skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about developing a community based open (CC0 licensed) hardening standard and tool which allows giving more details about the system to be hardened to cover even more hardening options. I'm working as an Information Security Auditor and most companies I have audited are using CIS standards for this. While they are free, they are proprietary and you are not allowed to build products on top of these standards. Additionally these standards are relatively generic and I don't know anybody who knows the decision process on their standards. Also, the Windows standards doesn't even recommend using Windows application allowlisting functionalities such as AppLocker or WDAC.
> 10% is 100x cheaper than WinDbg

If you’re gonna throw around numbers like this you need to cite an actual tool not “if I remember correctly there exists a unicorn”.
Legend says, had it not been for the unexpected MS-DOS success, they would keep being a UNIX shop.
What are some tools/techniques that one can use to figure out the above using Firefox?
OR. They lost a gamble. They picked Russia over the US and lost, big.
Honestly I don't disagree, I just think that humans tend to anthropomorphize to such a high extent that there is a fair bit of hyperbole promoting LLMs as more than they are. It's my opinion that the big flaws LLMs currently present aren't going to be overcome by scaling alone.
Why not just self sign a local cert? Its really easy to do (ask an AI for a relevant example in your language of choice)
The sanctions in Venezuela are/were very different from the ones in Cuba, there is a prohibition of trade from any US company and its subsidiaries with Cuba with the exception of food, not some specific sectors aimed at supposedly weakening the government.

With that being said it could also be incompetence and/or corruption, but ignoring the embargo completely is just working to weaken your argument.
Ask HN: Who Are the HN Censors?
If we look through "new" we see lots of stories that are already Dead. For some, there's no obvious reason why they needed to be killed (as opposed to just being not voted up). For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41025897

So who are these users going through the New submissions and Flagging stories? Shouldn't they at least have a daily limit, or be charged some karma points, or something?
No, it wasn’t all zeros: https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1814782404583936170
It would have been nice if the journalist cited real data. They claim "People are shooting..." and "It’s apparently quite common for Americans to shoot at drones..." and then only cite a single anecdote?
This awakened a memory from last year where a colleague and I were trying to understand where an increase in Linux memory was coming from in machines that hadn’t been rebooted in a while. This was alerted to by Prometheus metrics.

Even after all apps had been restarted, it persisted. Turned out to be a leak of slab memory allocations by a kernel module. That kernel module had since been updated, but all previous versions were still loaded by the kernel so the leak persisted until the next reboot.

The leaky kernel module was CrowdStrike’s falcon sensor. It started a discussion where engineering had no option but to run these things for the sake of security, there were no instances where it actually caught anything, but it had the potential to cause incidents and outages.
Relevant quote:

> This is the basic premise of cable pressurization: Keep the pressure within the cable in excess of the pressure that could be applied by standing water.
> Winn is apparently a crack shot, because he hit the drone in center mass, and a bullet hole was found in the drone’s payload area

A true crack shot would have hit the CPU. :)
That doesn't tell me much about the usage scenario of complex numbers that would justify adding native support in programming languages. As a sibling comment said, builtin vector and matrix types (up to 4 dimensions) would probably be more useful.
That would be extremely limiting to do because of the constraints imposed by networked gaming; which requires that some data be locally available to the game locally to allow for immediate feedback.

Just imagine if a web page had to send a network request to control a toggle or to show the contents of an accordion; that's what the game would turn into if this were to be done.
Cutting Alloc Time Down with Transparent Pages in the Nanos Unikernel
I can assure you the Windows advertisement platform goes through QA. You might need to think more about separating "what they do" from "how they do it".
More precisely, rr records just system calls & interrupts, so its overhead is largely proportional to how syscall-heavy and multithreaded your code is. If it's single-threaded and mostly just pure computation, you can easily see ~0% slowdown, with replay at the exact same speed. (a quick simple test shows that 'mmap'+'munmap' of a file is 0.5ms, vs 0.006ms outside rr; but many syscalls are buffered in rr's userspace and thus way faster (e.g. a 'stat' on the same file path is only like 300ns slower than native))
You put AI in the description to grift money out of investors hoping to grift other investors, same as blockchain a few years ago.

Using the OpenAI ChatGPT APIs doesn't make you an "AI" company, but they don't care.
Maybe the author tests it on some old device with outdated graphics driver, because they all run smoothly on my 5 yo Android.
Developing countries face worst debt crisis in history, study shows
Well, if you want to address my "confusion" then pick something and start there =)

That is patently false - most of those things are firmly in the realm of engineering, especially these days. Mathematics is good for grounding intuition though. But why is this relevant to the OP?
Presumably Google have not updated their Translate product to use the latest LLM technology - I gave it some Russian text and it produced a very poor translation that was literal garbage in parts. When I fed the same text to Perplexity I got an excellent translation.
The repo is five years old and hasn't been updated since its creation.

