For your own safety do not read or be advised by Ed Zitron. By all means skip the SpaceX ipo if you like: makes sense. But Ed is neither perceptive nor correct historically.
Case in point: a lockup period ending matching with mandated index fund buying is emphatically good for IPO buyers: it adds liquidity to a major cliff every IPO company faces: liquidity seeking by insiders on a schedule.
Now it may be bad for axed buyers like pension funds but buy side liquidity coming in to a company is always good for existing shareholders. Reading Ed would make you think the opposite.
> a major cliff every IPO company faces: liquidity seeking by insiders on a schedule.
LOL, so the insiders can dump their shares. This is exactly What Zitron says. Maybe we should have Mark Karpeles' or SBF's opinion on this matter, too.
I agree the cost curve has shifted. But if we take the Mozilla team's Mythos report as a broad baseline, you need to hire something like 10 security engineers to equal the Mythos productivity. Put another way, everyone's under hiring security by a LOT right now, we just have been lucky enough to see similar under hiring on hackers.
Nice to see more literature on HN recently -- Infinite Jest came up yesterday to my delight.
Pale Fire is not my favorite Nabokov novel, largely because it's so successful at getting you in the head of someone who just fully and completely gives you the ick, top to bottom, in nearly every sentence.
This paper is awesome, though. I particularly like that Mr. Rowberry went ahead and graphed a bunch of connections, very cool.
That said, I don't think he mentions and definitely does not dive deeply into a very hypertext-y thing Nabokov did which was to write his novels using 4x6 cards. He reportedly would shuffle them and deal them out during production/finishing of his novels.
It reminds me of Zettelkasten a little, although the shuffling would be verboten to Zettelkasten practitioners. Either way, managing a novel through 4x6 cards makes me think most of his novels would be amenable to some sort of graph analysis / linking.
It's easy to imagine Pale Fire written this way, but I have a hard time imagining say Ada or Ardor written this way, I think largely because it's so long, but also because the scenes themselves are longer than I imagine can be written on notecards. But, maybe he used them for key points, images, scene goals.. lots of possibilities.
I actually saw a little excerpt of a video interview that I failed to find to give you the link where he was asked about his current project. He showed a stack of cards that became Ada and talked about the main theme being passage of time
Shuffling zk (Zettelkasten) cards is just fine. [1] The meaning of a note is largely determined by its connections, and so approaching a note through a different set of connections gives it a different meaning. Finding new paths uncovers new meanings, which is at least one of the zk points. Shuffling cards is one way you might find new paths.
[1] If you have physical cards you are destroying the default hierarchical path if you shuffle them and that could be a pain in arse to reconstruct, and your ability to find a note with physical cards also depends on the hierarchy. Digital cards have different problems.
Yep. I'm a purist and prefer paper. Well, mostly. I do have a digital system that tries to bridge the gap, but it uses a standard-ish paper numbering system (1a2b11..) for a variety of reasons. And, yes, the keeping in order is much of the point of the numbering system on paper in my opinion.
i had a second reading, and i am convinced it is the greatest work of Art. a lot of people, myself included, bit the ruse that Kinbote was some parody of a mad man and ignored everything but the poem. but the notes have the most beautiful verses in the history of literature, even more beautiful, far more beautiful than the poem.
spoiler: it is just one mind (solipsism). it deals with all kinds of dysphoria, especially gender and temporal (age). Nabokov misdirects away from psychoanalysis with the Freudian hate, but the Jung anima/animus and shadow are obvious. for historiographical background, Nabokov's brother died in the Holocaust where he was taken for being homosexual, and dealt at the time with both the Red and Lavender Scare of McCarthyism. there is a full stanza in the poem about Shade shaving his/her leg. and the, depending on context, hilarious or melancholic references to the loss of "crown jewels". references to "complications of an operation" as well. it is plausible that all of this is a product of Aunt Maud's dementia, where we see Maud's "handsome" lover (older woman) and patron welcomed by Shade in his birthday.
