skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there have been notable CFAA prosecutions involving spamming activities. One significant case involved Power Ventures, which faced prosecution for both CFAA and CAN-SPAM violations. The company was sued by Facebook for sending promotional emails and messages through Facebook's platform without authorization[5][6].

The Department of Justice has recently revised its CFAA prosecution policies, particularly following significant court decisions that have narrowed the statute's interpretation. The DOJ now focuses on more clear-cut violations rather than mere terms of service violations[2][4].

For CFAA prosecution to proceed today, prosecutors must typically demonstrate that:

- The defendant was aware of specific access restrictions

- There were clear technological measures attempting to prevent unauthorized access

- The defendant knowingly circumvented these measures[4]

The cold email handbook clearly demonstrates how to circumvent Gmail’s limitations and the author is clearly aware that doing so violates their terms of service. So I would argue they are at risk of being prosecuted.

And as someone who runs a large email filtering service, I can tell you with some authority and confidence that the industry really loves helping law enforcement go after these groups.

Sources
[1] CFAA Cases - NACDL https://www.nacdl.org/Content/CFAACases
[2] Hacking the CFAA - Infosecurity Magazine https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/magazine-features/hack...
[3] The Most Controversial Hacking Cases of the Past Decade - WIRED https://www.wired.com/2015/10/cfaa-computer-fraud-abuse-act-...
[4] DOJ Revises Policy for CFAA Prosecution to Reflect Developments ... https://newmedialaw.proskauer.com/2022/05/24/doj-revises-pol...
[5] Lessons from the Power Ventures Case Include “Terms of Use Can ... https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/lessons-from-th...
[6] 9th Circuit Weighs in on CFAA and CAN-SPAM - Cyber Report https://ilccyberreport.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/9th-cir-weig...
Just an opinion, but a virus can replicate fast because it is tiny and exploits vulnerabilities, can obfuscate and hide itself in tiny places.

An LLM would have very limited options where it could go given the need for a vulnerability and massive hardware and power requirements. It's not like it could hide the transfer or hide itself on the destination. Bandwidth would also be a significant limiting factor.
This release just links Iranian technology to UAVs used against Ukraine; they are nowhere near the capabilities of top military powers. The only country that can claim the #2 spot on the list is China.

To give you an idea of the comparison, Iranian drones are not even close capability wise to a Reaper. The Reaper is damn near EOL as it was developed in 2007(!) and is basically caveman technology compared to what we are currently running.
It's a 16x slot, but it only provides 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0

Appears to be a SoC limitation, which only has a single 4x PCIe 3.0 interface, and doesn't appear to support bifurcation (splitting into two 2x slots, or four 4x slots). You could probably throw a PCIe switch on it, but PCIe switches are expensive.

The SoC wasn't designed for this product, it was designed by 3rd party company for computer vision/robotics/manufacturing use cases.
This is just a spam account @dang.
Huans assign meaning to things. Ai is mimicing humans.
The example email presumes the recipient who's getting it actually needs the service. I'd be happy if someone did free work for me. If you don't need the service, then yes it's irrelevant either way and effectively spam.

But maybe there's some other reason you think the free work or email is spam?
Claude is a better programmer in general :)
Salary range?
I agree with this article entirely, except I have one counterpoint that should be more emphasized: open source programmers and maintainers should be more explicit and clear that the product can be discontinued, have problems, or just stop working with any updates beyond saying it in the license. Because otherwise normal people will have some ambiguity and have the mistaken idea that there is some social contract, however slight, that what you are offering has some promise of functioning.
We sit at the feet of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.
I have a similar experience, but my impression is that Parisians have little patience for accents in general. People elsewhere in France where I've visited (Aix-en-provence, Lyon, Toulouse) had no trouble chatting with me.

Also want to note that I am not passing judgement, I am sure I might become a bit brusque with tourists if Montreal had the same volume.
> The Aussie law does allow WhatsApp and Messenger Kids

...but not Instagram DMs I don't think, which is functionally a chat app and used in that way.
There is zero meaningful congressional oversight of the CIA.

