skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never loathed a book so much. I read every page out of a stubborn refusal to let it beat me, then put it high up on a back shelf so I'd never have to see it again.

It's not that there was nothing of value in it. Sure, there is! It's more that the return on investment just wasn't worth it. My experience was like walking through a desert to find a candy bar. Even if it's a good candy bar, that's way too much of a hassle to go through to get it.

I do hugely appreciate Standard Ebooks, though. Such a wonderful project!
Did you try a search-and-replace in Word, changing the problem characters to something else?

e.g.

0123456789ABCDEF
012345M7XPAVKHEF
The one with a reliability data for the past 8 years.

It's surprising to me that people would want to make a major financial decision like a car without knowing about its reliability history.
Hopefully we get details on _how_ the snowflake employee was hacked.

It makes us wonder how things could be tightened up and what can be applied to our own organisations.

If the hackers got passwords then how come there wasn’t 2FA?

Or did they get a Trojan onto an employee computer and surf onto it the corporate vpn?

Or did they corrupt an employee?

Or did the evil maid or something?

And how long did they have access?

Or another approach?
My elected representative is presently busy trying to rig the presidential ballot for my state, I'm not sure he cares -at all- about e-waste
> from

OF, stolen data _of_ 560M Ticketmaster Users. Mitchell & Webb - Identity Theft all over again.
My Volkswagen will last way longer
I heard this when my career started, and it wasn’t true then or now.

The skills just aren’t there. I run interviews and struggle to find anyone, anywhere, that can actually program. English proficiency is also hard to come by. This wouldn’t be an issue in most of Canada, but I’ve yet to see a Canadian remote applicant.
It almost certainly won't sway very many. But the Electoral College means that a small number of voters in the right place can radically change the outcome.

His supporters can't "vote harder", so it's entirely a question of how the marginal voters comes down on it. They don't have to switch their vote, but just decide to stay home.

I doubt the effect will be measurable, given the vast number of confounding variables. But should he lose, they will almost certainly ascribe it at least in part to the conviction.
Why do you think everybody switched from IE to Chrome? Because their tech friends told them to or did it for them.

The day Chrome can't sufficiently block ads anymore is the day Chrome dies.
Having been on the employer end of this, yes, a small company can find it hard to justify the fixed cost of adding another state’s worth of cost/effort overhead to hire one person. It’s a nontrivial barrier to deal with for a fully remote startup.

One workaround is to use a “PEO”, or “co-employment” provider, to be the employer of record and handle HR, insurance, payroll, etc. Though it can feel like a rather weird arrangement when employees don’t technically work for the company they think they do.
> a large number of people who don't understand either the basic technique (like rest)

To be fair, it's hard to understand when virtually everyone using this term is using it wrong.

https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
Everything is AI to an untrained person.
It's merely the slightest of inconvenience that the default case is safe and you have to click like 2 extra clicks to install and activate more attack surface.
>I've tried introducing myself as "I'm a human", you'd think everyone would agree with this label but it gets unenthusiastic reactions. The followup "You're human too, right?" is even worse.

> I don't really understand why they react the way they do - it seems like a culture issue.

I'll dissect it with precision in order to assist you in escaping this particular social and mental trap.

Human social communication absolutely depends on fundamental shared assumptions.

Examples:

Murder is fundamentally bad

Literacy is fundamentally good

Even more fundamental than those:

Everyone literally has a head on their shoulders

Virtually everyone has a face on their head

Everyone is human

Whatever else your or anyone's unique thoughts or self-categorizations, those assumptions must exist or people won't want to engage with you.

Trying to bring them up as a point of discussion will place you in the range of "too weird" to "too crazy" to speak with.

In your specific case, I'd personally take the opener as a type of conversational manipulation. On top of being highly weird, because its an absolute assumption. Parallel to the type of thing that door to door salesmen say.

That is, they pose a question that they know 99% of people will feel compelled to agree with in order to force further conversation. That's you, with this opener.

Personally, I love not answering such questions from door to door sales people that are used to almost 100% compliance.

I give sales people the time of day who instead take a simple and sincere approach.

People are giving you a bad reaction because its a shared unspoken assumption, and because they are feeling manipulated. So, they feel manipulated by someone who is being very weird.

In contrast, introversion, age, and astrological signs are not shared assumptions. They are new information that therefore can be a socially acceptable substrate for further conversation.

Try talking to people about themselves, using simple questions and sincerity. It has a high success rate.
The key word here being hypothetical.

