skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When my team organizes calls or onsite mtgs with vendors, they always tell them to remove the first 10 slides because we are not interested in why security matters, how it changed over the last 20 years and how great the company is.

They repeat this a few times so that it is clear.

Least week I had a meeting which started with the above, I asked if they knew what we asked, they said yes but they this is very important.

So I stayed, and when the ended the 15 slides with the hi
If this submission has put you into a mindset of wanting to know more about colormaps, here's a good video about how Matplotlib ended up having `vividris` as its default colormap:

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
The Proxmox ARM port works fine. I’ve been using it for over a year now: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/01/20/1800
It must suck to be someone who - given any sign of good progress - assumes the inevitability of defeat.

Some of these attempts to build better & establish a reasonableness may survive. Even if the current ruling party at present looks like abusive plutocratic antagonists, it doesn't mean they'll fully dismember every win, and it doesn't mean we wouldn't build back an anti anti-social economics again even if they do regress us.
Secrets Leak in CI/CD Pipelines
> We had our non-profit website drained out of bandwidth

There is a number of sites which are having issues with scrapers (AI and others) generating so much traffic that transit providers are informing them that their fees will go up with the next contract renewal, if the traffic is not reduced. It's just very hard for the individual sites to do much about it, as most of the traffic stems from AWS, GCP or Azure IP ranges.

It is a problem and the AI companies do not care.
All the properties that survived in those LA neighborhoods all had some pretty basic and intentional fire resistance

I’m curious about how many others did that burned down too

But so far the ones highlighted had super obvious mitigations that its astounding to see were not more common
My 17 year old account was suspended because ...

I won't ever spend a dime on X. Can't risk it.
The article (towards its end) discusses a serious bug in the INVLPG instruction of the Intel Gracemont processor cores (which are the E-cores used in Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, Raptor Lake Refresh, Alder Lake N, Amston Lake, Twin Lake), which fails to invalidate all the entries that it should invalidate, in certain circumstances.
This thing bloomed here some 10 years ago. In one case one of "hunters" was exposed as an actual pedo, in another the "team" framed a mentally ill guy who barely had idea what happens around him. There's even a tv show with over 200 episodes covering actions of one guy.

Lawyers question the legality of such an actions, as well as the fact that the "hunters" do not comply with their obligation to immediately notify the police of the possibility of an actual crime - they drag out the contact so that they can catch the alleged perpetrator in the light of the cameras.
Random access is arbitrary access, given enough time. You can try over and over again until you get lucky.

Imagine I'm a user with local shell access trying to read a secret owned by root. Maybe I can't read the secret, but I can do something which makes another program read the secret. If I can make that program swap (perhaps by wasting a bunch of RAM to create memory pressure), and swapping has some probability of triggering a TLB invalidation bug that lets me see the old page, I win, although it might take awhile.
Idk much about other industries what would this logic look like in aviation or pharma?
Yes, and that was all the experimental program did. No humans on board, no payloads, no orbit, not even suborbital as they stayed close to the ground.

The Falcon 9 puts humans into orbit then turns around and lands not far from the launch tower. It's then brought in for maintenance and a few weeks later launching again - some of them have done 20 flights.
Kids make do at good public schools. Source: went to one of them.
I can’t believe they named it after Devin Franco - guess it can take a lot of load!
> Florida was obliterated in 2024

That’s an huge exaggeration. FL was not obliterated in 2024.

Stats:

Total storms 18

Hurricanes 11

Major hurricanes (Cat. 3+) 5

Total fatalities 401

Total damage $128.072 billion

(Third-costliest tropical cyclone season on record)
Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
Let's play the blame game, I love you more
Let's play the blame game for sure
If people are being paid to copy and run random code, more power to them. I wouldn't have dreamt of getting a programming job until I was literate.
Yeah. It's definitely a fail rather than a win.

insert angry react
I used to be fascinated about computers, but then I understood that being a professional meeting attender pays more for less effort.
I don't put much stock in predictions about 100 years into the future.
Our workload took nearly 18 minutes to cross-compile on their AMD64 runners. It builds on the AArch64 runners in 4 minutes. (Whole container I mean)
Once again, glad to be European (covered by GDPR, everywhere). It's funny and sad at the same time, to see Americans be happy with this yellow card when it should definitely be a red one.

How do you tolerate this?
As in the old programmer/analyst distinction? Can’t see that coming back; it went out in the first place because it was hideously inefficient.
While having above ground power lines

While having unmanaged accumulated flammable brush

While having an empty reservoir under repair

While having the public water source unable to maintain water pressure for multiple hydrant usage

While having too few fire fighters dispatched in the area anyway

While having houses made out of wood

is it an ignorant take when the houses not made out of wood with their own watersource were able to withstand 100mph wind gusts and firestorm? it really really makes everyone else look ignorant
There used to be an abundance of coupons e.g. for 2 or 3 small burgers at an actually nice price.

