skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does sound cool... but the play button brings up both options to buy the game for $20, as well as download links? I think $20 is too much for an early alpha. And while I get that many MMOs are downloadable native code, you wrote it using a stack that could be web-based, so that is probably the way to go. Asking people to download and run an .exe is a non-starter for many of us. Too high-risk.
I'm pretty sure we can compare them. Whether the ultimate harm will be anywhere near that level of impact I have no idea, but they're clearly tiny fibers infiltrating places they weren't expected with possible health outcomes as a result of indiscriminate use before the risks were fully understood.
>Yes, this is obviously the sort of adversary we would be discussing.

OP explicitly asked about himself, not some government organisation.

>causing your number to be an underestimate

Not necessarily. It might even be an overestimate if the attacker fails to supply enough nodes of the right kind.

>So almost certainly thousands of people

We're talking about a targeted attack. Of course the statistics game works better when you don't target specific people and just fish randomly. But there are probably more cost effective methods as well.
>The answer is less than 0.14%.

Is this per circuit? So if someone switches circuits every X hours, the chance of being caught after a year is actually quite high?

And even catching 0.14% of pedophiles would probably be worth it to the FBI or whatever, nevermind Iran catching dissidents or whatever.

My point is that is seems very cheap to do this (I as a random staff engineer could do it myself) and catch some people. A nation state could easily catch a much higher percentage if they increased the number of logging nodes slowly and carefully and deliberately did things like use many isps and update the servers gradually etc.
This is not in housing, it’s in the water, in the snow, it’s everywhere forever.
Sorry, it's actually 49". It's the Samsung Odyssey G9. I love it.
"For your safety" (censorship), "for your freedom" (GPL), "for the children" (anti-encryption).
Tesla chargers are CCS. It's just that in the US they use a different plug, in Europe Tesla chargers uses CCS-2 connectors.
Show HN: Selectable – mobile-friendly Postgres client
I've built Selectable - a freemium Postgres client for Android devices. It's currently available for open testing, links below.

The key feature is the SQL query editor. The query editor was designed to be mobile-friendly. With autocomplete and a touch-friendly way to select parts of a SQL query, writing SQL statements with the query editor can - in some cases - be faster than typing the same query on a desktop.

The app supports the usual SQL client things:

- Browsing schemas, tables, and columns

- Running custom SQL statements

- Viewing results as a list, or as a table.

- Exporting results to CSV

- Saving queries (You can save one query in the free version)

The project is in very early stages, and is still missing a lot of features - notably the ability to insert, update, delete, or perform DDL via the query editor.

The app currently only supports Postgres, and is currently only available on Android.

Please give it a spin, and let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests.

Website: https://getselectable.com/

Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.weiyen.sel...
Anybody that has lots of videos from you could train a deep fake realistic model and create a fake video depicting you committing a major crime. Sadly blackmail is the easier part.
>Can you explain how tariffs are an effective tool against foreign governments subsidizing industries?

Because the US is a huge market, and if you can't sell your goods here competitively (because tariffs price you out), it hurts your business. It's a negotiating tool.
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Perhaps Open AI simply can't exist (too hard and expensive to coordinate/crowd-source compute and hardware). If it can, then, to me, it should and would.

OpenAI produced GPT-2, but did not release it, as it couldn't be made safe under those conditions, when not monitored or patch-able. So it put it behind an API and owned its responsibility.

I didn't take issue with Meta's business methods and can respect its cunning moves. I take issue with things like them arguing "Open Source AI improves safety", so we can't focus on the legit cost-benefits of releasing advanced, ever-so-slightly risky, AI into the hands of novices and bad actors. It would be a failure on my part if I let myself get rigamaroled.

One should ideally own that hypothetical 3% failure rate to deny CSAM request when arguing for releasing your model still. Heck, ignore it for all I care, but they damn well do know how much this goes up when the model is jailbroken. But claiming instead that your open model release will make the world a better place for children's safety, so there is not even a need to have this difficult discussion?
> once you figure out the relevant-for-your-use-cases set of dependencies

> It's one of those nice things that Just Works™

did it Just Work™ or did you have to do work to make it Just Work™?
People should do a lot of things. They shouldn't smoke and they should work out, but here we are in 2024 where the phillip morris stock has outperformed ibm over the last 5 years and the obesity crisis shows no signs of letting up. Knowing something is bad is the first step of course but clearly not enough to drive a real behavioral change, and we aren't even fully in agreement as a society that social media is harmful like how cigarettes or obesity are known to be harmful.
Well they put a sv social media dude at the helm not really unexpected, just a get rich scheme now
This reasoning is interesting, but what is stopping an LLM from simply knowing the number of r's _inside_ one token?

Even if strawberry is decomposed as "straw-berry", the required logic to calculate 1+2 seems perfectly within reach.