the "dual" in dual blue is in the context of chess puzzles where there are two solutions when one is ideal. indeed the novel was set up to show a most brilliant set up of stealing the "Pale Fire" of the poem into the "Pale Fire" of the novel with notes, and this still holds regardless whether it is all Professor Botkin and Kinbote his mind's reflection in the "mirrorland" of Zembla (which is the pre-Soviet Russia in Nabokov's head that no longer exist).
to me, of all Pale Fire derivatives such as Infinite Jest (a nod to lifting a title from Shakespeare) by Wallace, Gravity's Rainbow by Nabokov's student at Cornell who in a previous work "borrowed" Nabokov's Sebastian Knight, and Danielewski's House of Leaves, Danielewski succeeds in emulating Nabokov's most delicate romanticism above a semiotician's sensibilities, especially in exploring the archetypal in the architectural through Bachelard and Derrida.
but after my second reading, none of its echoes could compare to the original arrant thief.
if you are open to other forms, as someone who is a disciple of Godard and Kubrick, who organized viewing and discussion of 2001 with students and faculty, i can say that the animated work Sonny Boy is a direct adaptation of Pale Fire (i.e. a solipsist dysphoria) and surpasses the masters of cinema and animation (Shingo Natsume's mentor is the peerless genius Masaaki Yuasa) with his cinematic "grammar". i am on my phone and will update this with references from the book once i get my laptop (i only use hn with my phone).
i wish i could quote Kinbote's diss on those who read the poem and stopped at that. after my second read i felt completely bamboozled and could hear Nabokov's prerecorded snorts echoing through time just to ridicule my myopic mind.
> but the notes have the most beautiful verses in the history of literature, even more beautiful, far more beautiful than the poem.
An example, perhaps?
I've always found the poem full of beautiful things (makes you wish Nabokov wrote more poetry), and the commentary by Kinbote full of mad, hilarious nonsense. But each to his own, I suppose.
a pleasure! like i said, my first reading echoes yours and most others. my second reading echoes Nabokov's derisive snort towards the first. all the same, both deal with the dual-ity of objective/subjective, both within the poem (real/reflection) and without (canonical/interpretation). here abridged, Nabokov reveals the temporal dysphoria embodied by King Kinbote and his wife Queen Disa, as well as the self-hatred of gender dysphoria culminating into self-realization and the most delicate expression of self-compassion:
There was something else, something I was to realize only when I read Pale Fire, or rather reread it after the first bitter hot mist of disappointment had cleared before my eyes.
I am thinking of lines in which Shade describes his wife. Sixty-year-old Shade is lending here a well-conserved coeval the ethereal and eternal aspect she retains, or should retain, in his kind noble heart. Disa at thirty bore a singular resemblance not, of course, to Mrs. Shade, but to the idealized and stylized picture painted by the poet. Actually it was idealized and stylized only in regard to the older woman; in regard to Queen Disa, as she was that afternoon on that blue terrace, it represented a plain unretouched likeness. I trust the reader appreciates the strangeness of this, because if he does not, there is no sense in writing poems, or notes to poems, or anything at all.
The heart of his dreaming self, both before and after the rupture, made extraordinary amends. Worries assumed her image in the subliminal world as a battle or a reform becomes a bird of wonder in a tale for children. Her image, as she entered and re-entered his sleep, took into account changes of fashion; but the Disa wearing the dress he had seen on her the summer of the Glass Works explosion, or last Sunday, or in any other antechamber of time, forever remained exactly as she looked on the day he had first told her he did not love her.
