skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowden memoir not simply called "Permanent Record" if you like to read, it's in chapter: Part Three - Fourth Estate, or in audiobook at 08:30:24

He writes about CIA CTO, Gus Hunt talk at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in 2013, still available to witness https://youtu.be/GUPd2uMiXXg?t=1258

TLDR: “At the CIA,” he said, “we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.”

> The second event happened one year later, in March 2013—one week after Clapper lied to Congress and Congress gave him a pass. A few periodicals had covered that testimony, though they merely regurgitated Clapper’s denial that the NSA collected bulk data on Americans. But no so-called mainstream publication at all covered a rare public appearance by Ira “Gus” Hunt, the chief technology officer of the CIA.
I’d known Gus slightly from my Dell stint with the CIA. He was one of our top customers, and every vendor loved his apparent inability to be discreet: he’d always tell you more than he was supposed to. For sales guys, he was like a bag of money with a mouth. Now he was appearing as a special guest speaker at a civilian tech event in New York called the GigaOM Structure: Data conference. Anyone with $40 could go to it. The major talks, such as Gus’s, were streamed for free live online.

> I got insight, certainly, but of an unexpected kind. I had the opportunity of witnessing the highest-ranking technical officer at the CIA stand onstage in a rumpled suit and brief a crowd of uncleared normies—and, via the Internet, the uncleared world—about the agency’s ambitions and capacities. As his presentation unfolded, and he alternated bad jokes with an even worse command of PowerPoint, I grew more and more incredulous.

> “At the CIA,” he said, “we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.” As if that wasn’t clear enough, he went on: “It is nearly within our grasp to compute on all human generated information.” The underline was Gus’s own. He was reading from his slide deck, ugly words in an ugly font illustrated with the government’s signature four-color clip art.

now, coupled with pentagon shenanigans https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...

> Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda efforts are set to continue. In an unclassified strategy document last year, top Pentagon generals wrote that the U.S. military could undermine adversaries such as China and Russia using “disinformation spread across social media, false narratives disguised as news, and similar subversive activities [to] weaken societal trust by undermining the foundations of government.”

Good luck trusting OpenAI's generative seductive female operative with Johansson voice.
Apart from outsourcing credit card data, what else could be different when that data is more secured than the more important personal data?
Seems like its doing what its supposed to
Hello. Why it worked this way is because I can't find a list of 588 websites by thoae 16 companies (I've contacted the people in those articles to see if they have a list), I decided to find a list of top 1000 popular sites (which is much easier to find) and then try to clean those up. Obviously that's not a perfect method and leaves a lot of sites flagged by mistakes, but I didn't find any other way. I left it open source since I want people's help if they find mistakes in the list or want to supply their own list. There's nothing special about the code, I pretty much asked LLM to write it the whole way. I didn't set out to make money from this project, I just want more people to see what searches have become: a bunch of people with a lot of money pretty much own 90% of all searches.
I thought the fact it is running from a Lisp script, uses Hunchentoot, and uses XSLTs for it's feed pages already puts it in some niche category of "huh, neat".
You don't need to find the best possible encoding. SVT-AV1 can encode as fast as x264, keeping the same visual quality to human eyes while reducing bit rate by 50%.

If you want to retain visual quality, you always have an option to use higher bit rate.
> I stick with h264 for the most part because h265 encoding requires far too much extra compute relative to the space savings. I can spend an hour compressing a file down to 1gb with h264, or I can spend 12 hours compressing the same file to 850mb with h265.

FWIW, as someone who is a complete layman on this topic but has spent much of the past 6 months converting age-old videos to h265...

i have a pi5 where i queue up old videos into a RAM disk, it converts them to h265, and moves them back to the machine which uploaded them. It can take up to 2 days to compress any given video (depending mostly on the input format - old AVIs tend to compress in a few hours), but the space savings is _much_ higher than what you're reporting. The average size of my h265-encodes is anywhere from 1/3rd to 1/2 of the original, and 1/4th of the original is not terribly uncommon. That said: the input formats vary wildly, with possibly only a minority fraction being h264.

i've tried the same thing using a pi4 but it needs roughly 4-5x as long as the pi5. An 8-core intel-based laptop can do it in some 25% of the time of the pi5 but pulls a lot more electricity while doing so. So my otherwise idle pi5 gets the assignment.

