skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New standards for easier TLS fingerprinting and user-agent discrimination.

Edit: just look at how many sites you're locked out of if you don't have JS enabled or run an uncommon configuration.
The photo from '99 was taken in May. The recent one was in July.
That narrative entirely omits that small niggling detail that the extant FAANG monopolies (and precursors and successors) haven't fought like hell to achieve that domination.

AOL in the 1990s was the single largest consumer of CDROMs, which it mailed out by the billions. I recall walking into a US post office sometime in that period to find every level surface stacked a foot or more deep in the things.

<https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds>

<https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/08/she-gave-the-...>

MySpace was killed, though less by Facebook than Google, according to Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Viant, which bought MySpace in 2011:

<https://petapixel.com/2024/08/30/myspace-ceo-facebook-didnt-...>

Facebook itself has spent tens of billions of dollars buying up competition, most notoriously Whatsapp:

<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/why-faceb...>

Amazon crushed its own competition, including Diapers.com and Zappos, either driving them out of business or acquiring them, or both.

Diapers.com: <https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...>

Zappos: <https://www.fastcompany.com/1314670/amazon-buys-zappos-847-m...>

If your point is that antitrust regulators were asleep at the switch (or worse), yes.

If your point is that this growth was somehow "organic" ... well, I'd like a look at your dictionary, because this was absolutely engineered.
AA is purely an indexer, the performance hit would be more felt during the actual downloads.
Damn, I'd better grab stuff now then! :D
Nobody is saying that it has no value. The issue is that it has a finite value and the consumer should have the ability to choose how much they value it in a given context, instead of Visa prohibiting merchants from pricing the cost of that system into the customer's decision to use it.

If the total cost of processing fees and chargeback fraud in some industry is 10% and you want to pay the extra 10%, that's fine -- as long as people who don't think it's worth that much have the option to opt out of the insurance and pocket the 10%.
This is all downstream of stuff like the Cambridge Analytica scandal - the public views misuse of these APIs as the fault of the institution so they’re now incredibly cautious about access.
And yet, weirdly, my insecure 1990s era car wasn't able to be controlled over the internet and didn't have a direct data link to my insurance company.
I thought Starlink was FDD with the terminal?
Recently OpenAI is failing to compete with Google's hardware and has asked US government for 5Gigawatt data center.
I hope to read the Power Broker some day.
Listening to the series on the 99% Invisible podcast until then..
3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby. I'm not going to argue whether it's "just a bit much" or "ridiculous", but I think it's strange to imply that it's somehow not a lot.
You know, I got into Libby and OverDrive and the other apps that libraries love nowadays. And the experience is totally different. I mean, it's fine because you've got a taxpayer-supported streaming service, and you can pick up audiobooks without the cassettes and rewinding and melting on your dashboard.

But the eBook experience in a mobile app is markedly different than the experience of dropping into the library, chatting with the refdesk matron, paging through the cardfile/online catalog, going to the stacks, browsing the stacks, finding 3 more titles nearby that you love, pulling books from the stacks and taking them home with you, or at least to a study carrel to flip through and see whether you love it or not, then check them out.

It's like online shopping vs. going to a store. Sometimes it's better, sometimes you'd rather have the meatspace experiences.

My library has a café, print services, a 'seed library', culture passes for museums, and all sorts of really cool atmosphere that I'll never get if I'm lying in bed staring at my phone, but I can binge-read all the Libby content I ever wanted, without riding the stinky free bus, whoopee!
That's the whole point of the system is it not? We accept that there is a vanishigly small chance that a innocent person may be locked up and imprisoned. The point i was making is that we are already making that choice by the allowance of jails and prisons. So if we accept that, the sentencing does not matter. They were proven guilty in the court of law. There is a handful of studies, i'm sure someone could pull up about such cases where people on death row were found innocent after 20 years. However, those are exceptions and 99.99% of cases are not that way and are mostly because we "discovered" dna evidence as a thing.

It's death by a million cuts as soon as you start second guessing the system and trying to use the same system to fix it's inherent imperfections. Proven guilty by the court of law needs to mean something.
I wish the article actually talked about the interesting nitro enclave specific features more. A lot of it just talks about the basic hardening of a Linux VM and writing secure applications.
Being paid and knowing they can spend their livelihood writing while paying rent is about the best persuasion you can have. Aside from the wealthy who don't need to worry about that.
did somebody pop its balloon?

nasa running low on helium?
Nope, its TDD (half duplex)
The advice for video 8 when I did this was to buy a quality camcorder for the desired format (note, there's Video 8, Hi 8, and Digital 8, all using the same cassette form factor), in good condition, and capture the S-video output. Results were surprisingly good.

VHS-C can be played in a normal VCR, with an adapter cassette, but the process will otherwise be the same. Excellent VCRs in good condition had gotten expensive last time I checked, though.

