skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd usually describe a house as haunted if something bad has happened in the past (e.g. a murder, evil spirits, etc) and people are superstitious about this (e.g. believe some ghosts are still living in the house). Hard to see how an owner can fix this. All the usual problems the owner can fix (floorboards need replacing, gutters need cleaning, general repairs) aren't really examples of a house being "haunted".
Coming from that part of the world, I'm relatively certain the elimination of malaria was the cause.
It is, in my experience. Especially with larger projects. And if you compare to VS+ReSharper, which is equivalent to Rider feature-wise, it blows it out of the water.
That is true, but fixing that would merely reduce the frequency of the fires, while raising the intensity.
How Do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture [video]
Yuck, this would destroy the ecology of the area and require an insane amount of energy. If water is scarce, the most efficient thing to do is move the humans.
Hey, I was looking for this comment ;)
That's a valid complaint, and I sympathize because I have no love for Facebook.

My only counter-argument, and it's not even a counter-argument really, is that this is a fact of life that exists with or without Facebook.

My personal pet peeve is that I don't want to own a mobile phone at all. Not even a dumb phone and not even a landline. If I find myself in an emergency without the ability to dial 911 that's a risk I'm willing to take on a personal level. I just don't want a phone because I find the idea of a noise making device that can interrupt me at unexpected times to be a crime against humanity. But more and more essential services like banking are assuming that people have smart phones. My bank would deny services to me if I didn't even have a landline, since they require a phone number tied to their account records. My work assumes that people not only have their own smart phone but are willing to install authenticator apps for MFA etc. And my workplace is not alone.

If it's not Facebook that "everyone" is using that leaves minority opinions wishing for an alternative, it's something else.
Non-async functions are absolutely blocking. The question is if they’re expected to block for a meaningful amount of time, which is generally suggested by your async runtime.

It’s really not that bad, you might just need a better mental model of what’s actually happening.
It's not an error, it's by design. Only issue is these "vulnerabilities" were reserved for three letter agencies.
> what has actually happened is that the domain is blacklisted by entirely too powerful entities. The problem lies with these blacklisting entities, not with the domain, and the solution must be done there, too. It should not be a domain owner’s responsibility to get out of being unfairly blacklisted.

These kinds of blacklists exist because these domains have been used to host scams or distribute spam (or some other malicious activity) in the past. They're there to protect people (e.g. so that Firefox can disply a "warning: this site is a scam") and reduce abuse. They're not just there so people at Google can get a good kick out of blacklisting random domains.
Wanting to make a biome more habitable is not vanity.

Is it vanity to want a park in your city or a river to be clean of pollutants?

We are scared of projects like this because the scale betrays our inability to do them or perhaps fully anticipate the consequences, which is good enough reason for caution.

But vanity? A garden is never reducible to vanity, it is the cultivation of the earth and the prosperity of living things, regardless of how vainglorious the gardener may be.
I’m always skeptical of people giving away their alpha.
A side effect of negative seo is that some stuff that hasn't worked on Google for a long time still does on Bing (They, Bing, obviously, not being the real target of the attack).

I've seen a few sites become de-indexed and the 'give away' is the type of results that first appear when the penalty is eventually lifted.
For example, just a dozen or so urls with really weird query strings that never existed before. The real stuff does come back after time though and, in my limited experience, it's a one-off incident.

Just to add, not many sites are insignificant enough not to attract negative seo - especially this type of low-level, zero cost malarkey.
Hard to believe Microsoft is disagreeing when there is a demo.

In that Vimeo account there are ton of other security discoveries. Eg WhatsApp running python script. Is this real or scam?
As if most linux users aren't also in the sudo group?
Is that different from sudo?
> But what about the noetic field? Can we manage or unveil it?

What if I were to tell you all that you know of yourself and this world is a lie? A well maintained, manicured lie to keep a status quo, where ordinary Man toils beneath a glass ceiling, and a ruling class among us can navigate and manipulate these “fields” these writings elude to?

These vague impressions foreshadow the primitive outline of a long coveted truth all of society will declare a lie (crazy crackpot lie no less).

We are not alone in our own minds, and these “fields” hint at a hyperdimensionality of mind through which practiced others may exploit every facet of our humanity.

Our secret psycho-spiritual nature is an exciting adventure no doubt, one long since advantaged by an unscrupulous mob culture among us.
Though it's pretty much incubating forever, or until Valhalla, whichever comes first.
The alternative to that is Android and IOS where we don't have full control over our own devices unless we jailbreak them, which itself breaks so many critical apps on the mobile device stores that it's frequently not worth it to root the device.

