skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS is 2.5x the size of gcp. In fact AWS is growing faster than GCP based off of gross revenue added over last 12 months.

I used both azure and AWS to show that GCP has lost significant markshare because of its deprecation policy. Enterprises don’t trust GCP won’t deprecate their services.
While completely true, it doesn't address the fact that CIA, NSA, FBI and other gov agencies have used their control or secret ownership of 'private' companies to break federal regulations in the past. They _could_ be using some sort of cutout to confuse the ownership/control to get around regulations.
Can’t help but read “it’s a nothing burger” in between each paragraph, but I love this story all the same.

Props to Murphy and his team for developing an awesome program.
Mullvad did away with port forwarding about 1.5 years ago. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forward.... If im not mistaken its not your ability to download the torrents that is effected but your ability to really upload the torrents. If you belong to a private tracker with a strict seeding to downloading ratio i would use another VPN service for that
The ”staging” concept in git is something that I know really bugs a lot of people, especially beginners with git. Like ”I just want to commit, why is there this extra step?”, but I totally agree with you. Maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome, but I really like that there’s an extra “look through your changes” procedure before committing, exactly for reasons like this.
This is true, and we had this debate a little bit - disguising is not the same as hiding.

If you're trying to avoid any detection then you would also want to mask the sound, or else people will be hearing things in the sky and not seeing anything... until they start pointing low-light and infrared cameras at the sky. When that happens the vantablack drones are going to pop against the background and leave no doubt that there is something strange in the sky, since they def won't be looking/moving like bats.

By disguising as planes you blend in with the air traffic for most people, and create confusion and debate with anyone who does notice they are out of the ordinary (exactly what we're seeing now).

Another point is that lights on flying objects in the dark serve a purpose, and if these drones are coordinating with each other, they may be using the lights to maintain formations or avoid running into each other without relying on other communication channels that could give away more information.
This is only possible if the call transits through all IP networks. If the call at any point goes over TDM, and out of band shaken is not implemented, then the signature is lost.

End to end authenticated calls is the ideal state, but I don't think we're fully there yet.
The clickbait is actually "and we know why".
It is not inevitable, almost nothing is... This just bothers me because so many people in tech talk about things as being "inevitable" when it's just a lazy resignation to the current zeitgeist.

There are a plethora of other forces at work beyond "the market".

Yes, if no one imagines anything different the future will turn out as we expect. But with even small changes to legislation, norms and culture thing can turn out completely different. It is only inevitable if we resign ourselves to the status quo.
What I understand is that they are using machine learning techniques to detect access patterns. Even if they don't understand the bytes because it is encrypted, they can match the sizes and timing of packets. So if the tunnel over SSH technique is common, and they detect a SSH connection that behaves in a specific way, for example because of fixed-size handshake packets, they can guess it is tunneling a VPN.
It’s not helpful to think of most pain clinics as fundamentally interested in treating chronic pain. Rather, these pain clinics were an experiment with de-facto legalization of opioids for recreational use. Just like you used to be able to see certain doctors in California for a “medical” marijuana license under dubious pretenses (“I’m having trouble sleeping”), you could walk into a pain clinic and get legal opiates (“My back hurts no matter what I do”). It turns out that legalization of opiates is a disaster.
Even in the case of gmail, which is the best case, you can not be sure the person in control of the Google account is the same as the one that used that gmail address to create an account on your site. The person might have got their Google account hacked, they might have used a shared gmail account to sign up, your service might not have been properly verifying email addresses when they signed up, etc.

But yes, to be fair, if you have email-based password reset functionality, it is not really an additional security vulnerability.
They are occupying a brief period where sex work is white market enough to not be quite as dangerous or "disgraceful" as the old days, but not accepted or legal enough to be clobbered in competition by everyone else.

Feminism and their desire to legitimize sex work will be the death knell to high wages for sex workers, and eventually drive the sex workers asking for it to other occupations that suit their risk and profit appetite. ~50% of the population has a pussy and if it's seen as completely benign, legal, and normal to sell yourself the supply will go up 10 fold to the point it becomes a job every stay at home mom vies for while applying to be a transcriptionist or whatever else.
Telcos already keep this information and Google having it as well doesn't really change much. Both are going to sell it plus give it up to law enforcement when asked.
The legal aspect is not interesting to me. I am more interested in "What are you going to do with that IP?".

Citing legalese is not relevant here, we all know how the situation came to its current state, the real interesting question is how can things improve.
The pushback is because it suggests some uncomfortable possibilities...

