skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's paradoxical. Like the famous I Am Canadian ad campaign being the product of a famous Canadian brewer...that was subsequently acquired by an American conglomerate.

Like how Tim Horton's, the quintessential Canadian institution, was bought by Burger King and remains "Canadian" if only for tax reasons.
I wish I thought that far. Nah man, just a fun project I did in 3 days.
Just like any software, game cheats are build once, sell as many times as you can. If a game is popular, this can be a very lucrative business. The fact that game developers will play the cat and mouse game with you to block you out only adds to this fact, as so long as you can keep up, you can get repeat customers.
API doesn't mean someone's else's computer.
> using AI agents to execute runbooks

This scares me. If I was confident enough in the runbook steps, they'd be automated already by a program. If it's a runbook and not a program, either it's really new or has some subtle nuance around it. "AI" is cool, and humans aren't perfect, but in this scenario I'd still prefer the judgment of a skilled operator who knows the business.

> our agents exclusively execute read-only commands

How is this enforced?

The RCA is the better feature of this tool, in my opinion.
> This is the truth, and while you could frame it as a negative, I see it as a huge positive.

I see a clear split.

When NASA does something brand new, where private industry doesn't have incentives, it is a jobs program doing pioneering science, producing unique scientific and technological progress.

Since those projects would not get done otherwise, the inefficiencies are not really inefficiencies. Just cost of project.

But when NASA does something industry has found incentives for, the result is massive money-wasting redundant lower-quality, economically deadend work. The SLS is a monstrous parasite, tragically sucking up NASA/tax-payer resources. The only "purpose" for each build, launch & discard, vs. buying an economy class Starship ticket, is to "justify" the cost of doing so!

So I applaud NASA's manned missions in the past.

And I applaud NASA's current unmanned missions exploring our solar system and universe. And asteroid deflection missions. And human habitability research.

But manned transit, and near Earth resource missions, are best left to the growing list of companies that are funded, incentivized, better managed, and single mindedly optimizing those activities so well that they not only pay for themselves, but grow unbounded.
Ethically? Your ethics or mine?
I guess this is in the context of "free as in beer" and "free as in speech".
Is this a "dropped on community" project like Borg/Kubernetes fiasco with most PRs ending up in the following, and just corpo-sponsored changes and patches getting through?

> The Kubernetes project currently lacks enough active contributors to adequately respond to all issues.
Is it just the unlocking or do those apps also look at the exact keys securing the boot chain & OS? In other words, what if I install GrapheneOS and lock the bootloader again?
The real experts in the fields I know well don't tend to spend much time communicating with others about their expertise, especially to the layman. Why would the real experts in this particular field be any different?
I have heard it is also how NSA secure their personal passwords, they keep them in a little black book because there is no scalable attack to get access to them at rest.
Running LLMs on that kind of hardware will be very slow (expect responses with only a few words per second, which is probably pretty annoying).

LM Studio [1] makes it very easy to run models locally and play with them. Llama 3.1 will only run in quantized form with 16GB RAM, and that cripples it quite badly, in my opinion.

You may try Phi-3 Mini, which has only 3.8B weights and can still do fun things.

[1] https://lmstudio.ai/
On my IO, you can change the mode from the toothbrush, but the selection of modes to change from is on the app. However, I think it defaults to "all of them" so it's still usable without ever running the app.
> shocked more “assemble in orbit” type mission structures haven’t been proposed

It's unprecedented. A large part of Startship's technical risk in the Artemis programme is in-orbit refuelling.

That said, if IFT-5 or 6 can demonstrated recapture and an in-orbit fuelling attempt is made in 2025 that doesn't end catastrophically, I think the centre of mass of technical risk for Artemis shifts away from the novel fucking launch vehicle system that SpaceX has been tasked with building from the ground up to checks notes a rocket based on refurbished Space Shuttle engines and double checks this glorified launch tower.
Are those frameworks available in .NET 8 on non-Windows platforms, though? If not, I think that's what the GP was getting at.
Nearly 15 years ago I worked with a product called Cisco Prime Service Catalog. It was a self service portal where users could order IT services, from a new laptop to a provisioning a private cloud. On the backend it used a run book automation tool called Cisco Process Orchestrator to implement these services.

