skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what prevents a middle man that can speak the language who gets hired and ships the work to NK or allows a NK agent to remotely work through computer?
also, it's not just the money going to NK, what about the IP being stolen?
We received a cover letter recently that had something like "[insert company name here]" left in it.
It looks like an example of perfect being the enemy of good. So afraid to make any mistake that they end up saying and doing nothing.
It's makes so the frame pacing fits the display refresh rate, making viewing a lot more pleasant and smoother. Eg.: Your Screen is 60hz, but the video is 59.97hz, then there will be a dropped frame. `--video-sync=display-resample` speeds the video up by a tiny percentage to make every display refresh match a new video frame. The correction factor is recalculated every frame and can be viewed by pressing I. This makes way more difference that one would imagine and makes 60hz gameplay look hyper smooth, even though not much changed. Frame pacing really matters. Applies to very closely matching framerates or multiples of (eg. 60hz screen with 29.97hz video), not to bigger differences like 50hz vs 60hz.

Drawback: MPV will be forced to run at screen V-Sync, draining battery faster. If your screen is 60hz, but the video is 29.97hz, MPV will re-draw the screen at 60hz, instead of just 29.97hz, doubling GPU load.
Just adding a small correction: you might be thinking of Bitlocker for FDE -- Bitwarden is a password manager. Thanks for the details on the other stuff, I didn't know what Whonix and Heads were
Sabine Hossenfelder on the Techno-Optimist Manifesto [video]
Uber drivers themselves never seem to complain about this. It's almost like those labor protections come with a bunch of other baggage that makes the tradeoff not worth it to them. Of course, it's easy to explain away any perceived 'tradeoffs' with them just being too stupid to know better, but I don't think that's accurate.
Right, and models you can run locally at home or on your dev machine aren't up to the task yet.
> What's in Telegram that you don't see in Signal?

The first feature that comes to mind for me is being able to use multiple devices. Signal only allows using it with one phone. If you add a second device, the first one stops working. You can use a computer and a phone, but not multiple phones. Telegram supports this without any issues. I still struggle to understand this limitation.
Ok, but please don't fulminate on Hacker News. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I don't think his Linux bit is backwards. I think he is just saying switching to FOSS software because a company is taking a freedom isn't a real solution, and we should fight to make it so companies can't do certain things, regardless of if Linux or anything else is an option.
If you don't think pipes offer much, don't use them.

Saying "long function call" doesn't mean much since a function can take infinitely long.
What is a 'half legal' immigrant?
"Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. "

Actually suspected? There's nothing in the article that shows they were from North Korea.
>In the US the vast majority never "makes it" and they are far worse off than we are here.

Mississippi, the poorest state in America, has 33% higher GDP per capita than Spain does.
> they can, in fact, plead the 5th when charged with something that would fall outside of the qualified immunity.

True, but this is not an arbitrary process, it must actually be adjudicated, which is where I would expect the protections to apply. The judge could, after removing the immunity, then decide that the bodycamera of the incident cannot be submitted into evidence without further proceedings.
Telegram Becomes Free Speech Flashpoint After Founder's Arrest
Something which would materially affect the businesses ability to continue as a going concern?
The 700k records have names, descriptions and keywords from the YouTube channel. And it is using multilanguage.

776 categories have descriptions for each so that the model can understand and map each account to all relevant categories and subcategories.

OpenAI and Claude is too costly, tried running the cost analysis on both claude and openai prompts
That would give police officers the power to intimidate victims into not wanting to be recorded.
Love seeing devops post on HN.

Wish it included server monitoring as a section.
That is something the government could fix by requiring these companies to check the applicants are permitted in the country through some government supplied means.
> The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

Or the CEO and owner, staring down the barrel of a very long time in prison, obtains the keys from his employees and provides them to the authorities.

Would he do this? To me, it matters little how much I trust someone and believe in their mental fortitude. I could instead rely on mathematical proofs to keep secrets, which have proven to be far better at it than corporations.
> In New Zealand, it's pretty much "at-will" anyways, with the cost of removing an employee typically being 3-months wages.

No way. Removing an employee in NZ (other than for redundancy) requires a series of warnings about performance and assistance to said employee each time to get their shit together. It takes months, is easy to get wrong by missing some step, and it's nothing whatsoever like "at-will".
> your business shouldn't exist. What kind of take is this?