My Firefly collection (14 tv episodes plus the movie) dropped from 8gb to 2.1gb. My Bob Ross collection (141 videos) went from 38gb to 7.4gb. 128 Futurama episodes/movies was cut from roughly 50gb to 21gb.

i was once asked why i didn't choose AV1 and the answer is simple: when i googled along the lines of "how to get the best video compression with ffmpeg" the most common answer was h265. Whether that's correct or not, i can't say, but it works for me and i've freed up the better part of a terabyte of space with it.
https://sqlite.org/forum/info/54e791a519a225de

>Journal size limit is measured in bytes and only applies to an empty journal file.

>The WAL file will grow without bounds until a checkpoint takes place that reaches the very end of the WAL file. Usually, a checkpoint is performed when a commit causes the WAL file to be longer than 1000 pages (PAGES, not bytes). There are conditions when running a checkpoint to completion is not possible, like disabled checkpointing, checkpoint starvation because of open read transactions and large write transactions.
Roads are approximately 0% of GDP. In fact a quick check suggests that the US annual deficit is larger than road construction spending [0] so funnily enough it is probably feasible to get rid of all taxes in the US and reduce the deficit and still have roads.

People love bringing up roads in this sort of topic for some reason but they really aren't a big enough spending target to be worth it.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLHWYCONS#0
The embarrassing truth is that we can't do it.

Humans are very bad at security.
In this article using it is very MISLEADING, exactly as Closi writes above.

Exercise: compare net profit of Visa/Master card to net profit of those "highly profitable" saas marvels.

Exercise two: compare gross profits of them.

Result: whole paragraph turns not being true while not aligned with the article opinion and showing actually opposite :-D

p.s. I do agree with the overall article :)
> Submitted on 31 Mar 2017

Just in time for April Fools
So you need a GNU/Linux phone?
This is unfortunately how it works here in Sweden, and it's terrible.

Truth is really incredibly important and not having the freedom to speak truth one knows and which one feels are important is a tremendous imposition.

Ones reputation isn't like ones body parts-- but the truthful speech of the person who would speak against you, that's the true body part.
does abandoned mean unfinished?
You don’t have to be hypervigilant. And in particular you don’t have to pay attention to basic lane keeping, which frees your attention to scanning ahead for potential issues. Not sure if or when it’ll ever be truly autonomous but it’s still a huge value as is. Maybe not $12k like they tried for a while, but significant
Who touched my Mac? Catching the cleaning staff or evil maid detection
But incredibly, compensation still not paid yet.
They also mentioned they ignored potential red flags and didn't follow correct post-op care, so blaming the technique seems like barking up the wrong tree

People seem to google "lasik best prices" then wonder why their experience sucks?

Don't go for the first google links when researching something, avoid sensationalistic BS
>scientific return

that comes after 'someone out there' misinterprets our super fast gram probes as weaponry and conquers our world for the sake of their own spacecraft safety.

it's ingenious really, let's antagonize a greater power into wormhole-bridge hopping over here so we can reverse engineer their tech.

/s , hopefully.
Bython: Python preprosessor which translates curly brackets into indentation
We can at least be very good at it, if we accept the UX cost.
https://detailed.com/wp-content/uploads/fandom-change.jpg

Can't you simply go through this image and manually create a list from all the logos?

Yes, it would take time and would be tedious, but it's very possible to do in an afternoon.
The UX cost and the other opportunity cost, yeah.
Alternatively, present wavelengths are what make sense, and attempts to go to shorter wavelength will only cause delay.

