skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find myself fascinated by the forged DRK invoice. At first glance it looks like the shitty desktop formatting common to 2001, its in a German two ring binder, crumpled and yellowed.

But then there are multiple things which are obviously and subtile off, the most glaring is the obviously AI-translated phrase at the bottom. I'd love to know the mind of the forger. They did put some serious work into the invoice but then AI-translated an idiomatic American phrase (wrongly!) which wouldn’t by used on a German invoice.

It’s accepted that the US movies and television industry can’t get contemporary Germany right [1], often for economic limitations of the productions, but something that still get’s me is when the badly pronounced dialogue was obviously written in idiomatic English and only then translated mindlessly word for word, as if other countries cultures and languages are semantically the same, only the words are different. Maybe that’s what happened with the forger - you can’t know there would be differences if you don’t have a sensibility for difference.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAGerman/comments/1ct1k73/what_is...
I guess being a grammar Nazi is probably another thing that should be self-censored, but... it's "tenet", not a renter.
I'm a current Ting customer for the last ~5 years and have had no issues with them.
Just canvas APIs! A lot of fillRect and roundRect in a requestAnimationFrame loop
This feature is out!

You should see a "Delete" button on the "Logs" page on your next update.
Did we read the same article? I don’t see vehicle range mentioned. I expect less than 50% of the battery to be used for standard duty cycles. Anecdotally, people in my life who drive EVs charge them weekly or every few days.
Is there any public log of redactions anywhere?
The cost in France for Wegovy is $90/month or $1080/year. In Germany, it's $328/month or $3936/year.

VSL for an average middle-aged person is on the order of $2M USD. The QALY advantage makes it clear that it's a net positive, even at this crazy price. And the prices US patients pay for many medications is well beyond absurd, it's unfair gouging. There should be a law: US retail medication prices cannot exceed the currency-adjusted prices of all other per-country average market prices by more than 10%.
I created a new hostname in DNS

If you’re relying on obscurity

Presumably the former caused your new hostname to be published for all of the Internet to see? That doesn't sound like obscurity to me.

I've had a service running on a high port for many years at the same IP. I've seen it get the occasional "knock" from some scanner or bot, but it has been generally quiet. It probably also depends on your IP, as some parts of the Internet are likely scanned far more frequently and aggressively than others.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are very different from hard drives (HDs).

Western Digital still seems decent when it comes to hard drives at least in some categories...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-...
There's a story behind why this blog is at honeypot.net, and it surprisingly has nothing to do with that at all.
It's supposed to be typed with the "Orator" typeball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.
Yeah, I always thought the two primary factors here were the lost bet on WiMax (which probably cost a lot to build infrastructure for) and the Nextel aqui-merger causing a lot more friction than synergy.

I'd be a horrible businessman, because I really can't imagine keeping so much debt and simply being okay with it until its too late. I'd be considered a fool if I managed my personal finances like that, but that's the normal operation when managing millions or especially billions at a time.
North Koreans stole American identities and took remote tech jobs at Fortune 500
This. If this were part of a coding interview, I'd pass on the company. Don't do this. This is also why real developers use tests and actually try things before shipping them, as almost all of these fictional scenarios should be caught ahead of time by any reasonably sane tests.
> I put everything behind wireguard these days.

What do you mean? You don't connect to ssh in the VPS directly, but through a VPN? How does this protects the VPS from attacks?
all your files? no way that cozy of a blanket statement can be true. if you kept cycling in drives full of /dev/random you could fill up M$ servers with petabytes of junk? sounds like an appealing weekend project
If the host wasn’t some random cheap spot you HAVE to tell us who! (please :))
I have a default-deny firewall in place, but this was on port 443 that I needed to have exposed already.
Winamp's source code will be available on September 24
Known VPS IP ranges are going to be very heavily scanned.
Interesting that the exchange with the real Apple employee happened on Mastodon. Seems to be breaking the critical mass for serendipitous exchange.
> 70% of steel production in the US

