skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way you phrase this makes it sound like Signal is compromised. I don't think that conclusion is warranted based on the evidence you've presented.

The analyses you point to don't support this conclusion, either. Rather, they merely point out that the project got a government grant for $3 million. But projects like Tor were funded by the Office of Naval Research and the internet itself was funded by ARPA.

I read HN for thoughtful, technical commentary. But this reads like a FUD.
Gotta be careful, though. If you teach them too much ethics then they won't want to work for most corporations.
Expanding on this idea - "Data driven decisions are leading to significant change."

No matter the source of the data, all data available is being used for any and all purposes regardless of morals or ethics. As such in business profits are the goal however in war it is to win.

As a multiple fintech founder from the 1990s I have experience with the earliest payment breaches, some known, some not. The banks were buying this data from crims to offset losses by proactively changing the impacted account numbers before they could be used. Few complained when the bank changed their account number unless of course one had a unique sequential card number. ;)

There is an ever increasing amount of public data being produced daily from countless sensors and devices now covering our entire world and to some degree space. Given this evolution one is to believe they can still hide? Just because data comes from a certain sensor or source does not limit the data use in any specific way and if you believe otherwise I have ocean front property in Kansas to deed you. Now consider the number of known breaches today since the internet went public and multiply that value by some large number N to postulate a total breaches number ever. Point being is there is a lot of data available if one knows where to look and HOW to apply that information for "profit" and/or to "win".

Just as banks were paying crims for data to proactively offset losses this mindset works in other business' today as well however it is certainly not being received openly given the impact to consumers during these increasingly challenging economic times which only greatly compounds that impact. Do recall that one can just change their financial account information but one cannot change their health records so why does that matter? Let us propose the hypothetical that health insurance companies are now buying up health records that have been leaked. We all know why they are doing this because these health insurance companies are looking to aggressively target the healthy to sign up with them correct?

Interesting times ahead as "change" continues.

Stay Healthy!
These guys are taking it far past tax cuts and deregulation -- they're literally advocating for ending democracy: https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrif...

I recognize that politics is not welcomed here, but policies and their implications should be. I recognize some of the itches they're trying to scratch but their proposals are detached from reality.
I don't get how companies in VR still don't understand that bulky VR sets are just not going to be popular.

I just want a pair of glasses with ascii text output, a camera, microphone, and a link to my smartphone to do all the heavy compute (or offload it to the cloud)
it may be grammatically correct, but it is still exclusionary.

i don't know why people fight so hard to just simply not include others
Sure. You can also do radio moonbounce, which radio hams routinely do.[1]
About 2.5 secs of lag. It takes a sizable antenna. You could probably use that as a delay line. Noisy, so error correction will be necessary.

Laser moonbounce is harder to do than radio.[2] Early systems used so much laser power that they had to be equipped with radars to turn the system off if aircraft were in the area. Later systems with safer lasers could detect single photons with a 40cm telescope and transmit a 2KHz signal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...

[2] file:///home/john/Downloads/SLR2000_Eyesafe_and_autonomous_single_photoelectro.pdf
> I'm baffled why the insurance company catching this constitutes being "exploited", and why you think people who oppose this behavior are "boot lickers".

Insurance fraud has been a part of the insurance industry and priced-in to plans since insurance became a thing. Somehow, despite insurance fraud being far easier to perform in days gone, the insurance industry has persisted and remained not only viable, but highly profitable. So how is this exploitation, you ask? Because of power imbalance.

Will AI be deployed to ensure that insurance companies are paying out on valid, correct claims, on-time and to the correct amounts? Will AI be deployed to ensure that insurance rates are fairly priced among people of different socioeconomic backgrounds? Or will it solely be in the interest of the corporation, and not to potentially undermine that interest, what the insured people who have to fight every damn month to get things covered might call, "what they're fucking paying for?"

Or, perhaps, do you think there's even a snowballs' chance in hell, that the reduction of insurance fraud even further which has been an ongoing process for years, will actually mean lower premiums for customers? Hasn't happened yet, so I kind of doubt it.

Or, to put it more succinctly: is AI, the expensive technology that's only really available to large corporations, going to be used to fuck over both parties of this, equally, so that both are now doing business more fairly? Or is it going to be deployed as all previous technological advancements have: which is to say, as tools for corporations to fuck over consumers?