Your take was worse
Like Curb and the numerous taxi specific apps?
Talking to an informant or source. Having that recorded might make them vulnerable to retaliation or more reluctant to talk to the police because of the fear of retaliation.
A lot of people don't understand what understanding really even entails. They don't know that some people actually understand a topic/idea/whatever, can play around with the ideas in their head, think from first principles on the topic. They've never understood a topic in their life.
It’s better in oxidizing environments.
Right, but that's where OP's point that these don't count as testimony comes in anyway. Qualified immunity does not imply no 5th amendment protection, so the question of whether these count as testimony will come up because pleading the 5th is possible.
I fear that it might not be that difficult for Russia to arrange for his suicide to take place while in prison.
Metadata? Yes. The plaintext of the messages is not piped through the notification API.

https://www.medianama.com/2023/12/223-signal-push-notificati...
I have Macbook Pro with M3 Max chip - 14cores and 36 GB ram. I don't want to spend more than $100 on the total analysis as I will need to run similar categorisation for another 2.5M accounts
>and the assembler "official" pseudo-instructions

And by doing so, you're sabotaging hardware's efforts, preventing optimizations in the decoder (including but not limited to fusion) that rely on these official pseudo-instructions.

Also note these pseudo-instructions are defined by RISC-V, no the assembler software. They are also emitted by any sane compiler.
I'm running a Common Lisp webserver with (I believe) nginx in front. It's fairly low maintenance, but it is dynamic web content (the entire point is to generate names on request), so I unless the CDN has some sort of function interface, I don't see how that would work.
Amazon/Google/Oracle free tiers should be good for a small project. It does include an IPv4.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu...
Programming remains a deeply misunderstood, and often disrespected, medium. Any time someone tries to claim that we "won't need programmers anymore" in the future to accomplish X, Y, or Z, I simply behold somebody who doesn't understand the medium.

Of course I understand that the "sweet spots" of logic, design, and platform architecture shifts over time. I can work at a higher level of abstraction now than I did when I started out writing PHP in 1999. I'm also willing to believe low-code/no-code solutions or turnkey solutions will get better over time. There's a reason I don't try to find restaurant clients to build a glorified menu website for anymore.

But the hoopla around LLMs has only served to reinforce the disconnect between the people who express artistry in code and the people who see programming as nothing more than a "feature-implementation-pipeline" that's ripe for rote automation. I'd expect as much from folks in marketing, or CEOs, but to see so many CTOs make public claims they must privately know is simply bullshit…well, that's shaken my faith in this industry, I'll tell you that much.

I'm feeling optimistic though. The tides are turning against generative AI and when the hype cycle is finally over, we'll have a handful of narrowly-purposeful, ethically-engineered models which provide some specific yet useful productivity gains…and beyond that, it'll just be the slow-but-steady progress of the discipline of hand-writing code.
> You want to use SSH (Secure Shell) and make sure that SSH is the only way to log in.

Some distributions (like openSuSE) also enable KbdInteractiveAuthentication by default so just disabling PasswordAuthentication won't work.
In theory, without the adult pornography to help seed step 2, how hard would you think it to still accomplish this? ie: what if we somehow target not-training LLMs on any pornographic material or any material with children?
I think this might be not an address belonging to the scammer, but an address of an exchange or something like that. Why would he write his address in clear text.
Different use cases have differing requirements for uniqueness though. A lot of stuff doesn't need "you'd have to generate 1 billion v4 UUIDs per second for 85 years to have a 50% chance of a single collision." sort of guarantee.

You might think your "Uber, but for short term giraffe rental" startup needs that sort of guarantee in the investor demo prototype, but it doesn't. Just use an auto increment in Postgres or MySQL (or an integer primary key column in SQLite). If you fool those investors into pouring the money pipe over you, your first real technical/senior engineer hire is gonna throw all the code you have running on your laptop away anyway.

Maybe someone at Meta sat down once and figured "we have 4 billion users, each of who on average has 3 cats that they take a dozen picture of every day, so about 150 billion cat pictures per day. So if we name them using uuids we're still good for almost 50 thousand years before we have a 50% chance of displaying a pic of Fluffy when we should have displayed a pic of Mr Whiskers". Then they promptly ignored the problem (or fixed Zack's code that was using php's hash("md2", $query['catname']) ).
You really think Uber's success was simply "just going around the laws"?
Not in web hosting, but in the domain registrar space GoDaddy is basically peak shady.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Taxi "companies" were also political innovations, where the medallion system kept supply far below demand and prevented any kind of meaningful competition, allowing drivers free reign to play games like "my cc machine is broken" or "i don't take rides to that destination"
> names that didn’t match their ethnicity

The people I've known from China and Korea have a tendency to adopt traditional English names (Steve, Joe, Mike, etc) because their native names are hard to pronounce for English speakers.

