skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Factorio has a really good dev team behind it so I trust that they're doing their best to fix these issues. Though, gamedev in general seems to be more of a creative endeavor which puts things like code practices and security on the back burner. I wonder how many zero day exploits are lurking in game clients / servers.
cat list_of_dicts.txt | grep '2931:'
Motorcycles and Mayhem in Ukraine's East
I’m not “objecting” to anything, it’s just that companies putting out a model capable of generating nudity would invoke some controversy they’d rather be out of.
I hear what you're virtue signaling, but people DO have a right to wonder what will happen if a link redirect service runs out of money and kills their links
Even simpler is subtract any sound (and associated echoes) output through the speaker from
any input received from the microphone.
For some elaboration on my issues with NIST recommendations, let us consider NIST's response to public comments from 2021:

NSA raised the issue of "Counter wrapping, or integer overflow, because counter is
32 bits" to which NIST replied that "WITH CURRENT COMPUTING ABILITIES [...] Counter should not overflow". I find that to be a thoroughly inadequate response. Obviously current computing capabilities can overflow a 32-bit counter. That also translates (as NSA also pointed out) to 68GB of data encrypted with the same nonce, which is still "a lot" for some use cases, but easy to exceed for other use cases in the age of terabytes and petabytes.

On the issue of nonce reuse specifically, NIST respond to NSA's concerns with 'Generate a new 96-bit nonce for each
message using a cryptographically strong PRNG. Re-key at reasonably regular intervals, where "reasonably regular" is
defined by how much data and how many messages are being encrypted'. I think that broadly validates what I said. However, "reasonably regular" is not actionable guidance, and it is not always possible to re-key easily.

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/projects/crypto-publication...
Will we die from minor scratches in the future? Q&A antibiotic resistance expert
""According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of antibacterial agents, including antibiotics, has increased from 80 in 2021 to 97 in 2023. However, the health agency says there is a “pressing need for new, innovative agents for serious infections and to replace those becoming ineffective due to widespread use”.""
Coasting is fine in a sane company. Coasting is a sign of competence IMO as long as your work is also getting done and things are fairly estimated. We should get to coast because we practiced enough to be good at our job.

There's way too many jobs where the only reward for finishing your work is more work.

However, I don't think hacker or punk rock culture can make a come back here because there's too large of a pool of people willing to work even for underpaid tech jobs (since it's often a relatively a lot of money for them)
No one would let AI get shut down in the US, there’s just too much at stake. Even if we don’t like what’s going on, we’ll take a measured approach in regulating, because otherwise it will just go overseas.
What do you mean build queries and explore data, all on the client? I'm curious
The author obfuscates her employers. Stuff she discovers as an end user will get named.
As the article correctly states, writing a book is a good idea for many reasons, but generating income isn't among those.

My personal experience: during the golden days of the technical book market, a good 15-20 years ago, writing a chapter would net you $1500 (for, like, 2-3 weeks of work, better pay than a magazine article that would take approximately the same time but pay a bit less) an entire book maybe $25K, but that would take you at least 6 months to complete.

Of course, that was just the upon-completion payment, with the promise of later royalties if the book did well, but, unless you were very lucky, that pretty much never happened.

Still, a payment of $2500-in-todays-dollars for less than a month of work isn't entirely bad, and being a published author did have its perks for getting consulting gigs.

But these days, "a magazine or book deal that pays actual money" just isn't a thing anymore, so, yeah...
I am a Spurs fan and will be interested in how another tall player, Victor Wembanyama, will do. Olivier Rioux has a year or two before the NBA but I worry a little about the really tall players health. It is a little painful to even watch
Boban Marjanović run up and down the floor.
This is also the reason you can (sometimes) video conference on your laptop without headphones plugged in. The software does not (or at least tries not to) record its own output.
I enjoy reading posts like this. Very thorough description. I am wondering if someone has insights into how the publishing model for more traditional publishers like Wiley and Elsevier work. Those guys are selling books for more than $200. Does the author get more money from their sales or is it all absorbed by the publisher?
Last I looked AutoFDO builds were similar in performance to PGO as ThinLTO vs LTO is. I’d say that collecting data with an instrumented Chrome build is extremely difficult - you’re relying on your synthetic benchmark environment which is very very different from the real world (eg extensions aren’t installed, the patterns of websites being browsed is not realistic, etc). There’s also a 2x compile cost because you have to build Chrome twice in the exact same way + you have to run a synthetic benchmark on each build to generate the trace.

I’m just using an educated guess to say that at some point in the future Chrome will switch to AutoFDO, potentially using traces harvested from end user computers (potentially just from their employees even to avoid privacy complaints).
Mere days before its debut, the Ariane 6 rocket loses a key customer to SpaceX
That is a simple math + sensor problem, not an AI and drone problem.

https://www.topconpositioning.com/us/en/solutions/technology...
I would point out that this will likely be used 99% of the time by people who want to charge for access to content... that they don't themselves own.

