skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your criticism is valid. Adding context is very subjective. Getting objective metrics to some of these questions is an open issue for the software world.

I don't think it matters if the vulnerabilities are JIT related - a process that can JIT can create code, so any exploitable (controllable) overflow or memory vulnerability CAN be pivoted into arbitrary code execution.

The problem with CVEs is that it is not required to prove exploitability to get assigned. It can take a lot of effort (single or multiple people) to prove exploitability. Earlier this week someone quoted "weeks" to me for each bug. They were quoting numbers for some of the Chrome bugs. These researchers said it was not possible to keep up with the number of bugs being found.

I believe (but cannot back it up) that security bugs follow a bathtub curve for each change set. If you've got a lot of change in your code-base then you'll pretty much be on a high bug point of the curve for the whole project. It also probably matters quite a bit about what sort of changes are being made. Working to get high performance seems (again a feeling) to increase the chance of creating a security vulnerability.

The level of public research is a tough metric. The reward / motivation factors are not the same. There is also an issue with internal research teams. They will find bugs before they are released, so they never really "exist". Does measuring the number of CVEs issued indicate the quality or level of internal research? What is a "good" metric for any of this?
Back then in 2009 we were [1] intercepting Skype calls before the offered plugins.

[1] https://www.nektra.com/main/2009/02/24/directsound-capture-u...
I agree this is unproven conspiracy theory BS, but there are a great many conspiracy theories being espoused in this post. I’m curious why it is only this one you saw fit to call out?
> these days

I would argue all days

> Is there an option C for both

absolutely :)
Yeah, the new "weight-loss" drugs seem to have significant psycho-active effects on the dopamine reward pathway. That seems like it may provide a more direct treatment than SSRIs.
If you believe Putin only wants "clean wins," you've fundamentally misunderstood his character.

It's a binary outcome from his perspective. If he obtains his his key objectives at some survivable cost, that's a win for him.
This could be a good thing. Uniting Europe possibly

Mr Trump is not wrong IMO that Europe has depended too much on the USA for too long.

Europe is divided, both between and within nations, this might be the impetus needed to reverse that. Unite them in their diversity, and take their place in the world
So… Where are we marching?
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Launching a Skype 2.0 incompatible with 1.0 clients/users would be a quick way to completely ruin said brand value.

Of course, as we see here, not doing anything had the same effect in the end...
The ideal user is someone who has been building the same thing. It's the guy who's using an excel sheet or wiki to manage their D&D sessions. It's the modders who who have been making fancy, expensive hacks. I personally don't start until I find these communities.

I tried making a grocery price comparison app once. There were tons of these though, and nobody really wanted one. It's just something they'd find useful. So I flipped it, proposed recipes that export into grocery lists. Again, no community. Then I searched around for recipe sharing communities and found one that did low carb diets. I bundled their recipes (with credit) and shared it to a FB group. I got 1000 downloads in the first 24 hours. People on the app kept asking about where they'd get the ingredients. 3% of the app users bought something. So it worked out and ended up a business for over a year.

Even if this doesn't work out exactly, I would say it's easier to start with the sales channel, and then work backwards. If you're making a game, figure out what kind of screenshots or name would make people want to try it.
Lex Fridman was already a loser in his "interviews" were he showed he had no understanding of what he's talking about, and now he's just sucking up to the regime in order to increase his audience, pathetic
Yeah that definitely eats away at the poetic justice of it
> Most topics require data or information in some form, which requires time to accumulate. You end up rate limited. Even at the scale of a decent sized company, you often can only produce interesting content occasionally.

That sounds like a good thing tbqh
> It isn't as if Swift developer experience is that great outside Apple's ecosystem.

I keep hearing this - and have for years - but is it actually still true? Sure, you're never going to get Cocoa on non-Apple platforms, but with first-party VS Code support and a lot of the surrounding tooling open-sourced, is it all still [~that much worse than XCode~] as bad as all that?
The grant is documented here: https://www.highergov.com/grant/AID388A1700003/

Bangladeshi officials confirmed, moreover, that USAID bypassed official government channels in providing that money: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/usaid-b...

There is no legitimate reason for the U.S. to be supporting political organizations of any sort in another country, bypassing official government channels.

It’s not a partisan point at all. My family came to America from Bangladesh because of USAID. I have every reason to hope the money was really going for childhood nutrition or vaccines or a legitimate expenditure like that.
Yes, options are to have some number(potentially insignificant compared to deaths caused by obesity or overdoses for example) mass shootings or kiss the feet of the dictator.
I don't think that is why he won.

Dems basically handed this election to Trump; Biden running when he had memory issues, then handing it to Harris whose numbers were questionable against Trump(with the braindead excuse that only she could get the funds), along with generally not responding to issues voters obviously care about(border), trying to ignore issues like excessive wokeness/DEI instead of admitting it is a problem.