If one goes for particle accelerator based systems with wigglers, then of course none of this will matter, since the wavelength will be variable and one can use whatever wavelength is ideal, but the idea that going to shorter wavelengths is always better is something I think is crazy. There'll be some optimal wavelength.
My mum had it and she is quite happy with it.
My local bike shop said they are all in Bosch because they had better reliability and less issues with their support compared to other companies and because of the commitment to long term spare parts availability.
… though Make still requires tabs for indentation, so you can’t preserve the functionality here on HN!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408455 Tesla must face vehicle owners' lawsuit over self-driving claims. 26 days ago.
Ask HN: Would MacBook Pros be better with these simple changes?
I think these simple changes would improve most people's experiences with MacBook Pros.

Software:

* limit brightness by default so whites don't hurt your eyes or tell the user how to do this

* provide a way to increase the volume of high frequencies so they balance the strong bass (especially for older adults with weaker high frequency hearing)

* provide a way to hide the notch in Desktops that works like what is done in full-screen apps so that users don't need to use a wallpaper with black at the top

* provide an easier way to make fine adjustments to brightness

* provide an easier way to make fine adjustments to volume

Hardware:

* make the escape key width the same as the Touch ID sensor

* put bumps on two function keys to make them easier to find without looking
Maybe. When I see pages full of banners, despite the fact that there may be useful information there, I try to avoid such sites.
Well, only when you use the OTLP protocol and otel-collector. In other cases you would need a (span) exporter to multiple targets at the same time. But yeah, otel-collector would be the best approach to achieve this.
My wife and I had lasik in 1998 or 1999. My vision before then was 20/200. I still have 20/20 in one eye and 20/40 in the other. The reason for the disparity was on purpose. It allowed me to be able to read without reading glasses until a few years ago when my close up vision got worse.

I've had no issues whatsoever in all these years except a slight increase in the halo effect at night just recently.

My doctor was one of the early researchers in lasik and still does the procedure today.

We paid $2500 per eye.
Even if the best we ever do is something with the intelligence and energy use of the human brain that would still be a massive (5 ooms?) improvement on the status quo.

You need to pay people, and they use a bunch of energy commuting, living in air conditioned homes, etc. which has nothing to do with powering the brain.
There are*: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET, https://github.com/terrafx and https://github.com/microsoft/Win2D

Now, I don't know (or care, to be fair) about the internal aspect of the culture on what is in vogue in various MSFT teams, but there is a rich ecosystem of libraries in .NET to massively simplify interaction with pretty much anything that can be called from C or C++ on Windows.

* Not sure about Windows 11 shell integration, but I'm generally unhappy with the way W11 is - what kept me on Windows were games and certain Visual Studio extensions, and with both issues being almost completely addressed on Linux (and on macOS too, surprisingly, with the latest GPTK2), it is time to move.
If you have enough of them, you get data from Alpha Centauri within a human (natural) lifetime. Plus the bragging rights, I guess, Starshot is after all a private endeavour.
Looks pretty to me. Prettier than most humans.
Previous deep insights on technology from Pope Francis:

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-02/pope-francis...

I think we should push back on the imminent AI overlords, and stick with the Iron Age superstitions that have served us well in matters of individual autonomy and life-and-death decisions for over 2,000 years.
AirPods Causing Tinnitus?
Because most likely that was only the trigger

Keratoconus has a strong genetic component. And should have been screened (using the corneal scan) prior to surgery

But of course a surface that is frail is going to become more frail after surgery
> Unfortunately, most people seem to have taken the wrong lesson from Rust. They see all of this business with lifetimes and ownership as a dirty mess that Rust has had to adopt because it wanted to avoid garbage collection. But this is completely backwards! Rust adopted rules around shared mutable state and this enabled it to avoid garbage collection. These rules are a good idea regardless

https://without.boats/blog/references-are-like-jumps/

Ownership and borrowing are very useful regardless of performance and memory management.

