skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not formal. It's the most common definition.

There's many many definitions going along the gradient of formality from informal to formal. The science you're referring to is more on the formal end where there's data gathering that's written down, a hypothesis is made and what not. Additionally we tend to use statistics to numerically quantify the information.

At the most informal end, data is simply gathered through observation, a hypothesis is made intuitively. We still did science in the sense that it's possibly still valid. Do you need formal science to prove there's ground beneath your feet before you jump off your bed?

>Look, if you can't actually use your theory to predict with any modicum of success, it's not science, it's philosophy. Which isn't bad per se, but it shouldn't be used for any real life application.

science in it's most technical form can only falsify a hypothesis. When a theory is successful it means science only failed to falsify that hypothesis.

Philosophy as a whole is a bunch of BS. It's a bunch of conjecture that they try to formalize stuff that can be formalized and made up stuff that can never really be formalized. It's a mishmash of everything and is therefore nothing. You have the philosophy of science which is good by itself, but when you have something like the philosophy of morality side by side with the philosophy of science and Logic as if these things are equal... it becomes pure BS.

>If you are familiar with psychology, then you are aware of the damage Freud ""theories"" that showed to be extremely unreliable. To me, that's the real danger of mixing philosophy with science. People confuse what they think is correct with reality.

Freud made up his theories and verified it with his limited anecdotal data. It's much faster and is sometimes right. Formal Science is much more accurate but is slow.

>If you aren't ready to read it with a critical eye, then you'll fall for the PR in it. The point of the newcomer guidebook is to sell new guys on the benefits of organization, and push away people who don't fit that mold.

Doesn't mean what you said is even remotely true. Like freud this type of prediction needs a bit more "formality" to back up what you said.

>That's the extreme point of your statement. And you confirmed it. To me, that crosses several ethic and formalism bridges.

Not even close. In it's most extreme form people go to jail. This is far from that and uncalled for.

>Even if it wasn't utterly immoral to do that test, it wouldn't give you any usable knowledge because of confounding factors.

No it gives you knowledge of the test and what happens in the presence of confounding factors. It also indicates the possibility that the same results could happen without the confounding factors.

>I made an offhand remark, that it's quite literally the anti-anti-rape slogan. And I discarded that, so why are you still going about it?

Because it's extreme and unnecessary language that increases the hostility of the conversation and the accusation. I'm telling you that your response is over the top.
It's 2024, PKI best practices are well known and well documented, anybody still using a self-signed certs on their mail server (or anywhere) is either lazy or stupid.

Plenty of existing applications will refuse to connect to a self-signed certificate on the belief that allowing the end-user to confirm a certificate offers basically 0 protection against malicious actors.
Would this be a direct competitor of paperspace? If yes what do you feel are your strenghts vis-a-vis paperspace?
Except when it comes to nuclear, air travel regulation etc, then it's what ?
> “The western governments run most of the exits” is one of those things everybody “knows” but rarely backs up.

Thanks for pointing this out. Seems obvious in retrospect but I don't really recall seeing a lot of evidence for this despite seeing the claim quite commonly. That said, the use of "rarely" makes me wonder what evidence has been presented in such rare instances. Just curious. (Of course it's also fine if the phrasing was just communication style.)
Do we have full understanding on how this impacted the tech jobs? There may be other forces at play ie the availability of global workforce to compete with domestic workers of USA through remote work. Previously it was about outsourcing but now any 2 bit startup can easily have a bunch of devs sitting overseas and have a 3P company as their EOR. All the benefits of having an office overseas without any of the associated headaches. And to top it off over 20/25 years of continuous training and empowerment of global workforce have made them not only competitive but relatively superior and younger. So I am not too hopeful that this interest rate cut will really help the domestic US tech job market. I earnestly hope I am wrong.
>What detection?

Not speaking to the effectiveness of the detection (it's hard!), but there's information available, for example:

https://blog.torproject.org/malicious-relays-health-tor-netw...

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wiki...

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wiki...
Where do you order things online that you aren't inundated by ads?
They will defend their customer interests by staying able to do business in Brazil..

Lets remember that Twitter is not their only customer..

So if twitter has problem with some country justice it is their problem to solve, not a problem to be shared with every other Cloudflare customer..

Also, i doubt that they are making more money from Twitter then every other customer in Brazil added together..
At least with Safari all my internal SSL web services work properly on iOS with the root cert installed. Not sure about IMAP.
Yes timing attacks.

And yeah mitigation gets you into a huge body of research that’s inconclusive on practical usability. Eg so much overhead that it’s too slow and 10 people can use a 1000 relay network and still get just 1 Mbps goodput each. Contrived example.

People need to actually be able to use the network, and the more people the better for the individual.

