skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you meant North Korea, not South.

It means nothing. Countries always ask nicely first for a domain to be blocked for IPs from their countries. Companies like Cloudflare or Akamai can either honor the request, or find their IP range blocked (yes, including all the other serviced domains). They usually take the first option.
I don't think independent publishing on the Substack model actually helps quality of journalism at all. Distributing the perverse incentive toward doomsaying as an engagement driver may if anything increase its effect.

I am sufficiently familiar with Zitron's work to recognize the irony in that it should be one of his pieces that prompts the thought.
New meaning to HN hug of death too
The Tcl language is made up of commands; a command has a name and takes an argument list, with which it can do literally anything. The standard commands are written in C; Tcl `procs` are commands that are written in Tcl. The control structures, like `if` and `foreach` and `while` is just a Tcl command. The `proc` command that defines a proc is just a Tcl command.

I think of it as Lisp for C programmers.

So: is the language implemented mostly in itself? No, it's mostly implemented in C. Is there a minimal amount of magic? No; the amount of magic you can do is effectively unlimited.
My view is the most people (not all) are inherently good inside

Thus the vast majority of robbers are suffering from an illness, and not inherently evil

Which means most (not all) are not actually trying to harm people, just satisfy an economic need or a craving

Yeah, a crime deserves a punishment. But you have to factor in what is driving the crime. Is it economic despair? Drug addiction? Or a person's act of free will?

So to deal with robbery and other crimes you have to understand what is the root cause of it, and apply the remedy for that illness

> O CHILDREN OF MEN! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.
>
> -Bahá’u’lláh
Yes, but that is very different than everyone in the upstream chain of custody being complicit.
I'm curious to know if "newly discovered" species existed 20 years ago and were actually just discovered, or if they are a new species that didn't exist until recently.

Is there a way to tell?

Examining old hosts that have died and been preserved and seeing if the 'new species' exists there maybe?
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It appears that the vulnerable service in question listens on 0.0.0.0 which is concerning, it means attacks from the LAN are vulnerable by default and you have to explicitly block port 631 if the server is exposed to internet. Granted, requires user to print something to trigger which, I mean, I don't think I've printed anything from Linux in my life, but he does claim getting callbacks from 100's of thousands of linux machines which is believable.
> If I recall correctly there is a parasitic wasp that parasitizes a parasitic wasp that parasitizes a parasitic wasp that parasitizes some kind of caterpillar.

"Yo Dawg, we heard you like parasites, so we put a parasite INSIDE your parasite INSIDE ..."
Horribly, you regularly see this in supreme court cases. Some case has the conservatives denying a significant right to a criminal suspect and the decision will start with a lurid depiction of the crime they were convicted of through the denial of some right.
this dispute is with wordpress though. “wordpress” is not a generic term. if i called my company “MSengine”, and described it as “the most trusted microsoft platform” (a phrase i copied straight from wpengine.com)… i would get a cease and desist almost immediately.

even in the open source community, there are dozens (probably more) linux distros that have been told by ubuntu to rename their projects from “ubuntu x” to something else, for example. there are no trademark grants contained in the gpl or any of the popular open source licenses.

the only mystery is why they’ve waited so long to enforce their trademark.. but matt says they’ve been working on a deal “for a while”.. and i guess we’ll have to wait until the court case to see what that means.
Non-loginwalled link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838169889330135132.html
I wrote printer code for 10+ years. I appreciate how hard the technical problems are but vendors make it so much worse. I loathe printers. Printers peaked with the LaserJet III.
US Justice Department Probes Super Micro Computer, WSJ Reports
I love how they try and paint the witnesses as unreliable because they have "records" while defending the guy who had 15 violent felonies and already serving time for armed robbery as a victim of the system. While also ignoring the testimony of the person he fenced the victim's laptop to and the victim's belongings being found in the car he used to drive to burglary turned murder.
Or any malicious user on the airport wifi. The compromise will linger until however many weeks later when you decide to print something...
I quite like your philosophy and approach
Have you been to your local library?

Hah! It’s a bit different but kind of the same.

LibGen manifests the idea that humanity and its progress are more important than copyright.

I wonder if Anthropic, OpenAI, or Meta.ai have spent much time looking at LibGen…
The internet has allowed for near instant communication no matter where you are, improved commerce, vastly improved education, and is directly responsible for many tangible comforts we experience today.

Automobiles allow people to travel great distances over short periods of time, increase physical work capacity, allow for building massive structures, and allow for farming insane amounts of food.