No - the problem here is moreso the sheer complexity of Windows and the variety of devs involved and the push for backwards compatibility.
it's not even the follows feed, but suggestions and explore with its sections. like, explore feed of posts is just straight up an algorithmic assembly of posts. (looking at mastodon.social, "the original server") the explore feed has a blurb about "how it ranks posts" which is literally next to their "no algorithms in sight" tagline. do they think their users are stupid? or are they just fine with making such obvious lies?
That is a very long typeform, even I gave up :)
You have some awesome cells, thanks for sharing them online.
Had completely forgotten about Robot Carnival and neat to see you have a few pieces from some of the shorts(episodes?)

Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.
The exploit under discussion is an attack on Windows Update, it doesn't AFAICT involved running privileged code as the user. Also the default Windows user has been non-Administrator for many years now. It's true you can fool users into elevating a shell or whatever, but that's true for pretty much all platforms.
Alternative link without jwz's Special HN Surprise:

https://archive.is/FGWOD

> Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today

> 13 days ago

> According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim Clark would go ballistic in a company-wide email because I had included a link to Bianca's Smut Shack.)

> For those of you who are unaware of these finer details, 0.9 was the first release of the Netscape browser (which begat Firefox) available to the general public. This beta release was an unannounced surprise. Prior to this, everyone assumed that what we were doing was going to be a standard for-sale product where you sent off your $35 and then some time later got a disc in the mail with a license key. That we just said, "Here's our FTP site, come get it, go crazy" was, at the time, shocking to people.

> These anniversaries keep piling up, so I don't really have a lot to add, but check my NSCP tag or the Previouslies for more, particularly the links in this one.

> I'd still like to find a way to run a mid-90s vintage Unix version of the browser under emulation on an M1 Mac. I asked about that a while back but was never able to Make It Go.
Alternatively, "Special Effects". Also VFX/Visual Effects, etc., one supposes.

Although that would have it expand to "Graph Effects" (hmm, that could be an interesting library), or "Graphic Effects".

But GFX expanding to simply "Graphics" has a history going back at least to the early 1990s, and even further:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%2...
FROM NOW ON YOU'LL ONLY TALK PIRATE
Note: If one writes a cell with "you can install this with `curl | mdx`" this ends up in an infinite loop xD.
The uniqueness of the human brain: a review
and even more, the generalization of "air conditioning" and "refrigeration" into "heat pumps" ...
They have $118.4 billion in USD reserves?
I hope we do, but modernified. You grow most of your staples and you reduce your reliance on the system, acting as a true UBI because you can take care of your family. Work becomes increasingly optional for those who seek more than what modern abundance self gardening could achieve. A few hours of daily work and all the time waisters of modern tech. Just need enough money to pay property taxes.
Solutions pour Résoudre des problèmes courants sur les switchs Cisco
Anyone… or robots?
> You conveniently ignored the part where I noted that having double the consequential pollution will halve the speed of discovery.

You claimed it, without evidence, without even argument.

Given that history (as I read it) does not support your statement, and you didn't support it either, why shouldn't we ignore it?
No, not terror management, and not new age either. This is a modern idealist approach, based on rigorous logic. The insights listed at the end of the treatise might not be convincing on their own, but the writing explains everything step by step. It offers proofs (in the form of logic), but each step needs careful thought to really get the insights that follow.
I really disagree with pulling the power dynamic angle into focus here. Injustice can also be carried out by the "little man", sometimes even at scale, and is every bit as awful to remedy if not even more so.

The issue is with the issue: people/systems (big and small) blacklisting an ownable identifier pointing to some ownable content without any care for the lifecycle of either.

Painting this with a social brush is extremely unhelpful and is guaranteed to derail conversations for no benefit whatsoever.
Sorry, I'll try to be clearer. QRhi docs[1] say "The Qt Rendering Hardware Interface is an abstraction for hardware accelerated graphics APIs, such as, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Direct3D, Metal, and Vulkan." And PySide6 includes a (python) wrapper for QRhi[2]. Meanwhile, pygfx builds on wgpu-py[3] which builds on wgpu[4] which is a "is a cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics API. It runs natively on Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, and OpenGL".

So, from the standpoint of someone using PySide6, QRhi and pygfx seem to be alternative paths to doing GPU-enabled rendering, on the exact same range of GPU APIs.

Thus my question: How do they compare? How should I make an informed comparison between them?

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qrhi.html

[2] https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/PySide6/QtWidgets/QRhiWidget...

[3] https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py/

[4] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
lol, please
American innovation got slammed by the “temporary” end of a key tax incentive
How is that patent even a thing from 2009? Position feedback in robots is WAY older than that. I have textbooks at least a decade older than that patent describing that very system, so I wouldn't be surprised if it falls over at the first prior use claim it encounters.
The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned your IP address (IP)

K.

edit: VPN, ssh -D to vps & socks5 localhost worked. Can't have anything anymore.
Seems like the attack is suspiciously simple: Fool the update process into installing old versions of kernel components with known vulnerabilities. I'm no expert, but surely MS has already thought about this and has a blacklist or revocation facility or whatever?

