skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calling this espionage is just a misuse of language because espionage is done with malicious and intent and without knowledge of the subject.

State-based intelligence is not "malicious", and so you are misusing language yourself. State-based intelligence can be roughly divided into three sectors: Civilian, military and counter-terrorism. In peacetime, strategic civilian intelligence is by far the biggest, and is used to back trade agreements, various political decisions and so on. It's simply about preserving the country's interests.

With "malicious" out of the way: Most technological espionage is absolutely done with intent and without the knowledge or at least informed understanding of most subjects.
Can we establish that the squatters are doing this out of economic necessity and not to "profit" (e.g can't afford to rent or own someplace else)? I imagine so as living with no security in an abandoned building with no utilities seems pretty desperate, sub-optimal and sad.

If we can then realistically the root cause to this is lack of housing supply. "Just build more f**ing houses" would fix this no?
Just use both natural and surrogate keys at the same time.
In that case, was the dwelling abandoned? Of course the squatters are gonna say they didn't break in because that's the only way they'll keep their homes, but is it morally wrong to break into a speculator-owned dwelling that has been empty for 5 years? I've personally done it multiple times in my youth...
The British could have said exactly the same of any of their colonies. Who knows, Hawaii could have been as prosperous as Fiji or even more given the chance.
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Yes, definitely. But I feel doing research is more associated either with the fringe that is anti-science or academics who are actually doing science and publishing papers. I'm under no illusion that I'm doing anything akin to what a scientist does, but I also don't mean "doing my own research" as some shorthand for being skeptical of all the world's news media and the scientific establishment.
So far so good

https://youtu.be/feTxamTHQAA?si=OqegTAtXjiZQNiKn
I would love to see you argue this to a Hawaiian in person. I suspect a fair few of them very much disagree that their nation being overthrown at the behest of American capitalists who then took most of their land via coercion and deception was in their best interests.

I feel you should read up on the history of Hawaii some more my friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Constitution_of_the_Hawai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_1893_Constitution_of_...

Spoilers - when a constitution written by migrants to your country is called the "Bayonet Constitution" because it was passed under threat of violence, that's colonialism.
In the late 90s and early 00s you could totally have handwaved a hard SF scenario where gravitational waves from a Warp drive. Einstein calculated gravity Waves in 1911, and we saw the first evidence of them in the decay of a 1970s binary pulsar. Alcubierre published his warp spacetime in 94.

So there would have been room for hard SF space opera authors to sell the idea, like Stephen Baxter, Peter F Hamilton, or Alastair Reynolds.

Granted, it's amazing that now we can actually /simulate/ the sound of arriving warp ships! I imagine this will very quickly show up in short stories!
I wonder if that's an artifact of configuration-generation scripts detonating before they ever get around to writing out any configuration, leaving the network interfaces entirely unconfigured.
It’s my understanding the Celtics have a “win song.” So, as a fellow sports fan, I hope they play “All I Do Is Win” by DJ Khaled in Boston at least four times between now and June 23.

I would prefer Team America's America song.

I wonder if companies that don't pay the ransoms even keep the encrypted data for the future, or they cut their losses and just delete everything with the idea they're never going to get the data back.
don't you also have the "Grundbuch" (title register) in Germany, like we do here in Austria?

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okay, I looked it up. you have, but it's not fully public like ours. Yeez that's messed up!
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What further security measures were you imagining? full-disk encryption is now standard in windows 11. So how would you secure the database further from a user with admin rights?
First, I think okupas are a very small problem, mainly used for propaganda.

But how are real state companies feeding the problem? The problem is that there's no houses available, because politicians create artificial scarcity. In any local government, the stronger department is "Urbanism", decides if you get rich by allowing you to develop on your property, or you stay poor because you don't get the permits.

Come on, this is very public knowledge in Spain, they barely try to hide. Everybody knows how it works, and how close the biggest (and even not so big) developers are to the politicians. Then they politicians blame Idealista or AirBnb like they don't have any power to allow the country to duplicate the available housing starting today.

There is also the problem with the insecurity for the landlord in Spain: right now, is you rent to a family with kids, and the family doesn't pay, you can't do nothing! How is it a mistery that landlords are retiring their properties from the rent market to sell them? That's causing a massive shortage, that causes prices do go up.
Seconding this. Low histamine diet has been a game changer, combined with fasting to give my gut a break.
The US Constitution has largely been interpreted in a “spirit of the law” manner since the founding. Originalism has taken significant durable gains in terms of SCOTUS appointments since the 1980s; prior to that originalists had a good chance of changing their POV once appointed. I suspect similar viewpoints are reflected in the judge appointments as well. Letter of the law benefits the powerful because they can always stay ahead of legislative attempts to fix the letter of the law (or lobby to change the letter). Spirit of the law is much harder to corrupt.

