skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alarm bells and a half.

Looking at all the behavioural analysis on VT makes it look like malware, but considering my lockdown iOS was being weird, this PDF is making me worry that it’s some sort of cross platform malware capable of attacking both Windows and iOS - which I have never heard malware being able to do before.

I am super curious of how this PDF behaves on MacOS, Linux and Android now but it seems VT only executes it in a Windows environment.

I could be so wrong about this, but if I am not, then this would be rather serious indeed for a lot of HN users.
PDF viewed on iOS 17.6 Safari in Lockdown mode, without error.

That's a pre-pub PDF hosted by the Usenix Security 24 conference, which takes place in two weeks. If a respected 30-year old security conference is posting hostile PDFs, that would be newsworthy.

> VirusTotal behavior analysis

What did it say exactly? Just tried a VT scan and it reported a score of 0 out of 95 (green), with zero detailed findings. That was the only/first/last submission of the URL, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f7259d6da00636ec8632741d3...

> That user has been posting a lot of links to pdf’s every day hosted on wordpress platforms and more

Examples, please? I posted the Usenix Security paper. A quick scan of my submissions shows no PDFs in the last two weeks, and one other PDF in the last day, hosted on HP.com.
There wasn’t any easy way to cool the RAM itself - in fact, I wouldn’t try to cool it using the same heatsink since the CPU would likely transfer heat to the RAM.

I suspect this is just a matter of timing tweaks in the BIOS.
Russia is good friends with China. USA research and universities are saturated with China Chinese. Good luck with keeping secrets. Russia and China alread able to shoot down F35. Have more nukes. Have hypersonic missiles. Ablr to take out American satelites. Supply chains and raw materials absolutely trounce USA with even NATO support. Saudi now doing non petrodollar. USA 400K troops decimated in Afghan. Dedolarisation is happening making USA dominant in 75% world teansaction now drop below 50% (according to official world numbers and below 40% in unofficial like India/Russia/China trades that not registered in the west). USA couldnt even make phones and TVs properly. Every single American wunderwaffen destroyed by Russian. That is entire Nato against 1 Russia (ok maybe supported by NK Iran and China?). USA natural adavantage? Like isolated? That works against her as well. Just go down to Mexico and have a look. Dominate by Chinese firms all the way to Peru and Brazil. I can pick any Chinese citizens that can speak 2 to 3 languages. It is extremely hard to so to pick Americans like that. In fact depend on locations, you get tons of non-English speakers inside USA. USA couldnt even get enough military recruits since many years. Official military troops are so weak, they have to outsource to security contractors. What about drone game changer? American globalhawks just pissed by SU and crashed. DJI able to outproduce entire NATO drones production by several folds. Military you will find it hard anyone to acknowledge USA now is number 1. Industrially, China is several magnitude of USA. Even so mamy F35 components can be traced back to Russia and China. The titanium and aluminium air frame? And how about gold reserve? Have anyone really believe any gold in Fort Knox? Hint, if you have friends working in Fed, might want to check why so many physical gold being shipped out of USA to Shanghai every month. Even Olympics, you see so many Americans on asthma meds and still lost to Chinese.
The thing is, Chef and friends aren't declarative at all. They're imperative scripts cosplaying in declarative-ish syntax. The more you use it, the more it begins to look like a complex bash script with way too many levels of indirection.
The Be would be inside the (radioactive) reactor vessel, which already has extremely strict isolation requirements. I believe it's accessed and maintained with robotics.

As for the change, I'm just an interested amateur, so shouldn't go into details and please take this with a big grain of salt, but I've heard it was a result of proposed scenario(s) that some do not regard as realistic.
Is it possible to learn why USA M.Class gave up power and wealth for decades?
Why SV and beyond, mostly well educated workers with high IQ gave up a lot of the wealth+ power to new elite and old rich? in USA? and where to start reading about it?

Just like Buffett said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/123058-there-s-class-warfare-all-right-but-it-s-my-class-the

They won against high IQ majority?
How to Use Axios with JavaScript
Trust is a social challenge, not a technological one. It is effectively impossible to stuff ballot boxes at scale in the US, but a large number of people still believe the last presidential election was stolen.
I certainly understand the desire to redact identifying information, but the most plausible explanation is some censorship middlebox mandated by the specific country, and thus the country and law in question are highly relevant to why this happened. Also the specificity of the message means its likely that someone could still figure out which country you're talking about.
This was obviously a very bidirectional strategy. For example, that time the Soviets stole a sidewinder missile from a German air force base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXn0gzaQNk&t=30s
"ETFs are backed by actual real underlying" is quite a statement for anybody who understands how Wallstreet actually works.