The dream was a constant refutation of his not loving her.
this is the greatest verse in the history of literature. the greatest of sensibilities expressed in any form. it presents Kinbote as self-evident reality (simulacrum), not Professor V. Botkin's nor Nabokov's delusion, that allows Shade to paint Disa from Sybil. the same Kinbotes serenading Disas by a hospice bedside, by a photograph, by a mirror, by a grave. i switched the order for effect, as the last bit about self-compassion is a genius dual negative sleight of hand. the bit about writing poems echoes an interview with Robert Frost (whose symbolist poetry Shade reflects and Kinbote subverts): "If poetry isn’t understanding all, the whole world, then it isn’t worth anything." here is some mad, hilarious nonsense from Kimbote lampooning Eystein's trompe l'oeil replacing a painting with what was painted:
Eystein had resorted to a weird form of trickery: he would insert one which was really made of the material elsewhere imitated by paint. This device had something ignoble about it and disclosed not only an essential flaw in Eystein's talent, but the basic fact that "reality" is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.
the notes are far more beautiful than the poem for the fact that replacing Disa with Sybil is replacing a painting with what was painted, where Disa is the "plain unretouched likeness" of Shades' painting, and without Kinbote's mad, hilarious nonsense the poem is a mere "idealized and stylized picture." without Kinbote, Shade merely licks the symbols of Frost on the windowpane. because Kinbote is the Shadow of the symbol slain, uniting the viewer and the view.
imagine subverting the greatest symbolist poet with the invention of postmodern simulacrum before it was cool.
Bonus:
The shock had fatally starred the mirror, and thenceforth in his dreams her image was infected with the memory of that confession as with some disease or the secret aftereffects of a surgical operation too intimate to be mentioned.
i have more to write on this, but it is also auto-biographical.
the fact is it was thanks to sleuthing over the Sonny Boy settei materials (https://github.com/sonnyboysettei/official), ultimately making the connection to Pale Fire, which led me to look for the Japanese version of Pale Fire, which explains so much about Sonny Boy. especially the concept of "rendaku" (muddied voice, or mediated "rendered (renda) reality") where, interestingly, waxwing is "renjaku", which led me to the solipsist Jungian interpretation of Mizuho's Grandma Nozomi with dementia (see the Go-Old glasses image of Nozomi) cradling her most treasured images of herself, as Aunt Maud
it has to do with Thrice of Evangelion, of Hideaki Anno and staff saying "Goodbye, All of Evangelion", and Shingo Natsume directing the music video for the song that says "DON'T SAY GOODBYE" Thrice, except at the end where the line was repeated another time. this is rather mindblowing to me personally. and i also found freaky references to my published works, even my "name" on the Sonny Boy credits, that while i rationally establish as pure "Stand Alone Complex" coincidence (unrelated individuals that never interacted with each other ending up the same due to syncing with the "Culture Industry"/consuming the same media)
i'll notify you if you're interested/also a fan of Sonny Boy/Pale Fire.
it makes sense, because Sonny Boy is also the "masc" version of Revolutionary Girl Utena, who borrowed many images from Pale Fire, especially of a bird crashing into the reflected sky of a windowpane, and you can see this as a main motif in Sonny Boy of birds. i'm not sure if i'm the first to make the connection with Pale Fire, but it is something that i arrived on my own, as someone who has a personal history with Pale Fire (quoting "smudge of ashen fluff" in my ... juvenile last words some time ago) and as someone who was influenced by Evangelion to the same apocalyptic degree as Shingo Natsume. one can say it was Sonny Boy is an arrant thief whose Pale Fire he stole from the sun of Utena, who stole from Pale Fire. but Sonny Boy has 4-fold (well imagine a a picture folded in half, twice, which divides the picture into quadrants) the cinematic grammar complexity of Kubrick's 2001, which i held viewings and discussions with students and faculty who wrote a book about it.
that one made me laugh so much. also the whole Eystein thing was genius. here, mad, hilarious nonsensical Kimbote lampoons replacing a "painting of an object" with the "real object" itself:
Eystein had resorted to a weird form of trickery: he would insert one which was really made of the material elsewhere imitated by paint. This device had disclosed the basic fact that "reality" is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.
A portrait representing a former Keeper of the Treasure, decrepit Count Kernel, who was painted with fingers resting lightly on an embossed and emblazoned box whose side facing the spectator consisted of an inset oblong made of real bronze, while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut. The receptacle, an oblong hole in the wall, was there all right; it contained nothing, however, except the broken bits of a nutshell.
The shock had fatally starred the mirror, and thenceforth in his dreams her image was infected with the memory of that confession as with some disease or the secret aftereffects of a surgical operation too intimate to be mentioned.