When I did it, vhsdecode didn't exist and I know nothing about that, but I'm completely satisfied with the results I achieved.

if they're digital 8, then of course ideally you would get a digital capture.
The attacker can be on the LAN though.
OP has promised to discuss macOS in part 2 of this blog post series. So sounds like the answer is yes.
Correct, it is not a proof that things like explicit legislation or rampant levels of racism are not the actual cause in some specific instance -- they may be. But it does mean you cannot logically conclude, as many do, that neighborhood segregation is smoking gun proof of continuing rampant racism, or anything else.
Shopify "backing it" means less to me than the maintainers themselves. The Remix maintainers are straight shooters and have been maintaining open source consistently for over a decade now.

I also just like their API and design decisions.
> Are there other data points we can use?

Yes, he has censored information on Erdogan's request as well. He never calls out the censorship from strongmen authoritarians but loves attacking nations with strong democracies.
https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/alerts/visa-reduces-its-...

B2B transactions often have different rules. You can also nominally get around it by casting it as a "cash discount" instead of a "credit card surcharge" but that's designed to be anti-competitive too. You then have to advertise the higher price (eliminating the business merchants who accept lower cost competing payment methods would get from advertising the lower price) or produce cluttered ads full of asterisks and caveats, likewise designed to burden merchants who want to present competing payment methods as the default without refusing to accept Visa whatsoever.
Making overwrite opt-in crazyideas · baby steps
> Cambridge Analytica scandal

Would it be considered a scandal if happened in 2022.
Post the Anna's Archive tor link and I will send you 5 USDC
Absolutely with copyrighted content, it just depends on what you're doing with it.
Is there a reason to get Ubuntu from anywhere other than the torrent found at ubuntu.com?
The problem isn't that we need better locks, but that we need locks at all.

Within my lifetime we've gone from leaving the backdoor unlocked at night and leaving the car keys on the seat (or in the ignition) from being the normal practice to being unthinkable.

You're focusing on the wrong govt policies.
This entire thread shows that christians who do believe disagree with eachother about this; I was raised some form of protestant christian and in that form, I was told that any type of killing is only allowed by god and god alone, never by humans. That includes war, capital punishment, abortion and everything else. Of course (... this is religion so it's all nonsense anyway), this did not include the maker his other creation like animals; you can kill and torture those and go to heaven. But nah, nothing 'obviously'; that god commands atrocities obviously means you cannot do them on your own; you need to be commanded; the death penalty is not commanded by god, or, well, in some interpretations it might be.
Sure. There are several companies selling paid JVMs and corpos gladly pay them a lot of money.
Ask HN: Does smart furniture have a market
furniture with power ports or lights or wheels? does it have a market, is it going to go mainstream?
And that is why SkyNet decided immediately to destroy everyone.
Lindy effect?

If something is built to last 10 years, it makes it likelier that it can survive another 10.
Newsmax and Smartmatic settle 2020 US election defamation lawsuit
Sounds like a good opportunity to start lobbying to raise library funding, maybe even overhaul it into the 21st century so we can reasonably have a government funded "Netflix of books" of sorts.

Also long term, but it'd kill like, 5 birds with one stone.
28 wears for an undershirt?
I have many that are over a decade old. I have a feeling that the author and I live dramatically different lifestyles.
No. I have expensive hobbies, and this is a hilarious amount of money to spend, wow.

I Scuba and my gear (dive com, suit, tank) cost less than 3k and its meant to keep me alive, versus win instagram points and it will last me a decade.
Thank you for clearing that up.

Regarding modern features, for example, the return value from the executor in TaskFlow is a custom tf::Future derived from std::future. This means if you want to check for the result, you need to use a try-catch block with the get() method on the future.

Personally, I prefer using std::expected for value/exception handling. It allows checking for errors with a simple if statement, and if you don't want to handle the exception, you can just return an error value from the coroutine.

As for "monadic-chaining," TaskFlow can achieve the same thing with its easy graph construction, you can set up a graph and execute it, which is comparable to and_then chaining in my library.

Another point is related to performance and ease of use. In a simple example like Fibonacci, TaskFlow requires using subflows, which I feel is less "ergonomic".

Overall, for simple task parallelism, if you don't need the graph expressiveness of TaskFlow, I believe my library is a more "ergonomic" choice (though I may be biased here). I also find value handling simpler in my library with std::expected. That said, TaskFlow is a much larger library with more features like GPU integration.

I hope this better addresses your point!
There is a standard, numbered IRS form for this exact purpose. Having once drafted a copy once, they do indeed require you to submit some kind of narrative and supporting documentation that there is some kind of impropriety in relation to their particular tax exempt status.

