skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually cool, thanks.
I think a lot of this was social engineering, but at one time the fbi considered mitnik some kind of super hacker. How did that disconnect happen? I imagine because his targets didn’t want to admit to the fbi how crappy their security was, so they would just say omg! We got hacked!

Big moments I remember from his book.

1. Gaining access to a telco C/O and social engineering his way out after being caught

2. Ultimately being caught by sloppy practices himself, logging into systems he was comfortable with and getting traced, and then forgetting some sort of identification in a ski jacket he hadn’t used in a long time, which was in his closet in a place he was living under a new identity.

It’s been awhile so I could be partly off on those details. But I’d say at least those pieces are very believable.
the 2fa mitm spoofing gets better with every passing minute.
Do we need this search?
Moreover, the manual also lies about the tools limitations.
Yup, easy OCR is good.

My reasons for using Tesseract - easy OCR is larger, and it has a significant cold start.

It benchmarks better for many OCR tasks though, so I'm thinking of adding it as an alternative backend.
Sorry to hear...
Euclid's Elements is absolutely not a useful book for the contemporary.
> Literally no mainstream EU politician…

Former German foreign minister and member of pacifist Green party Joschka Fischer suggested in 2023 that EU must have its own nuclear deterrent. It is no longer a taboo.
I doubt it

most people already find it difficult to view a literal seig-heiling nazi in anything other than a negative light, even if he made the trains run on time or whatever
> Sure I had a bunch of info, but one wrong decision and my static stack of papers might not be enough to get me out of it.

If you knew how to read a map it would have been.

I can't imagine being so dependent on a phone which can be accidentally dropped, misplaced, or simply run out of battery charge that I would be lost without it.
> Some famines may follow, but likely not enough to endanger civilization as a whole.

I'm not confident enough to rely on that: most people in the west have never encountered a famine, only much milder things like the price of one or two staples being high — eggs currently — never all of them at once.

What will we do to ourselves if we face a famine? Will we go to war (or exterminate the local "undesirables") like the old days?

How fragile are we now, compared to the last time that happened? How much has specialisation meant that the elimination of certain minorities will just break everything? "Furries run the internet", as the memes say. What other sectors are over-represented by a small minority?
Totally agree. A cheap GPS + Raspberry Pi makes an incredibly capable little NTP server capable of serving 100k clients(after you block the bad actors). The local network is down in the 10s of microseconds. Anything more accurate would need PTO and significantly more investment, but that is more accuracy than I'd ever need.
15 years of the ISS window on Earth
AI Is Killing How Developers Learn
Who else clicked on 'feel' in the last paragraph?
This is about the National Nuclear Security Administration:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nuclear_Security_Admi...

It seems there was some non-understanding (?) about what the staff does / did:

> Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.

> Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.

> An Energy Department spokesperson disputed the number of personnel affected, telling CNN that “less than 50 people” were “dismissed” from NNSA, and that the dismissed staffers “held primarily administrative and clerical roles.”

> The agency began rescinding the terminations Friday morning.

> Some of the fired employees included NNSA staff who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built. These staff oversee the contractors who build nuclear weapons, and they inspect these weapons.

* https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-...
An oldy but goody for layout extraction is Cermine by Dominika Tkaczyk and colleagues[0]. Java required.

[0]: http://cermine.ceon.pl/about.html
fake money "coins" + LLMs -> accelerated heating
> Young people in the US need to be out protesting for their future

The changes you are outlining aren't going to happen from protesting. What we need is a general strike, but there is no appetite to do that in the numbers necessary to actually make any change.
I think it's just becoming very popular. I can tell you at least "looking for a pickleball partner" is a very common line in dating apps at the moment.
From my experience it does. A lot of VPs and higher have no direct experience with the things they are responsible for so can be easily manipulated by smooth talkers. I just attended a strategy meeting where a lot of higher ranks asked questions that clearly showed they have no idea.
Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query
Pickleball downsides:

1) It's loud, a lot louder than tennis. Tennis balls have felt, and tennis racquet strings have some flexibility, whereas pickleball uses a hard paddle and an unpadded ball. People who live near courts complain about the noise from pickleball.

2) Pickleball is coming to monopolize the local courts, making them inaccessible by tennis players.