Spirit of the law isn’t perfect itself obviously because it is legitimate to point out that it becomes hard to know what the law actually is, especially since governments have gotten into legislating a lot of regulatory nuance and it’s hard to distinguish malicious compliance from good faith effort. It’s also corruptible from overzealous prosecution looking to make a name for itself by taking on unpopular entities that aren’t actually doing anything wrong.
Matt Levine's coverage of this is good: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-05/dallas...

tl;dr - Where stock is traded is _largely_ irrelevant due to how exchanges are regulated; the interesting thing is where it's listed. The last attempt at a 'CEO friendly' exchange, LTSE, has been around for five years. Two companies are listed on it.
Look up Bell Pottinger and Iraq.

US military spent over half a billion on war propaganda - outsourced to experts.
Not being edgy, just sad at how America doesn't even acknowledge its colonial history while celebrating their liberation from an oppressive foreign power every July.

It's rather schizophrenic.
I met a harvard grad the other day. I was astounded how below average this person was. They just got their PhD. However, it was on a soft science.

I asked him for advice on a problem in his field, and he basically couldn't answer. He talked about his degrees.

I think this person must have cheated. Its the only thing I can imagine.
I can suggest Romania. Depending on your IT skills, 2000 euro in IT is considered minimum and country is still very cheap to live in. There is a great shortage in IT there..

Climate also similar to Spain in sommer , you will get used to winters as well. Seaside and mountains are available.
While this makes sense, I also see how RealPage likely got caught up and thought this was business insights they were selling as a data aggregator. (Being devil's advocate, I don't know much about their knowledge or ignorance.) Something that is all to common of a business practice these days. If the "here's our number" was whispered back as a "score" instead of a price and the cost was denominated in interest rates instead of dollars, wouldn't it be similar to the credit scores we all have? Is that a form of collusion as you define it?
I've never heard of something like this. It's not exactly like squatters are millionaires trying to save on rent to buy more champagne... I'm not saying this has never existed, there's probably an outlier somewhere.

What does exist for sure and is publicly advertised is companies like the original article trying to make owners desperate about squatters so they will sell their property for cheap. For example here in France, "Squat Solutions" has been doing this for years, buying property for ~10% of market price because of squatters, after convincing the owners they had already lost everything.
https://archive.is/ViiK3
So far, it appears to be a degenerative process with manifold causes still to be elucidated. Perhaps in ~50 years, there will be a wider corpus of knowledge and treatments to attack more of them.

Of note: Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease inverse relationship: an age-associated diverging derailment of shared pathways Molecular Psychiatry vol. 26, pp. 280–295 (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-0760-2
I wonder what fraction of the population actually pays those rents. It seems unbelievable. That's more than the average income in most Western countries.
Since the 1980s letter of the law has seen a remarkable upswing in power. I wouldn’t say spirit of the law applies anymore to SCOTUS rulings & I suspect federal appointments followed similar biases so it’s up & down the federal court. Not sure about state judges. Do you agree?
I'm mostly asking because the original poster was painting a process that can be sniffed off the bus (that is - buy a stolen laptop off ebay, try to boot it, sniff the key off the bus) with a process that requires active targeting and multiple breakins to work as equivalent.

It seems like these security discussions always devolve into rather funny moving of goalposts without actually considering how much work each exploit requires.
"I have read suggestions that this was a major contributor to the growth of the Western economies, relative to other low-trust societies." I'm not sure I follow, what are other low trust societies? Otherwise I'm with you here - living in a cabin in the woods survivalist-mode does nothing to progress a society.
Don't forget the oh-so-great Gates Foundation...
Yes, seriously, blaming a real-estate listing website for listing real-estate is absolutely insane. We all need to build more housing, that's it. That's the solution.
At least encrypt the database records, so if someone steals your sqlite data they don't automatically know what you were doing on your pc.
> Windows Recall is completely local

Until it isn't, due to future changes or malicious 3rd party managing to make use of bad security decisions & bugs.
There were multiple sources I used, first started with dosbox, checked all codepages' ascii chart, made a screenshot, went thru all characters. Then I found int10h, crosschecked a few to not miss anything. Some glyphs are result of just the combination of letters and mods (accented characters mostly).

Then I found a pixel font which has about 40k glyphs as I remember, so I checked which can be derived from it in the style of the original VGA font.
Vienna has a massive public, universal, rent system. Like 50% of the total housing stock.