Is the root cause here an OS design issue or just a process failure where they failed to note the broken/bad hashes in the correct spot? The latter is much easier to fix, but the (slightly spun, as always) security announcement seems to claim the former.
Note that very often, the solution process for a more difficult puzzle involves going through nontrivial logic to prove that a particular square must be water. It's important to be able to record non-obvious "must be water" squares.
I'll believe Google cares about extension security when they allow the user to trivially disable auto-updates.
Looking at that smalltowntruth website reminds me of someone I met in 2015.

I stayed at a guy's airbnb in Denver. He was in breach of his renting agreement by hosting the airbnb and had previously spent about a year in jail (forget for what). He said he had 2 websites that he was promoting on Facebook and were making him money. On one website he posted lots of pro-Trump content and on the other he posted lots of pro-Bernie Sanders content. This was during the primaries so these articles were largely in opposition to Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. He said he didn't care about either candidate but both websites were making him good money in ad revenue. He was not actually affiliated with either party.

I wouldn't be surprised if he or someone else like him had scaled up their efforts.
How about a cruise ship? Long article: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...
Show HN: Mnemonic ephemeral messaging from the command line
It's similar to pastebin, but everything is encrypted/decrypted client-side using bip39 mnemonic phrases. Instead of sharing a deeplink to share a file, you can share the mnemonic.
Thanks for sharing all these reflections on the topic. Regarding Carhartts, I can really recommend Super Casuals, which sells Carhartt factory seconds: https://www.supercasuals.com/category.cfm/449

They're stamped "IRR" on the inside... but that's more subtle than tread marks XD I usually order several sizes of what I'm interested in and send most of them back.
The Coming AI Startup Bust [video]
Again and again, just 4 or 5 times.
Elon Musk launched his career working illegally
How often has mankind attempted to alter the landscape to suit his purposes and found that, instead of improving it, it is destroyed instead. Far better is learn to live in the conditions as they are and adapt the techniques to utilize the natural resources. In some cases, maybe even that simply isn't possible so we just don't live there.
http://archive.ph/kzLTf
Predictions of groundwater PFAS occurrence at US drinking water supply depths
I guess it's a testament to my daily driver (Brave browser) that I had to Google "what is temu."
Guantanamo was and is a thing, there are literally handbooks on how to torture used by the American military. The American military also has a long, rich history of systemic sexual assault. Heck one of my friends was sexually assaulted by a service member to the point of hospitalization and he received no punishment or recourse. I also think reporting on Russian military by western media is largely propaganda, it’s hard to know what’s true and take.
"In 2023, Minnesota resident Travis Gienger, who teaches horticulture, aptly enough, broke the world record for the biggest pumpkin. His 2,749-pound entry beat the old record, set in 2021 by an Italian farmer, by 47 pounds."

I was there for that! I used my photo of the moment he beat the world record in my blog post about GPT-4 vision prompt injection attacks: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-inj...

Here's my Mastodon thread from this year's competition. Travis competed (and won) again but didn't get a new world record, though another competitor did set the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in California: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/113306150061413548
What do you mean by hackable? I can't really see how other operating systems (say, Linux+any distro) are more secure than windows fundamentally?
> possible by gaining kernel code execution as an administrator

The root user can install rootkits as usual. Don't forget to brand it a cool name.... Oh wait:

> The researcher published a tool called Windows Downdate

There you go, here's your 0xF minutes of fame, well played.
Indus Valley script from 3300 to 1900 BC cracked using cryptography [video]
https://www.academia.edu/78867798/Deciphering_Indus_script_a...

Detailed video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M8IoAlaGI
This can also happen with IP addresses. We recently moved one of our sites to a new IP and got a trickle of complaints about it being inaccessible from various authoritarian countries. After some digging, the new IP was used as a Tor bridge (not even an exit node) over _ten years ago_. I gave up any hope of fixing that and just ordered a different IP address.
What's the point of this block on English Wikipedia (language spoken by 11% of Indians) when the following alleged "defamatory information" is still available on Hindi Wikipedia (language spoken by 40% of Indians):

"ANI has been accused of acting as a propaganda tool for the current central government, distributing content from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events on several occasions."[1]

Hindi Wikipedia also addresses the lawsuit between ANI and Wikipedia in the same article as this alleged "defamatory information" instead of having a translated version of the English Wikipedia ANI v Wikimedia case.[2][3]

