skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the weaknesses in this blog post; can you tell me which ones are suggestive of a broadly-useful backdoor that would be deployed to avoid having to deal directly with Tencent, which is already controlled by the CCP?
Over the ear mic?
(I didn't understand the math in the paper)

Would this mean that a rotating body in space would eventually slow down? In other words, amplifying EM radiation draws energy from angular momentum?
I dont even think it will be on windows ;)
California passes law allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes
I haven’t observed people taking that as a learning opportunity as opposed to an expression of a modern version of an existing tool which emphasizes safety.
Then the winning strategy is to make the opposite side appear as extreme as possible and alienate moderates.
You can use your CPAP machine with a external battery pack on airplanes. I do this regularly when flying long distances. In principle you should be able to also just plug in to the power sockets but for some reason this goes against most airlines policies.
This is a great suggestion. I've been doing some research on Mojo, but didn't realize MLIR was the recommended approach going forward. I'll look more into this. Codegen is pretty straightforward, from jank's AST, just using LLVM's IRBuilder, so I'd expect migrating to a superset shouldn't be an issue.
> No technology yet provides real-time transcription for reality.

A deaf dancer friend uses an app, I think from Google. We’re often in discussion/teaching circles in dance classes. Seems to work well.

“Real time” is relative though. Conversation latency matters in roughly the tens of milliseconds and it’s certainly not near that fast.

The group has to be attuned to having a turn for her to speak. She’ll pretty often come in at the same time as someone else, missing those subtle sounds of someone else about to talk. The emergent rule is “tie goes to her”.

This all works well in the mindful scene of Berkeley experimental dance workshops. Maybe she’d get steamrolled in a competitive finance office or something.
I suppose the reply was not meant to be a direct response to my comment?
Do they need to cheat to get drops though? It's been a good while since I've played CSGO but I thought the drops there were similar to TF2 where you just get them on match end and it's not tied to player performance at all?
Good morning,

I am a dual US / Canada citizen and currently living & working in the US.

I am looking into moving to Canada, and was wondering what kind of issues I could run into if I wanted to continue working for the US company while living in Canada.

I am working for a small sized start-up, and I am pretty certain they have no experience in this kind of thing, so I wanted some more info before breaking the ice.

Thank you
A perfectly cromulent strategy!
https://archive.ph/5o8on
Hi Peter, nice to meet you. I am currently on STEM OPT with expiration being July 2026. What is the best backup path if I don't get the H-1B lottery in the next two years, O-1A or EB-2 or other? Priority date is 1.5 years for EB-2 so would it be advisable to have the company I work for to sponsor this? Thank you!
Languages should make it easy to use third party pieces directly, without a package manager. People actually do that, and so that status quo is maintained; any increment in the difficulty of constructing programs out of components will result in loud protests.

Package managers are an anti-pattern. When the standard package manager is present, the packaging problem is regarded as solved ("just use the package manager"), and so the actual mechanisms underlying program construction are then out of the negative feedback loop and will rot.
Yep! MPS was considered, but Boehm was significantly easier to get going. For jank's next GC, the plan is to use MMTK.
The middle in music (and most arts) is increasingly worthless, especially as displayed in public. Has been for decades, but we're finally past "generations are shifting" and into "generations have shifted".

Nobody needs a slightly-talented pianist for family sing-alongs (or: anyone who can sing halfway on-key, for that matter, because who's singing around other people in a typical house unless it's to Disney songs on the TV?) around Christmastime or that old guy who knows some folk & sing-along pop songs tolerably well to bring his guitar to the pub or whatever. We have Spotify. Fuck, the church bells anywhere that doesn't already have a set from 50+ years ago are just speakers playing recordings now.

The only remaining value unless you are very good and also put in a lot of time to sell, is personal, and that's not enough for a lot of folks who, in decades and centuries past, would have been hobbyist musicians. The social value started declining in the early 20th century and took a nose-dive in the last half of it. The generations who even remember their grandparents clinging to those habits, and their parents half-assedly attempting to keep it up out of nostalgia but then not really doing it because nobody wanted that anymore and forgetting how to play, are now old.

That's where the middle went.
Odds are they have Resist Fingerprinting turned on. When I use it in a Firefox profile I encounter this all over the place. Drupal, FedEx.. some sites handle it better than others. Some it's a hard block with a single terse error. Some it is a challenge which gets blocked due to using remote javascript. Some it's a local challenge you can get past. But it has definitely been getting worse. Fingerprinting is being normalised, and the excuse of "bot protection" (bots can make unique fingerprints too, though) means that it can now be used maliciously (or by ad networks like google, same diff) as a standard feature.
Year of Windows on ARM is the new Year of the Linux Desktop.

