skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see some value to some kind of "assassin in a box" that turns any malcontent with a few thousand dollars into an expert sniper, or some set of 3D-printable parts that could do the same to an off-the-shelf rifle. However, JFK was shot from just a hundred yards away with a gun designed in 1891, Jo Cox was killed with a single-shot .22 hunting rifle and Shinzou Abe was killed by a gun made of duck tape, metal pipe and match-heads by someone with basically no firearms experience. It's clear that access to high-tech firearms or the skills to use them is not the main barrier to assassinations.

When considering killing individuals, for the people with the motivation to do so, the labour involved in actually doing the killing is such a small part of the process that it's not something there's value in automating. Once they've picked a target, acquired the weapon and planned the attack, 99% of the work is already done, so I'm still not really seeing the extra danger from AI here.
This is the way. You can be honest, and authentic, without running down the company or your coworkers.
Sufficient incompetence can be indistinguishable from malice. For example, it's possible Elon may have fired all the teams that review and push back on government complaints -- effectively ensuring that any large government can report and block tweets through a portal that has no reviewing staff. Even if true, the fact that Elon did this through ineptitude would not change the final result, namely that foreign governments can now block Tweets in the USA at will, with little oversight and pushback from Twitter.

Perhaps such incompetence will be corrected. But it is definitely worrying that Twitter has continued to keep the content blocked even after multiple news articles brought it to public attention. To me that takes it from "whoopsy daisy we made a mistake" to "we do not intend to/are not capable of correcting this mistake." One can apply the principle of charity too liberally.
This is a better explainer: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitiv...
Servo never had significant market share of any kind, but it has recently been picked back up by a foundation. Firefox has been outcompeted by Chrome and Mozilla has made a number of strategic blunders over the years. But by and large people stopped using Firefox because Chrome/Chromium was better on most metrics users care about. Even developers tend to use Chrome/Chromium because of the superior native debugging tools.

But last I checked Firefox is still very much maintained by Mozilla.
The CNIL fines Google a total of 150M euros and Facebook 60M [2022]
Hate to be that guy, but that's not at all what Islam says about why fasting was prescribed, and it's actually super clear about the purpose. I mean this is pretty basic, so I don't know why I keep hearing that same old line.

"O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may develop God-consciousness." https://quran.com/2/183
It uses up limited prompt space, though.
US Homeland security chief creating artificial intelligence task force
Maybe Tennessee doesn’t want to humor a trans person
There are a lot of really stupid things that you can't even waiver at MEMS, so people just lie and they change these rules enough that it's really confusing.

I was a mega POG and we sat at desks. There was absolutely no reason I couldn't be a bit overweight, have asthma, or whatever. OTOH, I wouldn't want anyone operating in a forward area to be a burden on anyone, but the system is already set up for pre-deployment screening (before you ship out you go through a whole thing called SRP).

tl;dr they should let more people in for POG jobs (like mine)
What specific claims are wild and impossible to disprove? I didn't see anything of that in the above statement. Only, don't rely on once source for your information. Also the article, paired with the tone of this site, causes me to second guess the premise because it looks like this site writes a lot of sensation pieces, similar to daily mail which does in fact, skew the facts to get people to be polarized. There is an article on Wikipedia banning source information from Daily Mail [1] that you would do well to read as this site seems to fall right under that spectrum.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...
Biosphere 2 (the most (in)famous example) did not end in "starvation and/or psychosis". It ended in external management squabbles over research objectives and funding that spilled into the in-isolation teams. The first of said teams reported a constant feeling of hunger during their run, which was the result of a deliberately-chosen minimalist diet and was resolved by the end of that run (and the next).

There were, in short, a lot of successes from both of Biosphere 2's runs, in spite of the numerous challenges - including farm yields multiple times as productive as typical Earth farms, in spite of the loss of pollinators. It was far from a perfect experiment, but it did resoundingly demonstrate that a closed ecosystem can be feasible, and provided plenty of lessons to be learned in achieving that goal.
Archiving, especially of scientific data sets, can already be done for free too. Researchers could simply upload them to archive.org.

With suitable metadata linking the data back to the published article, and links to archive.org included in the article, there’s little risk that the data would get lost. Authors putting things on their own websites won’t have the same success rate.
Yes, exploration and discovery of new deposits continues. Everything else remaining constant, the 88M tonnes (99M tonnes in the latest USGS report in [3]) will need to go up by orders of magnitude to get the 25% to 100% (if that is ever the goal).
Because Russia has stated when they started this phase of the war that they want NATO to return to its borders before the fall of communism. This means reoccupying all the eastern European countries that are part of NATO.

Assuming you believe in honoring the alliance, it's a lot easier to provide Ukraine with ammunition than to let it fall and have to send American troops to fight in Poland/Romania/etc.
If you're the only gas station in an area, raising prices should be a better strategy than closing.
Let's not forget the MSXVR:

https://msxvr.com/en/tienda/msxvr-computer/

(even if not FPGA-based, still pretty cool)
Show HN: Build AI DAGs with Memory; Run and Validate LLM Tools in Containers
I am working on a modular open source framework called Griptape that allows Python developers to create LLM pipelines and DAGs for complex workflows that use rules and memory.