For context, the US contributes less than 10% of the steel production of China to global crude steel production figures.
Imagine falling for that lol

> having an all purpose 1000kloc http server.
> serving your source code root
> not using any permissions system
in all fairness, the 5G isn't much better these days, at least in my area. T-mobile seem to have inhereted Sprints bad coverage, to the point where they had to send me a booster modem for my own home.
The 4K is 3840x2560
It's more likely that it was the Let's Encrypt cert I requested; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385643 for more.
What movie was it with Schwarzenegger and Belushi, where Schwarzenegger swaps his soviet watch with Belushi's more expensive watch? I don't even recall what brand Belushi's watch was... time to do some google-fu-ing...
Yes that's my experience too just a few seconds anytime I create a certificate with letsencrypt
I recommend reviewing Florida’s residential real estate listing volume and trend. Recent movers walked right into a trap due to the insurance market collapsing at the same time the market was overbought.

I owned investment properties in Central Florida and liquidated them all last year. Simply not worth the potential exposure to Category 6 hurricanes and $5k-$10k/year in property insurance, if you can even get it if your roof is older than ~10-15 years. Repairs post hurricane could take months, if not a year or more.

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-homeowners-desperately-tryi...

https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-tracker-march-202...

https://www.wusf.org/weather/2024-02-06/florida-stronger-hur...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/5-trends-watch-2...
yup its lets encrypt. they publish the new certs to a list anyone can pull
If you find this kind of detective work up your alley, you might like Papers Please.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
Having a webserver listening on ipv4 may get something like that sooner or later. All the tine you get vulnerability scanning by different actors and goals, be aware of that or not.

With hostnames is just another layer, that may have more requirements, but the motivations are similar.
I’d assume it would be due to blowback from peers and sponsors. Vulnerable groups by definition aren’t those.
That's basically Mastodon, which isn't free. Plenty of small instances that try the donation model or that are just funded out of pocket go under.

And I may be wrong but I don't think the recommendation algorithms and other such features take up as much of the cost as you're claiming. I think a lot of the cost of something like Facebook is probably taken up by infrastructure and storage. Recommendation algorithms probably aren't that expensive.
If you care, you can use a wildcard cert. E.g. instead of getting a cert for foo.example.com, get one for *.foo.example.com, and then use an obscure subdomain. AFAIK, nobody is bruteforcing subdomains on wildcard certs.
I don't think they're dead yet, just dying. SSDs are still too expensive to replace them for a lot of tasks. You don't need super fast drives for backups or bringing ripped music and movies with you on a business trip.
Why are these kinda things opt-out? And need to be discovered..

We're literally discussing switching to Teams at my company (1500 employees)
Yeah I haven't put a new codebease on GH in years. It's kind of a PITA hosting my own gitea server for personal projects but letting MS copy my work to help make my professional skillset less valuable is far less palatable.