Everyone says they're going to make public housing here in Spain, nobody does anything.
Because they did not show they used any methodological approach that we don't know for the past 30 years.

And according to the PR they did not use gurobi (or any sota mip solver), just their in-house lp solver in combination with shortest path algorithms and the fix-and-optimize heuristic.

Likely your particular use case will not fit their model anyway (for example you may want to consider contracts of affreighent along with leasing entire vessels).

So yes, or scientist and gurobi will definitely win.
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I'm sorry to be that guy, but capturing screenshots is anything but "focused on privacy/security".

It should be either:

- browser only and semantically understand and hide sensitive information like password fields (or even all input fields)

- or capture stuff from the display server and make it configurable which applications should be ignored (e.g. password manager), and even prompt with each newly opened window if the user wants to remember that session

...and that's just the basics, if we go into details I'm sure there's much more to it.
Simply not eating the SAD diet (Standard American Diet) of fast food, seed oils, and frozen dinners full of garbage will improve your health.
That sounds more like Alibaba, where it operates like a B2B type transaction. In my experience, just talk to them, sure it might take more time but you can usually get a good price if you’re buying higher quantities.
In the panic of sifting through and restoring backups I doubt many of them actually take the time to do an extra backup of the encrypted data.

And of course the hardest hit companies don't even have viable backups, so it's even further from their mind to actually take a backup of the encrypted data.

So that seems very very unlikely.
What would be more interesting is to have statistics about empty dwellings. The banks have evicted countless people after the 2008 crisis, but are they renting those places now? If so, how cheap is it?

There is no shortage of housing. There is a shortage of rentable affordable housing, due to an epidemic of greedy landlord accaparating the market.
> There is no moat

Isn't the CUDA API a fairly significant moat?
It seems to me that your stand is analogous to anarchists' about law and government. Sure, there's a tyrannical aspect that can get out of hand, but it's far from the whole story.
Have you seen any footage from Ukraine? It's already pretty brutal.
While we're at it, let's also add a "rickrolled counter" for people who open the link and close it in less than 10 seconda. That should incentivize people to be a little more cautious, and perhaps avoid clicking on links without first doublechecking the URL.
Or phrased differently: she struggled for her survival. It's a very physical one-off challenge that you can master (or not).

That's inherently very different to realizing that the golden era has basically passed and it's only gonna get worse from here, societally speaking.

None of the inherent issues our societies has had were solved. They've just become worse with every decade, inequality in particular has gotten worse with every technological advance, and it'd expect it to get meaningfully worse with LLMs now, too.

A select few will still get meaningfully richer, but - on average - their prospects for their future are a complete dumpster fire.

You (leobg) are likely right that people a few hundred years ago probably wouldn't have become depressed like Gen Z, Alpha and likely soon Beta too... But they'd probably long since taken up their arms, wiping out a good chunk of the population and consequently redistributing wealth to the survivers. Do you honestly think that'd be better for us?
Real estate is baby boomers and older millennials (as they inherited from their parents) "cryptocurrency" (as speculative asset). They HODL it to manufacture scarcity.

Just for reference, in a small city (40K people, 8 sq. km.) you can find 2K empty properties out of the market because it's more profitable to wait prices to raise.
Robots? We're talking about cryopods here, not something that needs a robot where you need to operate accurately in 3D space. It just needs an electronic control system to monitor conditions and control some machinery, similar to a washing machine or microwave oven.

We already know how to make redundant computer control systems, like for aircraft. It's not that hard. They don't "fail all the time" either. Sure, your crappy Windows computer does, but no one with a brain uses that for anything safety-critical.
Increasing supply won't work with places where the demand is virtually infinite. You have to cut the demand somehow, and in the case of Spain it means preventing foreigners to access such stock. That means public housing, or some law that creates a lot of friction.

Cheaper housing in Spain will lead to induced demand, because there's just too many people willing to move here.
Having fun, I think once machines get to the point they do things just for leisure, well that might actually be interesting.
> Without Musk EVs would be nowhere

This is a pretty absurd idea. The Tesla Model S, the Nissan Leaf, and the Renault Z-E platform (initially with a pretty unsuccessful car built on it; the successful Renault Zoe came the year after) all came out within a year of each other. The VW e-Golf came out the year after. You can thank progress in lithium ion batteries hitting a tipping point, not Musk, coupled with government incentives (California, the EU, and China were all pretty much saying to manufacturers "make this, and we will subsidise it").