Literally every US financial crisis can be summarized as "it turned out not to be backed by anything". More info: https://www.amazon.com/Decade-Armageddon-New-Geography-Essay...

VW squeeze: short positions that cannot be closed, because more stocks where sold than where supposed to exist. Same thing for Gamestop (except worse, 220% shorted at some point).

2008 crash: packages of high quality mortgages / credit that turned out to be backed by 0 high quality mortgages.

FTX scandal: sold tons of "Bitcoin" that turned out to never have existed + traded "tokenized stocks, backed 1-by-1 with real stock by some shady broker in Germany" that turned out to be a complete lie.
Here's a starting point:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> then this would be rather serious indeed for a lot of HN users

It would be even more serious for the Usenix Security conference that posted the paper!
Which also prompted cutting ties with Russian fertilizer – a market that was already strained due to EU shutting down fertilizer plants in the year prior. Coupled with weather events that wiped out a large portion of the US crop the year before that, along with a dash of COVID-19, and it was the perfect storm.

It is really quite amazing that it was as short-lived as it was (on the wholesale side, at least).
https://archive.is/JLkvz
I've been diving into the science of learning, and the blog author clearly knows their stuff. For those intrigued by this field, here are some fascinating concepts worth exploring:

Bloom's Taxonomy (absolute game-changer),
Inquiry-Based Learning,
Deep Cognitive Processing & Higher-Order Thinking (closely tied to Bloom's Taxonomy),
Generation Effect & Testing Effect,
Deliberate Practice,
Interleaving,
Metacognition,
Cognitive Load Theory,
Problem-Solving Techniques: First Principles Thinking, Second-Order Thinking, Socratic Questioning, 5 Whys, Inversion, Divide and Conquer

Each of these concepts can seriously level up your learning game. Happy googling/using llm!
Or universal suffrage is fundamentally flawed. If people can't understand mildly complex voting systems then why should they be contributing to making political decisions that are significantly more complex.
One of the exciting things about better computer vision is the ability to have dense mixed crops.

This is where you can have three or four sympathetic crops growing side by side, allowing for greater resistance to various environmental factors. It also, if you give them enough attention, increase yeild.
This reminds me when governments were worried about web content on how to make bombs and other artifacts. It seems another iteration about the same topic.
How do you obtain the key to check the signature?
I Wasn't the First Person to Find the NJ Coca-Cola Cocaine Factory (2016)
This cannot as easily catch targeted attacks, which only send the malicious payload to certain people or niche groups.
CommonMark behaves differently for _foo_bar and *foo*bar. https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=_foo_bar%0A%0A*foo*...

Multiple multiplication signs can be used with spaces, x * y * z.

Markdown makes no mention of italics. It speaks of emphasis and strong emphasis. Underscore and asterisk are interchangeable, doubling gets the strong variant. Using slashes for italics doesn't fit into that scheme.
No, I agree, but you specifically mentioned "science-fiction" in the second post, and implicitly denied even their existence in the first post. I think there's a reasonable distance between that, and economic considerations
/ the fact that test hardware has yet to exist that's presented in those papers.
Do people actually use k8s as k-eight-s / "kates"?

I always use that pronunciation mentally myself but never heard anyone else use it.
All the more reason not to rely on it, hard to complain when no one else is willing to do what they do
Apple testers no longer demand test credentials to get beyond login walls?
Voting is a deeply flawed decision making process compared to deliberation. If there are too many stakeholders for direct deliberation to scale, it is better to just pick a random sample of them and have them deliberate. You can have the sample vote afterwards to get the final result if they can't come to an agreement, but then you don't need fancy tech to check or tally the votes, you just need a room.
But still more than enough to pay for housing on less than half of post-tax income. Median salary is $1250/week in Australia, and presumably higher in Sydney.
This seems like it could be solved easily enough. Just add a feature to ssh for rotating keys securely. Each new key issued by the server could be signed by the previous (already trusted) key. If the chain is ever broken and an unsigned key is issued (after initial setup) then ssh could simply bail out and refuse to connect with a scary message warning you to contact the administrators, as it does now every time keys change.

The problem right now is that if you rotate keys frequently your users get desensitized to the scary message and end up following the drill to delete the current key and connect with the new one. With a secure signing chain for rotating keys you avoid this problem.
How does nonsense like this even pass basic validation at the patent office?
Sure as long as I get to pick the sample.
Ask HN: How do they build browser based multiplayer io games?
there are lots of games like www.voxiom.io, www.diep.io or www.agar.io where you play multiplayer games within the browser and they are sometimes even built in a 3d environment.

How do they actually build these games ? Is it really based on html/css ?
rain?
No, the five times number is per weight, not per reaction. Per reaction, the fusion one Deuterium and one Tritium yields 17.6 MeV [1]. The atomic mass of the components is 5, so you get 3.5 MeV per one unit of atomic mass (also called a Dalton).