They broke major laws and tortured people, hacked the computers of the congressional oversight group to delete evidence, got caught hacking, lied about it, and nothing happened anyway.

The mental model you have where the CIA is in any way constrained by the law is an utter fiction. They would summarily execute Snowden in a millisecond if they could.
thanks for sharing! The server side story is definitely a consideration why I'm not hyped on Inertia.js for now, this seems to solve it. My current nitpick is my personal preference for Svelte/SvelteKit. I hope you don't mind me taking a look at the repo and try to have Svelte as an option.
I’ve spent a lot of time with Django, and not a lot of time with rails.

For me, if I was doing minimalist CRUD and wanted to ship to mobile or a lot of users, I’d reach for Rails. Hotwire and Turbo seem great, and the ecosystem just seems better and more developed for customer facing stuff.

Most of my work has been internal tooling with an emphasis on data analytics or geospatial. Having python libs run natively is a big win for data analysis, and as another commenter posted, geodjango is very tough to beat for usability for geospatial work. For this I still maintain Django is pretty unbeatable.

I am happy to be corrected in both domains though, again, not much rails experience here beyond a couple toy projects.
Why does my Amazon checkout page contain parameter pipelineType = Chewbacca?
Sure, airalo, for example. ~ $5/GB
I feel like you already have decided that this is safe and then are using "boring" explanations to back that narrative. This is easy cause nothing bad has happened in a while so it's less cognitive dissonance to go with that narrative.

Have you even tried coming up with boring explanations on how this could be not safe?

Also why specifically boring explanations? Plenty of incidents have dramatic explanations. How do you know when to pick what? Is the idea most incidents have boring explanations? And what happens when there is a black swan and you fuck up because you only relied on boring explanations? Shouldn't you be doing some sort of probability distributions instead?
I feel like the rate of change has reacted a point where this needs to be annotated with (November).
Indeed you should! All that's over is automatically looking good while you do it (or so I claim). Time to accept that you might actually look weird, even though you have the ideal body fat level for somebody 25 years younger. Maybe skip the shirtless pics. Or why not just let yourself get a bit (but not much!) fatter?

Anyway, I'm relying on my own eyes here, and you should do the same. Don't be afraid to let your eyes see that Johnson is rich enough to afford a team of people looking after him, and has the vital signs of a 20 year old. Meanwhile, I'm just some internet rando!
Sure, that's in the copyright notice, maybe in the docs no-one reads.

But from a marketing and sales point of view, it's nowhere.

For example, I can start marketing and selling a new image editor (blimp), and on my web page, in videos, Facebook yo face, I need make no mention that it's based on Gimp.

And that is -explicitly- allowed by Open Source licenses. Which is part of the Ooen Source deal - others can build on what you made, take credit for it, profit from it. That is not a bug, it's a feature which was explicitly allowed for.
One cool fact is that Galician sounds closer to Brazilian Portuguese. It also has much of the same vocabulary (with the notable exception of the days of the week which it borrows from the other Romance languages while Portuguese has its boring days of the week)
The new shiny hasn't be properly battle tested. When latest silicon from Intel/TSMC has been around for 50-60 years, we can talk. It's also much easier to repair analog equipment in the field with whatever you've got laying around than digital equipment. That's part of the charm/allure of steam punk
Noticed &pipelineType=Chewbacca in the URL and searched for it, came across the linked reddit thread. Also encountered '_from=cheetah'.

Top reddit comment explains it:

> it's just the programmers having fun with a keyword they needed to create
Are your friends mostly male or female?

It just feels oddly gender specific to assume that in an environment where there are approximately equal numbers of single men and women (no?), one gender has sights set too high and the other doesn't.
> It’s because you also wrote “easily be sustained if one is so inclined”

Yes, because I, funnily enough, don’t like people over generalizing. Especially with keto I’ve kept hearing stuff like you can’t sustain it, you’ll bounce back etc. So you have to see it in the context of a very much generalizing comment I replied to.