Companies doing this would make me much less angry if they used an opt-in model only for future data. I didn't have a crystal ball and I don't have a time machine, so I simply can't stop these companies from using my work for their gain.
Those might be called peaks or peak indicators: common in audio interfaces to indicate the maximal decibels in each frequency bucket over the last second or so, so that you don't miss seeing a split-second super loud sound.
What is missing in our society to actually deal with this? I see stories like this and get the impression that it is a forgone conclusion that it is OK for this to be normal. I realize the author isn't saying that, and I appreciate their warning and think it is great they posted this, but where is the call to action to deal with this? And I don't mean we should all just get stronger safeguards. The people doing this type of thing are causing harm on a large scale so how do we get society to recognize and start really caring about this to the point that it wouldn't be a joke to call some law enforcement agency to tell them you are being hacked?
It's owned by Salesforce;n if they stop growing it, it'll go the way of Heroku - and that breach didn't go well.
how do you opt out of these? I do share my data with rocket money though since there's no good alternatives :(
Driving on a foreign licence while I can. Don't think they can take that away.
Great point. This was no big deal for me today. I was prepared for it. I mainly posted this to warn others: if you put a server online, it will be attacked, and it's going to be way sooner than you would have believed. You can't get away with, "yeah, I know I left some extra files laying around, but I'll clean them up and lock everything down as soon as I'm finished with the setup." Nope. That's not an option.
Also, my favorite collection of JS weirdness, “Return true to win”: https://alf.nu/ReturnTrue?world=true&level=id
Most low information buyers can't grok provenance.
That's based on verifiable cryptography.
I've also had my hosting provider run those checks to proactively warn me about vulnerabilities.
These days certificate transparency logs seems to be a trigger to immediately get slammed with a ton of scanners. Some “legit” commercial (eg paloaltonetworks) some russian/chinese
I think about that Westworld line a lot. "If you can't tell, does it matter?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaahx4hMxmw
Just because it's employ ID #10 does not mean they made them when they hired the 10th employee.
Probably it was later
Which are half of what it used to report with no explanation. These numbers are very different from the Israeli published numbers with no explanation.
What? Nope.

i3 famously and its successor iX are clean sheet expressly EV designs.

i4 is also available as M430 ICE. i5 and i7 also are dual platforms but they follow original 2013 i3 clean sheet by about a decade.
What is new in flutter [video]
I don't agree that they are good at it, but even if they are I don't think the models even have the information needed to reason, they just have a very short abbreviation. Even in that very simple example the model is screwing up, running regressions determined entirely by one outlier and not even copying the R^2 to the text correctly. So now someone has to go back and fix the model's work.

Spreadsheets ARE everywhere, but they're even harder to connect back to the source of the data because their proximal source is some e-mail message. There just isn't enough information in the sheet to tell the model what the data actually means.
Tumblr's change in policy on NSFW content was bad enough, but what made it a complete disaster was outsourcing the enforcement of that policy to a crude image classifier. A lot of non-pornographic content got removed when that happened, and a lot of users never bothered contesting those removals (either because it was too much effort, or because they were no longer maintaining their account). So a lot of content on older Tumblr accounts is just gone.
I think it aligns with the strategy of pretending to be bigger than you are so you can attract business customers.

An old startup I worked at used customer IDs in communications that started from an arbitrary 5 digit number to give a false impression of our customer base.
Yeah, that can be a separate issue with any fruit tree. There are a bunch of options, but it depends on how much effort you want to put in. (Though all the options are worth it compared to buying fruit from the store.)
VC is a job like any other

Generally speaking these people can retire any time they want. Not necessarily with the all the padding and status markers they'd prefer to have. But the bottom line is -- by the time they hit partner level, they definitely have enough in the bank so that they no longer have to show up at the office --- and they certainly don't need to be be anybody's employee in order to physically sustain themselves.

So in the most fundamental sense -- it absolutely is not a "job like any other".
eBay allows sellers to offer all sorts of fake and illegal shit because it's profitable and most people don't know the difference.

There are tons of pirated games and software being sold as original "electronic downloads".

And where else would stolen items be sold, including carrier- and Apple-blacklisted iPhones that cannot be activated?
It is an article about censorship. If someone in the USSR were writing an article about censorship, it would be in line with the articles themes to criticize the government. To make explicit the things being censored. It's the same here.
I'll totally admit wind farms make me feel fuzzy at night-- mostly because that's when they produce >50% of total power on the grid where I live.
I bought a fake id 30 years ago that used the actual backs from Rhode Island DMV that they acquired somehow, but then faked the fronts. Equipment like that can absolutely go missing.
Yeah, it’s an “issue date” someone just didn’t go across the room and get it. Also, the early employee numbers are famously semibogus. Jobs was 0 because he hated coming after Woz, who was 1.
I think there’s a distinction to be drawn between specific religious use on certain holidays and recreational use of marijuana. But otherwise fair point.