Trump is going to lie and obviously only cares about himself, some % of rubes will vote for that, but you don't have to make it so damn easy for him.
> A partial deobfuscation of the code showed numerous references to usernames and passwords. However, as the file was still heavily obfuscated, BleepingComputer could not determine in what way they were being referenced.

I thought ChatGPT was supposed to deofuscate js. Anyone give it a whirl?
> "I'm not sure how useful it is to keep investigating exactly how it works on a chemical level"

It has the potential to be incredibly useful.

Not because there's a benefit to being able to tell patients "this is the technical explanation of how the SSRI we're giving you will help", but because we currently don't have a perfect treatment for depression, and understanding how existing imperfect (but useful) treatments actually work might lead to either creating better SSRIs that are more effective, or to creating non-SSRI treatments that we haven't yet thought of.
I merely have an intact and uncorrupted sense of justice. I believe that any country illegally attacked by another country should be helped and the people of that country (if it is democratic) should decide on their own how to defend themselves.
And what will happen instead is the US losing their status as hegemon/leader of the "free" world / West, with all the benefits that entailed.
Zelesnky and Trump both want peace, but what is peace?

The political spectrum is divided chiefly by how one views what peace is. On one side, John Locke's and the American founding father's, peace is the presence of justice. On the other side Thomas Hobbes' and Russia's, peace is the absence of violence. When you feel wronged, do you submit, or do you fight? If you fight you fight for justice. If you submit, it's because the violence is too much or those with the capacity for it are too strong, you would rather live a slave than die on your feet.

Ukrainians are fighting for justice, for self determination, and for a better tomorrow. Ukrainians are better Americans than we are because they have chosen to risk their lives rather than submit.

Peace must be due to justice, not submission. "Peace" due to submission is a false peace. It is the very definition of oppression.
Short term, or medium term?

Because short term survival means surrender, followed by the medium term getting conscripted by Putin as cannon fodder to go after the next country.
Easy to defend mega land with harsh winters (but not so harsh anymore as they were during those failed campaigns), especially when both defeated invading armies severely underestimated... cold weather. Nobody is really invading russia here, whole world just wants to be left alone from them, including all former soviet republics (funnily this includes Belarus too).

That's not saying anything about their offensive capabilities, which as whole world sees are a fraction of what was thought about them. They really are supremely ineffective, corrupt and lazy in numbers and levels that cripple whole war for them. They can't produce enough new armed vehicles and their stockpiles from cold war are running very thin as per independent satellite analyses, they use stolen motorbikes, donkeys and golf karts for troopers now (with corresponding death rate). Their nuclear weapons are just a guarantee they won't be attacked on Moscow conventionally or nuclear in any way, nothing more. As we see all other 'doctrines' and 'red lines' fell apart with long lasting incursion in Kursk so that was just an empty bullshit.

They know all this, their country is falling into inflation spiral which can easily end up with people's revolt and I believe puttin' realizes how fragile his relatively soft power grip on russia is. Plus he has positioned himself as an arbiter between various power clans within his hierarchy, not as a single supreme single ruler whom everybody fears for life like in North Korea for example. He desperately needs to finish this war within a year or two since he is an extremely paranoid person. But he has some sort of effective reach or control over orange man and we saw what we saw, who knows why.
You posted this 24 times. That's abusive. Please stop now.

Also, we ban accounts that cross into name-calling and personal attack, so please stop that too, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but humor me for a second.

Let's say that Putin is not the only person in Russian leadership who supports war with Ukraine. What then? I mean we get rid of Putin, and the next guy is worse.

I know. I know. That would never happen in a million years. But humor me. What then? Do we have a plan for "we took out Putin and it didn't change anything"?

Or is this whole thing just a fly by the seat of the pants kind of thing?
>What they're shutting down is (a meaningful part of) "their public and private cyber defense

This is were you are in the wrong, the decision is on dropping counter-offenses, not on turning off defenses, whatever that means, are they disabling firewalls?
I think it's more complicated than that, no? Ironic too, that when you look at the things this site's moderator permits to be discussed, it's a hot reaction to a television performance. Not one person here is like, citing an expert source, or discussing the history, or talking about forecasts based on something interesting or new. It's all bloviating.
What 'previous occupying regime'? You are not making much sense.
Washington's opinion might well have changed and, as noted in other comments, an armada of nuclear ICBMs does negate the distance that he referenced.

Regardless of the hypothetical, isn't it clear that Trump IS meddling and not following Washington's injunction? (Also applies to Israel/Gaza.)

In family and community (and internet) dynamics, meddling in other people's quarrels often leads to blowback. (Yes, I'm aware of the irony of making this comment on HN.) Is it really any different on the global stage?