Currently all coupons at or below 10 PLN are coffee, and not even cappuccino or flat white - but the "kawa czarna" or "kawa z mlekiem" which is watered down.
I'm currently 37, I hope it doesn't start to get worse again anytime soon. I never used glasses regularly, btw. Always had the impression that would weaken my eyes long-term.
I think it can be subdivided into value creators and value movers.

A comedian, doctor, farmer, or teacher creates value. They directly produce something that benefits other humans.

The financial sector, marketing, sales, real-estate conglomerates, etc I see as value movers. They don't actually create something themselves, but rather move it from someplace else to themselves, thereby forcing others to play the same game not to get outcompeted. It's pretty hard to argue marketing or hedge funds aren't a zero-sum game.
my understanding is for things like eCall that the phone only gets activated when it's actually needed (i.e: an emergency), but never found a check/analysis of this on cars (though i only looked for 2 mins when i checked)
Chinese hackers accessed Yellen's computer in US Treasury breach
It was only a week or so ago that I learned that a major failure mode of most houses in Florida during Hurricane season used to be the roofs ripping off. The tie plates and straps that were invented to solve that problem created the McMansion as a side effect.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIeLGkSCMA
Cursor Is Anthropic's Largest Customer (and Maxing Out Their GPUs)
Should they?

You could do the maths on conversion rate increase if that latency disappeared vs the cost of spinning up a dc & running it (including the mess that is localised dbs)

I’m not sure the economics works out for most businesses (I say this as an Australian)
This link you are sharing is an example of low quality journalism or propaganda - whatever you want to call it.

I'll give you some context - in 1948 Egypt declared war on Israel, which ended with a cease fire in 1949. From this context, it should become obvious that Israeli espionage operations in Egypt in early 1950s are warranted.

Even Avi Shlaim referenced in your article admits that it was mainly Arab nationalists who were driving the Jews out. These reactions are very similar to modern day shootings at Jewish schools in Canada or airport pogrom in Dagestan - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67258332

Pro-Palestinian crowd is unable to admit that they have imperfections and blames all these events on Israel / Zionists as well (I read a lot of forums from both sides). A common reference is "they made us do it" / "it was a Zionist school / plane". Drawing parallels between today and 1950s, it becomes very clear that it's old propaganda playbook trick. I would go even further and say it's a millenia-old antisemitism, where people would blame everything on Jews / witches / etc.

Now, back to the article you shared - "undeniable proof" - is an interview of a 89-year old man, who did not even hold the leadership role in an underground Jewish cell and did not claim first-hand participation in any of the events. More so, his interview is full of contradictory statements, including dates and attributions of who did what - I encourage you to do more research on that.

So on one hand, you have this "undeniable proof", and on the other hand you have many well documented actions of Arab nationalists and Iraqi government. And you choose to believe (even contradictory to Avi Shlaim) that it's all Zionists.

Next, thinking logically, there was no need for Mossad to do false flag operations, because there were enough actions by Arab nationalists and before 1950 there was a policy in place by Iraqi government banning Jews from emigrating to Israel - like if Jews didn't want to emigrate, why would they ban this? Once they lifted the policy, everybody left. This is very similar to USSR where millions of Jews left in early 1990s after the fall of the USSR. Probably propagandists will soon be explaining that this was Mossad false flag operations or some other Zionist tricks - I wouldn't be surprised.
The ISS is in the front of every plane and behind it every 90 minutes.
The Family Bass - Music with an NES
What collapsed was the newly rebuilt part of the porch, not the old one built to those codes. It has nothing to do with insufficient building codes, hence a corruption scandal.
from this thread "Mandatory CR is mostly a way for mediocre programmers to feel like they're contributing IMHO."
> I believe the test if(!num_lines) is unnecessary, because reallocating a NULL pointer is equivalent to malloc().

I thought that this behaviour was deprecated in C23, but according to cop reference it is still there[0].

An I thinking of realloc with 0 size or was this actually a thing that was discussed?

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/realloc
Cost Attribution in Cloud
Astra drifted on the launch pad before taking off lol
What would be examples of sticks in this scenario? Forced pregnancy and birth?
Where do Methalox-powered vehicles lie in this hierarchy?

And if the Starship is not under power yet falling and using the flaperons for control, is that considered "under sail" for purposes of right of way?
I definitely understand what you are saying here, and it makes sense. But concrete is quite common in Europe these days, which I suspect would also be a good option for earthquake zones.
This is a great tool, effective and fast enough. For faster and more exhaustive results I use https://ip-ninja.com/ which is not free of charge but still a bargain
> Some cars like a Teslas have very normal cameras filming interior.