Also wait until people find out the correlation between IQ and obesity (runs for cover)...
A year in, here's how Argentina has performed under its new president
The same probably happens with blurry small aircraft in the scene. It'll "upscale" (i.e. draw in) all kinds of objects with what it thinks is most likely from the context, from its training set.
Looks like the hosting site is not a big fan of the Hacker News Referral
Virsh does.
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I think there are a lot of cases where it _seems_ to be true, until you think through the details. Most cases where it actually _is_ true are, in practice, very low impact; the big proven one seems to be, essentially, generation of high-volume spam content.
I feel that will depend on what you prefer eating to some extent no?

I admit carbs, especially simple ones, can leave you hungry. But when you calorie count, you really start realizing how killer fats are. A slice of cheese, the oil or butter you cooked things in, a handful of nuts, it's crazy how much calories those have.

Fries for example, are so high calorie, because of all the fat in the batter and oil.
> On the other hand, lots of people hate taxes. Try not paying your taxes, and you'll end up in jail.

You seem to be making the argument that the law has a life of its own, which isn't entirely untrue, but case in point: While most people don't enjoy paying taxes, they do so because they understand it's necessary to have a functioning society they want to be part of. There are many legal ways to get around paying most or all of your taxes, but they're generally so costly to setup that they're only available to the very rich and to corporations, and most people morally judge this as a negative thing even though it's legal, they don't generally morally judge paying their taxes as a negative thing, but the avoidance as negative.

We do disagree, and it's not a question of semantics, it's a question of causality. You are essentially saying that the law and social mores have no causality relationship, I am saying the law comes from social mores, and the law does not influence them. The law is /subordinate/, which is why nobody really cares about it. Obviously "nobody" is intentionally overbroad, policy-makers, lawyers, and judges care quite a lot about the law, but the vast majority of the population (99%+) does not, they do however care very very deeply about social mores and cultural norms.
I suggest storing a "denormalized UTC time", a calculated column would work fine for that.

For automation: install the latest tz database (I use pytz for this, usually) and then run a batch job to see what's changed. Not trivial but not impossible either. Running events websites is hard!
The C.E.O.s Are Tripping. Can Psychedelics Help the C-Suite?
Not exactly what you asked for but if you are an emacs user, magit will make using git so much more pleasant. https://magit.vc/

Generally most IDEs will help you out with basic git tasks without even needing to know commands. There also dedicated GUIs for git.

Though for full time devs just learning how to use plain git isn't that hard. I very rarely have to look up git commands these days. You can limit yourself to the basic commands first.
Have you considered contributing to Tauri?
Everyone knows (2+2bird) times it’s complex birdy conjugate (2-2bird) == 8bird
In the future these systems will easily parse together all tax and government records that have leaked and be able to tell you about anyone in the world.
It was painful watching Ding Liren blunder the rook and realize what he had done.
I think you're going about it in the wrong direction. Instead of learning what each command does, try learning what operations are possible (eg: move the current branch-ref to another commit, transplant a bunch of commits from one commit to another, etc). You just associate the commands to those operations through repeated use - no forced learning necessary. Recollecting the command is just a manpage away even for rarely performed operations. That makes it easy to learn not just the subcommands, but complex flag combinations as well.

This method also lends well to problem solving. You don't look at a repo and immediately think 'what commands will I use?'. You start with the problem. Then you formulate a solution as a sequence of operations that you know. You may be able to solve a problem with more operations even if you know fewer operations. Finally, convert each operation into a command and execute them.

Even the pro-git book is structured this way.
Small professional rabbithole:

So I do GTM and work a lot with marketing websites for companies with long sales processes.

The company mentioned there, Supercreator, funnily has a CRM - which is not just some funky AI chatbot thingie, but a proper enterprise thing that people use when doing sales.

It looks like they're treating creators and the "agencies" (whatever that means) as what we would potentially call "SMBs", and sell this CRM thing to them to manage their "customers", which I assume are the fans or subscribers or whatever on the OF side of things.

This is insanely interesting to me. Look at the website - you have a "request a demo" section (which is super enterprise B2B), look at the menu, it's like an enterprise SaaS website.

What the actual fuck is going on here lol
I would recommend that you not.
I feel the main problem with email is that it isn't default-deny. When I set up a mailbox, no-one should be able to send me messages until I pre-approve the sender.
Growing coriander indoors with 300mW of light
I use StimulusJS
At 18, this is no small thing. Kasparov was 22, I don't see Gukesh's record being broken for a long while
Assistants/employees are being democratized. That's a good thing, because it levels the playing field.

In the end, you are vouching with your name. If you feel the suggestion is missing the mark, don't hit send. If the suggestion is missing the mark most of the time, the product is bad and will be shut down.
Thank you. Currently working on promo code functionality to give away to all the postings in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42297422
> That's the whole YouTube content creator business, and it's what it always has been.

I mean, no? That’s the most cynical possible read.