The software was very expensive and you had to deal with Cisco's licensing. The open source world has a replacement for Cisco Process Orchestrator, it is called Stackstorm and it is an excellent piece of software. I have deployed it at many companies I have worked for.

However there has not been an open source replacement for Cisco Prime Service Catalog. I have come across some portal solutions, but they are the source of truth for the lifecycle data about the service like PSC does. This replacement is what I am working on.

I want to keep it open source, so I don't want to take on VC investment. We have seen too many VC open source tools that end up with a run pull after a few years. My "business plan" is sell consulting and support services around it. I don't want to build a billion dollar business. I just want to earn enough to support my self and few other developers.

Right now I am working on building the MVP as I know a few companies that could use it. It is slow going because I am a devops guy not a full stack developer. So there is a lot to learn along the way.
Yet another study with a deliberately misleading headline that ignores stratification. Look at Table 2 and the actual results are clear as day, 18-24 has 44% post-vax and 19% post-covid and males have 84% post-vax and 67% post-covid. Two-variable stratification would probably give even more severe discrepancies.

The "clinical outcomes" table isn't stratified by age or sex so you can't meaningfully conclude anything.
games are requiring secure boot now? No thanks.
I reported a drug bot yesterday, and it's taken down already. It's weird that the Dutch government is ignored like that.

I tried Googling (without knowing Dutch I found these: https://archive.is/dGp2w https://www.inhope.org/EN/articles/tackling-csam-hosting-in-... ) and I guess the difference is that I'm talking about public bots/channels, and the problem lies with private chats / groups?
If its surviving in deer longer than it would in a human, then all calculus about the virus is different either way. There wouldn't be a need to conform that data to this observation.
There is huge money in making cheats and this one seems to operate in userspace only. Most cheats and anti-cheats these days are running in lower rings (kernel or device driver)

I believe there is also hardware cheats but I'm not sure how common those are. EDIT: See "DMA cheats" or "DMA cards"
It’s a convenient scape goat. The incredible impracticality of nuclear power is easily reducible to its immense cost vs other sources of energy. But that goes against the nerd creed of nukes smart. The marketplace long ago abandoned nuclear in favor of things that actually work.
It was almost definitely an iCloud hack laundered through a laptop (last Mac of its kind to not have at rest encryption on by default IIRC) provided to a conveniently blind computer technician who happened to know Rudy Giuliani personally.

I think anybody can tell this information wasn’t obtained fraudulently. It is notable though that the same press is currently sitting on hacked documents from Iran from the Trump campaign…
Canadian culture is a vague and vacuous hole with the strongest defining feature being their insistence that they're not Americans. Someone from the UK or Mexico is so uniquely different that these's never been any confusion, but Canadians are constantly coping over this. Reminds me of how Texas is always threatening to leave the country.
> The jokes are just-subtle enough to land

"Jokes" ? So now people are being trained to write like LLMS? Joy.
This was especially true under Reagan. In Buffalo NY you can watch Canadian news and it was enlightening.
> Do you think Musk's antics are having a notable negative effect on SpaceX?

Absolutely, politically. There is an alternate world in which Musk retained his bipartisan credentials where SpaceX is being handed the Artemis programme.
They also inherited a lot of free R&D from the Nazi V2 rocket program via Wernher Von Braun and several of his collaborators thanks to Operation Paperclip…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
To be fair, "free as in beer" doesn't work for a lot of people who don't drink (or do drink, but don't like beer). I don't think we're going to come up with a one-size-fits-all slogan...
Developing a cheat is far easier than developing an anti-cheat.

Its a constant arms race, at least until the AC devs bow out.

