skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always heard that "security through obscurity" is discouraged because, well, there's no stopping someone from digging in and figuring it out. However in this case it seems somewhat successful in that the author was not able to decrypt the packets directly.

The article says that "while it might seem feasible to reimplement these functions in Python without running the client, several factors make this approach impractical" and then lists some reasons like the lookup tables changing, chunk layouts getting shuffled, etc.

Is that all it takes to thwart decrypting the packets? Even though, presumably, you have access to all those lookup tables and chunk layouts somewhere in the client? Is it just too much effort to piece together how it works? I'd be curious to hear more specifics on how exactly Riot was able to make reverse engineering this so impractical.

Great article!
Sequoia in Talks to Lead Mercury Funding at over $3B Valuation
https://archive.is/d7lzc
What if our existing solar panels are optimized to detect these? Then will it improve the quality of solar panels to capture more energy from sunlight as well? Sorry, I'm no expert in this - asking more of a curiosity.
6% error on that pie chart. Pretty proud of myself ;)
This guy used that paper to create a new hash table which is much faster at high load that current implementations:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-yea...
I haven't had many, so I do have a touch screen. But I've tried the rotary input on a rental 2 series that had a dial but no touch screen, and I had to use the GPS.
I agree, but that is removing the nuance that in this specific case Y is a prerequisite of X so focusing solely on X is a mistake.

And for sake of clarity:

X = sentient AI can do something dangerous

Y = humans can use non-sentient AI to do something dangerous
Meta is winning over Wall Street while the rest of Big Tech struggles
> it has literally zero incentive to be cheap

Do private utilities have any incentive to be cheap?

The reason we have utility regulations in the first place is because utilities are natural monopolies with literally zero incentive to be cheap. On the contrary, they are highly incentivized to push up prices as much as possible because they have their customers over a barrel.
When I read articles like "What Are Tariffs and How Do They Work?", I can't help but feel that they are written in overly complicated and abstract language. For this kind of website, it might be a good idea to strive for Simple English.

Compare:

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-are-tariffs-and-how-do-th...

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff
>Longer distance and penetration is not always an advantage

Exactly. When I was running WiFi for PyCon, I kept the radios lower (on tables) and the power levels at the lower end (especially for 2.4GHz, which a lot of devices still were limited to at the time). Human bodies do a good job of limiting the cell size and interference between adjacent APs in that model. I could count on at least a couple people every conference to track me down and tell me I needed to increase the power on the APs. ;-)
None of us are freeloaders. We all pay taxes and consume our own unique constellation of public resources. It's good that we're all different, concentration rarely ends well.
The presidents authority to act is legally disputed. It would take a brave underling to say no, but senior staff would gave known how to push back. Still.. it feels like a very low process.

"The president said so" stamp on a sheet of paper?
> There will be no development.

My point is that maybe it is okay? Runaway churn is at least partially responsible for current situation, where most companies simply unable to compete.
I think it is extremely unlikely we are going to be able to convince every interested party that they should give up the golden goose for the sake of possible calamity. I think there are risks here, not trying to minimize that, but the coordination problem becomes untenable when the risks/benefits are so large.

It is essentially the same problem as the atom bomb: it would have been better if we all agreed not to do it, but thats just not possible. Why should China trust the US or vice versa? Who wants to live in a world where your competitors have world-changing technology but you don't? But here we have a technology with immense militaristic and economic value, so the everyone-wants-it problem is even more pronounced.

I don't _like_ this, I just don't see how we can achieve an AI moratorium outside of bombing the data centers (which I also don't think is a good idea).

We need to choose the policy with the best distribution of possible outcomes:

- The US leads an effort to stop AI development: too much risk that other parties do it anyway

- The US continues to lead AI development: hope that P(takeoff) is low and that the good intentions of some US labs are able to achieve safe development

I prefer the latter -- this is far from the best hypothetical outcome, but I think it is the best we can do when constrained by reality.
> The AI's goals are what are determined by its human masters.

Imagine going to a cryptography conference and saying that "the encryption's security flaws are determined by their human masters".

Maybe some of them were put there on purpose? But not the majority of them.

No, an AI's goals are determined by their programming, and that may or may not align with the intentions of their human masters. How to specify and test this remains a major open question, so it cannot simply be presumed.
I was on the fence whether to add "...and not in a coffin" to that last paragraph.
It's just my experience. Microsoft wants you to use SQL Server for everything.

If you start thinking in Domain-Driven Design terms, you realize the technology should be dictated by the business models. In many (if not most) cases, a document database is more than sufficient for most bounded contexts and its services, events, commands, and data.

Spinning up a relational database, managing schema changes, and tuning indexes is a constant drag on productivity.