A lot of successful YouTube channels don’t even interact significantly in the comments. For example, in Doug DeMuro’s latest video, I don’t see any comments from his channel in the comments.

You’re also claiming that the YouTube content business is all about exploitation, tricking people into selling them junk. But that’s also a cynical read: lots of creators don’t go down that route.

Using Doug DeMuro as another example, the only recent advertisements he has are for his own car auction site and for Turo, which are both relevant and useful services to automotive enthusiasts.

Some other YouTubers just don’t advertise at all and mostly rely on Patreon, like Technology Connections.
> This is something of a newer phenomenon in the grander history of anime as an artform

It's hard to argue about 'a newer phenomenon' which is now closer to Astro Boy than our current time.

> most of the popular anime had their runtimes padded all to hell in order to continually cash in on the unpredictable zeitgeist popularity of their source material

You can't 'faithfully recreate shot-for-shot' an ongoing title, you would be out of the material way earlier than out of the runtime.

This is not even diving on the differences between the manga and the manga eiga.
For being the headline, they sure hid his age pretty well.

Not at the opening paragraph nor end of the article, nor photo captions near the top or bottom.

cmd+f "years" 0 results

cmd+f "age" 0 results

And scanning for numbers is useless since most of the article is chess moves written out.
The other day I got a question that sort of went:

I’m reaching out as I want to learn more about the database technology you’re using, and if you’re having any problems with it. Such as scalability, performance, data siloing, costs, etc. We’re curious to hear from software engineers working with production databases.
What I've learned – the hard way – about AI in bio
Yes!!! This happened to me also. It took me a day to get my account working on all devices again.
> Human: how to say bird in Chinese? AI: bird in Chinese.

Well, it knows how to be snarky!
yeah yeah yeah yeah.
New Lattice FPGAs and design software updates
Lol, it's funny you need a higher level language and choose... JSON.
Right, this is why I’m trying to tell you that you don’t understand how bankruptcy works with tech companies. The IP is an asset which is sold off to recoup money which goes toward the company’s debtors.

If you introduce a law like this, you effectively remove that IP from the company’s assets. Tech companies are valued largely by their IP.

No sane investor or startup will headquarter themselves in a country that has a law forcing their IP into public domain.

Investors won’t invest in and banks won’t loan companies to develop tech IP if there’s a law on the books that says they can’t sell that IP.

> The legal aspect is not interesting to me.

I can see that much. :)

The legal aspect is all important. Waving it away is ignoring the entire issue.

> the real interesting question is how can things improve.

The proposals so far would do nothing other than discourage development of new products in that country. Hardly an improvement.
Is Coolify That Cool?
i felt for ding, even though i was cheering for gukesh.

i was so sure it was going to go into tiebreaks.
Terrible time management from Ding Liren in the most critical game of the match, leading to a very simple blunder. Painful to witness.
Spoiler alert! I was planning to watch the recap without knowing the outcome, but I'm not that invested. Congratulations to the new champion.
> Why should medical advice only be given by practicing professionals?

Same reason people who aren’t lawyers shouldn’t be giving legal advice. A layperson isn’t equipped to know if the advice they’re giving is good or harmful.
Alternatively, at that performance level it doesn't make a difference, so better to save the $5....
Let your kids do a hardware autopsy/reverse engineer/disassembly on it. Can play medics or just see how it looks/works inside. Not $800 worth but better than tossing it.
Get Ready for 'Long Thinking,' AI's Next Leap Forward
It was. But he had 9 minutes vs more than an hour for Gukesh. The entire match has been Ding defending miraculously, I thought it was a matter of time before he eventually failed. The fact that it happened on the last moves of the last game, it's definitely hard for Ding, but fair for Gukesh IMO.
>It can't be a hardware specific feature.

It is.
No, waiting for "AI" to be more than super-niche useful. I am saying that way too much money has been poured in for the fairly underwhelming results that we get.
There’s something weird about naming Trump person of the year this year. It’s close to the end of the year, but I’d almost wonder if Luigi Mangione would be a better person of the year,

Which leads me to my point which is it feels Trump leadership is waning. That the people carrying the torch for MAGA like Musk or JD Vance or Vivek feel more significant than Trump himself.

We’re not quite there yet, which is probably why Trump gets person of the year, but I wonder if every year after this Trump’s presence will wane and wane as Game of Thrones plays out for the MAGA crown.

Alternatively, MAGA doesn’t survive Trump and his influence grows upon his death, but that probably assumes he does well over the next few years and dies at the height of his influence. I think Trump has already reached mythical status, I don’t really think any failures will be blamed on Trump himself which leads to that thought that maybe I’m wrong and his influence grows even into old age and death, and it’s the influence of the inheritance that wanes.
Oasis Security Research Team Discovers Microsoft Azure MFA Bypass
FWIW, my previous company is on that list — they provide telephony services as part of a CRM product (making robocalls via the product would be very difficult, and very noticeable given the scale).

