skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the back of Threepio’s golden head: the reflected light fills the screen, dims as the giant metal door closes behind them—just before we hear the sound of the door’s teeth meet, the light goes—for a long second, we see nothing but the faint, oval-shape of Threepio’s head, then on either side of Threepio’s head, appear the grotesque faces of the palace guards: skin the texture of a slug’s and slick with a sweat of mucus, pink-rimmed snouts, stupid-marble eyes, and yellowed tusks protruding from their lower lip.

It's not long before we can feed that script to one of the AI engines and tell it to make a Lynch movie out of it. For other directors I don't know, but for Lynch that would be quite something.
You're one of the main characters. Make good choices, us NPCs are counting on you! :)
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Yep, especially inspectors general.

These folks:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_Act_of_197...

Also some not-quite-just-serving-at-the-president’s-pleasure folks (according to the law, anyway) directors & other positions, notably the director of OGE.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Gove...
I've seen plenty of bureaucratic stupidity and shenanigans in 20 years of active and reserve service. But in my personal experience, corporate America is even more hidebound, top-down, and unimaginative than everyone in it thinks the military is. Disclaimer: I don't work for a "tech" company; I work in tech for a non-"tech" company.

Even in peacetime, the Navy will launch 25 jets off an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. They will be expected to go practice an opposed strike on a target in a range complex east of Reno, including multiple aerial refuelings and navigating the civilian airspace system. They will be expected to hit their target within seconds of the planned time. And they will be expected to come back and land on an aircraft carrier, at night, on the first pass.

And all the details of this kind of operation, from weapons planning to fuel planning to "who talks to whom on what radio net for what purposes" to flat-out "how do we simulate combat without anyone being killed in a midair collision" take place under the aegis of a bunch of twentysomething and thirtysomething junior officers led by a few thirtysomething (or maybe fortysomething) middle managers.

Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief. Like a Scrum shop, except the iterations are 24 hours long and the penalty for sloppiness could potentially involve flames, wreckage, and death.
I’m an American. I saw it on 60 Minutes last night. Any reason why you prefer the strictly literal interpretation? The difference between a personal insult and a criticism of something someone has done seems pretty clear cut to me. We could use more constructive discourse especially in the US.
Hooks shouldn’t be shared and updated across a team. Don’t force your workflow on others. Which is exactly why you can’t or shouldn’t commit them.
In their defense, I think it is good to have a more private chromium browser if we’re talking about the subject of accessibility for new folks. Much easier to get them off chrome proper.
“Spaces” are much less important for early stage companies in newish spaces.

There was a time when Facebook, Twitter, GitHub and LinkedIn were all considered social media companies- competing to become the place I talked to dev friends.

In a way they all succeeded, and in another way they all failed.
Yes, in addition to competitiveness, complete information must be available. The customers must know that the barbers are skimping on barbicide, and also have a full understanding of the consequences of that. It's not a default situation, and a lot of regulations are about providing that transparency so that customers can make an informed decision.
Isn't this what turbos do, extract the waste heat from the engine exhaust?
You know the first amendment was written by people who would shoot you for running your mouth, right?
The decision to not release the slopware is ethically correct. Kudos to the author!
p 11 (/30), makes a terrible case in handwaving.

It ignores the requirement that secret data needs to stay secret for 30 years, or 100 years, or long into the future, and attacks only get better.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_a...

> They also describe an attack against 11-round AES-256 that requires 2^70 time—almost practical.

>> AES is the best known and most widely used block cipher. Its three versions (AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256) differ in their key sizes (128 bits, 192 bits and 256 bits) and in their number of rounds (10, 12, and 14, respectively).

>> In the case of AES-128, there is no known attack which is faster than the 2^128 complexity of exhaustive search. However, AES-192 and AES-256 were recently shown to be breakable by attacks which require 2^176 and 2^119 time, respectively.
For those who haven't seen it before, TAM = Total Addressable Market.
"I am the fictional character that you will perceive being added into a document based on what has already been entered into that document and what library the document extender was trained on."
> looking at the archive (https://archive.ph/zPBbZ), almost all of the publishers do not publish popular authors.

Brandon Sanderson publishes his novels without DRM. All the TOR books are un-DRM-ed as well.

> without drm that stuff will spread like wildfire, but drm can easily be broken by those who know what they're doing - but I guess for publishers, luckily the vast majority of the popular wouldn't bother to break it.

Books are so small, that even simply clicking through them and OCR-ing the screenshots is a feasible method. DRM isn't even going to buy a day or two of exclusivity. But it will annoy users.