It's a bad list.
It's also quite common in handwriting; ĳ in cursive looks exactly like ÿ, and even when the letters aren't all joined, that is a common ligature. When I studied Flemish as part of the integration course, all of the teachers wrote ÿ, and so I presumed that it was just the done thing.
I really like https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ for my simple needs (view tables, run/format SQL, edit tables like spreadsheets)
Log scrapers are decoupled from applications. Just log to disk and let the agent of your logging stack pick it up and send to the central location.
When a business has leverage over your livelihood, it's easily abusable. It's not as simple as saying "no" when the consequences include your family losing their home. This is why OSHA is so great, it rightly shifts the liability from the employee to the employer who is running the job and telling the workers what to do.
>Last week a Florida man admitted to shooting down a Walmart delivery drone, which he claimed was surveilling him

This really Is the thing that scares me about radicalization and the shocking ease with which guns can be acquired in be United States.

Folks who don’t have much to do, become converted to an ideology and are also empowered to obtain weapons capable of deadly force. And you have people shooting at things in the sky. What if this had been an airplane? Or a paraglider?
I tried using AI but I wasn't successful. It generates a lot of similar variations of a specific category and if I provide a list of options it still uses categories that are not on the list.
I'm more worried about impact on people for which there should be at least a parachute where the higher altitude would give the chute more altitude to open. Also it should be cheap and easy to put something on the payload to slow its decent - like a maple seed.
It’s a tough problem, because you also don’t want the system to start without the CrowdStrike protection. Or more generally, a kernel driver is supposedly installed for a reason, and presumably you don’t want to keep the system running if it doesn’t work. So the alternative would be to shut down the system upon detection of the faulty driver without rebooting, which wouldn’t be much of an improvement in the present case.
I've read that workers are now refusing to wear masks for things like painting or sanding because of the peer pressure against wearing masks for Covid.
Why Are Telephone Cables Pressurized?
In the answer to "What’s the wildest story of a leaker you dealt with?", is Nintendo claiming that it's a federal crime just to look at icon files in a game you bought that's installed on your computer?
I'm betting on them having no internal testing.
Distribute Lock vs. Single Consumer for the Queue
Which solution do people think is more scalable, efficient solution to avoid race condition in async processing system?
> You really think countries will willing choose to trade with the USA over the rest of the world when it isn't the biggest destination for their exports nor their major source of imports? Why would they do that exactly?

Yes, any day. Because US embargos prevent you from trading in USD, which is pretty much the de facto currency for any trade due to its stability and backing.

Also, even if you manage to settle your trade in say EUR, you now have to trade without using any US intermediary. Nothing related to this trade can involve a US bank, payment system, legal firm, etc.

A US embargo is pretty much the worst thing that can happen to a country. Only if your country has already strong ties to the middle east, Russia or China can you hope to do any sort of export.
FYI, it's called "node_exporter" ;)
There are going to be gray areas of course, but the point I'm making is that if it's hard to argue something isn't flying (respectively, intelligent) then it's probably flying (resp. intelligent). If it's hard to tell then it's probably not. I'm suggesting that intelligence, like flying, should be very immediately obvious.

For example, you can't miss the fact that a five-year old child is intelligent and you can't miss the fact that a stone is not. There may be all sorts of things in between for which we can't be sure, or whose intelligence depends on definition, or point of view, etc. but when something is intelligent then it should leave us no doubt that it is. Or, if you want to see it this way: if something is as intelligent as a five-year old child then it should leave us no doubt that it is.

I'm basically arguing for placing the bar high enough that when it is passed, we can be fairly certain we're not mistaken.

>> I can't disagree more. Or maybe I actually agree.

I find myself in that disposition often :)
> But where does the document come from? You can say it's a global variable in JavaScript and, by all means, you would be right.

No, you'd be wrong. Document is a Web API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cr...
Yes, but let’s discuss that in private.
Well, charitable for normal situations IMHO it isn't. Some sort of OCD-ish behavior re info feed. I see it on myself - the less I focus on all crap coming from news, regardless of form or source, and more I focus on my own wellbeing, my close family and friends, the happier I am.

There are truly very few news which are seriously relevant to my life, and I suspect its the same for rest of us. Just because there is a big crowd of similarly-impacted folks I ain't going to normalize such toxic behavior.
Nah my dude, HN just doesn't respond kindly to stupid comments.
This is not only a us problem for sure. Made two workers who where cutting pavement stones at our house wear safety glasses after i saw them cutting the stones with no protection. I don’t want it on my conscience if one of them goes blind due to a flying stone split.
Scaling existing architectures (inference I mean) will probably help a lot. Combine that with better training and hybrid architectures, and I personally expect to see continued improvement.