There is no 100% perfect solution. There are tons of ways to circumvent anti-cheats using a second computer as well.
That seems like a highly presumptive gamble. And, as referenced elsewhere, it isn't the right argument against pushing for progress in pay equity.

I'll admit up front that I'm simply not going to see eye-to-eye with anyone who thinks a system is acceptable or sustainable that requires subjugation of many for income maximization for a very few. There's FAR too much capital in play for me to feel bad at slightly less comfort for some if it means drastic reduction in suffering for so many.
TBH, we'll all do better with less of the US news.
Now I want to read an article about the economics of selling game hacks. I just assumed they weren't really worth the investment to build since the number of people that want to cheat seems low.

After typing that I realize this is like coming to understand just how many people are on steroids to get a physique they want. It's like nah no one takes steroids except EVERY HUGE PERSON you've ever seen, barring the extremely rare genetic outliers.

Fascinating.
I wish textualize-web used this.
> pwning noobs

Who says they're not?
> If you can redirect the victim to a proxy via DNS poisoning you don’t need this attack you can simply pretend to be the mail server.

Not if the client uses SMTPS (i.e. SMTP with TLS) on port 587. Which is actually quite common for mail clients.
Fascinating and I stand corrected!
It was filled with slop long before ai slop though.
Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is still running in user space.
Tinyleaf Cabin
I believe it's a form of bikeshedding[1]. Not everyone might be experts on AI or gaussian splats or whatever, but taking notes -- everyone did that, so everyone can comment on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding
Children aren’t taunted into killing apex predators any more. What a fucking comment on society am I right.
> 2. Essentially a cost plus (or cost even) program.

This is really the only problem.

Because the government was the only buyer - no one in their right mind would supply unless a ridiculously cushy contract is in place.

You're going to massively overpay if you're the only buyer in a new industry that requires insane CapEx and is high risk.
Actually, here's an example of precisely why maps are not passed as references:

https://go.dev/play/p/-mEeg2Ud68V

This example cannot re-allocate the original map! If the map were truly passed by reference, it could be allocated in a local function. But it can't, only values within the map can be modified when a map is passed.

This is in contrast with pass by reference in, say, C++, in which case you can assign directly to and modify the reference. ex: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=calls-pass-by-re...
I've built hacks to undermine recurring payment structures in games. It has very little to do with cheating, and everything to do with fighting a corporate trend that I would like to see abolished in games.

Gaming companies care far more about these kind of hacks, but frequently lump them into the "cheating" category for better optics.
It only needs to compute about a trillion floating-point operations per token, and each layer relies on the previous one.

I wonder why it doesn't output a billion tokens per second.
There's also a lot of AI cheats now, which are resistant to most detection methods: https://github.com/Babyhamsta/Aimmy

Several hundred hours of my "the finals" experience have been helped by this :)
The joining of people to devices has been rapid and unalterable
Is it per spec, or from experience?
Stages of UX-Career Progression
Experts in any field are generally not the ones communicating with, and making recommendations to, the public.
Could use a [pdf] in the title if someone wants to add that
The tight line spacing has a negative impact on readability. It’s hard to read long paragraphs of dense body text like this. But the tables and other character graphics require this tight leading.