I've been using Amazon Kindle books exactly because it was so easy to de-DRM the books and read them on my devices. Now that they're removing it, I'll switch to other providers.
That’s a great point! While we do our best to simulate an identical case, if the agent responds differently, our focus is on whether the key evaluator or goal for that replay set passes or fails. We use that as the source of truth and flag the exact moment where the conversation diverges from the expected flow.
It's hard to discover how much money is being made off selling user data, and I think this only leads to smaller companies trading in user data to disappear, while the larger players can do more with your data behind the scenes. The larger companies having fewer competitors allows them to spend more of their time on finding ways that are "legal" to track users, ones which are technically in compliance with existing laws. Maybe my way of thinking about the situation is different than yours, and I could also be completely wrong. I am just much more pessimistic when it comes to how much value is in user data (especially as AI develops more), to think that larger players won't do anything they can to collect user data by finding loopholes in the law, or allowing themselves to be taken to court because the laws aren't defined well enough.
Are you using proprietary Nvidia drivers? They work flawlessly for me, even better than the AMD open source "mainline" kernel drivers.
I believe in ignoring stupid questions.
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Better cold water and not PFAS/firefighting foam

edit: apparently Canada banned PFAS in firefighting foam.
Hm, that's an interesting idea.

But why stop there? What about the foul line, key width, court size/half court line?

I feel like the rim height is sacred, but what about backboard size/shape?

Some of these dimensions are different in the international game.
Didn’t Germany just have a recent major free speech issue where people were jailed for using “the wrong language” while protesting?

Doesn’t seem like it’s a good policy.
However, in reality, barbers (at least in the US) are not dangerous places.

If a barber starts acting in a way that makes their customers come down with infections, customers will take their business to the other barber down the street. If this new barber does the same, you will simply go to the next barber.

In this scenario, the first barber to treat their customers well (in a manner that does not pass on infections) will gobble up all the business.

Hence, it makes no sense for any barber to act in a manner that gives their customers infections, as they will quickly go out of business.

Same reason restaurants are naturally incentivized to cook their food as well as possible. 1 food poisoning case is all it takes for their business to go poof.

A true free market (as in, one where there's sufficient competition) keeps businesses in check, and protects customers.
Good thing to give to LLMs as well.
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Government cheese is a real thing and it is not very good.
It might just be a weather thing. 10 year old cars in Canada can be almost completely rusted out unless the owner has been diligent about rustproofing and washing the car frequently during winter. It’s all that road salt slush that splashes all over the car underbody and sticks to it, causing horrible galvanic corrosion.
And I'd say that's a pretty gray line, especially to the degree it stays in an online context.
You might enjoy another project, which uses a RISCV32 emulator on 6502 to boot actual Linux (not ELKS) on a C64: https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64

It takes about a week to boot, but it's fun.
If nothing else works I've also fallen back on commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near AK (free food and board included), and hitch hiking to north Dakota to work on the oil rush. I don't know if they still hire but usually they'll hire anyone and maybe give you free board.

The address you out down generally isn't checked, I'll leave it at that.

Putting professional work experience is a no no for minimum wage job. Word your experience to make it sound much more laborious and uneducated.
The desktop web-app reader is interesting in that it's a DRM-free legal way to access otherwise DRM-encumbered e-books. Last I checked the EME DRM browser sandbox was still not required.

Personally I'm fine with this compromise solution. I've read whole books in the Kindle desktop web interface. The usual line is that it's somehow bad on the eyes, but I figure that I already spend my days reading documents and articles on a screen and it's irrational to imagine a "book" is somehow fundamentally different.
Yeah. I consider ELKS somewhat closer to xenix86 and PC/IX than to Linux in concept, at least nowadays. In any case, it's a very interesting project (and so is this NES86 one).
The "subtle" hacking is removing the regulations requiring safe maintenance and procedures, removing people responsible for maintaining and implementing the regulations, and removing the people responsible for controlling the traffic safely.

In a highly complex system, all the hacking you need is to allow the ordinary chaotic systems to run more wild and stochastic errors will degrade the system with less traceability than "subtle hacking" — it's hiding in plain sight.

When Facebook or Twitter "Move Fast and Break Things" the consequences are a few users can't use a feature for a while until they notice the issue and patch it.