It’s not clear to me that WordPress.org has done that. I think it’s perfectly fair to ask WP Engine to pay WordPress.org some kind of fair compensation for the infrastructure demands they induce.
> if "rm -i" is the default the "rm" level gets disabled, because "rm -i -f" is the same as "rm -f"

You can use "\rm" to invoke the non-aliased version of the command. I made "rm -i" the default using an alias and occasionally use "\rm" to get the decreased safety level you described. I think it is more convenient that way.
I've amended the README.md to explain what I meant. My error was in using the word dynamic!
> But neither of us has time for that.

Indeed, so why waste it reinventing the wheel instead of using a high quality third party package?

Or arguing about highly suspect LoC numbers pulled out of thin air as if it’s not an apples-to-oranges comparison, for that matter.
Those type of attacks (CAN injections) are very OEM specific, and come from deep insider knowledge, not something you fuck around and find out.
I’m assuming you’re referring to Toyota, but anyways please give direct reference to the attack you’re referring to.

Keep in mind any need for expensive equipment is already a deterrent for many.
"earth copy" is just marketing lingo. Models are approximations made for a specific goal at a time. You cannot build a model that is both good for gaming and meteorology.

99% of that engine value is procedural terrain and graphical shaders. It looks great but has no scientifical value.

Just like the "digital twin" hype train, cool simulations have fancy graphics, useful simulations don't.
Under Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, you have to suffer a concrete, discernible injury. They can have broken their promise to you, but unless you can prove the dollar amount that harmed you, you can't sue.

Even if you donated to them, all states I know of assign sole oversight for proper management of those funds to the state AG. If you donate to a food bank and they use the money to buy personal Ferraris instead of helping the hungry, that's clearly illegal, but you'd be out the money either way, so you wouldn't have standing to sue. The attorney general has to sue for mismanagement of funds. If you feel OpenAI is violating their charter, I would definitely encourage writing to Mrs. Jennings to voice that opinion.
> VHS was not driven by porn, and neither was video compression.

I think you're quibbling over what "driven by" means. Porn was not the origin of any of these, but there's pretty good evidence that its popularity played a significant role in the adoption of technologies ranging from the printing press to photography to streaming video. VHS being cheaper and recording longer caused it to be adopted by the porn producers, which resulted in much more porn being available on VHS, which tilted things in its favor. (Well, that and Sony's ambivalence towards porn on Betamax.) Geeks indeed liked to work on compression, but nobody would have cared without an application for it, and a big chunk of early internet traffic was porn. The difference between waiting 5 vs 30 minutes for a download is pretty influential. Devices with hardware acceleration, including ASICs, were popular because people had applications for them, and a solid percentage of those applications were porn.

I grew up during the development of all of these technologies. I've never been one for watching porn, but even then, it was pretty clear at least in my environment that porn was very influential. Hints and tricks to download and decode compressed video spread very rapidly through word-of-mouth networks, specifically for porn content.

Earlier, the same thing happened for stills, which were more my thing so I have firsthand knowledge. Heck, the standard test image was Lena—what showed up in the research papers was tame, but the extra 2/3 of the image below that is the reason why that was the most popular test image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Ethics aside, I think there’s a silver lining to all this: at least they believe this can be profitable
The Cyber Resilience Act, an Accidental European Alien Torts Statute?
Just move everything to your own storage instead of Google Drive. And maybe have your desktop or web app interface with Google drive.
This seems ok at first glance, and you can “kind of” get this feeling. And android and iOS you can bring up a generic file picker that will let the user select any file or save a file to a user chosen location, and then the application gets access to an opaque file handle to read/write there. Platforms like Google Drive, Box, DropBox, OneDrive and local files are all options here.

Unfortunately as far as I remember there is no way to gain access to that location persistently. Your copy of the file through this mechanism is just a copy of that file, so I couldn’t say have 50 files in my app that I granted access to being in some file system location that syncs (like google drive) without having constantly be repicking that file location.
The Jones Act only protects a very small part of US shipbuilding industry, those ships which will be used to ship goods between US ports.

Somehow the magical thinking here is that, if you allowed everyone to buy ships from anywhere they would buy more American made ships but because it is mandated that you buy American made ships for certain tasks, suddenly the industry is noncompetitive.

The reality of the situation is that the Jones Act is the only thing keeping the last vestigial of the shipbuilding industry alive. There are some inefficiencies in the industry it's self but for the most part, the primary drivers for the increased costs were related to the regulatory environment of the US(environmental, worker protection, etc), now there are even greater costs due to network effects of related industries having shrunk or died out.

Similar to posts about machine tools or electronic design, everyone talks about how in China its so much easier to get stuff done because the Fab shops are all next door and nothing like that exists in the US, you used to have more steel mills, fabricators and machine shops. Now there are fewer and further apart.