There’s minor things tor does, but more should somehow be done. Somehow…
They may do so, but you know perfectly well what the reaction would be if this happened to people in the US pursuant to an ongoing conflict.
explain how a pinned self signed cert is insecure. i don't see it. it would seem to be more secure than one signed by a public CA that's not pinned.
> research supporting its effectiveness because the original inventors never bothered to conduct a human trial; they just

If you had read the article you would know that they did bother but the regulatory body set requirements for such a study so high that they couldn't perform it.
Would be keen to know if this passes Jepsen style tests now
It's (mostly) not about the code. It's about the data structures and their relations.
LinkedIn is a cesspool of a 'social media'... Just like Facebook, and Twitter.

Ostensibly, LI user experience was best before it purchased that startup Pulse... since then, LI has taken a hard turn towards becoming a social media, versus its initial vision of work-focused network. And the results show, and how!

Terrible user experience, cringe-worthy posts, SEO-focused posts, click-baity writing, and on and on and on. And now AI-generated crap all over. To be consumed by AI. It's become completely useless and has ruined a perfectly useful utility.

I'm glad I deleted my FB and Twttr accounts... only LI remains. I've resigned to using LI... but I think I'm done with these site's shenanigans.

Would love to hear if there are others who feel the same? And/or recommendations for alternatives.

==> Any LinkedIn PMs want to discuss their user experience stories? Feel free to reach out to me. I'm happy to give them an earful.
The more privacy the better as far as I'm concerned, but I've never used tor. What are people using tor for? General comms, piracy (mild illegal), other (very illegal), ...?
It kind of sucks that the default shell language is so clunky on Linux O/Ses. Bash marginally better than POSIX sh, and Zsh marginally better.
that’s fair.

There are some actual benefits though, even if you choose to ignore them. The water resistance rating is much higher compared to phones with a battery cover, a modern iphone will have zero problems being accidentally dropped in the deep end of a pool, or in a lake.

Everything is a trade off, don’t forget that. You don’t like this trade off, which i completely understand. Not everyone cares about water resistance…

If a replaceable battery is a must for you, i’d buy an android with a battery cover. Gotta choose what’s right for you.
This is probably one of the most prominent studies till date: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38446676

Microplastics and nanoplastics in atheromas and cardiovascular events. N Engl J Med. 390(10):900-910, 2024.

Summary: People with artherial plaque that contains micro- and nano-plastics have a higher risk of death during the followup period. It's an observational study, sample size is not too big, but some findings look quite mechanistic suggesting causality, e.g. "electron microscopy revealed visible, jagged-edged foreign particles among plaque macrophages and scattered in the external debris". The effect size induced by microplastics on death risk also looks substantial.

Personally, I think microplastics are a very important pollutant, and evidence of this will unfold during the next years. Sadly, it is extraordinarily hard to remove them from our environment. They are everywhere. For example, car tires shed lots of microplastics that end up in eggs or inside vegetables and plants, which absorb them from soil. Most liquids are packaged inside plastic, which is continuously leaking into the content. We should at least be measuring their levels and setting up maximum concentration thresholds in our food chain. We should go back to glass bottles, whenever possible. Suspended microplastics in the air are also a major concern. Plastics are great for certain applications, but we use them in places where they don't belong.
I'm not sure that my preferred outcome is relevant to what the other person meant, but I would like a simpler tax structure and higher-than-current effective rates for wealthy entities.
No NDA, no severance payment...
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Knowing basic math, and applying it are two different things.

The financial markets are vastly complicated. If you have exposure simply to arithmetic and not how it is applied to financial instruments, you are ill equipped.

Better to teach the basic financial instruments (Checking accounts, fees, overdraft, Credit Cards, Home Mortgages, Retirement accounts, bond and index funds, and simple allocation), and just the math necessary to understand the fundamentals. You can go a lot farther I think with the 3 R's and a solid home economics class than even things like Algebra, or higher math.

And, if nothing else, teach these people that if your employer matches, fund AT least that much. That's just free money, and you can't get a better return on your money out of the gate than that unless you're lucky at the sports book (ill-advised...).

Vanguard should be publishing ready to go lesson plans for this and giving them gratis to every high school in the nation.
Whether terror is an intended effect or not, Israel is engaging in it.