However, given the hype cycle,
combined with broad levels of ignorance of how LLMs work, it is an open question if even amazing progress will impress people anymore.
If Cuba were a free society instead of being run by communists they would have an economy that worked. This is the destruction caused by ~¾ of a century of central economic planning and Marxist ideology.
I second those killer features.

Which software/apps are your favorites? I love Goodnotes, but not having infinitve canvas is a problem for me indeed. A bit weird to have physical constraints employed on a device living in the digital world where it should not apply.
yes, sure thing it's really easy to do and makes your focus changed on making local https working instead of building your real product

https://chatgpt.com/share/9cc6ab14-e777-45a6-92b8-c58bbfb433...
Some thing that stuck with me early on in engineering school, there was an ethics seminar, and the instructor asked me what I would do if I were told to sign off on say some sort of waste dump into a residential area. The thing that stuck with me is he didn’t let me off the hook when I said I would say no he said OK so they fire you and now they sue you and what do you do now?
Doesn't surprise me a bit. As a reminder, Andreessen is the guy who wrote that silly "techno optimist manifesto" (https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/).

I'm wondering when PG will come out as a Trump supporter? He has already described Musk as a "centrist", so it wouldn't surprise me either.

These people are so pathetic.
Interesting interpretation, that seems to be almost diametrically opposed to this definition from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/radical

"relating to the most important parts of something or someone; complete or extreme"
There are about 5,000 worker fatalities in America every year, with a third of them being falls. When was the last time you fell? What would happen if there was no floor underneath to catch you?

Personally I'd imagine the vast majority of these 5000 people any given year are much fitter specimens than the typical HN user but due to the whims of fortune are not in a position to waste away in a desk chair like yourself.
> Does the existence of a bank vault break the trust between the bank and the tellers?

That's a strange analogy, since the vault is meant to safeguard customer assets from the public, not from bank employees. Besides, the vault doesn't make the teller's job more difficult.

> What is the mechanism that would prevent your computer from getting infected by a 0-day if only your employer trusted you?

There isn't one. What my employer does is trust that I take care of their assets and follow good security practices to the best of my abilities. Making me install monitoring software is an explicit admission that they don't trust me to do this, and with that they also break my trust in them.
I don’t think you understand the history of Cuba, communism, capitalism, democracy, poverty, slavery, free markets, sanctions, or the interactions between all these things.

Nobody in Cuba “asked for”, what you call “poverty and slavery”.

There are over 2 million tourists a year to Cuba. So saying “even the tourists aren’t going any more” is factually incorrect. I’m not sure if numbers going up or down is related to “bread in resorts”. I suspect it isn’t a leading consideration for most.

The fastest growing economy of the last few decades is communist, and Vietnam and Laos just plod on, so while I might have sympathy that authoritarianism is a horrible system, I’m not sure I see the picture as bleak as you do.

I realise what I am about to ask you will come across as flippant, but I actually sincerely mean it. Could you go and read some books on the topics you think you’re an expert on before posting utter turgid nonsense you read on another forum here? I don’t want to live in a communist state, but I’m not so arrogant as to blame the citizens of a sanctioned authoritarian system for their own misery. Neither should you.
Yep. I’m not suggesting dismantling OSHA, in fact I prefer to benefit from hard-won lessons and advancements from our ancestors like the earth is round, vaccines are good, nazis are bad, and government regulations actually have a purpose that’s almost always rooted in safety.

I’m saying a majority of the population in the US is eschewing this knowledge in favor of re-learning things the hard way.
> You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days.

Bluetooth as a network protocol, that might be stable. Bluetooth interactivity is not stable or even usable in many cases.

It's not just in cars and other non-computer interfaces, good luck trying to pair a non-Apple device with an Apple device. If you say "it works on my computer", congrats, you're the only one. And also speaking hyperbolically.
Dang, and some other admins, and a few aLgOriTHmS
This is quite immature.

Proving theorems is the easy part. Getting an intuition on which theorems you need to prove and which you can assume are true is the hard part.
You shouldn't have responded then, because we have nothing to talk about.
I follow the author of those apps on Mastodon and he posted recently that he's been flooded by fake 5-star reviews and has reported them to Apple, so it doesn't sound like he paid for them.
Yep, this is what I do using mkcert [0] and it works great. One-time setup of 15m to install certs on your dev devices.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
OP wrote "One of the crew still didn’t listen. I fired him." He fired the offending worker, not the whole company. Though in general I agree regarding supervisors.
Here's the paper on OthelloGPT's internal models I mentioned: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00941

The references in that paper are also good reading!
How should we sell psychedelics?
I always fall with style and I always do it on purpose :|
The parent comment I responded to is speculative and does not argue on the merits. We can do better here.

Are there people who ride the hype wave of AI? Sure.

But how can you tell from where you sit? How do you come to such a judgment? Are you being thoughtful and rational?