Both the internet and automobiles have positively affected my life, and I assume the lives of many others. How are any of these aimless questions?
Yeah, well, that's just, like... your opinion, man.

But I've worked with many, many developers who don't strictly separate commits by type this way. I myself am tempted to do a fix in the same commit as a refactor many times. Conventional commits simply suggest, well, a convention for how to make this separation cleaner and more explicit, so that the intent can be communicated better within a team. I've found this helpful as a guide for making atomic changes. Whether or not you write your commit messages in a certain way is beside the point. But let me know if you come up with a prettier way to communicate this in a team.
I agree with the basic difficulty you express, but I think there are a few clear areas to consider drawing a line in cases like this. First, mandate certain types of medical device makers publish certain types of repair information. Second, mandate that certain types of medical device must be supported for a certain amount of time, probably at least 10 years.
my grandparents who are still printing things like its the 90s might be at risk, if they have installed CUPS that is

has the president been briefed yet?
Networking sucks. How it actually works [video]
I have been a big Litfiba fan during their early career and loved this cover of Bowie's Yassassin by them. Maroccolo was their bassist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3vrp5t63K4
How do you speak so confidently for another’s experience? I go the library sometime, but I wouldn’t take my hypothetical daughter to my local library, or at least leave her unattended, because it truly is a daytime shelter with powerless staff.
And they might have dreams!

One of the coolest things I've encountered at an aquarium was a sleeping octopus wildly shifting its colors. It seems truly alien to behold -- like it shouldn't be possible.

My googling after the fact says that who knows why they actually do it or what's going on, but, I really like the thought of them having little octopus dreams.
> Why aren't … operating solely as an onion service on TOR?

> They’re not on TOR because

Any downsides to being available on many decentralized overlay networks in addition to plain https, other than (compute/net/human) resources?
I believe this wouldn't be meaningful, since any size LLM can be trained on any amount of data.

You could measure how well it memorizes via prediction accuracy on the training set, but this wouldn't indicate whether it generalizes well.
I could get behind that but people that believe in god tend to think of it as a real, physical (or at least metaphysical) thing.

For my own sanity I try to think of those who believe in literal god as simply confusing it with the universe itself. The universe created us, it nurtures us, it’s sort of timeless and immortal. If only they could just leave it at that.
> donate back the value they received from them

Maybe this is not the topic you were going for but this triggers me because I've long wondered how to do pricing fairly in general. If you're a monopolist or in a highly competitive market, what strategy could you use regardless to arrive at a fair price? I think the answer is cost + a little bonus because nothing else really works. If I had to pay the value it brings me for everything in life... what are my glasses worth, half my salary? The work computer (as an IT person) is maybe three quarters of my salary? That already does not add up and I still haven't paid for the food I need or my office chair

The person who makes it knows the cost price and needs to set a price for money to work, I think. Which is not to say that donations can't work, you can always feel free to make an exception and give the author a good day, but it wouldn't work as a general payment model I don't think
US nukes used floppy disks until very recently, but are quite functional.
Doctors Describe the Horror of Israel's Pager Attack in Lebanon
Absolutely. It's even been remarkable stable--programs written 20 or 30 years ago work without any kind of modification.
It is tragic but quite believable that your local library is a hostile environment. Municipal libraries can vary widely in atmosphere and clientele.

Personally I've spent loads of time hanging out in libraries from my infancy. My mother volunteered in them until I graduated high school. When I was forced to live on the streets, I found libraries to be a peaceful daytime refuge with amenities available; as long as I was respectful and never overstepped etiquette rules, I was often permitted to doze off.

I was blessed to be near a major university whose library facilities were explicitly a public service, not limited to students. The atmosphere in there was a cut above, calm and sophisticated. I never caused trouble and I never invited it, but I was occasionally locked-in after closing time!

My own city's library actually exists on park land, and it's patrolled by legitimate uniformed Park Rangers! Indeed there has been a surge of homeless and street people hanging out, but the library responded by co-locating social services, including the Section 8 housing office, in an excellent show of outreach.

The main urban library has been a much bigger zoo and practically demilitarized. There is definitely also gang activity. The homeless hangout has been curtailed a bit; unfortunately the café there closed permanently. I personally didn't feel safe, and the restroom users were frequently patrolled to keep them honest.