Perhaps in the scheme of things as far as military operations are concerned this is "low" collateral damage. But if 3000+ people were wounded that means potentially tens of thousands experienced the traumatic event of explosives going off in a public space. And hundreds more are mourning family.
Nothing is replacing nylon where it is best used anytime soon.
If so, then you might want to mint your own root certificate and then import it to your iPhone.
Traces? I'm really puzzled by this thread, meaning I don't really understand what do people mean by plastics. I would guess it's all synthetic fabrics, but then the gp proposition is so nuts it's surprising someone even discusses it. Like, all sportswear is synthetic, and you cannot replace it with any old-fashioned fabrics, because synthetics are simply better. It isn't even the right word, it's like saying you must ban motorized vehicles from transportation. I mean, sure, there was a time when people were wearing wool, wood and leather and somehow even managed to do something like mountaineering in it, but it is absolutely unimaginable to me, how you can go for long grueling hikes in cotton clothes that just won't dry out on your body.
This is the argument that republicans always throw around before they make a run for office, but somehow magically it turns into more spending. Things like the trillion dollar boondoggle of the F35 and the massive shit show of the war in Iraq.
I believe he's quite busy.
It's a favor in the short term but a blow in the long term because you lose ability to manufacture. Manufacturing capacity is a use-it-or-lose-it thing.
RabbitMQ is developed by VMware which was acquired by Broadcom. I hope they will remain unaffected.
There is no security hole if I am singing my own certificate for my own mails on my own server; it would mean that I do not trust... myself?

Now if I were to provide this as a commercial service, sure, my customers may be worried.
> We're talking about a targeted attack

From OP: " I can't target a specific person, but eventually I can find someone who has all three bounces through tor nodes I control, no"

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

Assuming they match the existing distribution of nodes, they will only have better results.
Only thing required for this setup to work: client needs to be able to resolve domain to internal ip.

I have wireguard mesh with a bunch of services that use LE for TLS that have no access to interwebs and not accessible from interwebs.
You only need to control the entry and exit node - since you know the next and previous hop for all traffic you touch, and default chains are 3 long. With circuits changing every 10 mins, within a few days you would have deanonymized at least some percentage of traffic for nearly every user.

I'd call tor broken against any adversary with a little technical skill and willingness to spend $5000.

I'm 80% sure Tor is designed as a US supported project to focus those needing anonymity into a service only governments with global security apparatus (who can grab a good chunk of internet traffic) can access.
It's not just a false positive rate, but also the rate you train nurses to ignore alerts.
>other (very illegal), ...?

I will be waiting patiently for people to admit that they do very illegal things over Tor.
You can relay general concepts and even the details. Figuring out all of the possible combinations of details that are legal and amount to the greatest benefit is not taught, at all. It involves an intermixture of various IRS rules, state laws, financial regulations, stock market peculiarities, and business entity types...not to mention trusts.

It amounts to teaching kids how to be free vs. being trapped in debt. The mentality that money is not to be spent but to be invested and leveraged. All this shit is over the head of anyone trying to teach in our school system. They are just riding out the misery to get their pension.
My first thought was actually "I could probably do that myself given some motivation"

Hiring people on something like fiverr could take care of most of the manual part.

My point is that if I could do it, a nation state cracking down on dissidents could likely do it too.
Yes? Any sort of dust is best avoided and treated with care. Your literal dead skin can be toxic if you let it build up enough.
[dupe]

An actual article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/linkedin-scraped-user-data...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582951)
Certainly I don't do that and don't approve of it. I didn't say I was planning on doing it, or approved of it.

In fact, I specifically said I thought it was a violation of international law and a war crime to intentionally attack or kidnap civilians. So I'm not sure what you are saying "no" to in response to me?

Talking about motivation is different than talking about if we approve of the choices.

Bad immoral choices that are war crimes and violations of international law do not somehow prove that the motivation is "fundamentalism", right? If the question is what was the motivation for the attack, saying the motivation is something other than "fundamentalism" is not to say attacking or kidnapping civilians is ok. You asked, if not fundamentalism, what is the motivation? We told you. Bad immoral choices that are war crimes on Oct 7th also don't erase the prior decades of history, involving many many violations of international law and war crimes. Which are as we described above.
From one of the tweets in the thread:

> LinkedIn seems to have auto enrolled folks in the US, but hearing from folks in the EU that they are not seeing this listed in their settings (likely due to privacy regulations).

Honestly, GDPR looks like a godsend! It came just at the right time!
I don't think you can really expect non-lawyers to understand that.

"Why is it being pushed?" and "who are the backers and the opponents?" would be better questions to ask. "What will be the practical consequences for software-intensive companies?" is another.