If you've ever wandered the skeevier parts of the internet (the parts that a teenager not yet experienced at writing search queries might find themselves on if they were trying to e.g. download a software crack/keygen), then you'll frequently find that the pages you land are run by middle-men trying to grab some margin for themselves.

You'll see sites that pretend to be e.g. a torrent tracker or direct-download website, but where all the links actually are indirected by a service like Adfly — a service that interstitials those links with pages full of ads, which pay out to the person who created the links.

And these links often don't even go anywhere after the interstitial; the sites make money off of people hoping the site will work and therefore trying the links at least a few times before giving up.

(This "dark pattern" of an Adfly link pointing at nothing, or at another Adfly link ad-infinitum, is so prevalent that most adblockers just block adf.ly altogether, since an adf.ly link almost never takes the user anywhere useful but is just stealing their attention to no end.)

That's not exactly the parallel here — but I think that's a dark pattern that everyone here has experienced at least once.

The pattern that is applicable here, is another one used by these same skeevy sites: the "unlock the Download button below by clicking the link above and filling out a survey" pattern.

In theory, some of those might even work. (I've been curious and tried a few times, and I've never seen one that actually ever unlocks the Download button. Maybe because I'm not willing to disable my ad-blocker for the "survey"...)

But this service seems perfectly positioned to be used by people building that exact scummy flow. "Go through stupid revenue-for-me-generating process A, and I'll give you the password required to follow link B." (Where link B likely isn't even to something the person themselves owns / has any right to be making money on, but just something they found hosted somewhere else and SEO MITMed themselves in front of.)

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I would note that anyone that actually wants to charge for their own original content these days... would likely use a platform that both hosts the content and protects it behind a paywall. Gumroad, for example, or Patreon. (Or OnlyFans, even.) Unlike a link-redirection service, these platforms protect the content to ensure that only the people who pay for it will be able to access it — people can't just bypass it by sharing the redirected-to link. (They can re-upload a download somewhere, but that's a much higher barrier to most people, e.g. on mobile.)
Most likely, it’s not very good. Why do you think every console manufacturer, from Xbox to Sony to Nintendo, does not allow connecting to arbitrary server IP addresses or modding support?

It’s not merely a business decision (like some believe) to force people to use official Online services. Think about it: Restricting connecting to third-party server IPs means that any bugs in the network code, or in the rest of the game, even atrocious ones, will never be exploited. Restricting mods (even “safe” mods like Lua) further prevents exploits. This makes sense - buggy network code has tanked multiple consoles’s DRM historically.

And not just exploits - these consoles pride themselves on doing their review process before the code becomes available (despite oversights). Allowing executing of Lua, from a remote system, basically means a game could be reconfigured remotely after approval potentially from the developer themselves - not something any console manufacturer wants to permit without very close inspection.
Great memories! Back in ‘98 I found a floppy with my original 1994 Netscape Mosaic v 0.93 Beta and shared a bunch of tidbits about it on my personal site (thank you Internet Archive!):

https://web.archive.org/web/20010430044121/http://www.jeremi...

Posted it to slashdot at the time too, I miss those green colors ;)

https://slashdot.org/story/98/10/28/1923205/original-netscap...
It's much worse than that because of the complexity around JITs, behavior of hardware and speculative execution. Proper sandboxing is really hard, and I suspect that if people really want security they would disable JIT in general. Even simple ones like pcre2. Personally I have disabled Firefox's JIT (I believe it's called ion in the settings, but correct me if I misremember) for a few years now. I've never had any trouble with any websites so far. It's not instant loading, but it's close enough.

... but I don't know if I would lump bytecode with JIT. Bytecodes don't need or use RWX execute segments, for example. Lots of your favorite JITs do, for speed.
I work on the game. The debug library was disabled for other security holes that were brought to our attention, so it wouldn‘t be related to this, but I thought it was interesting to mention.

I believe the change was not mentioned in the changelog as an attempt at 'security through obscurity', trying to avoid people getting any ideas before the update is wide-spread. Not sure that helps any, but still.
Awakening machines: investigations in AI enlightenment
ESRGAN already comes very close to being that magical Enhance button.
Wow that's cool - that's like those adversarial attacks they do on self-driving cars to make it think a stop sign is a gorilla

How do you know what noise to add?
DRM is necessary for streaming services which want to carry movies made by the big studios. They love their DRM.

If Mozilla refused to implement DRM in Firefox, Netflix would have just said “you need Silverlight, Chrome, or the native Netflix app to watch movies”, plain and simple.
I think that's easy to say in the abstract, but the reality can be quite different. Of course every case is different, but for example:

* Spouse has dementia, does not recognize you, abuses you for being an intruder in the house, constantly shouts for help all times of day and night.