Per reaction, fission produces between 190 and 200 MeV. Since the input is one nucleus of U-235 or Pu-239 and one neutron, the mass is either 236 or 240, so the yield is 0.8 MeV per Dalton. So the deuterium-tritium reaction is only 4.4 times more energetic than fission, per unit of mass.

As for your first part, I didn't get what you were trying to say.

> Breeder reactors are not some sort of perpetual-motion device.

I don't think I implied they are, and I don't think anyone believes in perpetual-motion devices in 2024.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Criteria_and_ca...
From my understanding gathered from grandparents, problems occur when watering under the sun because droplets act like magnifier and burn the leaves.

Watering the soil means you don't need to care about the sun.
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Willing to relocate: Yes
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Résumé/CV: https://github.com/novafacing/resumes/blob/main/main.pdf
Email: rowanbhart@gmail.com

I'm a security researcher at Intel Corporation working on scalable software security, particularly fuzzing. Most recently, I created the fuzzer https://girhub.com/intel/tsffs to secure Windows and Linux kernel drivers and UEFI firmware, and have led its adoption across BUs. Previously, I have experience in vulnerability research and exploit development across userland and various OS kernels. My GitHub serves as portfolio at https://github.com/novafacing.

Looking forward to finding a new opportunity in the security space!
To anyone complaining about SMR performance (and on Linux): try F2FS, it's designed to have more sequential write patterns.
As usual, good old fashioned pen and paper is worlds better than this or any other attempt by overzealous tech people with a hammer looking to hit this particular nail.
I personally just always use kubernetes, or just my clusters...
Awesome! I hadn't heard of this.

Obviously not something that seems reasonable for government implementation, but this seems like it would be great for soliciting a specific kind of feedback about a project or business. Board elections, or product reviews from third party stakeholders, or stuff like that.

Truly auditable voting is definitely a tough enough problem that I'd never want to tackle it myself, so I'm glad this is available should I ever find a use for it!
That's not an exception, I think? Most online service businesses that I've worked with wouldn't be able to run their operations from a "cold start". That takes a lot of effort to engineer and in practice it doesn't happen enough, so that's a risk that most are willing to run with.
>For context, at current occupancy rates, our housing industry is building enough new homes for about 240,000 additional people per year, but our net migration is about 600,000 per year.

That is certainly a problem that needs to be fixed, but my point was just that housing is not unaffordable at the moment.

>there are hundreds of people applying for every available property which means it often takes many months to secure one.

I find that hard to believe in general. If that was the case then prices would simply increase to match demand. You will always get news stories like this, but it doesn't apply to all properties. Probably just subsidized rent, or underpriced ones. If you go for the slightly overpriced properties, I'm guessing you won't have to compete with hundreds of buyers.
Who needs scale? Doesn't the election ultimately come down to a couple of counties in 2 or 3 swing states?
It could be a bomb!
Python arguably has better support for working with sum-types (algebraic types) than TypeScript does, because the language actually has a `match` statement (since 2021). Define a sum-type as a Union of dataclasses and the static type-checker (Pyright) can even tell you when your pattern-matching statements are non-exhaustive.

Do you track such developments, or spend the time dreaming up these elaborate theories? :)
It is cool and still gets updates. One thing to note is that almost all the information comes via a ClearSky API, so I'd often find that the data didn't line up to more official sources. Not egregiously so, but sometimes I'd go double check against sites like solarham.com or NOAA directly just to make sure (especially WRT R/S/G forecasts). Their spotting information is also super laggy, so you don't find out about how you're being spotted for around 5 minutes.

However, it is very nice looking and when I did have it up I did pay more attention to things like solar weather.

73 - N3RTW
Why would I, as an employer, pay extra money for an undifferentiated pool of job candidates in a market where there is already an oversupply?
Any references on that? For a couple of years, they were fetching 100% price premiums on eBay, due to high demand and low supply.
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You don’t need to FIRE to still get rich enough to retire before the traditional retirement age when your a tech guy making multiples of the median household income.

Then add in a few people winning the equity lottery
There are no spray, no till farms. Cover crops are a great way to suppress weeds, and then you harvest, cut down, and/or graze animals on the cover crops to help create a mulch layer on the soil.
A lot of the things you described sound like caddy? [1]

[1] https://caddyserver.com/
Always surprising how airports in South America and Asia manage not to have issues with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG8XAmtYeQ

TLDW: was previously hard to tell the difference between water and explosives.
I seriously thought these were to hold in your hands and be able to "skate" in a prone position... (I wasnt thinking about the feet) -- but I was disappointed when I didnt find a video of some dorks in the 'burbs having an extreme summer with grip-carz
I used to think like that, but after reading Anna Karenina I realized that I only get empathy from remarkably few works of fiction.