(This comment was submitted on an ARM-based Linux Desktop)
I think just about everybody intimately acquainted with UNIFIL believes that UNIFIL serves mostly to put soldiers from other countries in harm's way as a performative gesture by the UN (it has a long history). UNIFIL was chartered to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining the position it has today, and later to prevent the militarization of southern Lebanon. It has failed comprehensively. Both Hezbollah and the IDF are actively hostile towards it. The UN should withdraw from Lebanon.
It’s because I don’t try to de duplicate and just saves whatever response I get, which translates to this obvious behavior for cnames. Shouldn’t be a big deal.

I may improve that in future releases.
The number of folk in the meeting that cannot properly operate their terminal is, I'm sure, a big frustration driver.

Can't figure out mute, crappy angle, bad lighting, noisy background, where is screen share? Where is chat? How to use breakout?
It seems like the development of this thing was a shitshow, the version they ended up shipping (very late) has an unpopulated HDMI port and comes with a USB-C to HDMI dongle instead, and has no FCC certifications. The main HDMI encoder was so broken that they couldn't salvage it, and their last resort was to ship a half baked prototype.
"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of
consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle
manners, is more significant than is a riot."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The problem is defining "use time". With eInk readers, the only time it needs to be actually awake is when refreshing the screen, and then it goes back to sleep immediately after. So depending on your reading speed, one hour of active reading time - which is what the users themselves would normally think as "use time" - can vary a lot in how much power actually gets used.

That said, I do think they should just give the number in terms of page refreshes and let the users figure it out from there.
Drinking Milkshakes: How AI Wedges Will Help Startups Outmaneuver Incumbents
'Gaza's Bin Laden,' Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed in Gaza
Is it possible, as a Canadian with an engineering degree, to work 3 days in-office from the USA and 2 days remotely from Canada? Ideally, it'd be nice to have a US salary and live mostly in Canada.
Discussion (231 points, 24 days ago, 476 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630094
I don't get it. Haiti has had an ongoing civil war for at least 6 years. Their last president was assassinated and they've suspended elections and haven't replaced him. Most of the capital city is controlled by criminal gangs. Civilians are regularly raped and murdered for no real reason other than intimidation. The UN has authorized and sent an official security assistance mission. What exactly needs to happen in a country before you consider people fleeing it and seeking asylum to be legitimate and not lying?
Not production ready. Not very usable right now. I need several more months to improve the tooling, error handling, and general compilation functionality. Stay tuned!
setBigTimeout
fraud is a criminal offense. ToS is in most cases is a wish-washy nonsense talk, legally not enforceable (in the EU)

It's rather hard to make any online agreement that's more lax than the law in the EU (and call it ToS)
A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed
Fantastic read!
Given the shrinking demographic, it's difficult to see why anyone would bother. Whatever problems schools have, it's not the architecture.
It is fine in theory, but isn't it a problem that if you have some political stance, you can easily go through a roster of powerless experts until you find someone who agrees with you?
Yes, but it’s a country-wide problem. Fascism has been entirely normalized as just one side of two relatively balanced political parties, to the point where people like Marc Andreessen can proudly come out in support of a despicable candidate like Trump.
The flu shot is different this year, thanks to Covid
A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.
Modern SoCs already have all kinds of features with use-cases that are few and non-essential. Granted they don't take as much space as NPUS, but manufacturers are betting that if NPUs are available, software will evolve to use them regularly. If it doesn't, they'll probably go away in a few generations. But at a minimum, Microsoft and Apple seem highly committed to using them.
Video calls are exhausting because without eye contact you can never tell who's looking at you at any given moment.

You have to maintain perfect composure because there's a camera pointed right at your face transmitting your minutest reactions to the rest of the group.

It's especially difficult when you're in a meeting that just won't end, or somebody keeps going back to a tiresome subject that's already been beaten to death. You can't even allow yourself a look down or a raised eyebrow without rudely signaling your boredom to everyone else on the call.
Yes! Since jank is using LLVM, AOT compiled jank programs have a path to WASM. This isn't a primary goal for jank, but it's one we can definitely pursue once jank's Clojure parity and general dev UX has been established.
Nope, no millenium prize solutions yet. Nobody pays for proof of Goldbach's now, and i HATE the "submit your work and we Might pay you years down the road."

I'm trying to get paid the old fashioned way, on ebay. If you want to get rewarded for something, the last thing you should do is give it away to the public, never mind the security issues involved.
You can check my other reply if you want to see the description of the basic model for attacking the problem, in the ebay listing. It turns out that the model is applicable to both one-way functions. I didn't realize that up front. Most likely some have already figured them out.
What's a threat model where RAM intercept wouldn't be an issue?
I've created a few thousand accounts through a VPN (random node per account). After doing that, I found out Reddit accounts created through VPNs are automatically shadow banned the second time they comment (I think the first is also shadow deleted in some way). But they allow you to browse from a shadow banned account just fine.
Even worse when the school building is aesthetically designed for a limited number of viewpoints or even just one viewpoint.