My genuine question: What are the best criteria for deciding when getting involved is better than remaining on the sidelines? Do those criteria apply at both hyper-local and global scales, or this there a phase transition in applicability?
>What was actually going on?

I really hope that Zelensky doesn't arrive back home with a bad case of novichok or polonium.
>From what I gathered, people above a certain age say that their country was better under Soviet Union

Assuming this is true, it's because these are soviet leftovers who had a low education, were indoctrinated from a young age, and lived during the dream phase where you were told what to do, where to live, etc. Then came the bill when everything collapsed because this didn't work.
I can make everybody happy tomorrow by emptying the state coffers and institutionalizing national NEETDOM, can't promise our happiness will last long but we can try!
And regardless of what they think, it was shit.

Edit: about "why is Orban pro-putin?", this is a joke right?
I don't think Europe can or should ally with a country that is treating the Uyghurs the way it is, regardless of the geopolitics.

Trump is old, fat and infirm. Hopefully he will be gone soon and we return to some sort of sanity.
Show HN: Tracking President Trump's Executive Orders
Boring, but fully automated: scrapes the White House executive actions, grabs the HTML, converts to Markdown, and injects it into an .mdx file. Python runs the whole show. Also pings ChatGPT for a summary and tags for easier filtering.
you missed the part where he reproduced it in a number of other languages, and some where he was unable to reproduce it.
If we're talking about the Budapest Memorandum, cirumstances possibly changing are actually part of the treaty. The memorandum conditions the use of force against Ukraine, and makes provisions for what would happen if a party to the treaty or one of its allies attacks another party to the treaty (second and fifth point, one is about conventional response, the other about nuclear response):

> [The parties shall] refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

If memory serves right, Ukraine didn't invade Russia, and Russia is not under a UN mandate.
It's really not holding its own. The military situation is dire. Budanov accidentally let slip that they can keep going for another 6 months...1 month ago. That's probably about when a catastrophic line collapse will occur, if not sooner.

It's unlikely to become another Afghanistan because A) it does not have Afghanistan's superlative geography for hit and run attacks on supply chains and B) coz this war burned through Ukraine's best troops such that now mostly all they have left are TCC-kidnapped soldiers who would rather submit to Russia than fight.
Nobody in America knows what a Donbas or a Crimea is. These all sound like Russian places to me. The names of the places alone sound like they are none of America’s business.
> North Koreans aren't in Russia because Russia is out of guys. Putin just wants to avoid wider scale conscription/mobilization if he can help it and will take other options first

This is correct and shockingly obvious given the initial invasion used mercenaries. It's a straightforward exchange with an ally that benefits Russia the most and is great PR for NK, internally and locally.
Please stop spamming the thread with the same youtube links over and over.
> The idea that Israel - or AIPAC - is somehow in control of the US government is straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Not sure why you bring this up, but the facts are very clear. Previous US administration broke its own laws that prohibit them to supply weapons to parties engaged in gross violations of human rights and war crimes. Among many things, AIPAC even unsit a Jewish(!) congressman whose only crime was to mention that Palestinians deserve human rights and dignity.
~30% of voting age Americans voted for the current president. ~29% voted for the other option.
The only inevitability listed is that Putin can’t live forever. There’s legitimate hope if Russia has a leadership change.
Sadly this is the culture now at tech companies. All the data has to go through company servers, whether it makes technical sense or not

Pretty sure I flunked a system design question this reason. I was asked to design an online chat system. I asked of they wanted support for groups, they said no. So I gave them simple two way socket solution.

Apparently that wasn’t good enough, They wanted a full DB storing everyone’s conversations, that you could query, etc. I suspected it had nothing to do with any technical considerations. They just wanted that data.
If you'd like to get out of the weeds, "The Beauty of Games" by Frank Lantz (of Universal Paperclips fame) is a thought-provoking read. The basic premise is that games are the aesthetic experience of systems and reason, cause and effect. If dancing is your body's way to explore music, games are your brain's way to explore logic. A little academic, but pretty interesting!

The other thing I want to say is that game feedback should be taken with more than a grain of salt. The worst feedback I've ever received was on a handmade, physical roll-and-write that I gave someone for free. Gamer culture is strongly opinionated and quick to hyperbole... but not always right.
Trump's approach is probably going to work partially in the short term. - The US is very powerful, a lot of countries are reliant on them, so bullying can be used to extract benefits. They got their plane thingy with Colombia, Mexico didn't react much to the preludes of military action against the cartels. The US could annex the Panama Canal and Greenland.