They help to reason about the program, enabling local reasoning instead of global. When your function gets an owned object or exclusive reference, you know nothing else will mutate it (and you get that without resorting to purity/immutability). You don't need defensive copies.

In your methods you can return temporary references to internal objects, and you don't have to worry that users will keep them too long (such as use a handle to a resource after you close/delete the resource).

There are many useful patterns that can be expressed with control over sharing, copying, and mutability, and memory management is just one of them.
Tetris for terminal written in C
The book excerpt is very interesting because it focuses on private individuals defamed by groups. It argues that bringing up true statements about these private individuals that occurred a long time ago is also defamation.

We see the opposite in public discourse. Mobbing private individuals is perfectly fine, criticizing organizations or their leaders (public figures) is punished harshly.

Organizations destroying the reputation of private individuals is also perfectly fine. Everyone believes the leaders and corrections or hints that the leaders are doubtful characters themselves are suppressed.
Hos is it even stealing? its taking copies of public information, mostly under open source licences.

Amazon is causing a bit of extra server load for MS to handle.
The example.com site actually exists. The site that we are used to seeing in many documentation, books, etc. actually exists!

I was prototyping a web client in Python, and I fetched the root dir of example.com, and it actually got a valid response with client!
The GDPR may be a pain in the ass to properly implement, and certain parts of it are a bureaucrats wet dream, but it sets the right incentives. If you read the general rules, it’s just common sense: Only keep what you need, take as many steps to secure data as you can, tell users proactively what you like to do with it, ask for their consent, and delete whenever they request it.

It all sounds like lots of additional IT work, and it is (I spend a lot of time in our company to try and improve). But it only seems like a hassle because we went for so long without doing it right.

There must be a way to let human dignity be the lowest common denominator for shareholder value…
I think there's a workaround if I understood the official documentation correctly: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html#avoiding_excessively_large_w...
https://d1qx31qr3h6wln.cloudfront.net/publications/Nemotron_...

"...Nemotron-4-340B-Base was trained using 768 DGX H100 nodes"

That is 350 million dollars for you...Poor Startups, better have a rich sponsor.
Has anybody used it?

Compared to https://me-readthedocs.readthedocs.io?
I could take the bet at 1:100 odds too.
> This new wave of non-developers deploying code to production that makes its way to a Show HN on the homepage here for 7 hours is scary to me.

I understand the feeling, and yet different tools/stages of increased digitalization of life are at the root of what is scary, not AI. personal data is input into the "global world computer" at astonishing rate, payments, payment credentials, all this attracting opportunist players with outright intentions of grabbing all this "public" data. even seasoned engineers are vulnerable to supply chain attacks. whether "new" code is developed by or with AI assistants seems the least of the problems in this context.
Neanderthal–human baby-making was recent – and brief
Did you also check all those minor earthquakes that happened and there was no big earthquake after? or the claim is that if we wait enough there will be a big one ?

As other said just correctly preddict 10 and you will get your Nobel prize.
Unveiling URI, URL, and URN
>(Even more: If you have a quantum computer, all known physics is efficiently computable.)

This isn't known to be true. Simplifications of the standard model are known to be efficiently computable on a quantum computer, but the full model isn't.

Granted, I doubt this matters for simulating systems like the brain.
I mount a 350€ Bafang motor on my bike five years ago. I use it almost every day to go to work, even on rainy days (and this year is very wet). The display now shows almost 16000km. It never failed, although it's given as NOT waterproof...
UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse (2023)
It’s pretty hard to explain in short. But estimation algorithms don’t work on angles for example. For an algorithm an angle is just a number. So the difference between 359 and 1 degree looks pretty big.
It is also not possible to just put a rotation matrix inside a state, because the algorithm has no concept of orthonormality. But if you define the change of a state in terms of vectors and the state itself as a rotation matrix you can just use off the shelf estimation algorithms like least squares and Kalman filters. You just need to redefine the plus and minus operators. Which is nothing you need a project for. You can just do it yourself.
You should explore the display, sound, and accessibility settings in MacOS. Look at third-party keyboards.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fine-tune-volume-brightness...
Z80 CPU User Manual [pdf]
Yeah, when implementing this hack, I took the advice from this exact page:

>This scenario can be avoided by ensuring that there are "reader gaps": times when no processes are reading from the database and that checkpoints are attempted during those times

I create reader/writer gaps by calling sleep() (before opening transactions) and activate the checkpointer manually in the checkpointer goroutine.
> its taking copies of public information

Yet the same companies will be first to tell you that scraping their public information is against ToS or even illegal.