Also, the LLM could associate a sequence of separate characters to each token. Most LLMs can spell out words perfectly fine.

Am I missing something?
I think a lot of people (especially tech employees and HN commenters) have this idea from the 80s and 90s of what a union must be, like they are all necessarily just like a Teachers' Union. Usually bad stereotypes like "Unions rank members by tenure and reward only the old timers!" and "Unions make it so only union members can plug a cord into an electrical outlet!" and "Unions only negotiate for salary, never things like equity, 401K features, IP assignment / moonlighting policy, implementing an ESPP, Remote Work, better development workstations, and so on." Like, who made these rules up? Why can't a new union negotiate to allow Remote Work? Why can't a new union rank its members by something other than tenure? Is there some "union police" that makes sure every union is exactly like the Teamsters and United Auto Workers?

A tech worker union could fight for non-salary things, things that tech workers care about. There's no law saying it can't.
This will affect every child In The world for many generations.

Who is paying these damages in trillions? Even if you were to pin it on specific companies, they would go bancrupt.
If someone would do the thing-to-be-detected (e.g. accessing CSAM) every day, then that 0.14% probability of detection turns out to be 40% for a single year (0.9986^365) or 64% over two years, so even that would deanonymize the majority of such people over time.
Like Y2K, there's an argument that diligence from the tech crowd prevented this.
Commercial business software manufacturers are isolated from the users and in a way isolated from consequences as long as they fulfil the contractual obligations (which practically never has a 'make the users happy' stipulation).
And even if it is today, a fiend is just one bad election away.
> confidence inspiring

I don't want them to try to sell me something.
If they were making bold claims as you suggest I would be more concerned.
Iran probably has enough money that it could pay a thousand different isps in a thousand different ways with a thousand different os versions and tor versions. This could all be automated pretty easily.
> since I'd make sure everyone is treated better than they could get with unions.

You're not always going to be in charge.
It's amazing how many engineering managers don't get this.
This goes both ways -- historically the other charging networks were J1772 or CCS (with a few CHAdeMO to support Nissan Leafs), but now Electrify America, EVgo, etc. have been retrofitting or newly installing a mix of CCS and NACS cables onto their L3 chargers. This increases the available charger footprint for Teslas as well.
It's really quite bizarre how official history sources unironically talk about a 'terrorist boat' inflicting a surprise attack on a 'destroyer'.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/uss-cole-bombing
>Wonder what has replaced “Xkeyscore” given the wide adoption of TLS.

Cloudflare is a US-based company that does MITM attacks on all traffic of the websites that it protects. It's part of how their DDoS mitigation works.

Many people still use large US-based mail providers such as Outlook or Gmail.

Many large services use AWS, GCP or Azure. Perhaps there are ways for the NSA to access customers' virtual storage or MITM attack traffic between app backends and the load balancer where TLS is not used.
Interesting. That might explain why I dislike it so much. As a middle aged person who grew up with an early iteration of the world wide web for a decade to a decade and a half before Twitter even existed, both smart phones and social media mark a turning point for me from what the Internet "used to be."

Twitter, in my mind (and maybe this is perception and not reality), ushered in infinite scroll and short bites of information. Twitter is to forums what TikTok is to documentaries. I see Twitter and the "mobile revolution" going hand in hand (something that left me behind because I still dislike using a smart phone, generally, and rarely do compared to most other people).

But I guess if you're a great deal younger than me, and you grew up with an Internet where Twitter just always existed, then it might represent some earlier version of the Internet that is drastically different from what you consider to be "contemporary" (though, putting the TikTok mention aside, I'm still not sure what that view of the contemporary Internet is if Twitter is what we're comparing it to).

I guess I'm just so old that I still see Twitter as a relatively new phenomenon. Very different from the nostalgia that I feel for what the world wide web used to be when I was young.
This attack is quite practical. In 2007 I controlled a huge chunk of Tor traffic from 2 racks of cheap servers in a basement on Folsom Street in SF. It was easy to arrange and nobody noticed. Yeah those were early days for Tor but I don't think scale changes anything. If you're using Tor because you think it is private, you have fooled yourself.
In Europe Tesla offer a subscription that gives you the same prices as Teslas get. Otherwise you pay more. Of course Tesla then makes a profit on the subscription cost.
It seems plastic in fabrics can mostly be replaced with cotton.
Yeah, I’ve had to rewrite continuous batching and other scheduling logic. That and multi-GPU inference have been the hardest things to build.