Further, the 2nd generation Asian Americans I've met do often have traditional English names.
That's not how credibility and trust works
iMessage only encrypted messages in RSA 1280, why do you think it is very secure?..
I consult in this space, and Sigma is one of my favorite tools. It can be useful specifically for fighting delinquent churn. One of the first things I like to check is to see if a particular card brand is declining more than others. I also like seeing the average time between the first failed payment and success. There is all sorts of data in Stripe that can help create a strategy for combating delinquent churn.

Sure you could get and store all of this data from webhooks and into the database, but most product teams don’t want to spend the time implementing this. Keep in mind it’s usually the finance/revenue team that needs this data. They’d rather pay Stripe a couple hundred/thousand dollars and get the data instantly, rather than bugging the product team only to find out the ticket got back burnered.
The general message is interesting.

This specific bit kinda gives pause though:

> One slight misinterpretation and wrong input and you'd get an estimate that's overstated by as much as 1,000x.

Does it also mean that in real world usage, one slight misinterpretation or misevaluation of your metrics and you're liable to 1000x more than you planned to ?

I totally see this as a reality of online billing systems. I've misconfigured GCP prototypes and ended with 100+ bills where I though it would be 2 or 3 at most and didn't care to watch for a few days.

But I'd understand a client bailing out when they realize slight changes to the sliders result in wild increases in the planned pricing. And removing the tool would sure help for registration, but not help the customer if they hit these kind of issues down the line.
I dream of combining wlroots and GNU Guile to make a graphic-first and multi-threaded by default Emacsen that does not aim to be source compatible with Emacs Lisp.
All the screens, or just the ones that let me shoot people?
Or that there's a Trust and Safety industry even exists.
I'm a bit sceptical of the choice of port 2222 as an alternative. At that point you might as well leave 22, but otherwise it's a good intro. If you're serious about starting post the sections into [insert AI service name] and start asking questions.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166770231506?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid...
FCC moves to fill connectivity gaps
Microsoft has a similar surface design trend as Apple, both want to constantly streamline and dumb down the main parts of the OS so that no one could possibly be confused since there’s so little you can even do.

But interestingly while Apple keeps some of the complexity hidden deep in ridiculous new squirrel holes in the settings UI (things like ( i ) circles), Microsoft just accommodates those who would miss the greater detail by also shipping the previous version’s entire settings screens wholesale under an “advanced” or “more” button from the new UI.

I am much more confused on where to find things in 10/11 than I was in Windows XP. But maybe I’m a minority because all the normies back then needed geeks like me to set up their XP PCs so maybe this is easier for them?
This is fantastic, I feel like it can once again improve my development efficiency
> Differential backups back up all the changes since the last full backup (...) An incremental backup backs up data that was changed since the last backup

I'm not sure I understand the distinction?
> I.e. demanding real world done and dusted examples or it is impossible.

Huh? No, the point is that today, countries which have gone all-in with solars use coal or gas for their base. Hardly clean.

I’m not finding technicalities. That’s literally the heart of the report: what makes sense for investment in Australia given the Australian context. That’s barely related to the heart of the discussion especially considering the caveat stated which I have exposed.

You seem to have trouble arguing in good faith when the discussion doesn’t go your way.
Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality
I would always lean towards normalizing data. I don't agree with this article's claim that you lose anything by doing this.

> However, you can run into an issue with address history. If someone orders five times from your ecommerce site, then moves and updates their address, you lose the previous address information.

No you don't, unless you chose to design it that way. It's trivial to have a one to many relationship between users and addresses so you don't lose any history.
You're either very confused or willingly attempting to spread "fragmentation" style FUD.

The 10b+ cores by December 2022 were fabricated and deployed physical cores inside physical chips, brucehoult was responding to your non-sourced "There are 100 billion embedded ARM processors in operation" statement.

Of course this number is much larger now, as RISC-V adoption has exploded. RISC-V is not a fad that will go away overnight. It has long entrenched itself very deeply in this industry.
uBlock Origin and custom filters – Mini tutorial
the article stating doesn’t mean it’s correct. The users misunderstood because they have a poor pricing model which obviously users won’t understand because pinecone isn’t as known as mysql or postgres yet
I'll need to look into the other clouds. But as for Amazon, the page about their Elastic IP price change clarifies that the free tier includes 12 months only, making the IP itself a nontrivial fraction of the total cost to run an instance:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address...
You're proving the point of the commenter you're replying to. ;)

They're pointing out that "richness" comes from measuring all parts of a person's life.

But you immediately revert to talking about only money. It's super ironic.
Do you have some hints or keywords I can Google to learn what the differences are?

I'd always assumed they were the same thing, and the choice just gave you a hint of the speakers background. Old school DBAs are way more likely o say "partitioning", game devs or young FE devs will almost always use "sharding".
Cross-compilation. There is no requirement of being able to run the compiler on the platform to compile for that platform.