See the whole drama about LinkedIn scraping, etc.
I think you are missing some parts in the industrial use.

The TPM is also used for device authentication. It prevents the leakage of certificates that are used to ensure that you are using the device you claim to be using. This is highly relevant when having remote access from users and one would like to enforce tiering rules together with privileged access workstations.

Furthermore, the second example in which "the attacker already won" is missing the context. The attacker does not want to access the computer (in the industrial example), it wants to use to escalate access within its organization. The TPM can be used for remote attestation, that is, a remote server can verify the integrity of the boot process of the device before giving access to remote resources. In other words, it can be used to check for device compliance.

It is definitely a positive for enterprise security.
> Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To"

Maybe not.

It's convenient to think that misaligned incentives [0] or
insufficient motives [1] explain failures of infosec. These are
popular explanations amongst tech people, because we want to believe
infosec can work. Our jobs depend on it.

Now there are gargantuan fines, shelves of regulation, auditing and
compliance, even jail time for executives. Has it fixed anything? No.
If anything the landscape of breaches is accelerating. And things like
Microsoft Recall, cloud "AI" services are only going to amplify it.
Even if we had a "corporate death penalty" that simply shut down
companies on their first breach, it would fix nothing. We'd just get
fly-by-night tech companies with an average lifespan of 18 months.

What if the people who said "Data wants to be free" are right? What
if data containment is impossible in principle?

Once we put aside wishful thinking, how can a technological society
survive. It requires radical and brutal re-thinking of cybersecurity.
How we define it. How we teach it. How we legislate it. How we address
harms.

[0] Bob secures Alice's data while Alice pays the price for Bob's
failure

[1] Many people don't care. Not everyone has a security mindset, not
because they lack intrinsic self-respect but because they are
unable to comprehend the harms.
That sounds like Gnevishev, M. N.; Ohl, A. I. (1948). "On the 22-year cycle of solar activity" which first appeared in the Russian journal Astronomicheskii Zhurnal 76 years past.
Yes, I suppose which of the parties is the free-trade and property party to the highest degree has gone back and forth, and it's mixed up with all sorts of weirdness.

I suppose now neither of them is a free party anymore at least, and I suppose both are landowner's parties.
Yes, constructing a justification through surgically extracted shallow gotchas (but ofc told in an authoritative way like any good gaslighter would do) in each case and ignoring the general pattern - it doesn't exactly end at 3 occurrences - is definitely the epitome of research.
Did you forget the crypto and nft hype train presentations that Jensen did ~2 years ago?
Right, the point I’m making is logs, metrics, traces, these concepts are views of data, with a pretty hazy relationship to the shape of the data itself or the handling requirements. Any assumption you make about them as a category (logs are unstructured, traces are sampled, metrics can be aggregated) is wrong nearly as much as it’s right.
Just always quote. No need to remember different behavior in different situations.
Because it uses that library for type checking?
TIL that Porsche cars don't exist.
Only sometimes is this true.
It's not over for you, I self-taught some niche skills in the last couple years that some bigco apparently wants to pay for. I'm 35ish. Of course, I don't have any advice about how to do this, because I did it by really liking the thing and doing it all the time. But presumably some sort of structured practice would work too.
CUDA is a moat. What's ineffective about it?
Phosh: A user interface for your mobile phone
> All URLs or URNs are URIs, but not all URIs are URLs or URNs.