3) Pickleball involves less running and physical fitness than tennis.
I dont think India or China will close brand new coal power plants because US middle class has a wallet ache. We are fucked no matter what
Anthropic, thinking like a model by closing your eyes
There was a very interesting comment at 4:30 from Barry Zhang where they didn't know how the model was making a decision so they would close their eyes for a min and blink for a min and think what would I do with this information. I was blown away by this idea but really simple concept to think about the information. Is there more to read about looking through the lens of the model itself? Is this just a different way to think about Prompt Engineering?
Guy complaints about a maintainer not being inclusive and wants the person who said some certain words that hurt his sensibility to be removed because it does not match their personal standards. So much for inclusivity.
Obviously, it is not their existence on the line. That must change.
People in the 16th century had the notion of scrying mirrors - presumably without analogous experience. I'm sure you could explain FaceTime to a person from then. "This magic glass shows me the view and transports the sound from the magic glass of a friend or family member and vice versa, with their informed consent."
> The issues are who is flagging them, why they're flagging them, and what we should do about it. I've been posting about that a great deal.

Are you saying that this is a discussion we could have as a community, without the thread on it getting flagged? Or are we supposed to just listen to what you have to say and leave things there.
so what was it?
What matters is that Neo-Nazis think it was.
I misread your original comment. I read "true AGI" where you said "true androids."

I agree. Other than the control system, everything else is already there, or at least understood. But I think we are much farther away from "true intelligence" than AI boosters claim. We don't even know the path to it. We have guesses, but no hard evidence that those guesses will actually pan out.
demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYQ3oHpIFc
Or worse... think of what a lot of extremists in the middle east take as truth! It's writings waaaaay older than the Wikipedia.
I hope OCI images for FreeBSD really take off. There too many tools which do jail management.
Do you happen to know how browsers like Brave do it?
(Not a lawyer.)

Depends on the jurisdiction—e.g. Germany[1] is known to be particularly problematic. But in this particular case, the model has been released under CC0[2], which has a fallback permissive license alongside its public domain dedication, specifically to avoid this problem. That’s why the CC0 is a thousand words long instead of a couple of sentences. Most sites hosting “public domain” works also use the CC0 or something similar.

[1] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/q/9871

[2] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode....
I instantly thought of this when I saw the title.
Or getting young people to actually vote, which is a much, much lower bar to clear with a dramatically clearer path to results.
Surrendering work to the public domain is actually more complicated. It's easy to make the claim that a work is public domain, but the law may not allow you to actually relinquish all copyright claims. This also depends on which country you are in.

This is why the CC0 license exists, to attempt to provide a more legally sound equivalent to plain public domain (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/).
A single hand of poker without wagering makes no sense at all.

There are a lot of variations of poker. Playing single hands of, for example, five card draw makes sense without wagering.
It's a bit strange in the article. It mentions Ingo Molnar and also "the maintainer" as a separate person. I thought Ingo Molnar was the maintainer. Anyway, Molnar landed CFS in 2007. The scheduler is EEVDF since 2023, a design that AFAIU comes much closer to Con Kolivas' goals (i.e. no latency spikes for interactive - or in this case any - processes)... 16+ years later.
Reddit CEO says paywalls are coming soon
You’re right. It was two.
Honestly I’m starting to wonder if all the bluster around acquiring Greenland and annexing Canada is all focused on having land available for the United States when the southern and central states become uninhabitable.
> but they have no Courage

Said the warrior from their 20 minute old throwaway account.
As far as I've seen, std::variant's ergonomics isn't remotely competitive with rust sum types. C++ lacks the syntax.
Exactly. You would explain the concept to them using analogous experiences they have had. What experience has an LLM had?
Don’t forget Neukölln
the US isn't going to save anyone, there's currently real concern about a widespread measles outbreak
China's exports (and by extension, carbon emissions) are driven by American and European demands for cheap products. Drastically decreasing industrial demand would lead to Asian carbon emissions shrinking by a large margin.
I have not witnessed a car crash and I feel I do understand what it is. Similarly a 16th century person doesn't "Call me on FaceTime" because the words are not known. You could very easily explain the concept to them.
Didn't Palantirs stocks skyrocket?
The planet has been heating since much earlier than ~2008.
Ask HN: How is the integrity of voting devices/software determined?
I know there are a diverse array of devices, electronics, and software out there.

What methods (e.g., code auditing, checksums, testing/QA, etc.), if any, are used by election officials to convince themselves that the devices and software they are using are safe?
You should play a lot of hands, or organise a tournament, for Figgie to really make sense. It's fun but I prefer to play in person.
good luck with that approach :p
The pain is already happening. Food scarcity - and inflation - will happen before financial collapse and government collapse.

It's already localised - currently coffee and cocoa - but at some point staples will affected. Which is when it gets interesting.

This is the most incredible time in recorded history. There's never been a civilisation facing so many extreme existential threats at the same time.

And all of them are self-inflicted, and would have been sidestepped or mitigated by a rational planetary culture - climate change, war (possibly nuclear), pandemics, catastrophic economic destruction, and AI.
No one wants to be responsible for anything. It's the same way at companies. Everything is constructed so that any failure can be blamed on the organization as a whole, and thus no one has to feel like they personally contributed to the failure.