It is much easier to add support for a platform to the compiler backend than to write a new, full compiler with its own, new bootstrapping method.
Simple AWS Resource Explorer
They make it sound like it’s a lucky coincidence that “these guys just so happened to apply to a company run by ex-CIA North Korea experts!”

I’d guess that there’s a chance that they specifically targeted this company
Revolver is underrated.
I feel that a large divide in a programmer's perception of the utility of LLMs as an efficiency boost for coding is based on a large divide in specific skills. A very capable and experienced programmer, as I have often found in industry, may not be that fast at comprehending code that they did not write. On the other hand, I feel I am able to rapidly proof read code -- be it from my colleague in code review, stack overflow, or the output of an LLM. As a result, Copilot has let me write many Bash and Python scripts at breakneck speed. On the other hand, I have allowed LLMs to decide on the architecture of small programs before, and it has often created a garbage, unintuitive code structure. It is a tool that you must use to its strengths and your own personal strengths. If proof reading the code is slower than writing it for you personally, then it sounds wise to avoid the tool.
> "contact us for pricing."

My biggest issue with these: when introducing a new tool/solution, we often don't know how much we want to use it. In particular, it will usually be introduced in a minor application first, and if it feels reliable and useful it moves to bigger systems and more critical roles.

Contact for pricing requires us to explain all our internal politics, budget management, which systems we have etc. upfront to random strangers, who are also incentivized to just onboard us first and push the sunk cost fallacy button from there.

I kinda feel this works best for companies that don't really care about comparing products and will buy whatever give them the best numbers on the contract (which is common for enterprise software, it's just not my personal cup of tea as a small fish in the game)
All this is right and most people get it by the whole country-wide sanctions thing but god I wish we would treat the folks living there with a little more humanity. It's painting with a huge brush to associate a group of remote work scammers, which is what they found, with the whole country. We don't do this with Iran despite similar sanctions— people talk about how awful and regrettable it is to have to cut off so many regular folks just trying to live. It's clearly not even the whole communism/socialism thing because we don't do it with Cuba either. But when it comes to NK (and China) the crazy amount of propaganda has flipped a switch in people's brains that it's not a country of regular people with a shitty government but an impossibly powerful state who has a nuralink into every citizen and company.
Canada’s healthcare is managed at the provincial level. So you’re comment is pretty reductive and unrepresentative of many places.

This is my experience in BC as an American immigrant. It doesn’t apply to Toronto or Ontario.

Counselors are very easy to find. I had my pick and the wait was about a week. The province didn’t cover it in my case but my extended benefits did. Most of the ones I talked to offer pay scales based on extended insurance coverage, and many will provide pro bono care. Some counselors are covered by the province if you get a referral from a doctor.

The longest I’ve personally waited to see a general doctor is 6 hours at an ER on a weekend night, typically the wait is about an hour if you go to a clinic in the morning without an appointment.

For specialists, appointments are done on a triage system with a referral. If your case is urgent, or worsening you typically get seen asap. I’ve seen MRIs get done same day, or take as long as six months for non-urgent needs.

What I’ve never seen is someone wait a day with a broken arm to make sure they actually need to see a doctor because they can’t afford it. That’s something I saw twice in college in the states.

I’ve also seen people get referred to a specialist and never get seen because their insurance wouldn’t cover it.

Also seen people declare bankruptcy over medical debts in the states despite having insurance.

Canada’s healthcare system could be improved, but if you have ever dealt with low end insurance or uninsured healthcare in the states, you would understand how much better the system is here.
They both do delta backups, but incremental bases it's delta on previous backup, while differential between the last full backup.

To restore from an incremental you need the last full backup and all the incrementals inbetween. If you do say a full backup every month, you'd need up to 30 good incremental backup sets to be able to restore.

For the differential you just need the last full backup in addition.

Obviously the differential one might take more and more space, depending on the changes.
The headline may be misleading. It initially read to me as though Intel is forming a new division to work on this. Instead, these folks are going to a new startup outside of Intel.
> I believe addressing it is on their to-do list.

I doubt that it's very high on that list, as the problem seems a very hard. Very hard as in that do we even know it's possible? "Metadata" includes a lot of stuff, but basically the originator, the destination and the timing of the messages and participants of a room are all quite difficult to hide in a federated system.

I do believe there is a plan for getting rid of the association of one user in multiple rooms, but that's but a small bit of metadata. I think it is part of the puzzle for supporting changing homeservers.
France has been doing fine with nuclear and hydro for decades (at least when scheduled maintenance doesn’t all happen at the same time). You can use dams as big batteries by pumping water back up when you have excess and nuclear production is actually fairly scalable up and down which ensures the peaks are never that big.