If software were not patentable (as it was not before 1982) then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.
I think DRY should be supplemented by "Don't make me read it multiple times". Repeat yourself, by all means, if that makes it so that I don't get all twisted up jumping between so many files that I can't keep the main thread straight while I read your code.
Does anyone know if there is any way to get iOS's mail client to present a client cert? Or, barring that, any form of self-hosted MFA.
Nit-pick: In that case the certs aren’t self-signed, they are regular leaf certs, chained to a “non-standard” CA.
Yeah, but the problem is that they cannot say that with 100% confidence, because the details were not shared with them (why, I have no idea)
I think that depends. My Mother-in-Law continued to receive pension benefits from her late husband after he passed. I'm sure it depends on the pension and such.
This can still work imap.mydomain.com resolving to your hardcoded private ip, put the cert on your imap server, connect by name, done.
These pagers work only on Hezbollah's own military network. Lebanon literally had a civil war about this specific issue! People are doing a lot of axiomatic reasoning here about stuff they can look up.
based on the article I think this is old news just now being reported
Seizing the Means of Re-Production
There's one on Huggingface https://huggingface.co/ICTNLP/Llama-3.1-8B-Omni
From your source: "killing at least nine people and wounding around 2,800 across [Lebanon]". That's a total casualty count, and does not distinguish civilian from Hezbollah casualties.

Hezbollah itself claims 100,000 members, by which this would represent ~3% of the total force as targets of the attack.

The devices in question were ordered by, and delivered to, Hezbollah, per an NYTimes report I've just mentioned in another reply to another of your comments.

Wikipedia reports some civillian deaths, "including four healthcare workers and two children" citing NBC News, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions#...>

Given the very many highly motivated eyes on this story, I'm highly confident that if there were credible reports of a higher civilian casualty rate we'd be hearing about it in spades.

It's clear that there was some broader damage, but overall the attack was highly specific to Hezbollah. Arguments that this wasn't a highly-specifically-targeted attack don't pass the credibility test.

Again, I'm not uncritical of Israel, and try to follow the many nuances of the overall situation. I also realise that it's exceptionally difficult to remain dispassionate when its you and yours who are subject to attacks, and in a conflict spanning generations.
Germany has pretty much halted weapon supplies to Israel, so perhaps you should temper your cynical posture with occasional factual updates.

https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-has-stopped-approving-...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582951
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/05...
I would not bet money that Apple is willing to change their mind regarding this question.
The end goal is “security theatre” and profit, not real security.
Somehow i feel sad for this AI model. All the others are trained on authentic content and this boy gets socialised on the most shallow content imaginable. Poor, socially awkward AI.
My electric plan has free evenings so I charge for free!
X evades Brazil ban using Cloudflare
The happy equilibrium is that if you have enough adversary nation-state intelligence services doing this and not sharing information, they'll cancel each other out and provide free node hosting.
Love the site dude! Feel glad to have been part of this transient joke with a bunch of strangers on the internet
This wasn't something magical that turned the battery into an explosive, they allegedly injected an explosive compound into the battery which would be triggered by intentionally overheating the battery.

Like if you packed C4 into an electric car battery, it would be a bomb, much the same way if you packed it into an ordinary empty box. Sure the battery adds some extra energy, but the explosive is the explosive, ya know.
That works during the easy years. Before long they start drawing comparisons between what they are allowed to do, or not, and what you yourself do. So then you are right back to "Because I said so."

"Daddy why can't I watch youtube?"

"Because it rots your brain."

"But you watch youtube..."

"Congratulations, now you understand that when you are an adult you will be responsible for the consequences and so you will be free to make the choice. But you are not an adult yet."

aka "Because I said so."
Grandparent was referencing the classic Man Behind the Curtain twist (AI behind the curtain?). Human leadership might very well be listed, but in that view they're all already knowingly or not controlled by the AI.
> we conducted a 2024 study in which groups of 35 randomly selected people were tasked with taking IQ test questions together in real-time as AI-facilitated “conversational swarms.” As published this year, the groups averaged IQ scores of 128 (the 97th percentile).

I am not sure this is a strong result. Wouldn’t we expect a group of 35 randomly chosen humans to contain someone at or exceeding the 97th percentile for IQ?
Link not working, please elaborate
The first thing the demo told me was that it was in a dark and scary forest.
I am interested in the “legitimate” uses for tor. I have not kept up with this but I understand it was designed by US Navy to make it hard for oppressive regiemes to track their citizens use of web.

What do we want Tor for except as a hope that Russian citizens might be able to get to the BBC site?

I am asking honestly - and would prefer not to be told my own government is on the verge of a mass pogrum so we had better take precautions.
OpenHCL: Evolving Azure's Virtualization Model
Can the NDA be invalidated after the cash has been delivered?
Are you kidding? If any model ever makes the x-risk folks' nightmares come true, it'll be this one.
The point is that there aren't only two sites available on the clearnet. Is the idea that you find a unique file size across every single site on the internet?

My understanding (that may be totally wrong) is that there is some padding added to requests so as to not be able to correlate exact packet sizes.
Sorry if that came around as rude. From personal experience I have not met any professor in my life who could lead such a project, let alone with students that don’t have any work experience… And you imply there should be multiple of them for the project to succeed