If Microsoft wanted to compete with DynamoDB or MongoDB, they'd make the Cosmos document database a first line service in Azure. But you have to first spin up Cosmos and then identify a type of data storage. There is no technical reason for this setup other than to lump various non-relational data storage types into one service and create confusion and complexity.

I've done bake-offs between Microsoft and AWS and when I talk about a standard serverless architecture, the MS people are usually confused and respond, "What do you mean?" and the AWS folks are "Cool, so Lambdas and DynamoDB. We have 17 sample solutions for you."

I'm not saying you can't do serverless in Azure. I'm saying the support and advocacy is not there.
What isn't great..
From the Colorado DMV's website: https://dmv.colorado.gov/documents

"The information here covers identification and lawful presence requirements for Coloradans seeking a driver license, ID card or instruction permit... Per C.R.S. 42-2-107 and 42-2-302, applications for credentials must contain a fingerprint."

CRS 42-2-107 concerns applications for driver's licenses and learner's permits, and CRS 42-2-302 concerns issuance of driver's licenses and non-driving identification cards.

My friends who were already in the state prior to 2017 never needed to get their prints taken to keep renewing their licenses. But since I moved here in 2019, I needed to provide mine, as do any teenagers getting their permits or licenses for the first time here.
Shopify says fraud risk, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye store takedown
> on being teleported to the 1950s?

That’s not the argument. At all. I argued we should rethink our attitude of unfettered consumption so we don’t continue on an path which is provably leading to destruction and death, and your take is going back in time to nuclear war and overt racism. That is frankly insane. I’m not fetishising “the old days”, I’m saying this attitude of “more more more” does not automatically translate to “better”.
> For the same reason that men's singleness is ascribed to them being horrible people who deserve their lot in life, while women being single is an empowered choice.

Which is? Genuinely asking because I have no idea what that reason is and I’m not sure if this is just a case of me being clueless—always an option—or cultural differences.
Maybe the concepts surrounding Frank Herbert's "Butlerian Jihad" are actually true?

"The series explains that humanity had become entirely complacent and dependent upon thinking machines; recognizing this weakness, a group of ambitious, militant humans calling themselves the Titans use this widespread reliance on machine intelligence to seize control of the entire universe. Their reign lasts for a century; eventually they give too much access and power to the AI program Omnius, which usurps control from the Titans themselves. Seeing no value in human life, the thinking machines—now including armies of robot soldiers and other aggressive machines—dominate and enslave nearly all of humanity in the universe for 900 years, until a jihad is ignited. This crusade against the machines lasts for almost a century, with much loss of human life but ultimately ending in human victory."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...
I assume Speedtest servers, as they wouldn't have a way to get measurements for individual cell towers at scale.

(at least, I don't recall being able to get that sort of info from iOS APIs, nor have I ever seen data that would have required being derived that way)
> is about 120% faster or a bit over 2 times in single threaded applications

1. Doesn't that also account for speedups in memory and I/O?

2. Even if the app is single-threaded, the OS isn't, so unless it's very very inactive other than the foreground application (which is possible), there might still be an effect of the higher core count.
When you rebase your feat branch on top of latest main, all commits in your feat branch are YOUR commits. Each of those commits change something relative to main. Unless your are committing against yourself. So if you are confusing yourself (which should be rare because --I repeat-- all commits in your feat branch are your own commits) you have a good opportunity to clean up your own mess with git rebase -i.
I don't think I have implied that. I have said that there's no functionality to download and keep files on device, which is true, because you cannot trust the device will not delete your files without your permission (or even without warning you first). But I'm not a native speaker so I could have been misunderstood.
From lawyers I’ve talked to the Supreme Court has give the House wide lattitude on what it considers impeachable behavior.

From Wikipedia:

Defendants challenged the use of these committees, claiming them to be a violation of their fair trial rights as this did not meet the constitutional requirement for their cases to be "tried by the Senate". Several impeached judges, including District Court Judge Walter Nixon, sought court intervention in their impeachment proceedings on these grounds. In Nixon v. United States (1993),[18] the Supreme Court determined that the federal judiciary could not review such proceedings, as matters related to impeachment trials are political questions and could not be resolved in the courts.[19]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/sec...
In that case you’d probably want to change your local config away from the default.

But this is all very silly, I mean, of course there are workflows that aren’t assisted by terminal multiplexers. I’ve heard rumors of jobs out there that don’t even use computers. Adding one more job to the pile that doesn’t need the tool doesn’t say anything about the cases where it does come in handy.
I just hope they keep the fixed-price monthly subscriptions over a pay-as-you-go or some kind of "billable hours" type of model.
Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years
Isn't this the opposite? If you want competition then you need something like the WTO as a mechanism to prevent countries from putting up trade barriers etc.

