogs than they are to humans, chips are smart - for animals. In comparison to humans they just aren't.)
But wouldn't obscurity beat these attacks. I mean aren't they crafted only to explore common weaknesses and not esoteric weird unique set ups?
Which is effectively like old school startups when you think of it … relatively low salaries and a bunch of options that may or may not turn to gold in 10 years .
For a comment easily disproved by a simple google image search which returns plenty of examples of selectric output where the characters have anywhere to a very subtle but not perfect (like in the badge) alignment, to examples where the characters have "visible at arm's length" vertical and horizontal, and even rotational, issues?
Dude, let's fix spam callers first that are calling my USA number from a USA number.

This shouldn't be hard. If we can't fix that then good luck tracking down bad actors on the interwebs
how does the training procedure smooth the garbage out?
Yeah? Got any resources I can check out?
At Justice Alito's House, a 'Stop the Steal' Symbol on Display
> Huh, this is such an unusual design goal in programming languages "just try something and it'll probably work"

Perl was famously that way. It's great for the initial write but not so good for maintenance.
So initially the quality wasn't 100%, how is that fake? Over selling of capabilities, sure.

LLMs also aren't correct 100% of the time, far from it.
Are they brute forcing them, or are they relying on the fact that most users of wildcard certs also have wildcard DNS entries, so it's just that everything is actually available. Wildcard DNS pointing to a web server with a wildcard cert will pass through to the web server, and at that point the web server responds with a 404 if the host header isn't one configured for virtual hosts.
If there isn't already, there needs to be something like the "Survivability Onion" from the Military[1], which has the first layer of the onion being: Don't Be There.

For hosting, one of those layers is going to be: Don't expose ports publicly, if you don't want people connecting to them.

Unless you're hosting a public SSH service, you shouldn't expose SSH on a public network.

It protects the VPS from a few avenues of attack:

- SSH vulnerabilities (either current, or because the server has not been updated regularly)
- SSH server misconfiguration
- Credentials leaked/stolen
- Denial of Service (hammering SSH in an effort to either consume resources on the host, and make it harder to fix/patch an issue, or to force your hosting provider to block SSH)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivability#Military (at the bottom of the section)
> Similarly, Štar doesn’t contain a mass of syntax letting you select only certain values, or allowing you to terminate iteration early: you don’t write

> (loop for x in l while (numberp x) do ...)

> Instead you write

> (for ((x (in-list l)))

> (unless (numberp x) (final))

> ...)

While loop has arcane grammar and can be hard to write correctly, it will be read many more times and so I think is preferable to the latter.
red heat
Yeah I've been happy with setting DHCP to internally resolve subdomains to local ip addresses, combined with a lets encrypt wildcard cert created with a DNS challenge. Everything secured behind WireGuard and you never for a second need to make your web services public.
Not sure if 3:2 aspect ratio is really optimized for programmers, but it might be something well appreciated by photographers since a lot of cameras (digital and film) use 3:2 aspect ratio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_image_resolutions_used...
>What is missing in our society to actually deal with this?

an authoritarian global government and cameras you aren't allowed to turn off in every room of your home
I would definitely appreciate the extra vertical space but I wish it was 32 inches. I don’t know if many people can comfortably use the native resolution with 100% scaling on a 28 inch screen.
DA has been “declining, dying, or already dead” for the past decade.

Not saying it doesn’t suck but ALL websites have an AI spam problem. Twitter, Pixiv, ArtStation etc are no exception.
It's possible that artists posting their art aren't a large enough demographic to produce enough economic value that can be harvested to feed a cadre of SWEs and PMs and SREs and executives and moderators and, and...
> it's harder to disguise the lack of motivation? Or are they pressured into going through the motions even if they don't feel like it?