A real shame for you there in Canada. If you have the means to access a university library, perhaps it's more hospitable. Otherwise, appeal to your municipal leadership and get civically involved. No tax-paying family should be intimidated out of their rightful public services.
What Wall Street's Women Pioneers Had to Put Up With
Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships
I don't really care, but many different people, for many different reasons.

You may think this specific example, which you seem to think resembles the current publishing industry, negates my overall point, but... not even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_books#Book_culture

> The authors of antiquity had no rights concerning their published works; there were neither authors' nor publishing rights. Anyone could have a text recopied, and even alter its contents. Scribes earned money and authors earned mostly glory unless a patron provided cash; a book made its author famous. This followed the traditional concept of the culture: an author stuck to several models, which he imitated and attempted to improve. The status of the author was not regarded as absolutely personal.
About time. I've been waiting on this one for a couple years now.
No, ~abc will be interpreted as the home directory of user abc in Tcl 8.*
This is entertaining reading. Although I don't know how pervasive this issue is, from the chunk i have read so far I can see why he was concerned that it was relatively trivial to have a target system accept anything identifying itself as a printer and being able to inject malicious code into the machine.

I was going to make fun of him wasting his sabbatical on hacking a printer service but I gotta admit I'd have fallen down the same rabbit hole if I stumbled on it. It's a cool hack.
I used it a few weeks ago to fetch and display access timing histograms in an FPGA project.
You don't need special knowledge to know Russia hasn't been maintaining the tritium in all their nukes, or even a majority of them
Interesting name collision with the recent OpenAI announcement.

I mean, did either company use cat-names-from-the-Man-In-Black-franchise in their product line nomenclature recently?

I just wonder at how unlikely it is to collide on a high-profile name out of all the millions of other one-word options.
i knew there was a reason i blacklist unsolicited/unauthenticated UDP inbound.
It would be start, for people like you who hopelessly cling to your deference to the authority that academic research papers exert over people like yourselves. For the rest of us, it would be meaningless.
Italian Mannerism, David Lynch, and Lars von Trier
Yes, but Starlink is designed to be cheap and rapidly replaced anyway.

One nuke in space would also be a continental scale EMP, which is why, despite my expectation that the Russian stuff is probably more paint than metal, it's still not a good idea to bet the farm (everyone's farm) on that.
This is why on public servers I block everything inbound and only allow specific needed services through.
we should fix this, CUPS is used in a bunch of consumer hardware

it's not a complete disaster like it was implied to be though
I think they only started embracing open source when they could directly benefit from it with people running it on Azure.
Yes - don't take my advice, but isn't the precedent with BitTorrent piracy that downloaders aren't gone after, only uploaders?
> Volkswagen has entered the chat
Even as a massive GraphQL fan, the GraphQL layer is what made me migrate all my projects away from Gatsby. It just doesn’t portray it at its best.
Your first paragraph is a great description of what I am currently feeling as well. There just isn’t anything there. I’m familiar with Python, Rust, C# and other random languages. Go just has nothing to offer meanwhile. I am struggling with nil and zero values every day, the lack of enums, and the bizarre error handling (wrapping etc.).

I’m waiting for it to click but nothing yet. Channels in combination with effortless (uncolored) asynchrony are maybe it. I haven’t reached that point yet though as I’m still struggling with just expressing my domain, without having invalid and primitive values, constructed and passed around by design, all over. I suppose it is not possible. Every time I see “url string” in a function or struct I die a little inside.
Was just concerned I don't have enough RAM. I have 16GB (M2 Pro). Got amazing mem bandwidth though (800GB/s)
It's not retaliation to revoke free access to your web resources.

If I scrape some website, I could be IP banned at any time. That's just how it goes.

It's one thing to use web resources on a small scale, as a user. It's another to milk them dry and practically DDOS their servers. That can, and will, get you banned. Open source or not.
>so religious zealotry? man-in-the-sky said "no do that!" ?

What are you on about?

I refuse to compromise my morals just because something is legal. That's it.

My morals did not come from some god, and they did not come from laws. No idea where you are getting religious zealotry from.

>"This is uh.. Yeah." - can you clarify this remark please?

Sure. I stopped myself from saying something rude to you.
Life imitates art: https://xkcd.com/1150/
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On the one hand, Musk has already retracted his claim[1] that he's a "free speech absolutist"[2], so I don't think it's fair to come after him for that:

In last month’s interview with the BBC, Musk said, “the rules in India for what can appear on social media are quite strict, and we can’t go beyond the laws of a country … If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we will comply with the laws.” At another point in the interview, Musk said: “If people of a given country are against a certain type of speech, they should talk to their elected representatives and pass a law to prevent it.”