My own school growing up had a boring rear entrance but a brochure-worthy front entrance that looked traditional and dignified. Unfortunately, that front entrance was virtually never used since the playgrounds and parking lots were much closer to the rear entrance. As a result, us kids were sentenced to staring at the boring posterior of the school and never took away much inspiration from the architecture.
>IMHO, one of the most effective way to stop ban evaders is to actually charge money for the game.

Cheaters are NOT price sensitive. This is their preferred form of entertainment, ie being a king in their little kiddie pool, so they don't care to spend $60 every month on a new account/gamekey/whatever you charge them.

People in CS:GO are perfectly happy to be banned with hundreds of dollars of skins in an account, because they either spent like $5 getting someone else's compromised account, or they are paying $30 a month to a cheat service anyway.

I bet there is a shit ton of overlap between frequent cheaters and pay-to-win whales.

The reliable way to make people cheat in your game less is cheater honeypots. Instead of banning and just starting the hunt for a cheater all over again when they buy a new account, you silently force them into matchmaking with only other cheaters, purposely abusive bots, or artificially harming the cheater's gameplay like with fake lag, or just ignore keypresses sometimes. Ruin their fun and they will stop ruining your game. Then you turn the adverse knowledge game on them, they have to figure out if they are regularly playing with cheaters or bots in order to know they need to buy a new account.
Can an Iranian citizen register a Delaware corporation and operate in the US?
The experiment provides support to the idea that the Superradiance effect (where waves are amplified when interacting with rotating black holes) may not be pulling energy from the blackhole, but from different dimensions. In theories involving extra dimensions (like those proposed in string theory or braneworld scenarios), rotational effects could alter how energy and momentum are distributed across dimensions, leading to observable phenomena similar to what was demonstrated in the experiment.

If rotation within this higher-dimensional space causes analogous effects to the rotational amplification observed in the experiment, it could imply new ways of energy transfer between dimensions. AKA -- ZPM from Stargate
These are old news for those of us that grew bonsai kittens in the late 90s.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050203111131/http://bonsaikitt...

Obviously it was a hoax, probably one of the first ones reaching the first generation of internet users. But lots of people fell for it.
Some of my own thoughts about this. I don't know, I don't work at CloudFlare. Anyway:

> infrastructure, which operates out of questionable ISP and IXP colocation facilities in various jurisdictions with dubious standards

What are these questionable facilities? When CloudFlare has installed those servers and software, and they have also made software that manages those servers, what is the problem?

CloudFlare has written some articles about some of those very many security protections they have. But that is a very lot of technical detail to explain, so if that is so important, their Enterprise/FedRAMP offerings fund CloudFlare to make possible to explain that amount of detail. But question is, do you really need that amount of detail? How much you have expertise to build same amount of security protections? Isn't it better to use CloudFlare Workers security features to concentrate on building your app? Alternative is to get your own bare metal servers, and manage them yourself.

With CloudFlare Workers, they have security features to keep code and data of each customer separate from each other.
Supper Mario Broth: obscure Mario content
Meta Fires Employee Making $400k per Year over a $25 Meal Voucher
Sorry should have been clearer. One ear headphone with directional mic.
The clergy in the 14th century were absolutely unmoored. Everything was for sale. You could pre-pay for absolution for future sins. They sold relics of everything - Jesus hair, even parts of the “burning bush” from the Old Testament. The first crusade brought back real treasures and relics that made the perfect pretense for a century of grifters.

That was all pretty much stopped later that century though by a few bad things like the mini ice age, papal schism, 100 years war, and the Black Death.
This seems unlikely to me, at least in the US.

Even your cheapest of colo's offer locked cage areas. For someone on Cloudflare's scale, the cost is trivial.

I've been inside some really "low rent" colo's and even they would provide an escort to unlock your cabinet.

Obviously standards/expectations will vary from DC to DC. I'd wager the situation might be different in some of the smaller countries CF operates in around the world though.
Just write the docs. A simple template:

- What is it?

- What does it do?

- Why does it do that?

- What is the API?

- What does it return?

- What are some examples of proper, real world usage (that don't involve foo/bar but instead, real world inputs/outputs I'd likely see)?
At my previous job during pandemic we usually communicated audio only. At my current job we most of the time use video as well. It is a big big improvement. Just a few days ago we had to have an audio-only call with a supplier, who said such was their policy. It was super annoying not being able to see them. It is much harder to get cues about for example how certain they are when saying something.
That's fine. You were an obstacle to their revenue gathering anyway.
It's the opposite - with a physical button, you just put your finger on it and keep it there while reading, so that you only need to push slightly to get to the next page. Whereas with touch screen you need to actively move your finger back and forth every time (since keeping it there would block the screen, and in any case you can't really rest it on a capacitive screen without it registering as a touch).