Getting to a significantly more advanced model will require significantly more work, and yet again we don't really know which direction to go in. Every time we crest a hill and see the ocean in the distance, we all start screaming "I see the beach! We're almost there!" but without a map we have no idea how much further we have left to travel.
My first thought was to use the serial port, but perhaps that was unavailable on the recipient hardware?

The second, much more entertaining approach, would've been to harken back to the very arcane days of ZX Spectrums and C64s with tape drives... since the old laptop had functional speakers, it may have been possible to write a bit of code that endcoded the binary data to an audio stream, played that over the speakers, recorded on the recipient machine, and decoded it back to binary form there.
> But if this gets improved at the transport layer, seems like a win.

What do you mean? TCP and HTTP is already designed for slow links with packet loss, it’s old reliable tech from before modern connectivity. You just have to not pull in thousands of modules in the npm dep tree and add 50 microservice bloatware, ads and client side “telemetry”. You set your cache-control headers and etags, and for large downloads you’ll want range requests. Perhaps some lightweight client side retry logic in case of PWAs. In extreme cases like Antarctica maybe you’d tune some tcp kernel params on the client to reduce RTTs under packet loss. There is nothing major missing from the standard decades old toolbox.

Of course it’s not optimal, the web isn’t perfect for offline hybrid apps. But for standard things like reading the news, sending email, chatting, you’ll be fine.
The iPhone ecosystem has "family watches" now.
In theory, yes. Like you’re saying we’re still not quite there yet.

In practice there are constraints that limit job markets geographically, e.g. time zone differences or legal obstacles to hire foreigners.
From their marketing page:

> Snowflake’s single platform eliminates data silos

I guess so, especially now.
I would rather live in another country for 1 year, than to visit 52 countries for 1 week, I think.

If I can make a friend in another country, all the better.
One of the illustrations in the article is off by a few pixels. Which of course has no bearing on the text, and so pointing it out above was intentionally obtuse, presumably for the sake of the pun.
The faxing program you were using should have a terminal feature which was used to setup modem and to dial BBSes. :)
> NDA payments are legal, but we're told that classifying the payment incorrectly is some great crime? Give me a break, it's a porn star! Who cares if they had sex 20 years ago? Obviously a running president doesn't want a disgruntled porn star blabbing about old raunchy encounters, factual or otherwise. Enter the legal NDA.

Neither having sex with a porn star, nor paying a porn star to be quiet about the sex is illegal. Fraud is illegal, though, and is much worse than jay-walking.
Haha, this project is amazing! Can it load more websites?
There may have been administrative access that was not properly secured.
How volatile is this to the political winds? As the article makes clear this was largely done with the support of the current incumbent, but what if the next one is more amenable to TurboTax's ideas?

That seems to be an ongoing headache in the US with executive branch created programs, courts can just immediately squish them or political winds can change, then they're suddenly gone.

Something like this, in order to be permanent, needs congressional approval.
> I'd ask the public if it is prepared to fund hosting on those publications in perpetuity

are we pretending pdf hosting is actually costly or what? the devil should hire better advocates
A simple app that can scan the pictures and videos on my iphone and suggest groups of pictures and videos that could be batch deleted.

I save way to much useless photos and video.
What about this type of spying? (Also frontpage of HN right now, and done with similar tools i.e. Lumma malware-as-a-service)? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868

The problem is, when the vulns exist due to hand-rolled parsing, you don't get to choose who the attacker is.
No such thing as a global market. Time zones, English proficiency, and cultural compatibility will always be real issues affecting real teams trying to build software.
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"demographic collapse" ah a Peter Zeihan fan I see, well I guess that answers it, we do live in different universes. I don't disagree that China will on average become older but that's not as devastating to China as it would be in the west. The elderly Chinese will die much more cheaply than those in the west and there will still be plenty of Chinese remaining.

"Byd is the car company that has had 10 showrooms catch fire. Temu was caught selling children's jewelry with 10x the acceptable level of lead." - sounds like they're moving fast and breaking things. I don't like what they're doing either but that doesn't mean they wont be successful at it. If I was running the world it would be a lot cleaner and more efficient but I don't get to make that choice. The real questions is, short of a war, can the west effectively punish China and since the continued economic wellbeing of our middle class requires access to cheap Chinese goods I think that answer is no. So while a fuss will be made people will continue to buy things from China.

"how much toxic material china dumps into it's own environment" I don't like that either, but I think you're overestimating the cost of the deaths on the Chinese economy. I hate that toxic shit ends up in food that is not labeled as coming from China and that's a big part of why I go to great expense in buying food where I can be certain of the source. But I don't buy the assumption that the Chinese economy requires a middle class to be financially and physicality healthy to survive.