I have a strong feeling it will be the latter.
Given the relative CPU stagnation, even a ten year old chip (2014) is still more than capable of doing tasks the average user requires.
Cancer is insidious in all kinds of ways. One in particular is that insight into the current and possible state(s) of a tumor are are really difficult to assess. With all our current imaging and testing capabilities, the human body is still largely a black box. Especially after multiple surgeries, distinguishing new tumour growth from scar and necrotic tissues is difficult.

And ... for suitably aggressive tumours, even what appears to be complete removal ("clean margins") ... often isn't, and what minuscule remnants remain can grow back with discouraging ferocity. I'd visited a friend a few weeks after they'd had a growth removed, and subsequently begun radiation treatments and chemotherapy. In that brief interval between surgery and treatment the lips of the incision had spread apart by several centimetres. That turned out to be an ominous portent.

Second-guessing is also par for the course, and without comparative study it's hard to know if more immediate or aggressive treatment (e.g., immediate chemo in Jake's case) might have helped. Looking up survival stats on particular cancers can be illuminating. The one which took my friend three decades ago still has a < 20% five-year survival.
This is great news. The updates to SBCL broke some libraries (that is, sbcl got more thorough in finding bugs that some libraries had) and I've had to load patches in for them because of the quicklisp limitation in a patch file. This will make life much simpler as do all of Fukamachi's libraries in general. (His internet suite is fantastic)
In general we should put a stop on marketing claims unless they are proven.

Walk into a store and read the ridiculous claims left and right. Why is it allowed to print something on a label that you can just make up? Water is sold as if it has some kind of magical properties. It's just water.

It disgusts me.

And when you buy a car you literally sign a piece of paper stating that you cannot derive any value off the claims that the sales person made to you.
Thank you for your feedback; it's incredible. Precise and effective, it's exactly what helps us improve the product. So, first of all, thank you!

I understand your comment regarding billing, and we will work on that to make it easier to understand.

Regarding the daily limit, Mailhub is a v2 product of a previous one called Mailwind, which was a similar "plugin." We decided to rebuild everything from scratch—the code, branding, everything. So, we've already encountered scammers as you described and have implemented an effective system to prevent that:

Maximum security on our payment provider (Stripe Radar)
A custom AI that analyzes sent emails (by code or template) and reviews the content. In case of excessive fraudulent sending, the account can be blocked.
Thank you for the warning; we've already dealt with this kind of problem.
I understand your request concerning SMTP. We aren't ready for this service yet, but we will work on it very soon. Do you have a contact I could use to alert you when this service is implemented?

As for the "to" field, you’re right, it could be an issue. We prioritized ease of integration but will ensure this feature is monitored closely.

Regarding the typo, fix in progress, thank you!
>They don't want to fix this for Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. [...]

>How is a compromised AMD CPU better than Intel's CPUs which get damaged due to oxidation and high voltage?

From a sibling comment:

>Improper validation in a model specific register (MSR) could allow a malicious program with ring0 access

For the typical desktop scenario, this is a nothingaburger because it's already game over if malicious code can get any sort of access[1]. It might matter more for server providers because their customers can execute arbitrary ring0 code in guest VMs, but it's unclear whether it affects that or not.

Having security bugs isn't great, but in this case having hardware degradation leading to performance loss and/or crashing is much noticeable.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1200/
Another area that I think needs big reform in Japan is legislation that allows for electric wheelchairs and similar devices for medical use (such as by elderly people or anyone with mobility problems) to be used anywhere.

There are many companies that either have such devices in Japan that they can't sell, or companies that want to sell there but can't, because there are laws against riding electric devices on the sidewalk, and it's too dangerous to ride those on the street.
Related:

Ocicl – An ASDF system distribution and management tool for Common Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973000 - May 2023 (32 comments)
I mean not really otherwise this page would look much different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...

The USG can certainly ask various social media platforms to enforce their ToS much to the chagrin of their violating users but that's wildly different than sending all packets for TikTok to /dev/null.
Grilled chicken nuggets have no breading. It's just grilled chicken. The pickles, kale salad, and drink have essentially zero calories.

The only unhealthy thing on that list is the honey BBQ sauce which, per Chick-fil-a's website, is 60 calories and 2 grams of sugar per pack:

https://www.chick-fil-a.com/nutrition-allergens

Assuming he's only eating a few packs of sauce, that sounds like a healthy meal. What's wrong with it?
“Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school, haul your ass to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want you to read.” - Stephen King, 2023-01-18

https://gauravgiri.com/for-the-record/a-confession/666.pdf
CloudFront distribution backed with Appsync or API Gateway?
> You are a senior full-stack developer, one of those rare 10x devs

I am not disputing that this improves answer quality, but it does make me despair that it does.
Comparing yourself to extreme outliers that had all the ability, persistence, support and an amount of luck that out dwarfs all of that is a recipe for some real misery.