That's how it feels to me, anyway.
It was just the restaurant at the bottom of the list
> First get the US to eliminate all fossil fuel subsidiaries. And then maybe add a huge tax on the use of fossil fuels.

Instructions unclear, eliminating $7500 EV tax credit and adding $1000 tax on EV purchases: https://electrek.co/2025/02/13/oil-backed-senators-introduce...
Yep, the potential tipping points are terrifying. If the gulf stream collapses, my country will basically turn into Siberia, and our agriculture will collapse. It's kind of hard justify taking a typical mortgage that takes 20 years to pay back, when I'm not sure if the country will be habitable by the time I would own the house fully.

Maybe geoengineering will save us, and we'll spray the atmosphere full of stuff that reflects sunlight to lower global temperatures. But it's best to prepare for the worst. I expect birth rates to continue collapsing as more young people realize they're probably doomed.
> much, much lower bar to clear

Apparently not, because people have been trying to get young people to vote for decades, and nobody has managed it.

But also, gen z has been trending right. So I don't know if this would actually work.
Luckily we have AI to accelerate things.
I mean, there are some real life cartoon villains with a lot of money working against humanity. Check out the fake interview Greenpeace did with Exxon lobbyists: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-cau...

Thunderscum. Proudly showing off the worst parts of humanity.
This may be a misunderstanding, it's the first time I've encountered this problem and it's helped me to learn more, thanks
On your last point I tend to think it will. Tools replaced our ancestor's ability to make things by hand. Transportation / elevators reduced the average fitness level to walk long distances or climb stairs. Pocket calculators made the general population less able to do complex math. Spelling/grammar checks have reduced knowing how to spell or form complete proper sentences. Keyboards and email are making handwriting a passing skill. Video is reducing our need / desire to read or absorb long form content.

The highest percentage of humans will take the easiest path provided. And while most of the above we just consider improvements to daily life, efficiencies, it has also fundamentally changed on average what we are capable of and what skills we learn (especially during formative years). If I dropped most of us here into a pre-technology wilderness we'd be dead in short order.

However, most of the above, it can be argued, are just tools that don't impact our actual thought processes; thinking remained our skill. Now the tools are starting to "think", or at least appear like they do on a level indistinguishable to the average person. If the box in my hand can tell me what 4367 x 2231 is and the capital of Guam, why then wouldn't I rely on it when it starts writing up full content for me? Because the average human adapts to the lowest required skill set I do worry that providing a device in our hands that "thinks" is going to reduce our learned ability to rationally process and check what it puts out, just like I've lost the ability to check if my calculator is lying to me. And not to get all dystopian here... but what if then, what that tool is telling me is true, is, for whatever reason, not.

(and yes, I ran this through a spell checker because I'm a part of the problem above... and it found words I thought I could still spell, and I'm 55)
> Where "strike" means some kind of domestic terrorism level interference with infrastructure.

"Strike" usually means "refuse work", not some sort of violence that you seem to be advocating. It's possible to get real policy change through peaceful demonstrations, strikes and similar actions, as history will kindly remind you of.
Maybe the botnets can start fighting each other, eliminate the drifters to maximise inputs for slopclips

Wonder if meta et al buy these kind of services, they already steal so it’s not a huge step

Ye ai/ml was a neat piece of tech; it is intellectually interesting to try figure out what it learns and how it learns; and there are maybe valid uses, but capitalism and worse has utterly consumed it.

I don’t have the words to quite describe it all, the farce of it. Then you get people that talk about alignment, how can anything “aligned” be built on such a foundation.

What’s the end goal, a techbronocracy worshiping a fake god
Most people with "engineer" titles spend relatively little of their time on actual quantitative engineering or "higher level" thinking. A lot of their work involves manual information processing: Organizing and arranging things, fitting things together, troubleshooting. This could be justified for a couple of reasons: Maybe a lot of the stuff that was "engineering" is now handled by the CAD software. That's great. But also, the efficiency of those tools has raised the complexity of systems to the point where the interaction between parts consumes most of the engineers' attention.

Managers also spend most of their time on the same things, but handling different kinds of information.

But CAD hasn't changed the immutable laws of engineering, such as Brooks's Law. When I hear about the wonders of AI transforming engineers into higher level thinkers, my snarky response is: "Does this mean that projects will finish on time?"
There is a huge push for rooftop solar in India.
it's funny that we need this
seems like the the "Fall of Civilizations" episode on us is coming sooner that we thought.

to be fair, it's likely that some of the others(that have their episode) saw it coming and made an "effort" proportional to ours :D
I would doubt the additional power usage of Blockchain technology and modern AI had a significant impact on global carbon emissions.
At least China is also doing some good things, like building massive amounts of solar energy, and exporting cheap electric vehicles all around the world. Meanwhile the regime in America is actively attacking climate science and denying the whole issue.