If some countries want to collaborate on some CERN project they just... do that.
> I think calling this art is a stretch, as they usually aren’t the author.

I can't even remotely agree.

Narrating a book is absolutely an art. Listen to a book narrated by Stephen Fry, and all other books will sound awful. Considerable care and craft goes into a well-read book.

But this is why I'm actually excited about good TTS tools. Not because I want to displace Stephen Fry, but because there are so many books read by awful narrators and something like ElevenReader would be a huge step up in quality.

I share the parent commenter's concerns about the displacement of artists, but I'm less convinced that TTS tools are a net negative.
A useful counterexample is all the people who predicted doomsday scenarios with the advent of nuclear weapons.

Just because it has not come to pass yet does not mean they were wrong. We have come close to nuclear annihilation several times. We may yet, with or without AI.
One person's heretic is another person's saint.

Besides, the Pope is just a politician, also chosen by an Electoral College. Catholics are just as welcome to disagree with their Pope as Americans disagree with their President.
I personally like the notion of a common public infrastructure that subleases access. We already sort of do that with mobile carriers where the big 3 provide all access and all the other "carriers" (like google fi) are simply leasing access.

Make it easy for a new wireless company to spawn while maintaining the infrastructure everyone needs.
You’re talking about this as if there aren’t other countries who actively infiltrate power infrastructure and for whom this is the most low risk mild attack (if you can call it that)

I’m not speaking theoretically, which I suspect most on this thread are.
I can think of at least five reasons to use this that aren't illegal, including the fact that the law doesn't work the way this person thinks it does.

The way he phrased it has turned me from someone eager to discuss the potential uses of this into someone unwilling to engage with him to discuss it any further. Even if it turns out that he's absolutely 100% correct (he's not) I'll talk to someone else about it instead.

I suspect this person regularly has "conversations" where the other party suddenly becomes silent, and he misinterprets that as a "victory" instead of the other person deciding he isn't worth the trouble.
Title Edit: 4G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
Mazda seems to be doing pretty well selling SUVs in the US though with growing sales and its highest US market share since 1990.

https://www.automotivedive.com/news/mazda-boosts-us-market-s...
JSON string of base64 encoded protocol buffer...you don't need to know what company did that to know what company did that.
How many of those companies are profitable? How many do you think you will see a blog post about in a year or two - “Our Amazing Journey” where they won’t either go out of business or get acquired and their product gets shut down”?

From Kagi’s website

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#:~:te...

We are currently serving around 2.1M queries a month, costing us around $26,250 USD/month.

Between Kagi and Orion, we are currently generating around $26,500 USD in monthly recurring revenue, which incidentally about exactly covers our current API and infrastructure costs.

That means that salaries and all other operating costs (order of magnitude of $100K USD/month) remain a challenge and are still paid out of the founders’ pocket (Kagi remains completely bootstrapped).
Japan used to be known as the one nation in the world where old people were fans of bran new tech.

However, today it would seem that's because that generation lived through the great changes Japan experienced. Extremely quickly going from a pre-industrial civilization, to a post-industrial one.

And so despite Japan's great traditionally intense conservatism, they were fans of technological innovation.

With that generation fading away, it seems Japan is returning to being hyper conservative in every way. And falling behind technologically.

The story of Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED, is interesting. The company founder supported his experimentation, but the next generation, the son of the founder, wanted to Shuji Nakamura to stop.

Faith in innovation vs pessimism.
I believe the idea is that you shouldn't have a corporation provide the utility if there's only going to be one.

"public utility" implies it's owned by the public not a profit seeking group of shareholders.
I just use an array and implode it into a string. Then can both add and remove things.
Just run a thought experiment

1. Job posted, anyone can apply

2. Candidate applies and interviews, team likes them and wants to move forward

3. Team not allowed to offer because candidate is not diverse enough

4. Team goes and interviews a diverse person.

Now if we offer the person of color a job, the first person was discriminated against because they would have got the job if they had had the right skin color.

If we don’t offer the diverse person a job, then the whole thing was purely performative because the only other outcome was discrimination.

This is how it works at my company.
Go read Title VII of the civil rights act, this is expressly against both the letter and spirit of the law.

BTW calling everything you disagree with racism doesn’t work anymore, nobody cares if you think he campaigned on racism (he didn’t).