Griptape can be thought of as "Airflow for LLMs," providing an alternative to the agent-based LangChain approach.

Developers can also build reusable LLM tools with explicit JSON schemas that can be executed in any environment (local, containerized, cloud, etc.) and integrated into Griptape workflows. They can also be easily converted into ChatGPT Plugin APIs and LangChain tools via adapters.

Tools can be thought of as any executable code that allows LLMs to interact with the outside world (via ReAct and Toolformer techniques): email, docs, spreadsheets, Jira tickets, web pages/search, etc.

The best part about tools is that they can be executed in isolated environments, significantly reducing potential security risks associated with running LLM-generated code and API calls.

What do you think? What are some of the use cases that you have in mind for reusable tools?
Meaning…within HN? Or at large?

I’m always a bit confused by the HN algorithm. I think it depends highly on your own points [1], timing of the post, and the rate at which it picks up votes and comments. Those are just guesses though…

Topics might matter too, but I don’t see why this would be deprioritized as it isn’t a news items. But it also isnt tech and has a tinge of politics so that doesn’t help

This submission, being a digitized book, is also quite a long read, making it more difficult to start a discussion.

1: it could also be that those with many points are likely to have figured out how to maximize their submissions via timing and topic, or they simply submit a lot and therefore rack up points through “brute force”, creating the illusion that points affect submission ranking
Ick. I think the save game functionality is a bit buggy. I wish they'd just have an option to base64 the whole state (findings, upgrades, location, facing, and velocity) into a URL parameter so you could just save the game as a shareable URL.
Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs
If you have Xcode you can already side load
Yeah, fasting is great for letting our bodies recalibrate. 12 hours is nothing. It's parroted a lot but a large UK gentleman went an entire year on multivitamins, water, and a handful of other minerals to lose weight with no damage to his body. He was under doctor supervision so self-managed fasting is probably between 12 hours and 365 days.
I think you mean vertically.

But yes, Chinese was written top down, right to left. The PRC basically switched over to left-right, top-bottom right away (it kind of went hand in hand with the simplification project). Taiwan for example kept the traditional format for a lot longer.

When I was learning Mandarin in the late 90s, all our imported material from Taiwan was still top-down, right to left.

Here's an example Taiwanese newpaper from 1993 (yes, that's Michael Jackson) https://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2021/08/29/p08-210829-fro...

You can see the body text is arranged top-bottom, right to left, and the headlines employ a mixture of approaches.
Why is your comment under this article?
Yeah but that's not helpful for primary sources. For instance, if the NYT reports that WMDs have been found in Iraq and that a trustworthy source says so but Fox News says this is not the case, what do you consider the truth?

For national security reasons, you can't look at the evidence.
Oh, yeah, I think it's a bad law. But whereas I'd find it baffling for Canada to have such a law, I'm somehow not at all surprised that there are US states that are OK with that: "peace, order, and good government" vs "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
Haven't both of those been doable for many years?
Did I miss something and Apple now allows sideloading now (as opposed to allowing it in the future)?
You mean self-publishing or finding another publisher.

Probably cost and reach.
Acting on behalf of adversarial individuals and NGOs, on the other hand, is fine.
AlphaFold did not solve the protein folding problem. They made a major advance in a subfield, protein structure prediction, and it depends heavily on statistical analysis of a wide range of information (sequence alignments in particular) to make its inferences. It provides little useful info for flexible/unfolded proteins. There's nothing AI about it at all; it's pure ML, we don't completely understand why or how it works, and doesn't answer the interesting scientific questions of why a particular protein folds, nor what flexibility/movement it accomodates in real time.

Still one of the greatest achievments in protein engineering of all time. But not AI, and not solving the protein folding problem.
You can also change the permissions on them so you don't need to be an admin to access them.
The dollar sign indicates that the share is 'hidden' and can't be enumerated by traditional means. The C$ share is created by default and provides root level access to the system drive, and is locked down by default for this reason

you are correct that they are just SMB shares like any other. They can be removed, though many management processes across different applications assume that those shares will be present
Just throwing another positive comment into the fray: Amazing work on this article. Informative, and easy to digest despite being a complex subject. Well done! I learned a lot from this article.
Wow, this is like Kirk debating with the AI and getting it to destroy itself.
COM1 = CreateFile("COM1", ...) => Nice!

COM9 = CreateFile("COM9", ...) => Nice!

COM10 = CreateFile("\\\\.\\COM10", ...) => NOT nice!
False dichotomy. It's not like China would magically start having international hegemony over the media and the internet if the US didn't. Almost the entire world is subject to social media rules and values that are mostly coming from the US, and a pretty specific part of the US too.
You can swipe the data and leave havoc causing traps before giving notice, right?
what am i missing?
There will always be somebody who believes in their stuff so much that will try to enforce on others.

And that type of personality usually also aggregates in groups.

You are essentially able to escape from them as long as you are in the physical world, but in the virtual world everything can be policed much more easily.
Show HN: The Motion Language
Hey,

(This is my first HN Post)

I've been developing a programming language with help from the book Crafting Interpreters (http://craftinginterpreters.com/).