I’ll need to get paged attention working as well, but I think I can launch without it.
That assumes you could run thousands of malicious tor nodes for several years without being detected. Unless you have vast resources and time, this is unlikely.
> There are Muslim women right now that march in Britain in the name of Sharia

This gets so overblown especially by people who benefit from this idea being spread, while the truth is that the amount of people who actually do want Sharia is very low and the amount of people who are actually "marching" to get it implemented is even lower.
Especially “the solution to an unsafe Tor is more Tor!” it feels like I’m at a charity drive.
No planted explosives so I’m assuming anything with a battery or power supply can be made to explode if hacked inside the firmware? I hear reports of watches, home appliances, cars, bikes etc. exploding.
1- It's PERA that changes the alice/mayo test. PREVAIL is the old STRONGER Patents act that is introduced every Congress.

2- Yeah, the one 'reasonable' complaint of IPR critics is the different evidentiary bar for litigation vs IPR.

IANAL but it's difficult to find a member of the patent bar outside of pharma/npe's that supports either bill.
I'm so glad I left linkedin years ago and never went back.
The example for "strawnberrystrawberry" (so the word concatenated with itself) was counted by O1 to have 4 r's.
No prob - and thanks! Looks like I found it right as you were drafting this message. It would be really useful to add some call to action about "Help grow the Tor network!" anywhere on the home page. Partly just to increase the "welcoming-ness" but mostly to reduce friction for ppl who want to contribute, and help make it clear that the network needs support from whoever :)
My guess is that Open AI realized that they are basically building a better Google rather than AI.
PiEEG Launches a New 16-Ch Device for the Most Advanced Brain-Machine Interfaces
It’s common to have a list of objects with different types, but which implement the same interface. Duck typing of this kind is core to Python.
Usually peoples' wants are explainable. It's certainly not uncommon to be able to explain one's wants when their implementation affects others, especially in a negative way.

"I want you to return to the office."

"Why?"

"Just do."

Is so unfulfilling a response that it's stupid on the part of management to not have even a noble lie explaining why it's so.
No, but you could use DNS for that internal IP. And then you'd have a hostname. Since your IMAP server likely has some way of getting external mail, it is likely that you have a DNS zone and MX records, so adding an A record for your internal IMAP access isn't that much of an effort compared to what you already would have.

If you have mmd45.com as a domain and have MX records pointing to your mail server, adding imap.mmd45.com pointing to your IMAP server should be fairly simple. Getting a Let's Encrypt certificate for *.mmd45.com is all that remains for the TLS part with a valid CA chain. As a bonus you can then also use encrypted SMTP.
We switched from a redis backed queue (bullmq) to rabbit at our company (https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker) when we hit speed issues . We found bull had a much lower throughput, after a lot of tuning compared even to rabbit out of the box.

We needed features like job priorities, and complex routing logic and on top of that our software needs to send millions of messages a minute. What we miss is a nice UI to see the state of jobs, and monitor for problems more easily like: https://taskforce.sh/
Can you add your own CA cert to your device?
For the last 30 years, that's been called "web hosting" [1]:

Shared custody
No confidentiality
Portable domain identity

[1] https://www.webhostingtalk.com
Been a while since I last used, but IIRC Rabbit is much more featureful than Redis, and has built-in much of what you'd get from Redis + Sidekiq. Their concepts[1] docs provides a good overview. This may be too broad a stroke but what I liked best about it was we used it for our centralized pub sub system, and although we had services in multiple languages / frameworks, they connected to each other through Rabbit, which saved us from having to setup a bunch of different / incompatible job processing systems. Like Redis its battle tested so you know what you are getting complexity / scale wise. At my current gig we use the typical Rails / Sidekiq setup and though it works fine I definitely find myself missing Rabbit. (But in my head Redis / Rabbit have only some overlap, and seeing both at the same company would seem totally normal)

[1]: https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/amqp-concepts
Or, the more likely scenario is that Big Tech is just interested in making money rather than controlling the population.
Principles for Doing Node.js Right in Enterprise Environments
Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space
It’s certainly a relief when polite society can recognize it that way. So, that ends one discussion but starts another. When foreign intelligence is tasked with, say, breaking laws and moral codes in Lebanon; it lives in the shade because we cannot distinguish it from terrorism or organized crime or a financial scam. It’s been this way for a long time and the debate nowadays is whether or not, on balance, we’re prevailing over evil.
The main concerns expressed in Robyn's note, as I read them, seem to be 1) generative AI has polluted the web with text that was not written by humans, and so it is no longer feasible to produce reliable word frequency data that reflects how humans use natural language; and 2) simultaneously, sources of natural language text that were previously accessible to researchers are now less accessible because the owners of that content don't want it used by others to create AI models without their permission. A third concern seems to be that support for and practice of any other NLP approaches is vanishing.

Making resources like wordfreq more visible won't exacerbate any of these concerns.
What if the bullying victim got enough money to buy a sports car?
I often find myself mixing Nones into lists containing built-in types when the former would indicate some kind of error. I could wrap them all into a nullable-style type, but why shouldn't the interpreter implicitly handle that for me?
I don't think you can compare the net harm yet? Unless you have research that no one else does. We know asbestos is a carcinogen, we know it gets lodged into the lungs and does not remove itself. We know the outcomes from heavy exposure.