> I know you were trying to dispute GP's assertion that cannabis was made illegal in the US as a way to selectively prosecute minorities by pointing out how it's illegal worldwide. The example above might show you how both could be true.

But your link suggests that the first point is not true. It categorizes countries into groups based on their positions in the treaty. But the anti-drug groups included many countries besides the US:

“Manufacturing states group: This group included primarily Western industrialized nations, the key players being the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, West Germany, and Japan. Having no cultural affinity for organic drug use and being faced with the effects of drug abuse on their citizens, they advocated stringent controls on the production of organic raw materials and on illicit trafficking.”

“Strict control group: These were essentially non-producing and non-manufacturing states with no direct economic stake in the drug trade. The key members were France, Sweden, Brazil, and the Republic of China. Most of the states in this group were culturally opposed to drug use and suffered from abuse problems.”

> Does someone quietly consuming a plant without bothering anyone qualify as "degenerate"?

Yes. For most people, marijuana makes them worse rather than better at fulfilling their social roles as parents, workers, etc. I’m sure there are exceptions, but I’ve never met one. (Like “functional alcoholics” y’all aren’t as functional as they want us to think.)
Pretty please, I'd like there to be more commercial e-ink monitors, not just the $2K Dasung Paperlike 253. And if it's not asking too much, color too.
> Cost plays no role.

0. You're not going to have 32 GiB of SRAM anytime soon.

1. Amount of L3 translates into area which means cost. 1152 MiB of L3 on an 9684X ain't fucking free.
>a completely unaccountable red tapy system that employs otherwise unemployable people decides how to spend it.

The "accountability" is people voting in/out politicians. I agree they need more accounability, but in this case the folly falls on the ignorant for not properly researching who will lead and manage their towns.

>There is no need for roads to be public infrastructure. It can be fully privatized and people be asked to pay for its use.

Sounds like an awful idea. Land isn't infinite, so it falls into the same problem we have with housing. Lots of inefficiently crafted roads and a nightmare of tolls to manage based on the route you take. Which finals down to a few big boys either battling for the best roads, or worse, colluding with each other to keep tolls high. Navigation now has to incorporate not only for physical distance, but approximate cost as well.

I fail to see an upside here unless your underlying narrative is to force people onto public transportation. Even then that doesn't mean public transportation imroves for those with bad access (also managed by "unaccountable red tapy system")/
They usually flower in Spring, whenever that is for you. It's cultivar and temperature dependent. Some varieties like Carmen will even flower multiple times a year (though Carmen isn't one of the more cold hardy types). Bonny Doon is a good cultivar to consider if you get some mild frost each year. If you go below 20 degrees, though, you'd need to protect the tree during the cold snap.
Why would the pyramids not have been built on the water? Why would they pick a random site in the middle of the sand dunes?
> The only places that got shut down by the government were bars, restaurants and schools.

At least one SoCal city filled a skate park with sand.

There's a video of harbor cops going after a guy paddle-boarding in the ocean. (There was no one within 50 yards until the water cop on the jet-ski showed up.)

There were also churches where arrests happened.

California closed hair salons/barbers, but personal stylists were okay if you were connected. Then again, neither did the restaurant closing. (See Newsom, French Laundry.)
Some DMV employees were busted selling real IDs with fake supporting documents in Arizona.

My friends daughter bought a fake ID stating that she was over 21 but only 16 - it would scan as authentic at stores but would not pass with police.
Until recently, you had to make trade-offs between physical dimensions, pixel density, and refresh rate. Almost nobody prioritized pixel density. But now DisplayPort and HDMI have enough bandwidth that you can have 120 Hz 5k/6k displays, so maybe resolutions higher than 4k will finally become common.
What was even the point of faking the DRK invoice? How does that in any way mean the item is real? If it’s just some charity sale, I don’t think the item would be authenticated
I tried a few different searches and it has blown me away at how good the summaries are! Incredible execution!