I think the financial implosion to over leveraging economies will disproportionally affect the west more than it affects China since China still has a large and competitive manufacturing to fall back on. The west had fanciful notions of being able to sell all of China a toothbrush - I think that was Nixon? For a long time expansion into Asia was where corporations imagined their future growth to come from - now they can't compete there and are finding it increasingly difficult to compete on their home turf.
Someone else has done something similar for that work: https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=3194 -- you might find either that what he's done is good enough to satisfy you, or that you can build on what he did.
This was one of my favorite things about living in Australia as an American. Taxes were clicking a checkbox and saying, "I agree".

It was incredible how simple it was.
Main issue is that traffic ‘misery’ (my term) is the constant. There is a maximum amount of gridlockedness before people naturally stop bothering to think they should begin using a given road (say, by moving farther out into the suburbs, or moving into some far suburb from outside the metro to take a job in the city). You can add 3 more lanes, and right away, more people believe they can make that lifestyle change, and we end up in a couple months right back where we started, with the same gridlock, but an increase in both miles driven and human time wasted, which most people would agree are metrics we don’t want to increase. People should live near where they work, or work near where they live. Let the market fix things — if roads are gridlocked and people can’t afford to live near, the jobs will need to move or to pay more.
100k isn't what it used to be. I recall the job site "TheLadders.com" opened in 2003 advertising "Only 100k+ jobs, only for 100k+ people".

That's like $60,000 today.
The particulars of the case matter. Describing it as "hacking" is more than a bit misleading.
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> 268,481 words (16 hours 17 minutes) with a reading ease of 74.9 (fairly easy)

It's interesting when China introduced Ulysses years ago, publishers and reviewers often mentioned that how challenging the novel was. Often cited reasons included extensive use of stream of consciousness, long and complicated inner monologue, multiple languages and idioms used, and large vocabulary.
Any individual uncommon use case is uncommon, but there's a lot of uncommon use cases. I'd be very surprised if fewer than 20% of Linux users had at least one uncommon use case that X handles perfectly but that Wayland can't handle at all.
> I wish you had read to the second paragraph of my comment, you'd see we agree.

I wish you'd read my first comment before responding to a grossly distorted version of it that was clearly a result of projection on your part. I guess I'm a bit confused by what you mean by "organic", though, because your first two paragraphs imply that the popular anti-Israel sentiment in the West is largely driven by intentional propaganda and misinformation operations, which is the opposite of what I'd call organic.

IMO, unless news media outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are bankrolled by actors such as Iran, Russia, and China, the simple facts of the war and resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza—as credibly reported by such outlets—are more than enough to tilt popular opinion against Israel. That is what I mean by "organic".
I think it's somewhat both, but mainly the latter.

Decades ago, even touristy places were very "native" for lack of a better term.

But now, things like McDonalds and Starbucks and other American chains have expanded all over the world, the locals like them for various reasons, and you find them in the richer areas (which are often clustered around tourist-attractive areas, too).

However, if you stay in an area for a week or two, and/or get outside the cities, you quickly realize just how different places are.
This works against the governments interest, as they'll lose revenue from all the fines they give to people who accidentally fuck up their tax return.
I really don't understand the canadian salaries. It doesn't make sense given we can work for the US
It's just to illustrate that the standard is more complicated than people might realise. I think you'll have problems getting most systems to accept an email address with two @s in it, but I might be wrong. Either way it would definitely break some (not too well written) code.

Though if possible I'd err on the side of being too permissive rather than too restrictive. In the end the only true way to validate an address is to send it an email.
I was just going to post the same thing. The files that they show in the screenshots are things like PROGRESSIVE_BID_CHANGE_202405271129.csv. Looks suspiciously like the Snowflake Sales Engineer's data for their job role closing a deal with Progressive, not Progressive's own data. And there's no reason to think that a SE would have broad access to customer data. There may be some overlap, but I doubt it contains sensitive customer data owned by Progressive.
Good call. It turned out to be React Developer Tools causing the issues.
why do you have to assume fraud? it could just be a big effort / PITA to do the auctions.

there is a reason why "channel sales" are a thing, as are VARs, etc. sell to a few middlemen and let them deal with ebay auctions and other petty details
Looks like it's the MODE command: https://home.csulb.edu/~murdock/mode.html
A few years ago, I spent a fair share of time trying to copy files from and to a Macintosh Plus. I decided to use a 100 MB ZIP drive (actually two of them, SCSI for the Mac Plus and USB for a modern computer) and later a serial port connection with terminal software [1].