As long as you're alive you're able to go out and do what you can and work towards what you want. Croc made McDonalds into a franchise practically as he was about to retire after a life of nothing notable at all. And well, peaking too early comes with its own psychological torture, how do you live knowing that you'll never do anything as impressive as you did when you were like 16?
>but now if I get pwned I need to open up my computer and throw away a perfectly powerful CPU, then put it back together with a new one.

I don't think there's any indication that the exploit allows the CPU itself to be persistently infected.
Priming the Innovation System
To make sure i don't push temporary local changes to production, I used to have a github workflow that rejected code that contained the word "TODO" or "console.log". This way, i could add TODO comments that actually need to be done before deploying. Now i'm usign github less but my deploy script does the check, and you can probably make a pre-commit hook with this, or pre-push
Ask HN: What Do You Use LLM for in Your Applications
Hi, like many people I use chatgpt, llama, Mistral for a bunch of end user needs mostly around programming but I have yet to find a killer use case to have LLM powered generative AI integrated with the systems / apps / website I develop.

What are some of your use case for using LLM ?
If you're attaching the image, why even send the text? It can read it, no?
can you elaborate a bit on why? (noob here)
Sigh. "Pre-slopocene" vs. "Slopocene" ...
Linux Will Be Able to Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster with One Line Kernel Patch
Altruism and Nietzscheanism Aren't Fellow Travelers
That is 1/3 of the minerals you are supposed to get from water! It is recommended 6g of Na per day, which you will not get just from water.
Exactly, it's incredible. It's a pleasure to exchange like this.
As mentioned earlier, we've already experienced similar issues and have done everything we can to prevent it from happening again.
Thank you for emphasizing this point, especially considering that Mailgun is a pillar in the field.
The Death of the Magazine
One of the things I saw her alluding to in her interview is that a lot of those people are gravitating to Trump in sort of protest against losing the old school democrats. There’s really no representation now for socially conservative fiscally “liberal” anymore. Not that Trump seems to be either but I think the Trump mythology is.

I think fundamentally what your seeing is what happens when people feel like they have no representation.
There needs to pe a standard that all editors understand. Propriatory answers like emacs don't count as some of us do not have the same editor religion.
If I can suggest a different perspective: that lack of scrollback is what makes IRC special. When you join a channel, instead of just scrolling back to whatever topic you care about and joining the subthread, you get caught up on what you missed by engaging with the channel instead. It drives community this way.
One thing I can't stand as much or more than bikeshedding, are people who will do 'armchair development' in a meeting of many people, raising obstacles, possible solutions, pros/cons, followed by debates and estimations of risk or effort, etc. We could just make a list of items to explore and have two people work it out. Similarly for group guessing figures, when someone could just run a query/report to get an actual number in as much time.
I mentioned I had a really good experience with HP.

Even Lenovo offered me customized discounts when I asked( I really dislike how everything is constantly 50% off though).
My brother told me a theory many years ago that time perception is based on the number of memories we have and how they're stored.

Imagine your brain being like a filing cabinet, which is empty to start with. Memories are stored as folders with as much space between them as possible. Time perception is created by the distance between memories. So the more memories you have, the faster time seems to have passed and be passing.

No research or anything to back it up, just fun for me to think about.
Ten years after the release of the matrix, a software developer literally writes the movies exact scenario down. Peter Thiel loves it, and somehow this is all tied to Trump....
> Next you’re going to say that shipping VMs to users is the only way to deploy apps, lest people use different (or, gasp, out of date) OSes that might have bugs.

This, but unironically.

Why not ship an app as a VM? Firecracker is super fast. The only thing really stopping is is that we don't have VM friendly APIs that let VM guests act like desktop apps. (Well, nested virtualization should be more supported.)

Also, we're already in a world in which we ship apps as basically containers. Is that all that different?

What should be the interface between an app and its host OS (and other apps)? At one extreme, we have "thick", "batteries included" interfaces like old win32, with tons of convenience APIs and OS-provided in-process code, and at the other extreme, we have VM-style "thin" interfaces with only the most essential OS services provided and apps (well, VM guests) expected to bring their own batteries --- things like a virtio framebuffer.