Personally I like that it doesn’t look like a cookie cutter 2024 templates site and has a more raw feel but I’m not sure that’s the best way to gain mass users these days.

10/10 for me

I’m impressed and most of the time I’m disappointed in the show hn section
Yep. CTL is an important feature but it's definitely also a liability.
> At first, it looked good. The plastic was scuffed with age,

No, the plastic is very clearly scuffed with something abrasive like sandpaper. You'd never see wear patterns like that from age/use - it would be a very matte look, not clear scratches.
It's what's left of AOL. Give them another 20 years.
> that I/O behavior can (as far as we can tell) be completely accounted for the the behavior of neurons, which can be completely accounted for by chemistry

Thing is, this can be explained the other way around. If neurons & chemistry were merely how conscious phenomena appear (a map of the territory), the observed outcome would not change. (Most of chemistry, physics, etc. all work equally well in that scenario, by the way, but there may be implications in other fields.)

By the way, reducing everything to I/O behaviour is also a philosophical position, I believe it’s called behaviourism.

> The whole point of the Chinese Room is that there is a conscious person inside who does not speak Chinese.

Neither does a powerful CPU/an LLM—the point of putting a slow person that doesn’t speak the language is to illustrate on an intuitive level what happens with a fast program that does the same, just in the blink of an eye.

> Where is your "conclusive evidence" that this "phenomenon of consciousness" actually exists?

You want to attribute me a claim I do not make. There is no conclusive evidence either way, and it could be impossible to obtain any (at least within the framework of scientific method). However, a theory where it does not exist has major logical flaws in my view.

> If an AI exhibits I/O behavior that is indistinguishable from a human (i.e. can pass the Turing test) then on what basis can you call one a "philosophical zombie" and not the other?

Hinges on the hard problem. If you claim consciousness does not exist, then you have your answer and I have mine, but I would object to treating it as a fact.

> What is your alternative?

I would not claim to have my own, but variants of monistic idealism as I understand them presuppose the objective existence of consciousness and go from there. I find that way we may have to magically conjure out of nothing much fewer entities and arbitrary rules, and don’t have to explain away the only phenomenon we have direct access to.
I don't know many data scientists that aren't already comfortable with SQL and database concepts. Isn't that the primary data source for them to access at enterprise organizations?
Private individuals should not get to decide what public building aesthetic I need to accept
It's surprisingly hard to keep a clock accurate over time. Typical crystal oscillators can gain or lose seconds per day. If you want to do better than that, you either need internet access (for NTP), a radio receiver of some kind (for atomic clock broadcasts, GPS, etc.), or a significantly more expensive oscillator. Having a frequency reference with perfect long-term accuracy that any electrically-powered clock can use for free is pretty convenient!

I've often wondered how hard it would be to make portable battery-powered clocks use 60 Hz noise as a timekeeping source. Maybe I should make a project out of it.
What's the point of all that love if you can't exercise it to get some sarcasm in action city? (no)
'Intelligent' Shouldn't Be Part of Your Identity
I'm just not convinced it really is a problem that 1% of topics are taboo.

I think taboos exist for a reason, and it's mostly good for us as a species to collectively wall-off certain categories of behavior/thought/speech.
Fumbling Into Floats – poking around with small number representations in Python
This is what I thought, its not like a receipt from Sotheby's.
Stripe Atlas Application Rejection
Please what do we do after being rejected
I like to be able to scroll and read at the same time. To do that comfortably you need at least 120hz.

Vast majority of $250+ monitors are 100hz or over. This is not a cheap monitor, I think expecting a better refresh rate is a reasonable expectation.
Interesting, I would have guessed you had used something jupyter-like:

https://jupyter.org/

https://explorabl.es/all/
If you somehow built up trust/reputation then yes.
Micropayments.

If it cost some amount of money to connect to a server, all of this would stop almost immediately.