As a personal example, it's the latter for me. If I'm having an off day WFH, it's a lot easier to delay meetings or shuffle things around than in an office. I've pushed some meetings back, slept in a few more hours and make up that time either later in the evening or on some other day. Or on the other end may cancel later meetings to just relax later on if my brain is scambled. A lot harder to justify in person. You're there, why can't we meet? why are you nodding off? etc.

>I wonder if this is a good thing at all.

Probably not, but modern work places aren't really designed around "what's good long term for employees". Especially not the US where we barely have vacation days, a lot of passive (or active) aggression around the recent-ish ma/paternity leaves, complaints of burnout are seen as a weakness instead of a proper problem to resolve.

They are fine churning through you in 2 years, laying you off, and training fresh talent later. Even if that approach is horribly unsustainable for building talent and increasing efficiency.
I could only make it partway through the article before throwing up in my mouth so I don’t know if they mention that the FDA standards for birth control are balanced against the risk of pregnancy - which of course, men have none.

I do find it absolutely incredible how little women are warned about the side effects though. They go a good portion (or the entire portion of their fertile years) potentially thinking that their sex drive is just that low, having been on it since they were 15 and not knowing any better. Hell, some studies have shown being on hormonal BC might actually affect who you’re attracted to, which is all fine and dandy until you stop taking it…

My wife went on birth control for the first time when I was dating her in college and the first few things she tried basically changed her into a different person, personality-wise. To be blunt, they turned her into a bitch. If that happened when she was a teen I don’t know if anyone would have noticed.

As far as what’s mentioned in the article, I don’t see how they’re getting around the issue of your testosterone levels and fertility potentially not rebounding after being on testosterone replacement long enough. Does that other hormone somehow help with that?
I collect (mechanical) watches, and my collection is split between Swiss and Russian. The article really does sell things rightly, at their peak Russian watches were rugged, beautiful, and utterly reliable.

Even now Vostok, in particular, is well known for being "cheap and cheerful", producing a number of lines that are similar to the old ones.

There was a dip in quality, which some say never came back, but I've had a few recent pieces as well as the more vintage ones from the 50s,60s and 70s and they all seem to hold up well.

Brands like Pobeda, and Rateka are easy to find online as they really were made in huge numbers - literally in factories!
The date 8.12.2001 is a Saturday. This also seems off.
There is no downside to doing this. There’s no punishment. So the scanners scan, whoever they are, good or bad.

Even if ISPs quickly shut this stuff down the existence of botnets would allow it to continue.

It’s like spam. Just tragedy of the commons.
"What I found was that fire deaths that could have been prevented by a second staircase are extremely rare."

I agree. At least in my limited experience, it seems a lot of the deaths in the US are related to either intoxication or sleeping. In these states, it's common for the person to have never even been aware of the danger.
I'm also not a fan of browsers doing everything, but this fills a niche that is often occupied by a much more bloated suite like Adobe Acrobat.
The image provided is so low resolution that this is probably a side effect of the edges of the characters being on the boundary between pixels on the camera's sensor.

Magnify it to full screen and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Now go back and look at the samples I linked to, where you can clearly see vertical misalignment.

I remember everyone in my school system had selectrics when I was a kid, and I assure you, they could produce text that was all over the place. Probably because the ones in a public school saw heavy use / were not properly maintained and serviced to the degree required.
Why and How to Measure Electrification
What makes you think I don't shitpost in the #engineering channel?

And heuristics don't even scratch the surface of the bigger problem where it's trained on people who aren't great at their jobs but type a lot of words on slack about circling back on KPIs.
I use a similar monitor to this and I don’t notice the difference between 4K+ at 28” and the Retina display on my MacBook. The difference between the 4K and a 27” QHD that I sometimes use at work is quite noticeable.
Do you mind if I ask why you still use typewriters?
This is suspicious.
Some of these I get and are obvious. Some look like some kind of exploit maybe?

And then there’s .DS_Store.