Good writing is very very very hard.
Sure, as long as it's a random sample
Good point but I think that it's another self-inflicted pain. Everyone can open this website no matter their operating system, architecture, etc. Why is that?
Wanting to assess Soviet technology isn’t the same as wanting it to copy.
I mean same went for the DHS.
Someone did that and found that only 5% of submitted URLs (200k/4M) were dead: https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse/

Submitted 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519
With the latest snafu of defective 13/14th gen intel CPU’s things are not looking good. So far Intel has not handled this well and likely looking at major class action lawsuits.
There are two ways this could work out:

- LLM-assistance helps solve 80% of programming tasks, so 80% of programmers lose their jobs

- LLM-assistance provides that exact same productivity boost, and as a result individual programmers become FAR more valuable to companies - for the same salary you get a lot more useful work out of them. Companies that never considered hiring programmers - because they would need a team of 5 over a 6 month period to deliver a solution to their specific problem - now start hiring programmers. The market for custom software expands like never before.

I expect what will actually happen will be somewhere between those two extremes, but my current hope is that it will still work out as an overall increase in demand for software talent.

We should know for sure in 2-3 years time!
>you just need a room.

I know Switzerland is small but still to big to put us all in a room, also who decides who the "random sample" is? People from Cities, Land? French speaking or German? Voting is the the only provable and fair decision making, however the pre-vote-training of the voters (aka marketing, media and money) is the big problem for me.
What's different with these scanners? Can they identify the molecular structure of the liquids or what was the problem previously?
Most likely they will become AI-resistant.

PS: I know the above was a joke, but it shows people embrace the power of AI so much they can see the weeds withstanding lasers before they can withstand AI classification.
Changing appearance to avoid detection is as old a agriculture. In fact it's why we have some foods we enjoy now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
Yep, it’s based on html/css/javascript usually. With things like WebGL you have a full 3D rendering engine in the browser. They’ll often use WebRTC or web sockets for game updates from the server/other players.

There’s a list of HTML game engines if you want to dig deeper: https://html5gameengine.com/
Indeed. I was forced out of my home town to much further way due to the actions of successive governments to over-inflate house prices. Thank you for reminding me. Stay classy
As the USA would have problems confronting China: https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html or a journalistic summary of the same report https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/07/us-might-lose-war...

Consider a thing: last real war between modern powers was the Korean wars, those with experience there are not on duty anymore. Modern war in the west thereafter was only against far inferior enemies and most of them was lost anyway. Meanwhile PRC have reasons from their citizens perspective to attack Taiwan, USA citizens to not feel much about Taiwan since most do not understand it's semiconductor superpower, so on one side you get motivated soldiers, on the other not so much.

State that China internally it's a dire state LIKE USA, so both do not want a war, but while China do not want it for real USA need it to keep the dollar as a global reserve or they'll face a civil war due to rising inequalities and poverty, something that's essentially started in the UK even if formally they state they are only some fascist rioting for a recent stabbing, I've no doubt those who push/start the riots are fascist, but I pretty sure most participants are just impoverished people also made angry by recent conscription attempt. USA are in a far less bad situation, but not so far https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/one-inch-from-a-potential-civi...

Beside that we in the west feel no reason nor desire for a war, knowing it's something needed by the ruling class against the people, most do not even know/believe resources are scarce enough to demand a war to grab them in quantity to keep our living conditions at the expense of someone else. While in many other countries people feel the need for a war for themselves, so no matter much their armaments, tech level, and so on, they are mostly young, motivated and desperate enough.
It is not much of an argument, though. It is at the same level as religion, in terms of explanatory power: “I don’t understand it, therefore it has to be a quantum effect”. We ought to be more humble than that. There are many very complicated things that we don’t understand and that have nothing to do with quantum mechanics.
Unless they get infected by a more capable AI virus.
The documentation for Office 2000 [1] describes version control for Visual Basic using Visual SourceSafe integration, although I'm not sure if anyone used it.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/d...
There's been this trend recently of "hold historical figure up to modern society's standards and then declare them terrible when they don't". This article not only continues that trend, but worse, it makes up new modern values to hold him up to that modern society also does not measure up to.

It doesn't actually make the case that the fact that Shackleton was in any way "worse" than his contemporaries, and claims that him using his connections to fund antarctic expeditions was somehow a personal failing as though someone could just write a grant for a ship back in 1902.

It's less a historical piece and more reads like some freelance advertiser's attempt to make an article they can just spam into any discussion about Shackleton so that they can drive traffic for themself.
It feels odd the sum of the first example is 26. (All the number nerds, please forgive me). It's such a usual number.