But blocking links to hacked documents regarding JD Vance seems a little suspect considering that, as the article mentions, he was opposed to blocking links to hacked documents about Hunter Biden:

Twitter, before it was bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding hacked materials — but the page is no longer available. A pre-Musk version of the policy, dated 2019, stated that posting or linking to hacked content is prohibited. Under this policy, links to a story by The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, were banned. But in October 2020, Twitter changed its policy to say that it would no longer block hacked materials, after an outcry about how the company had handled the Post story. “Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,” wrote then-CEO Jack Dorsey.
Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)

[1]: https://www.cato.org/commentary/elon-musk-sues-critics-silen...

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/tech/elon-musk-twitter-govern...
I should add...Tk is the easiest GUI toolkit I've ever used (and I've used a bunch of them). It's got all the basic stuff you need, either built-in or readily available. But it comes from the classic desktop GUI world, you have to work at it to make it look nice, and it's a pain to do webpage-like layouts with it.

I wouldn't do an end-user GUI in Tk at this point; but for in-house tools that need a GUI and don't need to be on the web it's hard to beat.
"Orca with a knife". I have seen it before: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3sXkwYLboncsNYE8A
Blame your publisher.
You should also like SCP: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
For those readers wondering if “ C Structures for the Down and Out” is a real book: please be patient. Claude is writing it as we speak.
I'm certainly not regretting disabling avahi and cups-browsed on all of my systems long ago.

Do people have printers that move around all the time?

Also, firewalls on desktops and laptops for the win, yet again.
Has absolutely nothing to do with the license, the code was and is GPL-2.

GPL-2 doesn't force you to allow free access to web resources. This is a separate problem altogether. You'd get banned even if they were closed source.
They already said they used to love eating octopus. You reply they should try eating octopus because it's tasty. They already tried it before and decided to give it up for reasons beyond how it tastes.
Who doesn't block all unneeded ports on an internet facing server or have it behind a firewall of some sort?
It's about flexibility.

I can get up early and work an hour, then get the kids ready for school, then work five hours, then take them to my sister's place after school, then work two hours, then have dinner and read them stories before bed, then work another hour.

Can't do that from an office with an hour commute each way.
Do it pussy
This gives me flashbacks to the Objective-C / Java bridge [1] from over a decade ago. It makes me wonder how they are dealing with memory management when Java objects are being used from Swift (or Swift objects from Java). This was one (of various) issues that made using the Cocoa Java bridge a bit unpleasant.

I guess Swift has a lot less run-time dynamism going on, so it may not be too hard to translate Swift semantics to Java. Definitely interested to see how this unfolds over the next year.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
The website is a 3 instruments mixer each is able to play one of several rhythms with ability to move those around the circle. It is going to be fascinating for dancers.
Catching Up on the WordPress WP Engine Sitch
Why is this an argument? First of all x many people using something doesn't necessarily mean something is good (network effects if not fake accounts) but also buying up competition is somehow seen as a positive?
Is this the severe CVE that was going around on X this morning?
https://x.com/HowardL3/status/1839103445296394554

edit: from the reporter https://x.com/evilsocket/status/1838169889330135132
Anthropic
Agree with you fundamentally. I think AI companions must be built in a way to help users struggling with loneliness to be able to better integrate into social circles. They should in a way become social coaches to help remedy the underlying cause of social detachment and isolation rather than trying to fill the gap by being a "real" friend.
I work for Google Maps in Fremont Seattle and encounter this software issue frequently with services like food delivery and ridesharing apps. (I only mention my work to note that I have a pretty geo-spatial oriented way of thinking, so I notice this).

I complain all the time about the same thing you detailed here, and I thought I had it bad, having restaurants that are multiple bridges and slow-streets away be listed. At least there is a bridge!

Thanks for giving me some perspective.
Parallel construction is legal in the USA
botnetting is about exploiting unimportant desktops, to create very important servers.
I batch import XMLs, CSVs and mssql data into postgresql.

I'm pretty sure I could read them when needed with fdw. Is it a good idea?

I think it can be slow but maybe I could use materialized views or something.
It is bad if you print from a Linux laptop that uses WiFi isn’t it?
I question some of this though. I have an older Kia that I’m pretty sure has no cell modem yet the support table shows it can be geolocated.