While we know plastic is getting to places it should not be, we have not fully figured out all the negative impacts. Those impacts will drive where/when to use it.

Edit: Again, I am not trying to downplay potential harm. It might be a serious issue that is driving poor outcomes but I don't believe we have research of that as of yet.
I own a Chevy Bolt, and have no luck actually figuring out how to buy this adaptor
Why is it impractical? It would be unpopular and put prices up but it could be done. We would have to reduce the amount of clothing that is produced but that is hardly a problem as we produce vastly more than we need. We could eliminate fast fashion for a start.
And I’m not even remotely interested in the “corrections” supplied by some group of right-thinking meddlers!

This corruption must be disclosed as assiduously as the base dataset, if not more so.
I’ve bought three laptops this year from eBay. The second was shortly after the first because I thought it was such a good deal.

A few months later the first laptops exhaust started smelling like burning plastic and i also discovered that if you move the lid/screen a certain way the laptop hard freezes. A few months after that same smell from the second laptop (different model/seller) that progressed into a proper burning smell. In both cases I’m out my purchase price and for the total could have bought new.

On a whim after coming across the thinkpad subreddit I bought a t480s recently. As soon as I got it paid attention to folding the hinges excessively and noticed it creaks sometimes and the exhaust also gets a little too toasty. So this one is going back.

I’m not against used. I’m a lifelong 2nd hand buyer. No problems with phones or even mini pcs.

I don’t recommend laptops anymore tho. Too delicate and can have hidden issues.

If you read this far. It’s not enviornmental cus my bought new laptop (4yo) doesn’t have any issues. And also I did take off the back cover in both laptops and didn’t see any obvious blown parts. And neither are overheating from sensor data even under p95
Where I’m located, Supercharger prices are ~4x business electric rates. That’s something like $15 profit per charge. No idea on infrastructure costs or usage though.
I more or less agree with the main thesis although I would point out that typical software development practices in industry make this very difficult. Fred Brooks told us to plan to throw out the first draft. Industry says ship it.
Tor has never been safe to use.
Wow. I didn't know that. It's crazy.

I am aware of the legal and tax burdens that many entrepreneurs suffer because of the exit tax. That's the reason why many of them (me included) decide to open their companies directly in the U.S., which makes Spain to continue becoming more poor.

I really don't understand how we passed from being the biggest world empire to where we are right now in barely 500 years.
Europe has banking, too. Even better: nobody in Europe sends paper checks around anymore, we use instant wire transfers here! European banking is way ahead of US banking in a lot of ways.

So, banking is not exactly something that the US can use to coerce a European company. There are much more effective avenues for coercion, though. But IIRC, in this case, the US gov basically convinced the Dutch gov that making ASML adhere to US restrictions would be in the best interest of both of them, and not much coercion was necessary. After all, both countries are on the same side when it comes to the system conflict with China.
You don’t need all the middle nodes. Just the entry and exit, and enough data to do packet timing analysis to correlate them. It’s in fact shockingly easy for a well provisioned actor to trace tor traffic, and this is something the TOR project openly admits.

They’re financed by the US Government after all…
>I don't disagree, you can definitely build more industries with tariffs and protectionism. I just don't see the point.

You don't see the point of building up, say, your domestic chip building capacity? Really?

>Take a look at Russia, they are sanctioned by half the planet and they still keep going on a reduced industry because they had huge stockpiles of tanks

Russia can "keep going" because they have vast reserves of fossil fuels that Europe, currently, can't live without.
GPS Spoofing – Final Report (Ops Group) [pdf]
It is not AI, and the author shared the books he felt revolutionized the genre. You might disagree with him, but let's not be rude and call him AI. Every author we do these with signs an honor statement that they will not use AI for anything on the website (and will be blacklisted if they do). We also screen for this.

If you are looking for some outside-the-box Cyberpunk recommendations...

The best cyberpunk novels that launched and defined the subgenre
https://shepherd.com/best-books/cyberpunk-that-launched-and-...

I bet you have not read these :)

The best cyberpunk books you won’t be able to put down
https://shepherd.com/best-books/cyberpunk-books-you-wont-be-...

A bit more of a modern take around the same idea.
> But seriously, if you paid attention over the last decade, there was so much shit about big tech that people said were going to lead to tyranny/big brother oversight

To be fair, the big tech controls the behavior of the people now. With social media algorithms and by pressuring everyone to live in social media. Existence of the many companies depends on the ads on (NAMEIT) platform. Usually the people with most power don't have to say it aloud.
Would you suffer serious nonlethal complications from false alarm to (maybe) save your room neighbour that you've never met before? This wouldn't be captured.