Do the same with the air transport or health care systems and you start filling morgues.
Copper, for one. Go have a look at what kind of overhaul to the global transmission grid's required to meet projected growth and get back to me with your prospectus for mining the asteroid belt. Ironically individuals in highly specialized economic niches living in high tech societies are going to have it a lot worse than more self-sufficient agrarian arrangements so odds are yeah, you and me, after the water wars have done their work globally of course.
Let me spirit you back to an old account, from the fey and forgotten days of 2022... https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sahil50

Don't stare too long, you'll go blind.
That's cherry-picking to the extreme.

Not only are most trains not Shinkansen, not even most trains in Japan are Shinkansen.
Let me Google that for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...

It's kinda interesting. In terms of % of GDP on social welfare spending it's halfway down the list (but still just above Australia and Canada which surprises me).

In terms of government taxation and spending it's very close to the top on taxation and #10 on spending, which is definitely not what the USA tells itself.

This implies that the USA taxes folks heavily and then doesn't spend it on social welfare (which seems consistent with the vast military spending).
What are you talking about? PQC is based on learning-with-errors and lattice problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors
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Source? Sounds like a conversation I want to hear more of.
the irony is if it was some Stone Age counterpart to Seymour Cray
I tried to write a genuine ELI5 explanation but I'm not sure it's possible unless you can assume a five-year-old knows what "philosophy" means, lol.

You could say "a group of people think that being smart gives them magic powers, and that most people are evil zombies, but they think everyone in their own special group is good and can do whatever they want" but you lose a lot of nuance.
endlessly entertaining is lynch describing "next to zero interest" in directing starwars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U
I am somewhere in the middle. If people could see something like Privacy Guides that is trying to be a primary privacy resource, and then look up any advice on another source, it could be useful. People aren't used to challenging something they read when it comes to privacy from a "trusted source", and I think that should be a key part of privacy and security. Try to find other sources, that aren't connected, to back up a claim.
I understand that inspiration for posting this was the Amazon taking away the ability to "Download and transfer over USB". Can anybody tell me if downloading will still work via Kindle for PC? That's how I download my books before removing DRM in Calibre.
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To say NAT has nothing to do with "security" is a lie. The most common NAT (PAT) configurations are basically acting as stateful firewalls with a default deny policy for all unsolicited inbound traffic to a private, non-routeable network.
> I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3D print designs stolen and sold by faceless eBay/Etsy sellers, personal attacks made towards me when people don't get their feature request... the list goes on and on.

None of that sounds like a gray area to me.
I absolutely have memories before 3, and I've always been frustrated when told I've recreated them from stories and/or pictures.
And the TGV has only had deaths once during a test run.
it's very common for violent cults of personality to target potential members who are social outsiders, there's a dual benefit that such individual are more likely to offer loyalty in exchange for membership and they also provide ideological cover as the cult can blend in to a larger perceived movement

the fact that this particular set of outsiders creates skewed media reactions (from total misdirection on one end to unfair over indexing on the other) is a novel third benefit
The tools are different, but this feels exactly like cracking Apple II copy protection in the 1980s using boot tracing. Some things don't change.
This is an experimental API for Riffusion, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that enables anyone to create original music using AI. The company’s groundbreaking AI, called Fuzz, generates music through spectrogram images of sound rather than simple audio samples.

Riffusion produces songs and instrumental music with high quality and supports a number of languages on par with - or even surpassing - those of Suno and Udio.
I have worked on a large scale real time in production knowledge graph at FAANG. Runs a major service everyone has used. Personal opinion is that they are outdated. They are brittle, hard to maintain, constantly changing. Technical complexity like you wouldnt believe. A moving target in the real world.

I think as a paradigm, you should just pass everything that might be relevant into the context of an LLM, as opposed to traversing a knowledge graph.
TL;DR: absolutely not

> Serde lacks the backward compatibility guarantees of the Protobuf serialization format.