Wow is this real?
I generate summaries and custom digests for my feeds— https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/01/12/1730#daily-news-d...

Might take a stab at ranking them as well.
Nat Gateway – How to Reduce Data Transfer Expenses
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Yes, I'm advocating people pay appropriately for risk. The issue is with high risk, insurers pad profits to compensate for excessive risk or leave the market with no option other than some last resort insurers. Having government step in with regulation around profits over time keeps the rates in check. You can have a Lloyd's of London, but they need to have open audited books. Otherwise you can have a not for profit, ie government entity run the book.
> This did not happen when we were inventing cars, trains and air planes.

Cars are small, and they still go up in flames routinely all on their own (for older cars, aged fuel lines rupturing is a top cause, for newer cars shit with the turbocharger), it just doesn't make more news than a line in the local advertisement rag because usually all it needs is five minutes work for a firefighter truck.

Trains had quite the deadly period until it was figured out how to deal with steam safely - and yet, in Germany we had the last explosion of a steam train in 1977, killing nine people [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesselzerknall_in_Bitterfeld
It's also very hard to compare pharaonic Egypt to a modern society since most people were agricultural labourers. You did have not that many people (lets say 3M which was a lot by ancient standards), and of the elite who actually could use capital and talent were really, really scarce. Literacy rates were maybe 1%-15%?

Think what a modern country would look like with 3M people of which 150K can read. It would not be pretty and Egypt was probably worse. Of course if you can control thousands of people you always have some capabilities which is the reason why we adore their art to this day. But I think one should think "North Korea" what pharaonic egypt likely was like rather than "pinnacle of imaginable civilization". This is not to put down the achievements of the egyptian civilization, but like pointed out, they had lots of time.

Most people anywhere (except the pastoralists ofc) were agricultural labourers before modern farming kicked in.
I got an Xbox 360 strictly because I wanted to play Guitar Hero. To me, home consoles are like PC, but worse, but more convenient for a non-technical user.
For the first year I had a policy similar to what farmers use for ag land, then it got cancelled and I was uninsured, which wasn’t ideal.

I sold the house after a while, it was an interesting experiment in cheap living but ultimately it wasn’t great.

Annoyingly I couldn’t insure it because it was thatched, and I couldn’t change the roof because of heritage. The Irish government has screwed over thatch owners brutally.
Oh and it can do all kind of stuff like reverse IP, geoloc, ASN lookup, etc
That's already the case if you call compilers/interpreters "AI". Just a new higher level abstraction for code.
I’m not positive… I would imagine you’d need to transfer ownership. Like if I have an iOS app under my personal dev account then start an LLC and someone sues me for whatever reason, I think it would be hard to argue the LLC actually owns the app, but IANAL. You can generally sign up for most of these services as a team or business but I’m not familiar with firebase. It being Google though I’d assume they support business accounts
To be fair we are talking about an area of the country that is prone to seismic activity, it does limit the building materials.

Perhaps what should be more commonly accepted is that the US is a land of great natural beauty! And large tracts of it should be left to nature.

What's the average monthly leccy bill in Phoenix during the summer? $400?

Where does LA get most of its water? Local sources? I don't think that's the case.

New Orleans is a future Atlantis.

San Francisco is a city built by Monty Python. Don't build it there it'll fall down, but I built it anyway, and it fell down, so I built it again...
Is Google Blocking SEO Rank Checking Tools as Search Volatility Continues
The pressures that men face to be "successful" are immense and
corrosive. From birth, they get all the wrong signals.

I'm sad to see the Guardian run such an unabashed straight-up mocking
character assassination, It's not great journalism is it? No depth or
analysis.

Where's the psychology? Where's the humanity?

Sure, the broligarchs are awful specimens, but maybe it's better to
ask why the likes of Musk and Zuck are so insecure and so misguided
in their ideas about what makes a good man.
1) yes the burden of proof is shifted, but if the recourse is relatively simple administrative appeal (showing a source of income, a history of savings, a chain of withdrawals, to explain why you have $300,000 in small bills in your trunk) vs hiring a defender and a trial, that's seems like a reasonable trade off.

The history of civil forfeiture in maritime law suggests it arose when you captured a pirate of smuggling vessel. They are loaded with stolen or illegal merchandise. The owner of the vessel is in France. You seize it and send a letter to him saying "hey, if this is yours, come get it and tell us why you have it legally. Otherwise it's ours."

2. Lots of things facilitate corruption. This might be one of them, but even if we eliminated it, corruption isn't likely to go away (it is not the unique driver of corruption). Moreover, it may not be even a particularly significant driver of corruption in general (there may be specific cases where it is) - so removing it wouldn't impact all the forces that generate corruption. So removing it would have little or no impact.