That’s the problem with using the same character grid for both graphics and text. It could be alleviated with a font that has a particularly low x-height (leaving more margin above and below the letters).
Sad to say, the fecal-oral cycle of infection remains common in the USA, with the most common areas of spread being restaurants although hospitals were sadly guilty of this until recently. And for any gastrointestinal illness in the USA, the single most common cause is Helicobacter pylori. Back in the 1980s and 1990s researchers mostly associated Helicobacter pylori with ulcers, but since then the research has expanded to show it produces a wide range of symptoms. It is a serious illness, even if you never develop an ulcer. And it so contagious that you can get it simply by kissing someone. And it is shockingly prevalent, with more than 20% of the public having it. It is always the first thing that should be checked when someone has weird gastrointestinal issues. The good news is that it is easy to cure: 14 days of antibiotics cures the disease in 96% of patients.
Imagine my surprise when I tried to take a screenshot on Apple Vision Pro of how cool it was to watch Apple TV while chopping vegetables, only to find that Franklin had been replaced by a black box.
Summary: a naive port of a kernel driver from C to Rust can easily introduce information leak vulnerabilities, which in kernel-style C were automatically prevented by preprocessor trickery.
Enterprise Incident Management: Best Practices for Large Organizations
It was truly a time of irrational hype if people thought they could just make a File Manager and recoup millions.
Yes, some things never change:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Space–Time Tradeoff
It's pretty common. Valve is now banning certain keyboards from CS2.
Those wedding photos sounds like they are all about the bragging rights. And most likely actually going there, will continue to have much higher bragging rights. Might even get even higher if (AI) simulations become widespread.
If the employee is a nervous person, and that nervousness is impacting their work, and you need them to relax, and they can't, you need to figure out a way to help them relax.
Another poster quoted Wikipedia somewhere here; MS implicitly acknowledged Wine's existence back in 2005 when they added a check for some of Wine's registry keys which would disable Windows Update if it found them. And in 2020 MS filed an Amicus brief in that Google/Oracle lawsuit in support of free re-implementations of APIs, citing Wine as a positive example.

While I am still wary of Microsoft after their previous anti-competitive behaviors, I think they've taken a more pragmatic view of late, and realize that projects like Wine are actually good for their platform as a whole. I expect if Wine/Proton did not exist, we'd see more (for example) Windows-only games ported to macOS or Linux. With Wine/Proton, those ports are mostly not necessary, and Microsoft gets to say that Win32/DirectX is something of a cross-platform gaming "standard".
Go try to take a screen shot of Netflix.
Less of an old myth and more like well accepted scientific fact: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0675-0

Excess calorie intake causes chronic inflammation, which gradually causes a plethora of other problems. There's also autoimmune conditions as a consequence of viral infections, so many of that from covid in recent years.
Most people get their news from social media.
Djockey, a Djot-based documentation system
>Anglo-Canada and the US have all the good things in common and no war/trauma keeping them apart.

It was on the table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

From the Canadian perspective too, don’t think an American annexation of our landmass would go smoothly… Russians and Ukrainians are indistinguishable to an outsider and are currently unleashing centuries of built up ethnic turmoil on each other.

Anecdotal: I used to work with very right wing Canadian guys who cursed the name of the last president and called him all manner of names because of the trade war. These were the kind of guys who south of the border would have voted for him and bought the hat.

It’s not as simple as shared heritage == shared values.
To earn a dollar after tax by the payee, then the payer needs to earn $2.23 before tax. The winner is always Uncle Sam.
Not if it cost them a month to do so.
This is fundamentally the wrong way to do anti-cheat. Anything you do on the client will fundamentally always be bypassable, and it tends to always have at least some negative side effects. Proper anti-cheat needs to happen on the server.
> may never fully recover, since cartilage doesn’t grow back

Doesn't this categorically mean cartilage injuries never fully recover because the cartilage doesn't grow back?
For historical context: this was before the conclusion of the antitrust case that led Microsoft to start softening its stance toward open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

This was the same year Antitrust came out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film)

Any support for open source or cross-platform stuff was a bulwark against claims of monopoly abuse, but none of it worked well enough to be a true replacement. Mono worked for some purposes, but it was far from the first party support cross-platform .NET gets today. Nowadays it sounds like .NET Core + third-party GUI libraries is the way to go.
This is a pretty good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7V60r7Jco
Most GMOs are safe, with the possible exception of those that produce their own insecticide, and overspraying of herbicides on crops GMO'd to be more herbicide-resistant.
I can't buy this anywhere in Europe as far as I can tell.
>Now that the entire population uses it, the average IQ involved has plummeted,

You are so full of yourself. HN is great proof that there is zero association between "self identifies as technical" and "intelligence"
Just 80%? Sounds like AI projects are succeeding above average.
Programmable keyboard macros for the win.