What’s the point of that? In case you find a Mac to launch more targeted attacks against known bugs? To know if the developer is in a Mac and just copied files without filtering out dot files?
I was working on bug bounty work a few years ago for a large company with lots of subdomains in different parts of the world. I found .git/config on a server and I was able to partially reconstruct the entire git repository.

This led me to paths that I wouldn't otherwise be able to find and a complete server takeover through remote code execution. One of their developers left test code for a website template and an unrestricted file upload form.
Tie what?

They’ll just check in and then run bots in their account. Line a chess bot for example
I'm surprised that neither the blog post nor the comments here yet mentioned another obvious giveaway to the forgery:

The photo and card inside the plastic lamination show signs of wear. Parts of the photo are rubbed off around the edge, and the paper is stained. At the same time, the lamination is relatively clean. How does that make any sense? That's suspicious, even without seeing Espinosa's badge.

[edit: the photo of Espinosa's badge shows a worn lamination and clean, unworn paper and photo]

On top of that, the lamination has a cutout so it can be attached to a lanyard or retractor. The cutout shows no sign of wear.

It's as if the forger imagined company badges work like library cards: You keep them in your wallet, and only remove them to check out a book. In the forger's head canon, the company must have later decided to laminate the badges (without replacing them!) and require everyone had to wear them visibly (hence the cutout).

It makes no sense.
> Is there some sort of evidence you have that your purported view of the white collar workforce actually believes they are somehow closer to the top than the blue collar workforce?

They don’t unionize. It is their only lever to correct the unilateral nature of the relationship, and yet, so many excuses given why they shouldn’t or don’t. “Temporarily embarrassed wealthy person” syndrome perhaps?

(I am pro union based on first principles and systems decomposition. There is no other way for workers to have agency and improved working conditions (US centric) against counterparties who systemize extraction and disposal of them. Mental models are rigid and humans are emotion and status driven though, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The beatings will continue until organizing is effective unfortunately)
Does anyone have any idea how to interpret the 'segment' part?

I ran example 'segment cat' from the example provided in the PaliGemma demo
and it responded this <loc0055><loc0115><loc1023><loc1023><seg063><seg108><seg045><seg028><seg056><seg052><seg114><seg005><seg042><seg023><seg084><seg064><seg086><seg077><seg090><seg054>

no documentation explanation on how to interpret segment token,
Yes it would but we dont like to talk about it =) Although if enough people start doing it my guess is the scanners will begin knocking on more than just :22,80,443
eBay is a cesspool of fraud and forgeries. It would be more surprising if the badge were genuine.
Class Consciousness for Billionaires
Hugging Face ZeroGPU
https://archive.ph/2024.05.16-152042/https://www.newyorker.c...
Right on my cusp, I still remember salivating for one of those straight from the Jetsons 4:3 LCDs (1997? 9? Only 9/11, so I may have been seeing them late / out of context).

First 16:9 was probably 2006...got the first ever MacBook Pro as my graduation gift

It informed some conception I had of the iPad as a platonic ideal (first 4:3 monitor in years)
Come to Vietnam! There are so many kinds of avocado out here.
> What would you propose as an alternative to the current accepted sources system?

I propose journalists should do their own research like the old days, and directly talk to the people in question, then form their own conclusions and report that, instead of just regurgitating third-hand blogspam.
Last summer, I dual booted Linux for a few weeks and then made the plunge. My reason was that my desktop didn't meet the TPM requirements and I saw the writing on the walls re: subscriptions as a service, Reddit API apocalypse, etc.

To those interested, I say WSL -> Dual boot a browser -> dual boot more -> make the plunge.

It is unlearning/relearning ways of doing things that have been ingrained since elementary school for many of us, so there's an initial learning curve.
> You're saying I could gain a lot of money by issuing fake certificates of authenticity and then answer, "Yes, it is authentic," to anyone who calls and asks?

No, you make the money by offering to sell real certificates of authenticity to authenticate the fake certificates of authenticity to people who those who calls and asks.
> Other than safety and the like...