Network effects matter.
What is Netflix's economic incentive to pay their AWS bill every month?

My point is: The single thing the Wordpress side appears (to me) to have fucked up is that they seem to have made this personal. If they made a policy that when partners/consumers of the code/trademarks/services reach a certain well-defined size/usage threshold/etc then charge them X%/require a certain contribution back/etc; give proper notice; even if this policy were "silently" selectively enforced against WP-Engine because someone in Automattic has a grudge to grind: Their goodwill would be much higher.

Because then every single conversation about this starts with "Well, we have this policy, and we told WP-Engine about it six months ago and they ghosted us, oh well what other option do we have?" and not he-said she-said we've been talking for years blackmailing conference talks mess.

WP-Engine is a business. Treat them like one. Because you're exactly right, WP-Engine has no economic incentive to give back: So freakin bill them!
It's more than I spend, but you're on a tech forum full of nerdy engineers -- gaming rigs and their upgrades, hot new phones and laptops, travel, collectibles, legos, shop tools and materials, music gear, sporting and camping gear, etc each burn through that kind of budget real quick.

And nobody would call out that kind of spend were it for one of those.
That makes a lot of sense, well thought! The only thing I would like to add is regarding the critical mass of oppressed people in the US, at least when it comes to immigrants. I think the first generation struggles the most, but their children, who are raised - if not born - in the country face less issues, and things then improve from one generation to the other.

Granted, for generations there will be a difference between their standard of living and the one from their non-immigrant counterparts on average, but that gradual reduction might be enough to avoid reaching the tipping point.
Rails 8.0.0.beta1 Released
So you don't think there's a downside to the wealthy having a defacto monopoly on what art gets created?
Are you her friend or something. you created this profile to post on just one topic?
The root cause is that naval warfare has practically no role in national security and hasn’t in a long time.

Even ignoring nuclear weaponry and mutually assured destruction, ships are expensive and fragile. They are easily destroyed from above or below, which makes them only useful against nations that don’t have modern military technology. If you need a floating platform to fight Houthi rebels they’re useful, if we’re facing an actual invasion they’ll be worse than useless.

As a result there’s not much pressure to get it right. If breaking ice were an activity that our national security relied upon I have no doubt we would be building them quickly.
My unprofessional take: The SEC is concerned primarily with protecting investors. If anything, changing to a normal for-profit structure and removing the cap on returns would be viewed as more investor/market-friendly than their current structure, which is partly to blame for what unfolded last year.
Seems like you are indeed correct. Thanks for the info

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view...
You can boil the tape and make some tea; so I've heard.

This is a joke, please don't do that.
I had never heard of three out of five of your "quite common" words.
PDFs also have a scripting language built in, right? Could that be a good attack vector?

It seems like a pretty good site to attack people from, for social reasons. It sits at a nice confluence of: technically unauthorized copying, but feels like not such a big deal. And getting academic papers can be a PITA. And the audience is probably self-selecting for folks who are doing interesting STEM stuff.
It’s not a public company? Not sure why the sec would get involved.
Lol, duh, thanks. So, guessing they can't stream video from the dashcam cameras remotely in that car.
1. Switching to Go for programming

2. Password manager

3. My brother's Commandline Completion tool https://github.com/zerocorebeta/Option-K

I used to forget most of the commandline.

4. Visual Studio Code

5. Tailscale (used to wait time with ssh -D and socks5 using proxychains shadowsocks.

Problem is they can be blocked by ISP or require lot more configuration than tailscale and are hard to debug when they don't work.

6 about LLLms in coding, I am still waiting for something like cursor but opensource so that I can extend it for my usecase.

In current state cursor and likes are heavily limiting for my workflow.
I don't use the app but my guess the point is to be able to keep a paper you're writing synchronized across multiple devices.
I recall there was a kid somewhere on the interent who got some fame for collecting Titan VHS tapes and has a garage full of them, you both should hook up.
Funny enough, i think i agree with you. the pursuit of innocence is an imperative function of the state. And that's why we have innocent until proven guilty.

But I think we disagree on our trust of the legal system. Once proven guilty under the court of law that must be upheld. If you locked the doors and burned your grandma alive because you thought she was satan you should be executed, not put in a cushy hospital to be "Rehabilitated". If you caused harm to society in such a violent way, justice is not the tax payers paying $2.7m and to forver bear the burden of one who cannot function in our society.
While the founders may have their origins in the Soviet Union (and not Russian), I don’t think the site has anything todo with the Russian government. Rather, it’s the reaction of some individuals to the difficult and expensive access to literature in the west.
Discussion (68 points, 5 hours ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661511
You are under the impression that Teslas can't get software and security updates? Which happen to be free, btw.
SpinRite 6.1 claims to improve old SSD read data rates
In what state is it now?