Now there's a much better and cheaper option: BlueSCSI [2]. It's a SCSI HDD emulator that allows to mount .img files stored on a SD card as HDD disks. It also supports CD and network card emulation.

Once the files are copied on a such a virtual drive, they can be extracted on a modern machine using via some kind of HFS explorer or an emulator.

[1] https://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/12/08/mac-plus#hard-drive

[2] https://bluescsi.com/
> No signs of being able to appreciate the nicer bits.

I just can't think of any nicer bits.

I acknowledge the things you've stated as being advantages, of course, but those aren't advantages to me.
I think "stolen" is perfectly fine to use here, but I don't think you're correct. The definition of theft usually involves depriving someone of something, which is why piracy and copyright infringement are not theft. There's a whole wikipedia section dedicated to it for anyone who actually cares about this kind of thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501379
Information has to be modelled differently. Where and how it is manifested is less relevant.

If I told your secrets after we agreed not to share them, it would be a moral violation, even if you still had the copy of the journal that you recorded the secrets in.
I was handed math textbooks a few years above my grade when I was in 5th grade, and it kept me interested longer. I think I overall preferred that, to being moved. Socially I was definitely not ready for being moved into higher grades etc. In highschool my maths teachers mostly let me do my own thing, other than asking if I'd be interested in helping others on occasion, and frankly, that was probably more valuable to me than advancing faster in the subjects. Not trying to contradict you, btw., just another option.
This all happened 3 years ago. I’ve never heard a word from my HOA since. I think the HOA board actually believed it was against fire code, but it turns out that’s only true if you’re not on the ground floor. (My community is 4 stories so 3/4 of people cannot have grills). Other grills have appeared since.

They can only assess you fines for violations of rules you agreed to. And fines are usually small. For instance, in my last HOA, they fined me $15 for having A flag holder. I ignored the warning because it was there when I bought the place and I didn’t really want it anyway, and then when the fine came, I simply removed the flag holder and paid $15. Most of the cases were the end up confiscating somebody’s property is because they are simply egregiously not doing something they had already signed a contract saying they would do. I am sure there are cases, they always are, but it isn’t a legitimate problem.
Please don’t accept 100K
Correct, every resource spent on defense could potentially have been spent elsewhere and we should judiciously think about what capabilities are necessary.

But if you get conquered by a hostile country they'll be happy to strip you of your resources to fuel their war machine, and they won't really care about negative consequences to education and healthcare. Do you think Poland and Korea had much bargaining power to ask Germany and Japan to dedicate less resources towards war and more towards education and healthcare?

Again, you don't get to choose when war comes. If Ukrainians had opted to neglect their defense sector, where would they be now?
Small modular reactors: Still too expensive, too slow, and too risky [pdf]
I’m poking around while on an airplane, so the network speed is pretty slow. The site crawls to a stop with each character I type into the search box. As a performance booster, perhaps consider adding a short delay before firing off queries to update the results or decoupling the the search box from the query result?
Again, what is the difference between a microkernel and a monolithic kernel, and why does it influence the politics of development? And, again, why does a monolithic kernel imply “central control” in development, over a microkernel?
In my experience with Snowflake support about a year ago, an administrator of the customer's account had to explicitly grant access to Snowflake in order for the Snowflake team to see or do anything -- and if I recall correctly the access had an expiry.
The point of the government isn't to make a profit; it's to serve the people.
It's entirely reasonable to say that a bug was fixed. People were accustomed to the bug? Oh well. That tiny inconvenience from having to react to the change is granted. Correcting the bug simply outweighs that.
...All with just one successful malware-as-a-service attack against the right employee. (Lumma was the malware-as-a-service used.)

Interestingly, there's another adjacent story on the frontpage about Pegasus being used against NGOs in Eastern Europe. The principle of least authority is important, but also device security is important!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40535912
Would you make exceptions for say "OMG something went wrong need someone to look at this now / all hands on deck!" kinda panic situations?

Stuff happens, humans make mistakes, can only be fully async so much IMO.

I'm not hiring anyone or anything like that, just curious.
What about on the other hand saving all that effort associated with auditing, re-filing/amending a return, etc.
Is this entirely text based? This may sound like a stupid question, but there were later Zork games had supported rudimentary graphics. There need to be some screenshots to show what it actually looks like.
Then I am switching to a feature phone Nokia by HMD
Pretty much the same in Canada at this point for many people. Your tax software, and there are lots of free ones, pull the data from CRA and populate your whole return.