* Feeding, cleaning (double incontinence).

* Can't go out except for a few minutes when nurses are present.

The above goes on for months and even years with no end in sight. No chance to go out for exercise, hikes in nature, meeting friends. Isolation. At home carers have significantly reduced life expectancy for good reason.

Having hospice care where they can be well looked after is not a bad option, and is not a sign of weakness or failure for a partner.
Well, 010 Editor also checks all three. So:

4. Unlike 010 Editor, it does not take you $150 and is FOSS so you can easily patch it to do whatever you need.
A transcript of this video can be found here: https://literatemachine.com/2024/06/25/how-capitalism-become...
“stepped up basis”
Public urge immediate data collection after ransomware attack
You should click through some of the links I've included, like https://dyingforaniphone.com/ and see how much money Apple pushes to hide how each of its innovations leads to corruption and straight-up sweat shop behavior (among other companies like Samsung, LG, Microsoft, HP and the like).

Or read more about how the necessary components for our devices like cobalt maintains the slave labor in Africa backed by Western hegemonic forces: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/books/review/cobalt-red-s... or the case of oil being pushed for more energy production and the lobbying against green solutions from companies like Exxon and Shell via https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167...

It's not even really about you or how you feel but what this industry is doing. And with the recent Supreme Court rulings, we're going to be lucky if we know if _more_ things go down.
...or did you specifically use some sort of fingerprinting noise that Alexa was programmed to ignore?
But then you are putting that burden on those people. You don’t have to work in that commercial building either you can find another job for example
I think that's the article that made me change my opinion on CPR. When the hospital asks me to sign the form indicating if I want to be resuscitated, I answer no without hesitation. It's harder when my vet asks before operating on my dog, but in the end I made the same call for my dog that I would make for myself - do not resuscitate.
Any cost paid by the drivers is by definition not an externality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
I appreciate that (and def let me know if there's any part that's confusing and needs expansion)
You don't hear what they're saying.

On HN, and especially regarding "infrastructure" services that you might depend on indefinitely for something, "what's the business model" isn't a question about how the service will be enshittified. Rather, it's a question of what incentive there is to keep a free service like this running. If there isn't one, then nobody should use the service, because it'll very likely get shut down as soon as it gets popular enough for its hosting costs to become nontrivial.
All the Supreme Court has said is that Courts must wrangle with the question themselves instead of auto-deferring. If a case is important enough, the State can escalate what they consider a bad call to the Supreme Court for clarity.

A judge who habitually makes bad calls and clutters up the docket is going to get a lot of attention, real quick.
I'm sorry but it was so long ago I've long since forgotten; I don't know that my lazy bachelorhood diet is a good example anyway (cooking for one with less emphasis on fresh vegetables and more on what I could fit in my backpack to carry home).
Multi-cursor on ten lines, sure. You get 10x for some seconds or maybe minutes. I'd expect practically zero people have gotten 3x more productive over a two week period for having advanced knowledge of tips and tricks in their editor. Saying 10x seems a wild exaggeration
Lots of respect to Jacky for writing this. The tech industry truly pays enough money that you can lose sight of solidarity with other workers. Even as shit gets worse and more human rights are privatized you can stay insulated. I once had a coworker brag about how he paid 10k a year for a special medical service to see the doctor faster. Public transit sucks? You just Uber from your condo everywhere. Housing crisis? Idk I got my fully renovated 3-bedroom house downtown.

If you're reading this, just on a tactical level for job hunting one thing I would say is to remove the (+/-) part of the resume. People can do the math on the duration if they care. Maybe even just put the years. I hope you're able to find something that isn't quite as dismal as 99% of tech jobs
Then it becomes even more secure! Passwordless, serverless, you name it.
I'm unsure your first point can be true. The pinnacle for a 37 year old is surely lower than for his 23 or 24 year old incarnation, if both life stages were given the same fitness programme. 37 is still very young, but there's already some trace of physical deterioration by then, most apparent in athletes who in almost all sports aside from golf, are off their peak by then.
I've been using neovim pretty much since I began programming. I had some initial setup and have tweaked it once or twice, but it's by no means been a source of sunk time for me. I recently had to switch to VSCode and had a lot of issues learning all the out of the box key bindings and not having the telescope and fuzzy find windows I was used to was a huge productivity loss for me. When I able to jump back to neovim it was such a huge relief.
But judges would never have a say as long as Congress fully fleshed out the law?
Study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed (2015)
> I remember early 2000s and if you asked anyone who was a good hacker if they want to join IBM they would laugh in your face. That culture needs to return. Where is the Napster of this era? That would give people the fulfillment they want and make them feel useful. A simple way of doing this is to take any popular piece of software and think what the "out there" version will look like and start building it. Maybe punk rock and the hacker culture both need to make a comeback into the mainstream, otherwise FAANG and Leetcode will eat the soul of tech.