There's a reason why hawks like Bolton and Cheney are against it. It harms US interests in the mid-to-long-term. To me it seems like the Trump adminstration is a) trying to distract from their domestic agenda and b) isolate the US internationally and create new external foes to justify domestic changes.
Yeah this study is pretty bad and I expect to unfortunately be hearing about it in corporate trainings in 10 years.

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Anyone downvoting me should go read this study. The number of individuals exposed to the initial dose is in the single digits. There is no attempt to account for confounding variables. No mechanism is known that could account for the proposed effect. The preceding animal study they referenced has been HEAVILY criticized for methodological issues.
Do you know if there's also been similar research looking into the effects of victims of violence, specifically female rape victims? Having previously been married to a survivor of sexual violence in her teens, I hope similar work is being done to fully understand the gravity of these kinds of events on humans.
But he literally has it all in all but name.

He can have direct access to any of the big billionaires’ finances, DOGE is restructuring money left and right. 2.4 billion go into the SpaceX for an FAA contract, who’s to say a billion of that doesn’t go to Trump related businesses.

We’ve seen it happen where foreign dignitaries stay at Trump hotels when visiting DC, etc

There’s just no point in having it under Trump’s name, but if he wishes - he could be the first trillionaire
These are verified charities list.

Help Ukraine: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/wiki/charities/?share_id=xG...

Dont buy from Companies doing business with Russia:
https://leave-russia.org/
> getting conscripted by Putin as cannon fodder to go after the next country.

Is it not just speculation? Does it have any merits? Would he do it? What makes you think that it is going to happen, that he wants to do it? Could he actually attempt to do it?
RIP longmont potion castle
Yes, it hasn't been long enough for any real effects to start being felt, even though it's felt like an eternity.
Fico in Slovakia is a hopefully crumbling anomaly- the previous governement (while a bit unstable) donated a lot of material, including a criticalzly needed S-300 battery and Mig-29 jets. And even with all the Ficos rambling, Slovakia is making good money selling artillery (both SPGs and ammo) to Ukraine.
Also, the Sidebery extension for Firefox is great for vertical tabs.
You need studies to show that peace & stability support greater productivity and wealth?

Likely as it is that research can indeed confirm this, given the depth & tone of your inquiry, perhaps the most immediate convincing experiment would be best: find someone you can employ to harass and threaten your property and your person, occasionally to devastating effect, alongside another person who can study your productivity and wealth before and after.

Perhaps with further similar efforts here you can even persuade some people to volunteer for half of that project free of charge.
The mention of "could barely ssh in" reminds me of a situation in grad school where our group had a Sun UltraSparc 170 (IIRC) with 1GB HD and 128 or 256 MB of RAM, shared by maybe 8 people in a small research group relating to parallel and distributed processing. Keep in mind, Sun machines were rarely rebooted, ever.

So I guess the new user / student was trying to do things in parallel to speed things up when they chopped up their large text file into N (32 or 64) sections based on line number (not separate files), and then ran N copies of perl in parallel, each processing its own set of lines from that one file.

Not only did you have a large amount (for back then) of RAM used by N copies of the perl interpreter (separate processes, not threads, mind you!) processing its data, as well, any attempt to swap was interleaved with frantic seeking to a different section of the same file to read a few more lines for one of N processes stalled on IO. Also, probably the Jth process had to read J/N of the entire file to get to its section. So the first section of the file was read N times, the next N-1, then N-2, etc.

We (me and the fellow-student-trusted-as-sysadmin who had the root password) couldn't even get a login prompt on the console. Luckily, I had a logged-in session (ssh from an actual x-terminal - a large-screen "dumb" terminal), and "su" prompted for a password after 20-30 minutes of running it. After another 5-10 minutes, we had a root session and were able to run top and figure out what was going on. Killing the offending processes (after trying to contact the user) restored the system back to normal.

Edit: forgot to say: had the right idea, but totally didn't understand the system's limitations. It was SEVERELY I/O limited with that hard drive and relatively low RAM, so just processing the data linearly would have easily been the best approach unless the amount of data to be kept would have gotten too large.
I am aware of the long history we have with Europe and how it came to be. Yet I am in the present and I no longer care what we look like to the rest of the world. I see problems at home and these are far more concerning to me then Russia taking over Europe. China is a much bigger enemy of America's in the Pacific. We should be focusing our defense spending there. Let Europe stand for Europe.

No matter what happens America will be blamed and shamed, we didn't spend enough, we didn't xxxx enough, if only America had done yyyy zzzz wouldn't have happened, and on and on. So I am all for putting Americas interests first.

Also I find your last sentence to be the antithesis of what I am talking about. Why does America look weak? Wouldn't Europe look much weaker??? It feels like gaslighting, like someone will call you names so you need to come and die for us! It gets old.
You might find this interesting https://pod.link/1544487624/episode/fca68c3a2a51c5cdeb29a546...