This statement does a lot of work. Safety without compromise in speed on modern architectures is rather valuable. I dont think you understand the importance of that statement and why it is being used in the kernel. Depending on what you do, you may never need to code in rust (I dont) but dont underestimate how much humanity meeds that combination of safety and speed.
If that was possible, we wouldn't need Certificate Transparency (whose purpose is to at scale detect Certificate Authorities doing this and other shenanigans).

Also "being able to catch them" is strictly better than "basically not able to catch them", which is the case for Twitter DMs (and most common DM systems), which was mentioned up-thread.
Report back in 15 years if he turns out to be a genius.
The United States is too rich to be forced to deal with its parasites: bureaucrats and lawyers. Unfortunately, it will take a severe crisis before that tumorous mass can even begin to be chopped away.
This one is probably to find if there’s a publicly exposed smb partition or something
It seems like we've entered an era where not only are you paying for software with money, you're also paying for software with your data, privacy implications be damned. I would love to see people picking f/oss instead.
This world runs on trust.

And IMHO it's better that way, because the alternative --- which some seem to be slowly encouraging us towards --- is dystopia.
You know it's failed when they're looking for F-16 extensions and "clean sheet" designs for another "low". Upgrades to the F/A-18 and A-10 would suffice and make the F-35, F-16, AV-8B, and EA-6B redundant for far less money. And why buy 351 dedicated trainers (T-7's) for $25M/each when F-16's could be stripped down for the same role for effectively free? (Sorry Marines, V/STOL is a dumb requirement that's too expensive, and the Osprey is a deadly POS.)

The DoD exists first to feed MIC pork projects and maximize the number of subcontractors, and "defense" second.
I use my Samsung SyncMaster 245B as my daily driver - it's almost old enough to drive!
I don't understand your point, can you clarify? There is nothing free about the defense market. A few extremely large and politically wired contractors are cozy with politicians and senior defense procurement officials. So we get F-35s and Independence-class littoral ships. A $1Bb iPhone would at least work.
The places with puppet governments would qualify under the Oxford dictionary definition of a colony: "a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country."

The only wrinkle is the "occupied" part. But most European colonies in Africa didn't have a huge number of settlers either and nobody questions whether these colonies were colonies.
I think 2.5” magnetic storage is basically obsolete. If I care about the most storage per dollar I’ll get the full sized discs. If I care about portability then I by definition also care about things such as read/write time, reliability, and physical size.
> Other than safety and the like.

I think these are some good points:

https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-...

On the one hand, "safety" avoids the "use after free" or other bugs which plague programs written in C. For systems programming, that is significant.

On the other hand, the "safety" allows for much easier concurrency.

The higher-level stuff like "pattern matching" is really nice. It's nice enough that it motivated efforts like https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo

Somewhat implicit is that Rust has enough of a community that there are many good packages/libraries and tools around it.
To quote the paper:

The models in this family (1) serve as a building block for diverse time series analysis tasks (e.g., forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, and imputation, etc.), (2) are effective out-of-the-box, i.e., with no (or few) particular task-specific exemplars (enabling e.g., zero-shot forecasting, few-shot classification, etc.), and (3) are tunable using in-distribution and task-specific data to improve performance.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_model
https://archive.is/M45as
>not because they work multiple jobs but because they are disingenuous about it.

it's definitely a situation with no one coming out looking good. employees should be honest, but bad companies really screwed the pooch being hawks trying to preside over every minute of their lives. messaging them in dead hours of the night, micromanaging breaks, being worried when they leave about "leaking secrets", pressure to work overtime (e.g. stealing their time for no extra pay). There's no way in high hell I'd tell my workplace anything happening outside of it unless it involves extended leave.

But I do think either way that's it's unacceptable to have two "full time jobs" with shared hours, unless all 3 parties agree to it. I have some long term freelance work I'd continue on the side, but that's specifically because the hours are low and I can fit them into evenings after conventional work hours.