I'm glad you mentioned this. I was reading https://diversionbooks.com/books/the-spotify-play/ and the way that hacker culture has become effectively commercial (from anarchist ideals in finance being perverted into cryptocurrency, file sharing into cloud hosting, etc), we have to keep fighting to make control of it hard _while also_ protecting people's safety (bad actors - government or people - will always exist).
Nihilism leading to the two world wars and opinions being coded in the DNA are definitely two of the takes of all time
In the past year EV sales went very well, agreed. But recently I am seeing articles like this one:

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vw-elektros...

A sharp decline in EV sales for Volkswagen, so they are asking for subsidies.
I found the scientist! Great idea for an experiment.
Along the lines of some other comments here, this would benefit from some documentation about privacy, terms, are they trying to make a business from this, what they’re doing with the data, etc.
Which is a power grab by the courts. Instead of deciding if the agencies interpretation was reasonable, they now also decide if they like the decision in the first place.

More power to the court == power grab, this is pretty straightforward. Especially when combined with the decision that judges can be legally bribed.
That's just so bizarrely wrong I don't even know where it came from.

The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
By what reasoning is RvW an abortion ban? It was a ban on abortion bans but that’s very different. The only restrictions Dobbs removed were those impeding bans. If you listened to the debate, Trump said pretty clearly he’s against late term abortions and if the right takes power next year a federal ban superseding local parties seems inevitable. So you have to jump through a lot of mental hoops to pretend like Dobbs was anything other than a step on the road to a full federal ban on abortions (first it’ll start at something like 16-24 weeks and gradually be shifted earlier and earlier and you’ll claim “well technically they didn’t ban abortions altogether”).

As for constitutional but not partisan, it was a 6-3 decision along ideological lines. And famously the criticism from the left of Roe v Wade was that it found protection in the wrong parts of the constitution - that it was based on privacy and physician rights instead of women’s rights. So you’d have to be willfully trying to deceive to paint this as a non-partisan issue.
Here's something I just thought to try (although I can't do it myself; don't/won't own a smart speaker) -- If a person were to play something like "The Downeaster Alexa"[1] in the room, would that wake it up or does the fact that it's sung-not-spoken with music behind it prevent activation?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LESFuoW-T7I
> By default, it’s turned off. People who really want those mods can turn it on

This works until a popular mod requires it (for legit reasons) then enabling the option becomes the de-facto standard for people who install mods.
I must take this opportunity for anyone who is unfamiliar with 'Bisqwit' to take a look at his YouTube channel. For over a decade he has released, admittedly in spurts, some of the most clever programming videos I've seen. This is a sky-high IQ guy who codes for the love of coding, not for money or career advancement (indeed, he was a bus driver when he was most prolific with his videos).

Small 3D engines, C trickery, reverse engineering old video games, soundchip coding, creating a terminal emulator.. all that sort of gritty, low level fun stuff. Go to https://www.youtube.com/@Bisqwit/videos - hit "Popular", and find something that catches your eye.

Fanboy over and out.. :-)
Yes, that's the point: it is limited, but the Supreme Court just declared it to be insufficiently limited.
I mean, I've already submitted the request. They told me to work with my manager on accommodations, so that's approval enough. Just the fact that I disclosed my disability and requested any accommodations means the interactive process has initiated. So I should be covered under ADA - I did talk to an employment lawyer. They said it's really odd the way the my company is handling it and it looks like I'm being targeted.
Are there things more important than the welfare of the people?
Downvoted for the very obvious:

"In other words, wordpress.org does not scan for malicious code."

If they scanned for malicious code this would not have happened.
There are people who might access the web with screenreaders and other affordances who also suffer broken experience due to js religious like adherence. Should we tell them sorry, the internet is for the able bodied, or do we make affordances for the disabled like we do in the physical world?
That might be the case, but currently EV prices are generally still significantly higher than ICE car prices of the same class, hitting a slow economy in some EU countries. Maybe Chinese EV can fill that gap.
Anecdote: I recently flew from Texas to Florida, and the pilot requested a reroute south around Louisiana to avoid a storm cell. ATC denied reroute due to “staffing shortage” and forced us into an extremely uncomfortable ride.

I’ve been hearing about statistics for turbulence incidences increasing, and wonder if this type of thing is a contributing factor. With this app you’d get a warning but I wonder if you could do anything about it.
The majority of Gen Z describe themselves as video content creators
You should make a whole post about this! Like how a single MI300X outperforms groq at bs=1.

300 tokens/s with bs=1 for a llama-2 70B on a single card is no joke.
I read it in another article on the topic researching before commenting. Just didn’t bother to cite it but that was the official reason given as to why America doesn’t do this.