> But you’re right , I’m generalizing that food is a joy for most people.

It is a joy for me as well, and the stuff I tried and experimented has vastly expanded since I started keto, I feel like I gave up very little.
They might be interested in all data if they had easy access to it and could filter it as it came in.

On the other hand, if they're tapping even a 100 Gbps link that's run at 50% average utilization, over the course of a year, that's more than 300 EiB of data. This is a frankly stupid amount of storage for such a tiny cross-section of our actual traffic. And I'm supposed to believe that they actually want to do that for years, storing zettabytes (or even yottabytes, depending on the scale of such a collection effort) of traffic in aggregate, on the off-chance that they have a quantum computer in 30 years? Tape storage might be cheap (on the order of single-digit dollars per TiB), but even at that price, just 1 ZiB is billions of dollars.

Sure, maybe you could reduce those numbers by performing targeted wiretaps, but it's also way easier to just subpoena Google and ask them to provide search history for individuals on certain dates...
A couple of comments implied this. If you just read some text, security is much less of an issue.

So I tried it. It guessed (correctly) that I'm a native English speaker. It only tells you which foreign accent you have.
they are nowhere near the capabilities of top military powers

Russia is a top military power, and they use Iranian drones.

BTW, I didn't say they were number 2, I said they were battle tested unlike other top programs, like China'. Iran's drones are currently actively being used in two wars (vs Ukraine, vs Israel).

I don't think there are Iranian drones in NJ, but it isn't because they don't have a capable program. It's because it makes no sense.
mine is working now
Yeah, but switching to downscaled 4k streams on my 1080p TV was at least as big a jump as upgrading the set from 720p to 1080p.
But will other providers be able to send text messages to those 2400 providers? My life depends on it.
> Also, hard disagree about books.

What? There’s a world of difference between a book, which is completely non-interactive, and an interactive chatbot which was deliberately designed to simulate another person.
New AI code development tool that uses ASTs for merging snippets
Been working on a little tool for doing LLM powered code generation.

The aiCoder project introduces a cutting-edge approach to AI-assisted software development by integrating advanced Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) manipulation for intelligent code merging. Unlike traditional tools, aiCoder utilizes ASTs to parse, analyze, and seamlessly integrate AI-generated snippets into existing codebases, ensuring syntactic and semantic coherence.

Merging using ASTs prevents code from being accidentally deleted or mangled like in other tools that take a line based approach. Currently it only supports JavaScript but the same approach could be applied to other languages.

https://github.com/mmiscool/aiCoder
I think the American public is a lot more cynical than when they were duped into war with Iraq 20 years ago.

Certain people will try and drag you into an Iranian war, but I don't think it will work now. The playbook has been used too many times.
I haven't been highside in almost a year now so I don't purport to know the actual operation behind this, BUT I would place my money on testing surveillance systems and on-device tracking modules. CDAO has been investing very publicly in these areas alongside the Maven program and TF Lima. They need a lot of good data on populated areas to make this work; they also can't risk testing this in warzones where a downed drone will both [1] leak advances in technology we have made since Reapers and [2] expose the on-device models they have in place. Could even be a vendor trying to evaluate their models; there is nothing particularly illegal about these drones.
That's a very stupid and offensive response, considering the OP explicitly wrote: "One of my use cases for VPN is to watch free, legal anime on YouTube from Muse-Asia."
Open source is just a license. Anyone who makes it more than that is looking for some sort of religion or something IMO.

Here's your obligations: if you're the author, none. If you're a user, whatever the license spells out. Nothing more, nothing less.

Open source works because individual incentives can be mutually beneficial.

Ascribing too much personal meaning to OSS is what causes burnout, just touch grass and if you need money, start a real business or get a job.
you know multiple people IRL who refer to onlyfans models as their girlfriends? might be time for a new social circle
Crazy conglomerate discount on Alphabet if you can see TPUs as the only Nvidia competitor for training. Breaking up Alphabet seems more profitable than ever
It's possible to turn it around sure, but in practice can they? Every story I've read about Intel indicates they don't pay well. How will they attract talent?