The only reason they are in the Robocall Mitigation database at all is because they briefly tried out a telephony provider years ago who required registering as part of their setup process.

They now use a vendor who handles robocall mitigation and registration in the database for them. Anecdotal, but it’s certainly possible that many companies on this list aren’t actually facilitating robocalls (though obviously, given the number of calls I get, many are).
> Ah yes, chess, the game where people love to remember sequences.

You can remember openings. From the middle game, you have to "play".
Like the sibling comment mentioned, what you're looking for is fossil [0].

Fossil was created by Richard Hipp, who's also the creator of SQLite.

Fossil as a version management system gets completely out of the way.

In all the years over used Fossil, I've rarely had to use more than a few commands and have never had to understand any underlying concepts, let alone trying to figure out how to use the commands.

Additionally, fossil also comes with a wiki and a bug tracker, which is a bonus.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/
I can't read this article as it is behind a paywall. Please post an archived version or something.
Every system can be placed on a spectrum. One end of this spectrum is perfect efficiency. The other end is perfect resilience.
We use liquibase for these purposes, but I welcome any tool that has people take their versioning and historical artifacts seriously!
Apparently poor time management throughout the match, though I didn't see every game. It sounds like he was lucky to survive 6-6.
Well at least where I live, the obvious exception to "don't pickup unknown numbers" rule is shipping services. Some of my online orders will arrive by courier and their drivers will call me when they arrive near my flat so I go out and pick my package. Completely unknown random numbers although companies do have the option to associate phone numbers with caller ID so I can see it's a delivery service. But by some reason (cost, convenience, no idea), they don't.

I can usually infer from the fact that I made an online order, sometimes they'll send me an SMS prior to sending but not always. Anyhow I did have my share of picking spam calls because of the necessity to ignore the "no unknowns" rule while expecting a package.

Overall I don't get that many calls yet that I'd have to configure the phone to reject ALL numbers not in the phone book. But call spam is definitely increasing, along with plain scam. I almost got my card stolen by a post office spoofing scam. And recently my bank cancelled my card and had to get a new one after someone from US tried to buy jewelry with it (I live in Romania) - probably leaked from one of the many online services I pay for. Now I switched to single-one-time-use cards from Revolut for all non-recurring payments, unfortunately it's too much of a hassle to do so for recurring ones. And with increasing security vulnerabilities my only protection is separate bank accounts and keeping only small amounts of money on the account linked to the debit card. No credit, only debit.
Not totally but I have noticed some glaring inconsistencies
https://archive.is/wTsFh

'Get Ready for ‘Long Thinking,’ AI’s Next Leap Forward.
A new generation of AI models will take its time to reason, providing more reliable answers to increasingly complex questions

By Steven Rosenbush

Nvidia’s chief executive made a passing reference late in the company’s most recent earnings call that deserves much more attention than it got—even if it was understandably overshadowed by $35.1 billion in quarterly revenue, driven 94% higher by customers’ ravenous demand for AI chips.

“We’re in the beginnings of this generative AI revolution as we all know,” Jensen Huang said on the call. “And we’re at the beginning of a new generation of foundation models that are able to do reasoning and able to do long thinking.”

“Long thinking” didn’t make it into the zeitgeist when OpenAI’s ChatGPT first stunned the world two years ago with rapid replies to questions about almost anything. But it has the potential to reduce or eliminate the errors that frequently peppered those responses.

The idea is just what it sounds like, at least at the highest level: Long-thinking AI models are designed to take more time to “think over” the results they generate for us. They will be intelligent enough to give us updates on their progress and ask us for feedback along the way.

That can mean spending a few more seconds on a problem—or much, much longer, as Huang indicated in another telling remark last June.

“In many cases, as you know, we’re now working on artificial intelligence applications that run for 100 days,” he said at the Computex trade show in Taipei.

As the models’ reasoning ability develops, AI is expected to evolve far beyond the current tech that works on our behalf in customer service or automation, or the even more sophisticated agents that are just beginning to appear.'

...
What a match! It was sad to see the blunder by Ding. Reminded me of Nepo dropping pieces in the tie-break last time. But its a great sportmanship by Ding as he said its a fair outcome given all the games they have played.
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The FBI, NSA, and all other civilian agencies must follow FAA regulations but legally speaking the military doesn't. The military operates aircraft in domestic airspace under a memorandum of understanding with the FAA which basically states that they'll follow the regulations. This makes things easier for everyone and prevents mishaps. But if the military chooses to violate that agreement then there aren't really any enforceable legal consequences.
And now we have Elon Musk and the rest of the billionaire cabal that were behind Trump.