Rest of article pointless.
Heh, so true in many cases. I had rewritten a utility that scanned a directory and moved files to s3 from Perl to Go and eventually a different team took over the code. A bug popped up and they were not confident to update the "legacy code." I could do not but chuckle to myself: this was like a fee hundred lines of well organized and fully unit and integration testable code with a readme and runbook and grafana/prometheus and structured logs aggregated in Splunk. And that has been running for like 2 years. They just didn't want to even attempt the fix and in fact pushed it off indefinitely.
I do think it's likely that it was the creation of some organization or another, and Satoshi is fictional. As to what group that would be, I can't even begin to guess. There are too many plausible ones.
In the US, Metronet uses CGNAT. There's another local ISP which uses it. They use it because they're small, growing, and cannot afford enough v4 IPs. They also have no plan to switch to IPv6.
Rebecca Watson wrote about them a week ago: https://skepchick.org/2025/02/the-rationalist-death-cult-spr...
The First Amendment is not what grants you freedom of speech. You are born with it. It is your right, regardless of what any law, contract or person says. The First Amendment simply prohibits the government from infringing on it.
I was using the legal definition of the term as it pertains to U.S. law. It is a betrayal for sure. In American English I’ve never heard someone use the term to refer to anything other than a betrayal of one’s own country.
It's been extremely windy in the region today.
That's a beautiful theory that completely falls apart when cause and effect between bad behaviour and consequences is not immediately clear to the person buying the service.

Which, in the real world, is the case with almost everything.

Vendors don't tend to cheat or cut corners or perform malfeasance on shit that's easy to spot.

Worse yet, the customer often can't tell the difference between malfeasance and bad luck. Without an independent regulator looking into this crash, I will have no idea if the airline operating it was staffed by morons and cutting corners, or it did everything right and got unlucky.

And no, the legal system doesn't solve this problem, because any sane company will have a strong preference towards a quiet, confidential settlement, to expose as little of their dirty laundry as possible to the public and prospective customers.

Libertarianism collapses upon contact with the real world, because it depends upon informational symmetry. Yet the way businesses actually operate, it's all informational assymmetry. I don't have the time to devote my life to trying to pick out which vendor will try the least hard to fuck me over, and even if I did have that time, I wouldn't have the information necessary to make an informed choice.
Ok, then let's define it. There is a world of difference between Part 121, Part 135, and Part 91 operations. Almost no one in America will ever be on a 135 or 91 flight. If we limit ourselves to 121, which is what we're actually talking about when we talk about air travel, then you've got Southwest 1380, and before that you have to go all the way back to Colgan.
> dynamically loading (e.g. with "LoadLibrary", e.g. "dlopen") a .dll caused issue with the .dll's own thread_locals.

Do you know what these issues were? I'm curious because I'm working on Pd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data), which uses lots of thread local variables internally when built as a multi-instance library. Libpd itself may be loaded dynamically when embedded in an audio plugin. I'm not aware of any problems so far...
Only the Shinkansen (and TGV on my sibling post) can be compared to planes though. Local or IC trains might be compared to cars in the US.
Agree. Firefox is the only browser I "trust". It does the best job of respecting the user out of any available option. I am the user and I deserve respect. You are also users, and you deserve respect, too.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074281
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I didn't realize IBM called their own cards Hollerith cards.

They changed the format to 80x10 with rectangular punches in 1928, naming it the IBM Computer Card. They modified it to 80x12 in 1930. IBM themselves distinguish between Hollerith's cards and IBM cards, but I suppose they were the same physical size and old names die hard.
"My name is Hu Lezhi, I am an ordinary programmer and entrepreneur. Since October 2022, I have realized that I have been monitored and manipulated by mind control organizations since birth. When I realized the existence of the mind control organization, they also increased their harm to me. I have lived a very painful life in the past two years. Now, I have completely lost my dignity as a human being. I have decided to leave this world, and I hope that this ugly world will be destroyed soon."

"There is a new model of the crime of victim enslavement, where the victims' sense of desire is gradually stripped away until they become complete slaves of digital machines. If I ever become a victim of the final stage, I will choose to leave this world."

"As brain-computer interfaces and mind-reading technologies have evolved, a new model of crime has emerged: wild animals have become puppets or direct slaves of digital machines."

"Kuande Investment CEO: Feng Xin and Xu Yuzhi used neural interface weapons to target current and former employees of the company, and even they themselves were controlled."

"Brain computer chips have been deployed for military purposes on a large scale. All military powers use base stations, radios and nano brain computer chips to control all citizens."

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd5de70368d9f11005b94806ee9d70c31f6...

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5e8bef5dcb69206fa1bacc8d0b0c0204e1...
It also looks like a wing has been ripped off. That passengers could survive an accident involving so much force is surprising.
If a 5% layoff that sets them back to 2022 levels of headcount leads to chaos, maybe the problem is much deeper.
https://theonion.com/man-s-food-poisoning-could-realisticall...

Food poisoning is actually a great example of why we need health regulations and inspections. In a given day, we eat so many different things, it would be nearly impossible to accurately attribute a single incident to a single source. Imo the only reliable way to increase safety is to have a common set of standards that are enforced by the state.
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