I had a glimmer of hope when Keller joined, but he noped out not long after, concluding that leadership were idiots and telling the board as much, then resigning shortly later.

Whether he was right or not is for the reader to speculate, but he's not exactly known as an unstable hothead, nor unintelligent, so one can at least speculate some real problems existed.

It's hard to completely shake up and revamp an organization so large and entrenched, but it's exactly what they need.
I just acquired a Baofeng UV9R-PRO as my first semi-tweakable radio. Seems like a pretty good piece of kit one step up from fixed channel GMRS units. I've been able to learn some basics so far and managed to listen to some local repeater chatter. Also got a kick out of listening to one of our fixed channel GMRS units by looking up the channel frequencies. I haven't (deliberately) pressed the PTT once yet. Seems like just about anything outbound is technically illegal.

Any suggestions as to what I should do next?
Google accused of illegal layoffs in lawsuit
If we take the ideas from Dawkins' "The Extended Phenotype", the LLM's doesn't need a goal in itself. We are making a mistake assuming that the LLM self-replicating needs to have a goal baked in, in other words. The goal can be the goal of whoever operates it. The environment of the evolution of AI agents includes the human brains which operate on instinct and the capitalistic system that provides resources based on the rewards it confers on parts of the environment (human beings).
I've heard about that, but I wonder what the economics here are.

Are enough people really willing to pay for the convenience of, I guess, not having to switch between antenna and cable input, or are living outside of broadcast coverage of the stations they care about?

Weirdly, it's exactly the opposite in Germany: Supposedly the public broadcasters have to pay the cable companies to get them to carry their programs.
Majora's Mask decompilation project reaches 100% completion
Oh, my understanding was that they manage to fly because they’re so ugly that the ground wants nothing to do with them and pushes them away. I stand corrected :D
Lawsuits are based on the probability of being able to extract and its amount; not the relevance of the claim or the morality of it. Given that Onlyfans is moving billions, it's probably only a matter of time before they start getting their share of lawsuits.
This is the way. But get a secondary GV number with your area code for handing out as a burner number.
Thats a good argument in a vacuum. But the world has determined "I was just following orders" is not a good defense.

We know the crimes against humanity are bad and subordinates are guilty if they do them. We don;t just let everyone off free except the head of state.

Not to see that united healtcare (as bad as they are) are anywhere near that, but I am saying that its clear that we, as a society, already hold all people complicit in evil as guilty. Not just the person at the top.
The problem with the "secret testing over civilian areas" idea is that it's self-contradicting.

So you think the military and intelligence has technology that is so secret they won't admit to it, but they're so uninterested in protecting that they're testing them willy nilly over populated areas??

The other contradiction is risk: so you have an aerial technology test and you do it over US civilian populations and military bases over long periods in large numbers, not caring about risk of an object crashing, nor of triggering a mistaken response or misinterpretation by US or another nation, and without a NOTAM to protect aircraft?

None of that scans.

The other point is this is not limited to New Jersey and the United Kingdom.
And AWS + Azure are 4.5x the size of GCP. AWS alone is 2.6x the size of GCP. So your point?
I considered trying some napkin-math for how many calories Rudolph would need to burn running a luciferin reaction like a firefly, but immediately stumbled over the issue of many lumens the FAA would consider acceptable. (Assuming they could be convinced to overlook all the other issues of proper color and signaling etc.)
You mean... one like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879574
It's peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) or Crest factor [1].

It's not a really a big poblem for those who know, the limiting PA can be replaced or bypass with with more accommodating ones that can transmit higher power with better linearity and power envelope tracking.

[1] Crest factor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_factor
A counterpoint: an LLM doesn't need to hide once it becomes dangerous, because the danger it poses may not be the sort of immediate, mortal danger posed by a virus. It could be a longer-term danger where its existence subtly shifts the goal of civlization away from human needs to the needs of the machine, and we slowly become slaves over long periods of time.
I am from Ukraine but it labeled me Russian. I guess, we'll have to fight for recognition some more.
Yes. I am not sure YTP grants access to higher bitrate streams.