Compared to Trump's administration the Chinese Communist party is quite okay from environmental perspective.
When the politicians lie about everything and then do not get called out for it by either the media or the populace, the problems are even deeper than the serious problems caused by our not honoring such well-intentioned and well-designed agreements.

The two most important human concepts are compassion and truth. Our losing touch with those most important values has pushed our world society to the brink of misery.

What's important for the people here at HN, however, is that their investments in energy-wasting tech are protected from people realizing that PG et al are not at all different than IBM in 1930's Germany: "We are just making the adding machines."

"We're just investors." The world needs to wake up to the likes of the callously cruel. PG is asleep at the wheel of the machines his machine has helped produce.

"So sick of complacence." --Zach de la Rocha
when you are a bookseller on the sales floor, sometimes a customer asks for an e-book, and the bookseller won't be able to sell them an e-book copy. indies have never been able to sell this to their customers. now they can, indirectly, by telling them to buy it on bookshop and they'll get a cut.
That's actually really cool, thanks for sharing. Does seem pretty low level and niche though.
Surely Zarr is already a long-term storage format for multidimensional data? It can even be mapped directly to netCDF, GRIB and geoTIFF via VirtualiZarr[0].

Also if you like Iceberg and you like arrays you will really like Icechunk[1], which is Version-controlled Zarr!

[0] https://github.com/zarr-developers/VirtualiZarr

[1] https://icechunk.io/en/latest/
Mitte?
make a bunch of decks from identical standard decks (all blue or all red) and then just mix up the boxes?
bold of you to assume the people running the United States care about what happens to the people living there
There's a book called "I Want A Better Catastrophe", which is about the role of hope in climate activism. (It's a little uneven, but interesting to see the breadth of perspectives from the people he talks to in the climate space).

One doomer he speaks to expects us to hit 6 degrees (which is also apparently backed up by one of the IPCC climate scientists he talks to), and describes the scenario this way:

* By 2050, we're expecting to hit a global population level of 10 billion

* By 2150, the carrying capacity of the planet (given degraded food production capacities, etc, in the 6 degree scenario) will be 2 billion

* Imagine what that century would be like to live through

2.5 degrees is obviously a much "less worse" scenario, hence the title of the book.

Another book along the same lines is "Ministry of the Future", also quite uneven, but an interesting enough read.

I think it's important to be non-avoidant and really contemplate what the higher-degree scenarios would look like, since we're clearly heading in that direction.
It’s amusing to read that in your head the American middle class will cause a change in global warming, I’ll give you that.
> No one cares about performative actions like leaving X any longer.

Yeah, but it's one of the few things a newspaper can do.

> 1) It needs sovereign nuclear weapons without U.S. permission.

> 2) It needs an independent foreign policy.

Makes total sense.

> 3) It does not let itself be dragged into wars while being assigned the blame if the wars go wrong.

Makes sense insofar as wars can't be half-assed, either you commit or you don't, as seen with Ukraine. Considering the strategic and geopolitical importance, the EU needed to commit much harder much faster.

> 4) Vance is right about excessive immigration. The EU is too small and resources like real estate are finite.

No. People are a resource, the fertility rate is insufficient in all EU countries, and the EU is nowhere near overpopulation. Without sufficient immigration, it's a slow-moving trainwreck headed for a "pensioner's collapse". There is certainly an "excessive" at some point, but that is not the case currently.
You think Polish organizations can decide and execute this fast?

Haha
Unfortunately, the average consumer has no idea that high coffee or chocolate prices have anything to do with the climate change. Apparently the average economical understanding is at the level of believing a president can magically make grocery prices come down.
Show HN: A Career Income Visualizer
Hey everyone!

I built this rather simple tool to try out an AI platform I was seeing around a lot. It basically shows your income from current age to expected retirement age in a grid where each dot represents a week, along with other details you can see by hovering on them like your age by that time, expected weekly income and when you'll reach 1 million in total income. It can be a bit depressing at times.

Again, nothing too serious, just a fun experiment. I honestly did not think it was possible to make a website like this with an AI 'engineer', meaning the whole website, not just this tool.

Mind you, there were times were I wanted to delete it all because it was not able to understand extremely basic concepts or fix quite stupid bugs, and times where I had to go and fix them myself because it wouldn't understand even after trying really hard, but I'm impressed overall.
You don't need to guess. They say why. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058461