No, like, literally.
I know a family of flat earthers and for them they'll just appeal to the Bible as an authority on the subject. Apparently there are some verses that imply the earth is flat.

I found this out when the 10-year-old son attempted to lecture me on how I should "do my research"--by which he meant, study the Bible.
I have a hypothesis based on my own experiences that this can happen from accumulating something in the body faster than it can be cleared. Could you have been continuously ingesting yellow 6 for a while, to the point that it crossed some threshold?
Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers
If you're advocating for Annexing Canada, or at least Quebec, there's a meaningful amount of support for this within Canada.

The only real opposition to this in the USA will come from conservatives who are upset at the large amount of "New Democratic" voters.
This is happening in the UK. It was in Labour’s manifesto (and they were recently elected)
There's no information about what this is, beyond a teaser of a loss graph. Really hoping this is something that gets released to the world, not hidden behind closed doors.
The presentation page dearly needs colour. Even if you emulate terminal feeling, you need to use colour.
I can't comment specifically about either of these apps, and I actually may be hypothesizing in the wrong direction (especially if they're somehow hilariously connecting to an electric toothbrush, and developed these apps in-house) but...

1. an agency probably built these apps, an arena where I've worked or contributed to for 15 years that is defined by arbitrary quarterly client budgets and flavor of the month tech stacks evangelized by a rotating cast of characters (including random contractors), due mostly to high industry turnover, mis-allocation of project 'resources' (human beings), moving goalposts often dictated by client whim, etc etc, all in the pursuit of technology deliverables that are intentionally crippled by analytics libraries and conceived almost entirely by creative departments that "ladder up to the dynamic storytelling and next-gen digital transformations that Brand X will deliver holistically to its army of advocates and consumer clusters who crave end-to-end digital alchemy and mindblowing content journeys on socials".

(don't forget, we sell electric toothbrushes)

You can imagine how in that environment it's Thunderdome, anything goes! :-D

And of course I'm being actively silly in my description, but it's worth painting this picture to articulate that a lot of these projects are moving too fast and have too many things literally bolted onto to them to ever find themselves in a place where you could package and release a 10MB app again.

2. after throwing that industry under the bus, I opened Xcode to interrogate one of my own iOS apps, of which I'm the sole and only contributor, painstakingly birthed from scratch with love.

IT, TOO, IS 300MB, much to my surprise!

The app itself does a lot of things:

- beautiful onboarding screens that you likely only ever see once (graphics, video, etc)

- complex notification receipt and display

- full-featured audio player

- embedded HTML webviews and code for audio visualization

- custom iOS Sticker extension

- integrated image editor

- iOS widgets

- Apple Watch support

- tvOS support for a completely unique second-screen experience

- a bunch of frameworks and libraries, leveraged for different reasons (Messages, WidgetKit, SwiftUI, SPPermissions, Haneke, MarqueeLabel, NotificationBannerSwift, Reachability, SDWebImage, Shift, SnapKit, SwiftAudioEx, SwiftQueue, SwiftyJSON)

But realistically, the app actually only does two things: plays some tunes and lets you know when some new merch is for sale. The rest of the stuff is shiny toy territory. Then you compile and package it up, and voila, 300MB.

Turns out, I'm just as culpable for the bloat as any agency or poor soul making apps these days -- you're gonna reach for libraries and include giant assets and do all this stuff that's probably not sane, while in the pursuit of fun, beauty, innovation, or I guess even just collecting intrusive metrics on people's dental habits.
1974 and up was really about information, communication and knowledge.
Only analyzing client command network frames and entities on the server isn't enough.
Do you have a link for Google pushing people away from latent/implied TLS and towards STARTTLS? My recollection was the exact opposite (companies have increasingly pushing to kill off STARTTLS), but it's possible I've misremembered.
https://rapidapi.com/hub