Whether an app interfere is implemented as a VM hypercall virtio thing, IPC, or in-process client library is an implementation detail. What matters is the thickness of the API surface.

We're in the middle of a secular trend from thick interface surfaces to thin ones. I don't see that as a bad thing. Thin, arms-length interfaces maximally decouple app and OS development. They encourage cooperation over explicit, stable, and versioned interfaces. They simplify the entire industry.

The technological environment that generated the old thick interfaces doesn't exist anymore. Freed of its constraints, we can do better now.
Think about how difficult it is to make a significant contribution in your particular field of expertise that is not about to be done right now anyway because the time is right. Very difficult indeed.

It is the same with cancer research. Not saying the world can‘t be better, but science cannot be done faster, probably.
Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac. Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and behaves weird on network operations.
Anaconda sued Intel for copyright infringement over AI software
> EEG - 10 channels dry, soft-polymer active electrodes
> EMG - 4 channels
> EXG - 2 channels
> EOG - 2 channels

I thought "EXG" was generally used to indicate "EEG, EMG, ECG or EOG" ... but in the context where they've listed the others, I don't know what the separate "EXG" channels are supposed to measure. Is this like, "we have two spare dangling electrodes and you're free to stick them wherever -- you decide"?
The complaint [1] is linked in the article. They're suing over Intel internally using and redistributing the anaconda software distribution.

[1] https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/znvnxomagvl/...
Flight Simulator 2024: July 2024 Developer Stream [video]
I wrote something very similar.

For mine I have a check box for whether I am interested or not (with perm storage). My presentation shows all new items first then previous items I'm interested in (checked), then all others.

Each time I open it up I just click the ones I want to retain, all others drop to the bottom.
Kubernetes itself is built around mostly solid distributed system principles.

It's the ecosystem around it which turns things needlessly complex.

Just because you have kubernetes, you don't necessarily need istio, helm, Argo cd, cilium, and whatever half baked stuff is pushed by CNCF yesterday.

For example take a look at helm. Its templating is atrocious, and if I am still correct, it doesn't have a way to order resources properly except hooks. Sometimes resource A (deployment) depends on resource B (some CRD).

The culture around kubernetes dictates you bring in everything pushed by CNCF. And most of these stuff are half baked MVPs.

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The word devops has created expectations that back end developer should be fighting kubernetes if something goes wrong.

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Containerization is done poorly by many orgs, no care about security and image size. That's a rant for another day. I suspect this isn't a big reason for kubernetes hate here.
From the article:

> As a matter of fact, the researchers say that the code would likely survive a complete reinstallation of the operating system. The best option for infected computers would be a one-way ticket to the trash heap.

From the Wired article (https://www.wired.com/story/amd-chip-sinkclose-flaw/):

> In fact, for any machine with one of the vulnerable AMD chips, the IOActive researchers warn that an attacker could infect the computer with malware known as a “bootkit” that evades antivirus tools and is potentially invisible to the operating system, while offering a hacker full access to tamper with the machine and surveil its activity. For systems with certain faulty configurations in how a computer maker implemented AMD's security feature known as Platform Secure Boot—which the researchers warn encompasses the large majority of the systems they tested—a malware infection installed via Sinkclose could be harder yet to detect or remediate, they say, surviving even a reinstallation of the operating system.

> Only opening a computer's case, physically connecting directly to a certain portion of its memory chips with a hardware-based programming tool known as SPI Flash programmer and meticulously scouring the memory would allow the malware to be removed, Okupski says. Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.”

Do you have differing information?
You're entirely right, I've got my details wrong.

Looks like a CPL only requires 250 hours of flight time per the FCC, and it's airlines that demand additional time.

https://www.faa.gov/faq/how-do-i-get-commercial-pilot-licens...
Thank you for the review! I super appreciate it. I did notice a few quirks here and there which I would need to take care over the weekend. Haha

And if you're interested to learn about what's under the hood, I would be happy to have a conversation about it sometime.
Intel's literally-everything will make you feel much worse about switching.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding this but I find it crazy that people now act like generating HTML server side is a genius new idea that is going to replace JS Frameworks. Isn’t that kind of the default and the SPA Frameworks were the new idea? Imagine telling a PHP dev that you’re now rendering your HTML server side! I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong here but it’s very weird from my view.
I always thought the less memories you have the faster time has passed. The older you get the less new events are stored in your memory and therfor you have large gaps of nothing. A year has passed without much. As a teenager you have new experiences every day and therefor time feels slower.
Intel Innovation 2024 event postponed to 2025