I can see why people might think this, particularly Americans, because the Tesla Model 3 was arguably the first mainstream/affordable electric car _in America_ (the Leaf and similar vehicles never really caught on there; they're too far outside market preferences), but the idea that Tesla in some way made electric cars possible is simply nonsense.
Can you name a few examples please?
This is a big deal in cybersecurity education. I'm in the UK doing
it. We've a dilemma that industry is desperate for fresh new
cybersecurity recruits to fill an enormous skills gap. In the UK,
Microsoft is a "preferred supplier" for lots of organisations, even
defence stuff, and to get our students past the gatekeepers they
pretty much need "365". Regardless of whether they can recompile a
Linux kernel and do protocol analysis with Wireshark... no 365, no
job, Not even tier-1 support.

By contrast my last cohort of masters students worked on things like
critical infrastructure, national security, long-term resilience,
hybrid interoperability... everything that Microsoft is not and makes
worse.

So there's a schism between academic understanding and industrial
reality that makes cybersecurity really rather hard to fix.

So I have to walk into a classroom and say:

"Heads-up! We're going to be learning about 365 administration this
week, about Active Directory, and this and that... which are all
okay products and make a lot of admin tasks easier. BUT!! The only
reason is so you can walk into a job. Because this US company has
the UK tech sector by the balls. As soon as you're working, forget
everything you hear in these lectures, because it's dangerous
BigTech mono-culture that's antithetical to the real values of
cybersecurity. Take the principles. Reject the products. Look at
other tools that do the same, Have a backup plan."

And I hope they took enough from Ross Anderson's SecEng book, and from
the BSD/Linux classes and my the other lectures to go out there and
start undoing the harm.
Have you looked at Microsoft's revenue breakdown by segment? Cloud already dominates the totals, but more importantly it also dominates growth. Gaming, devices, and Windows are a shrinking pieces of the MS pie.

Now you understand Microsoft. They have no reason to care about Windows any more.
Is there any chance they made this talk available online?
I went down a rabbit hole looking for something I could take now that would influence this pathway and came across a study suggesting a particular flavonoid, cumaroyl, might work; if I'm interpreting this right it appears in ginko leaves, so I'm going to see if they have any effect.
I'm unable to get the article with a page:

"We're sorry...

The request has been blocked. "

With the title: "This site has determined a security issue with your request."
Is the FBI afraid of me ?
This kind of comment does not belong on HN.
I have a very simple way to avoid squatters to squat in Spain, or any country in the world: stop making housing a market.

If it's a market, then supply and demand applies. So, for your house to gain value, you need to have a supply inferior to the demand.
Enjoy your newfound freedom from that shit-hole
If they can get your sqlite files, what makes you think they wouldn't be able to get the encryption key as well?
- Maintaining and increasing high level wealth, also Control

- Control, also profit

- Control, albeit in a less direct form than housing also data and profit

- The pretense of caring about privacy issues, so politics and control

- Profit/control

If you ask, "why?" for almost anything in today's society it'll come down to money/power, which are functionally mostly the same thing.

Exceptions exist sure, but they are called exceptions for a reason.

My perspective at least, i'm sure others think differently.
This. Valve set TF2 on this path when they introduced the matchmaking, which killed off a huge portion of the community servers.
> They can only enter if you leave a window or door open for them to enter.

How is this not victim blaming? Next you'll tell me that a victim of sexual assault shouldn't have left their window open by wearing such a short dress, and they were asking for it anyway.
Article feels like an ad for serverless with a veneer of hackerman wearing a hoodie in a poorly lit room.
Show HN: Open-Source LLM Patch Streaming – Speed and Output Token Improvement
Every time I ask an LLM like ChatGPT to make some modifications to my large chunk of text, it starts streaming the full thing back to me.

Here are the most annoying things about this:

1. It consumes a ton of unnecessary output tokens
2. It is limited to 4k output tokens
3. Sometimes modifies parts that I did not tell it to
4. IT IS SLOOOW (imagine we wanted to change just a word at the beginning)

What if, we could just patch our changes using a diff? I mean this is nothing groundbreaking, but still it seems, as if no one actually built something reusable or open.

So here it is: LLM Patcher (kinda dumb name I know)

Here is how it works

1. The user provides a text and a find-and-replace query.
2. The text is split into lines and sentences.
3. Each line and sentence is then prefixed with an identifier that looks like <l1s1> for line 1, sentence 1.
4. The LLM is then asked to find-and-replace the query in each line and sentence.
5. The changes are then streamed back to the user in the form of a diff. The diff looks like <r:l1s1> string to find || string to replace.

Let me know what you think about it and please give it a star

Cheers, Luke
I was born to a mostly non-religious Muslim family in a 99% Muslim country so I am not simply defaulting to my own creed here.