That said, if the perception is that it is a corrupting force, it would be useful to make changes to make it seem less so: have all proceeds go to FEMA, for example, instead of back to the departments. Or specify how the recovered moneys can be spent - on buildings but not salaries - like jail improvements- so specific people cannot uniquely benefit.

And if corruption is the problem generally, addressing it directly is likely to be more effective than eliminating civil forfeiture and letting corruption go unchecked otherwise.
That was a big source of contention, but admittedly there was plenty of skunkworks going around internally to experiment with the officially forbidden material.

I was probably one of the first people to ever possess[ß] a Nokia device running Linux. A research unit in US wrote a library to interface with the baseband modem and provided the whole thing as a single, mostly-statically linked binary that could be used for phonecall functionality. A skunkworks team in Finland wrote a bootloader for N95 to use a Linux kernel. And an ex team member helped put together the initial Debian-based userland.

I wrote the wrapper library that under the hood ran the baseband binary, exposing a sane state machine you could then rely on from "regular" userspace. And I wrote the first, really rough contact book to make/receive calls from the prototype UI. The UI was built with a very early version of libflutter, a GL-based widget library. We built our own layer on top of it.

The prototype became known as the "Flower Phone", thanks to its default background screen. A few months after the device having been showed off our team was provided with about a dozen bright orange[0] N95 devices that ran Linux, booted off of a userspace we had built, and came with our prototype UI. We used them for on-device debugging and developing the UI layer further. Making real calls with them was a core piece of functionality.

From what I understand, the phone functionality in N900 became a reality thanks to that little project.

ß: wasn't mine, it firmly remained property of Nokia. But I used it for experimentation and making real calls.

0: the colour was used to signal the devices were prototypes.
No, a real engineer goes on SO to understand. A junior goes on SO to copy and paste. If your answer is "I don't know I just copied" you're not doing any engineering and it's awful to pretend you are. Our job is literally about asking "why" and "how" until we don't need to anymore because our pattern matching skills allow us to generalize.

At this point in my career I rarely ever go to SO, and when I do it's because of some obscure thing that 7 other people came across and decided to post a question about. Or to look up "how to do the most basic shit in language I am not familiar with", but that role was taken over by LLMs.
Unclear.

There was hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn but that focused on whether it was unauthorized access under the CFAA.

In X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd., a quick skim suggests ExTwitter's ToS lost because (A) it wasn't really the owner of the content and (B) they couldn't easily show harm.

IANAL again, but for personal blog, (A) is unlikely to apply, and (B) could be shown if ArtTheft Inc. starts causing legal fees by threatening the blogger for exercising the re-licensing in the ToS.
The original post was really just a troll's rant.
I have been feeling LLM burnout and favoring code it all my self after a year of LLM assistance. When it gets things wrong it is too annoying. Like, I would get mad and start to curse it, shouting loud and in the chat.
Some systems need to boot without a (trusted or skilled) user present.
> Now, almost all have come from privileged backgrounds, went to Ivy League institutions, live in gated communities, are completely detached from the reality of what the average American knows about the law, and certainly aren't going to be taken advantage of by the cops. It's no surprise we've seen such an assault on our constitutional rights: they don't understand what life is like outside the ivory tower.

In Brazil we have a problem with the Judiciary too, most of it is completely detached from reality, due to these exact same reasons.
It's simple to start but quite hard to master actually. It has plenty of counterintuitive concepts that even an experienced developer can get wrong and result in ruinous expenses or catastrophic security issues.

Especially on Firestore. For example, the access rules that you define on your properties are not filters(they are rules on what you can ask the system to do) even if they look like filters at first glance and the way it accessing data is billed is based on what has had to be processed to return the results and not on what the actual results were returned. This makes it very easy to create very expensive and compromised apps if you slip.

Also, unlike more traditional system, doesn't produce smoke so it passes all the smell tests and you learn about your mistakes once things go very bad.
A significant portion of human structures are located close to the coast (seaborne trade having been a huge enabler of economic development for a few hundred years) and are exposed to flooding from rising sea levels, or built in valleys that are increasingly at risk from flooding due to far-above-long-term-historic-norms precipitation runoff (higher atmospheric temps lead to more energy in weather systems; see eg massive floods in Europe in the past few years).
Seems like having the ocean at your door would be bad for the structure? Or burning down in a hot dry period…
Thank you, @meiraleal! The reception here is pretty brutal but expected, especially around CSS. Engineers consistently dismiss its power, no matter how it's presented. However, for those of us who work with design systems, the value is self-evident.
The principle of the software seems to be that the original data is never altered. It is a postgres extension that "masks" the data for certain postgres users. You can always connect as the root user and see everything when you need to.