Bengali Wikipedia (language spoken by 9% of Indians) is a stub article that still manages to make similar remarks to Hindi Wikipedia.[4]

Telugu Wikipedia (language spoken by 8% of Indians) has favorable coverage of ANI but still addresses the lawsuit between ANI and Wikipedia.[5]

Malayalam Wikipedia (language spoken by 3% of Indians) just has a stub article that says nothing much.[6]

edit: Answer appears to be "On 14 October, Delhi High Court justices Manmohan and Tushar Rao Gedela objected to the creation of an English Wikipedia article about the defamation case, saying the article "disclos[ed] something about a sub-judice matter" and "will have to be taken down", and scheduled review for 16 October. On 16 October, the court stated that "Accordingly, in the interim, this Court directs that the pages on Wikipedia pertaining to the single judge as well as discussion of the observations of division bench be taken down or deleted within 36 hours".".[7][8]

[1] https://hi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%...

[2] https://hi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._W...

[4] https://bn-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%...

[5] https://te-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%B0%8F%E0%...

[6] https://ml-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%B4%8F%E0%...

[7] Deleted article: https://archive.md/XIxZv#selection-2289.0-2351.1

[8] Deleted article: https://archive.md/CcA6Q
> I quoted the bit I wanted to react to, namely the idea that businesses have to give customers what they want. I read that as strongly influenced by an economically driven - rather than morally driven - world view.

It's simply practically driven. You can try to give people what they "need" rather than what they want, but in a free country and a free market system, people cannot be force-fed. They can choose whether or not to buy what you're selling. All the good intentions in the world will go nowhere if nobody is listening.

> Leaving money on the table does not necessarily mean a failing business

True, but I wasn't referring to that. Ruthless profit maximization is not the same as giving the majority of prospective customers what they want. The former isn't required, but the latter is usually required to sustain the business.

Imagine if a grocery store stocked only healthy food and got rid of all the junk food. It would go out of business, because people want their junk food and will go elsewhere for it.
Most of the sales at a McDonalds are via the drive-thru. Inside sales have dropped so low that many stores don't even staff the front counter, you have to enter your own order at a kiosk in the lobby or use their mobile app.

I think your conjecture was correct 20 years ago but not at store with the latest remodels. Counter sales and inside dining are an afterthought.

The ice cream machines (all restaurant equipment, really) is very expensive and you generally don't buy more than you will actually use.
I think the custom schema definition file is not needed. Just define it in plain Rust. Not sure what the win is for this tool.
AI regenerated Documentary Final moments of Hind Rajab [video]
Disney has been doing Mickey-shaped ones for a while[0] in the greenhouse at The Land at Epcot.

[0] https://www.delish.com/food-news/a29003871/disney-world-epco...
I'm guessing here because I'm not the author but I believe this statement is directed towards the blocklisting entities because they don't provide transparencies or a method to reach them to resolve issues with a domain once it's aquired by someone else. That absolutely is the issue of those entities.
Meh, the article makes it sound as if there were nothing and we have already solid options like SeaORM and Diesel.

Still to me they all suck and nothing beats SQLx
Totally agree.

The key point, which perfectionists miss or more likely just don't agree with, is about being less wrong. WP is time and again show to be less wrong than supposedly trusted or more formal resources.

When it started many people would look to the Encyclopedia Britannica as more reliable yet research showed that on average it contained more errors and that's with the occasional inexperienced/ rogue editor on the WP side.

EDIT: fixed my own typo! (relatable -> reliable)
There are a number of interesting videos on YouTube about people who are adding swales and rock dams to their western land to slow down the departure of rain water. Apparently just these extra terraforming can be enough to turn barren land into a green and lush forest.

Has anyone tried this on their own land? I'm tempted to try it.
A blocking function is one that blocks the event loop from switching to another task. It doesnt matter what it is doing only that it is doing something and not hitting another await to release the loop to work on another task. A simple function with while loop can block the event loop if it doesnt contain any awaits in it.
What makes you think that it's "so damn hackable"?

Also, this particular attack requires administrator privileges and bypasses a security boundary that doesn't even exist on e.g. Linux. Linux doesn't have driver signatures and root can easily install a new kernel module.
someone download the pdf.
Have you traveled to third world countries with very high population densities? Have you breathed the air on their streets? Travel to China, India, parts of the Middle East, other parts of Asia, and realize just how foul the air there is to breathe. That's what you want for the US? The evidence is already strong that plastics, PFAS, and CO2 are not recycled; they just keep piling on in the environment and in the human body. You can literally smell plastic burning in the air in those countries and regions, and the immune system reacts very strongly to it in a negative way. Developing anything cool will be the last thing on the mind at that time.
London at Night: Harold Burdekin Photographs a City Between Life and Eternity