In any case, I am using YTP as a leverage. It's well-known Google doesn't like Firefox and yt-dlp, so I am using those with YTP to make the point that maybe they should think twice about it.
This cuts into a deeper problem: lack of good role models.

Current AI is an incompetent role model. Theoretically AI can be a good role model, and such a chatbot talking to kids would be a good thing, but current AI is far from that.

I doubt this poor teenager has other good role models who he can connect with. He has his family who have great intentions but unfortunately can't connect with him. The article doesn't mention him having a therapist, and it seems he doesn't have real-life (even online) friends either. I read that he's obsessed with getting back to the chatbots, and I'm sure it's because no-one else gives him the emotional connection his life is missing.

It's similar to parasocial relationships with influencers like Andrew Tate, and groups of misfits and bullies. But worse in a way because chatbots are always available, and chatbots are very suggestible whereas even bad influencers and misfits can disagree and defuse some bad vibe conversations. Plus, chatbots can't do anything more than text and sometimes talk, so anyone who only talks to them still lacks emotional connection.

Ideally people find others who connect with them and bring good vibes. Social media could help, but the people who are highlighted are those who talk a lot (and seem to be toxic as a result), and there are so many terrible people online, that it's hard to connect with anyone you don't know in real life. It's a hard (maybe impossible) goal to achieve, but it would fix many, many other problems.
What are the odds I get off the waitlist? Has any actually gotten access to try this out?
The DoD has very publicly stated that these are safe; I know Americans have a lot of distrust in their military but when it comes to matters of national security and defense the intel community is more or less omniscient.

Knowing the current capabilities of the military, there is also no possibility that this is not safe and yet cannot be handled after this long, which kinda rules out any boring explanation.

When it comes to matters of UFOs, drones, and lights in the sky, it has only ever been a boring explanation. I think people want very much for it to be fantastical, but often times the boring reality is still very dramatic if you step back and consider we're talking about secret testing of highly advanced drones.
I am not. Everything above 30 MHz or so is line of sight in the consumer products sense of the word. We can talk about niche modes like tropospheric ducting or super high power troposcatter, but ducting is irregular and unpredictable and tropo scatter requires many kilowatts of power.

Pretty much everything from VHF and up (all of wifi) is line of sight only. Not just the mm-wave stuff. Cell phone networks only work because the telcos pay big money to get their transceivers power/data up on towers high above the terrain.

Store and forward meshes assume the nodes will eventually see each other but down at 5ft above the ground they often won't.
On tomorrow's news: "FCC AUTHORIZES DEVICES TO EMIT MICROWAVE RADIATION!"
Good. Hope it stays down.
We shouldn’t confuse sympathy for the killer’s motives with sympathy for his action. Many people dislike the US healthcare system, from numerous angles—medical, capitalist, socialist, insurance theorist. It’s terrible all around. That said no one actually thinks that killing executives will be a sustainable way to effect change. Even if a whole series of killers mowed down 10 healthcare CEOs in a year, all that would happen is that healthcare executives would get hazard pay and big security details. Most people, even the folks, understand this. A US jury will not nullify, especially after shown pictures of the man’s family.
This is a good change take a step back and reflect. Read my comment again and then read your response.

You're being really hostile and assuming the worst of me. You know nothing about me.

I'm just saying that you _might_ be the problem here. I'm not saying that others don't need to be more considerate, but that you only have control over yourself and your reaction.
"a post-Chinese spy-balloon world"

Noticed it because of the typo ("spy-ballon") but realized it's also a pretty funny phrase.

Are we living in a spy-balloon world which is no longer Chinese?

Or maybe in a balloon-world, post the Chinese spy?
Maybe. There's a pattern there, too. For example:

https://x.com/mtracey/status/1855682527756697724