For one-handed reading especially, that alone makes physical buttons significantly more ergonomic, provided that they're placed such that your thumb rests on them naturally when holding the device.
so 4 vCPU per customer + 40gigs of RAM ?
Amazon, Databricks Strike Five-Year Deal Around AI Chips
that's three comments so far (now four) discussing if the comment in question adequately adds to the discussion. If you ask me, hyperbole and sarcasm have a place in nearly any exchange of ideas, but maybe I just haven't drank the right kool-aid for this space.

I think another, perhaps more relevant reference could be the replacement of hand-painted cells with computer-generated frames for animation. It replaced one kind of artist with another. Nobody got all that worked up about it, in the long run.
I haven’t played in a while but as long as I remember, there aren’t any pool cues but there are varying (house) rules on how/where the disc can be flicked
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic
This is a very good read. I’m developing a multiplayer, third-person, spell-based shooter game using Lisp (ClojureScript). It’s a 3D web-based game. I’ll also be writing a blog post about my journey, including the tools and abstractions I created for the project. If you’re interested, here’s a demo link: https://wizardmasters.io
And then there's also TLS fingerprinting.

Different browsers use TLS in slightly different ways, send data in a slightly different order, have a different set of supported extensions / algorithms etc.

If your user agent says Safari 18, but your TLS fingerprint looks like Curl and not Safari, sophisticated services will immediately detect that something isn't right.
I'm attempting to move my blog from WordPress to Ghost. There's a WP plugin for exporting to Ghost. The zip format wouldn't work, only the json one did, but now I'm missing images :( Anyone have experience exporting from WP and importing to Ghost?
Is the reason why America is filled with illegal migrants (millions allowed till now) because the US power structure wants to decouple from China and will need cheap labour to work in onshore factory?
Sad. It was reported that MS was contractually committed to Qualcomm for 5-7 years as of '16, so I would imagine this is the end of the road.

Windows on ARM works on the RPi4. I would have to think other ARM license holders could match whatever x86 emu optimizations Qualcomm had come up with without too much trouble, and MS may even get a license to continue to use them?

I'm looking forward to learn what MS's future plans are.
Postgres and Kubernetes Together in Harmony
Discussion (53 points, 8 hours ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868090
These guidelines note that emoji proposals for "specific people, whether fictional, historic, living, or dead" will be rejected outright, but most versions of the rockstar emoji are an obvious Bowie homage!
Wait, is that why we all have microservices now?
This is a bizarre take. Corporate towns and company stores and union leader assassinations are all a part of the history of cheap labor in the US.

None of those dynamics contribute to higher incomes for anyone aside from bosses and investors.

But maybe exploitation of cheap labor for personal gains is what you were referring to?
> the K&R example is an example of explicitly undefined behavior in the C standard

You can’t blame K&R C for that. It predates “the C standard” by over a decade (1978 vs 1989)

When it was written, what K&R said was C.
You're comparing being 3 months behind on a supplementary software feature that's tucked among dozens of icons on the toolbar with making a hard decision about pivoting your entire megalithic industrial, research, sales, and distribution infrastructure to a radically new technology.

The discussion you started is about spamming features to see what sticks, as set against making deliberate, selective product decisions as you confidently observe your market.

It's possible that a company that ideologically sets itself against delivering any generative AI features ever might miss where the industry is going over the next 10 or 20 years. But we were never talking about that, were we?
Not Peter Roberts nor a lawyer, but: Why don't you just say "I'm Singaporean, so I'm not sure I would need to apply", and give a link to some article which describes the special visa eligibility for Singaporeans? Also note that H-1B1 is just one kind of visa, and there are many others - for which you likely would need to apply.
Ask HN: Is there a higher rate of male to female transitioning among uber geeks?
In the last few years I've noticed sexual transitioning by some of the leaders in open source projects I have an interest in.

I don't know whether I notice it because I have an interest in the same field as the transitioners, or there is a confirmed higher rate of transition among such personality types.

Has that always been the case (ie the rate of the inclination to transition), and is only now more noticeable because it is easier now and carries less social stigma?

I remember reading a novel years back featuring computer programmers where the top programmer was very flamboyant in their self-expression as a woman, and wonder if it is something that has been previously noted but only now more evident because of changed social attitudes.
Those are my thoughts exactly!

I was going to buy this day 1, then I found out Linux support wasn't ready and I went with a new AMD 365 laptop instead. This was it's own adventure, with Ubuntu not working out of the box, so I had to go with a rolling release distro.

It's been months and I think Ubuntu might boot on the Thinkpad 14s. It's definitely not supported as a daily driver, or on any other hardware.