If anything, people pushing this equity stuff are the real racists.
Any good solutions for capturing the audio streams and piping them where they're needed? (I.e both microphone and speakers. I was wondering if I needed to mess with pulseaudio and/or jack (I mean pipewire under the hood, but I think those APIs sit on top and might be clearer))
yep. People railing against cars are usually the younger ones without kids, pets, etc. So they don't understand the value of the car from their own experience, nor able to put themselves into the shoes of others due to that egoism of the youth (i've naturally been there myself :).
Thanks for introducing me to Justine Underhill ( https://www.youtube.com/@justine-underhill ). She is a new YouTuber (4 videos so far) with excellent urbanist content! Her well-argued essays remind me of Oh The Urbanity!, Not Just Bikes, and About Here.
Growth in monthly actives across Facebook seems to have slowed but is still increasing--not bleeding users--from data I found through Q4 2023.

With 3 billion monthly actives and China being excluded, it's hard to expect a ton of growth since it is a major fraction of the remaining world population. There are bots etc. but they are one of the stricter networks with requiring photos of your ID and stuff a lot more often than others.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing because the density is a huge component of the desireability.
European search engines seek domestic control, taking on Google
> Maori were never actually excluded from university study, by the way

Māori schools (which the vast majority of Māori attended) were forbidden by the education department from teaching the subjects that lead to matriculation. So yes, they were forbidden from going to university.

> Sir Apirana Ngata. He studied at a university in NZ in the 1890s,

That was before the rules were changed. It was because of people like Ngata and Buck that the system was changed. The racists that ran the government were horrified that the natives were doing better than the colonialists. They "fixed" it.

> Discrimination in favour of Maori students largely has benefited the children of Maori professionals

It has helped establish traditions of tertiary study in Māori families, starting in the 1970s

There are plenty of working class Māori (I know a few) that used the system to get access. (The quota for Māori students in the University of Auckland's law school was not filled in the 1990s. Many more applied for it, but if their marks were sufficient to get in without using the quota they were not counted. If it were not for the quota many would not have even applied)

Talking of lies: "white people with a tiny percentage of Maori ancestry who take advantage of this" that is a lie.

The quotas are not based on ethnicity solely. To qualify you had to whakapapa (whāngi children probably qualified even if they did not whakapapa, I do not know), but you also had to be culturally Māori.

Lies and bigotry are not extinct in Aotearoa, but they are in retreat. The baby boomers are very disorientated, but the millennials are loving it.

Better for everybody
There needs to be a hall of fame for some Google employees. In any
company there's always some unfortunate person whose job it is to
defend the indefensible, to lie for the team and throw their dignity
into the mud. It takes a particular kind of indifference to humanity
and a belief that the world will forget and forgive. On this occasion
their names are Melonie Parker and Kent Walker. It's a shame they
never had the opportunity to learn from colleagues like Timnit Gebru,
David Baker, Vinesh Kannan, Christina Curley, Margaret Mitchell and
other Googlers who had the balls to do the right thing, denounce the
company or quit.
After reading it a bit further, they searched for a service that exposed email via Gaia ID, and found it via Pixel Recorder.
Huh?

Internally, it is (maybe) a binary field of a protobuf.

Then when translating to JSON, it was converted to a string via base64 encoding.
It's an enormous amount of energy packed into a single tiny particle.

But it's still just a single tiny particle, so it's not a lot of total energy.

It's like how you can lift a heavy weight for a second, but that's all you can do. You would need to be able to lift it for hours to be useful as a replacement for a crane. Same idea: Intensity vs total work.
Sorry, slightly confused. From JSX docs:

> The difference is that the precompile transform analyses your JSX statically and stores precompiled HTML strings if possible. That way a lot of time creating JSX objects can be avoided.

So if there are compilation errors, who is stopping me from running without the build?
~~I wouldn't bother as this seems like a scam. Both me and another person on the discord channel got "solved" links but both led to error pages.~~

Going to retract my 'scam' comment. I think I hit an honest bug in the processing of the answer by trying to hit the claim page before the reply was fully complete.

While disappointing, I have since found out that a couple prompts for other people had already worked, so hopefully one of those people were the ones that ended up claiming the money.

((All that said, setting up a small prize to collect a bunch of jailbreaks that you could then use for your own consulting/bug-bounties would probably work pretty well))
Take a look at Observe: https://account.observeinc.com/
> If you want competition then you need something like the WTO as a mechanism to prevent countries from putting up trade barriers etc.

That's an enforcer. Unfortunately, nobody follows through with its sanctions, so it's devolved into a glorified opinion-providing body.

> If some countries want to collaborate on some CERN project they just... do that

CERN is about doing thing, not not doing things. You can't CERN your way to nuclear non-proliferation.
Oh, I agree that neither power wants the peasants to have them. But make no mistake -- both governments want them, and desperately. There is no universe where there is a multi-lateral agreement to actually eliminate these tools. With loitering munitions and drone swarms, they are ALREADY key components of nation-state force projection.
Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]