Have you considered an alternative explanation? I think the odds are much greater that the authors’ academic roots/training is at odds with what you think is productive. (This is what I think, BTW. I found the paper to be a waste of my time. Perhaps others can get value from it?)

But I don’t pretend to know the authors’ motivations, nor will I cast aspersions on them.

When one casts shade on a person like the comment above did, one invites and deserves this level of criticism.
> gains that affects households worth more than $100 million

The greed of people always astounds me.
OpenAI Wants Its Own Chips
M4 iPad Pro here started to freeze up on the Starry Night animation.
Sure, but you can do all of these things with the resources stored in a section of the binary, like Windows does. You don't need a special file system feature. I have never understood the rationale for this design.
Yes, it is easy to create low quality things, quite hard to create anything professional
its not just seeing what you're doing, the guard really does limit your ability to control the contact with the work. i'm all for PPE, including full face shields when working with cutting disks, but the guard is actually a real hindrance.

the most common injuries I have with grinder are:

a) using a sanding disk and buffing off some skin

b) running a cutting disk into my hand

c) getting the grinder caught into my clothing and pulling it into my torso

d) getting grit in my eyes

(c) is pretty nasty and isn't helped by the guard. (d) is trivially preventable by using fitting safety glasses. (a) and (b) result in cuts that are potentially bad, but not permanent.

for me the real issue here is using grinder that are in excess of 5". sometimes thats necessary, but the idea of throwing around an 8" cutting disk with a > 1hp motor without a guard just makes me frightened thinking of it. i had a job where they insisted i use one and i just walked off. and cutting tools with blades, i.e for masonry. thats asking for real hurt. or those insane little chiansaws. just no.
Generative AI Video Dataset
I have a lot of structured video datasets for generative AI (~ 300 video clips) suitable for creating image-to-video generator for anime and comic movies.The datasets capture complex motion patterns. How can i sell them on this platform?How much will it cost per clip/second, assuming each video clip is between 1 - 12 seconds?Sincerely, assist.
The optimal size for tractors is more a function of the topology of the land and the soil type than $/acre spent on the equipment.

In theory, the minimum feasible unit of equipment should be a lot smaller for sand than dirt (less weight is required to break up the sand), and beaches tend to be curved and bumpy, so that favors a swarm of small robots.

However, the cost of maintaining the swarm is linear in swarm size, but the cost of maintaining one tractor is sublinear in tractor size. I'd guess it's roughly as difficult (within a factor of 2-10x) to unclog up the sand sifter on a beach combing tractor as it is to unclog the analogous component on a single swarm robot. At 10x, that suggests a swarm of over ~ ten robots is infeasible (unless they are self-repairing and self-maintaining).

The article mentions places where wheeled devices can't reach (stairs, steep beaches). I'm guessing that'll be the main use case for these things.

As for precision herbicides + planting, I suspect that's better done with special tractor attachments that have fine grained control over each row's implement. Most stuff is grown in large fields and GPS guided tractors are getting more common.
Foreign currency the US is Cuba's most logical export market. So, with a shortfall of dollars/etc, importing things is problematic. So Cuba's reliance on importing food - especially from the US - looks like a spiral: eating today taking precedence over planting etc.

I don't know as much about this next part, but seeds are also harder to import. I'd hazard a guess at there not being much capacity in that market unless you're buying from Monsanto or the like, which seems not to be an option in Cuba as those (American) companies are not exempt from the embargo, unlike exporters of food and medical supplies.
Reminds me of this famous post from Linus about being "bug-compatible".

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
Your point is a few decades out of date. If Cuba became democratic the US would reestablish relations.
Glisp: Graphical Lisp
I totally agree. The problem is that we don't have such a system, and as a result, the proposition of harm is in itself already a credible threat and therefore harmful. Personally speaking, to reduce that harm, there's not a lot I can do to make these propositions less credible, so I'm left with trying to give these threats less of a platform.

I will note that from my perspective it is a logical conclusion that the insufficient policing and regulation of violence (and tools of violence) in the US in particular is directly detrimental to the expression of free speech.
It's 99% GNOME with few additions that can be disabled if you want a more pure experience
Watching the demos, I thought this was related to Ken Perlin's ChalkTalk, but they appear to be independent efforts. Inkbase cites Chalktalk in the Prior Art Section it's it's definitely worth watching those videos. Inkbase, ChalkTalk, and other similar interactive tools really emphasize the "bicycles for the mind" aspect of computers. One thing that is nicer about ChalkTalk is that it cleans up the handdrawn lines by default which makes the resulting diagram look nicer. Sutherland's Sketchpad also did this and it looked mindblowing the first time I saw that.
True, single core+ (maybe some minimal multicore work) and compute per watt are the two benchmarks that matter. Apple understands this...
Please share this information in a non Google, non Microsoft format. Perhaps make it a plain HTML page or PDF and link it directly from your primary website.