Bonus (Golf):
Lass, see Mass.
Mass, Mars, Mare, see Male.
Male, see Word golf.
Word golf, S 's predilection for it, 819; see Lass.
Man I hate that AI writing tic. I appreciate the instincts for sharing the workflow. It's still very difficult to get AI to put an info dense description together though, we tend to get long and vague.
Having a guaranteed audio channel makes this so much cooler for exploits -- you can exfiltrate over audio!! I love it. I wonder how many of these were sold. I also imagine based on Creative's response (this is fine) that many other devices in the class have similar security models in place. Def scary.
I somehow hadn't even considered Bluetooth as an option when I read the headline, I immediately thought about INFILTRATING via audio, which also sounds insanely cool, but I couldn't possibly wrap my head around how an audio circuit would have to be set up and connected back to the cpu to pull that off.
Exfiltrating via audio also brings to mind one of those devices I really wanted to build ~20 years ago that can listen to the inside of a room by bouncing a laser beam off a window. Van pulls up in front of your house, pushes malicious code via bluetooth to speaker, which starts shrieking data it stole from the host that's then picked up by the vibrations it emparts on a window by a laser beam. Boom, crypto wallet stolen, or something... you could probably put that in a movie.
I'm old enough to have visually parsed the headline as "PC speaker" at first, and wondered what kind of amazing phreaking was going to drive the built-in speaker as a microphone and somehow get ingress into the computer. :-)
Yeah the headline isn't as interesting when truthful. I've never owned a "speaker" that plugs into USB. Only the good old analog audio jack, or a USB to toslink adapter that is purely a one-way stream.
Let's not. There's enough overcomplicated nonsense examples of cybersecurity in movies as it is. If you could compromise a device via bluetooth, then you could exfiltrate data via bluetooth just as easily.
It's not completely unrealistic angle, you could pwn the speaker when someone is traveling with it in public and then exfiltrate data when it's plugged in a secure environment and you can't connect anymore
you could but I think the inclusion of lasers would make for a better spy / cyberpunk movie. Most "hacking" in movies are not realistic and for show but it being plausible is just a bonus.
That would've been a cool PoC to work on as well, but seems a fair bit more complicated than the BadUSB-style attack I ended up doing. Would've had to do a lot more RE to figure out how to interact with the whole microphone subsystem, I think.
Nice. That latency is tough though. On that topic, I wrote an equivalent "magic mirror" type tool that lets you write to the mirror/oracle/VLM on the remarkable and get an answer back.
A few possible solutions I explored:
1) You can try and consume (and possibly write to) the frame buffer directly. https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer was my starting point. This gets you instant updates about what's going on. I guess you could pair this with speculative decoding to get a much faster output.
2) You can use the streaming API on the device to stream the screen to a beefy server, possibly over Tailscale, letting you do everything off device.
3) You can write your own Qt app; ddvk's repos are a good starting point here.
I ultimately instructed claude to write me my own app. Which worked enough to scratch my itch, and I never use it. But this was five months ago, an eternity in vibe hobby projects, so perhaps modern tooling would let me get it in shape and be more usable. Basically, it worked, but VLMs weren't great at what I wanted -- decorating a blank page with a grimoire-style answer to a written question while leaving the original text alone -- and getting it started / stopped from the pen UI is difficult.
Where my mind goes for your project is that I think it'd be nicest to keep a sort of Jupyter notebook somewhere that's the canonical representation, that would have your handwritten blocks and an interpretation, and then the output. then a render layer to get it back onto the screen. At that point, I don't think I'd care very much if it's stored as a PDF on the device, which points back to having this be an app.
Either way it's fun to tinker! the RM line is very hackable, and I still wish it were even easier, the hardware just makes you think of so many possibilities.
I vibe coded hn10k earlier this year. You could choose to see pages with comments only started by 1k+, 10k+ or 100k+ karma contributors. I'm too lazy to keep it up, but I found 1k and 10k both to be better experiences than "vanilla".
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