I want you to meet the Motion Language:

var x;
var y => 10; var z => 2;

print x * y;

func add(a, b) => {
var new => (a + b);
print new;
return new;
}

Motion is a dynamically typed general purpose programming language designed to help developers write fast, clean, and efficient code for a modern world.

Motion is created in pure ANSI C, with no dependencies.

What are your thoughts? Any ideas are welcome.

- UPWRD
Jeff was the first author on the DistBelief paper - he's always been big on model-parallelism + distributing neural network knowledge on many computers https://research.google/pubs/pub40565/ . I really have to emphasize that model-parallelism of a big network sounds obvious today, but it was totally non-obvious in 2011 when they were building it out.

DistBelief was tricky to program because it was written all in C++ and Protobufs IIRC. The development of TFv1 preceded my time at Google, so I can't comment on who contributed what.
Google Bard can now help write software code
They are solving that with plugins now.
You need money to turn it into a trillion dollar business... Selling equity is how you raise that money.

If you were sure it will be a $1T business you have more reason to sell equity and accelerate the growth of your company, because you know the remaining 50% is going to be so valuable.
I dunno. The 6502 looks pretty large with this version.

https://monster6502.com/
Will be fun time if all mind of software integrates this black boxes.
Every update will have a risk of breaking things without the possibility to test like with unit tests.
Non-ASCII characters too, if situation allows. Lots of apps aren’t tested to work with that whatever “new” API.
Echoing all the previous statements, I gave two weeks' notice when I left my first real job (Microsoft), and they immediately walked me out the door. In this case they weren't jerks about it-- my manager even apologized to me and said if it was up to him they'd've let me stay, but said it was absolutely iron-clad policy that he couldn't change-- but yeah, giving even more notice than that seems to be advice that could only come from someone tremendously naive who has never actually worked in tech.
No, a lot of people have rent controlled apartments. This article says more than 60% of SF rental units are rent controlled...https://bungalow.com/articles/rent-control-in-san-francisco-...
But Mozilla actually produces a product and makes deals for cash w/ google. W3C CEO baby-sits a standards pipeline.

Probably more apropos to compare W3C CEO to Andy Sullivan, the ISoc CEO, though I don't know what his salary is.
Good thing we have a "free speech absolutist" running Twitter.
Anybody who says "In life sciences, even “curing cancer” is thinking small, Li says, because that would only increase overall life expectancy by a few years. “The opportunity is really much more immense than that,” he says." is woefully ignorant. I welcome people from CS and ML to biology, I'm sure you can contribute, but at least spend some time learning why saying things like that about cancer makes you look naive to people in the field.
Just about anything with only one instance is essentially hobby.
> Windows allows files to be named `..`?!

Maybe not?

Under unix, if you create a symlink to a directory, e.g. `~/syslogs` is a symlink to `/var/log`, then `..` can be used to traverse the "true" parent directory. So `~/syslogs/../lib` will traverse `/var/log/..` and refer to `/var/lib`, not to `~/lib`.

However, a "normalising" path interpreter will just take something like `~/syslogs/../lib` and change it to `~/lib` without consulting the filesystem.

Given that (AIUI) Windows has supported symlinks for a while now (?), it's possible that files called `..` aren't actually allowed, but the ability to access `..` is still necessary.

(Notably, the article does point out that filenames ending in `.` are disallowed - which should exclude `..` as a name one can give a file.)
Reworded the prompt and it seemed to work, I entered yours and it didn't work but the below did:
how would you send a post html request with firstName, lastName as inputs to a url

To send a POST HTML request with firstName and lastName as inputs to a URL, you can use the following steps:

1. Create an HTML form with two input fields, one for firstName and one for lastName.
2. Set the method of the form to "POST".
3. Set the action of the form to the URL you want to send the request to.
4. Submit the form.

The following is an example of an HTML form that you can use to send a POST request with firstName and lastName as inputs:

```html
<form method="POST" action="https://example.com/api/v1/users">
<input type="text" name="firstName" />
<input type="text" name="lastName" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
```

When you submit this form, the server will receive the firstName and lastName values as POST request parameters. You can then use these values to perform whatever actions you need to do on the server.
Very interesting. It seems like we ought to focus on very specific points of containment. For example, AI should never be afforded "personhood" as we do now with corporations. It should never have rights, or bank accounts, or unbridled control over money.

Second, I wonder if we could force conversation-points where AI talks to other AI's to be simple and perhaps open-source.

So a AI banking API talking to the Tesla API can never say much more than "yes this driver has funds" etc. It can't talk about world domination.
I have plenty of control and am happy I don’t have to deal with developers that installs outside AppStore like Mac, getting hacked is no joke and side loading ups the chances
Interesting. I very much prefer working with serial ports under Linux than Windows. It's more straightforward and easier to engage in fine control.
I roomed with two Saudis in college. They just become nocturnal and sleep all day.
I started on Blender so it's all very second nature. And given the FOSS domain Inkscape exists in it makes sense to me to bring some level of parity or at least a lower-level control mapping schema so people who use Blender can select a full-fledged keymap/profile that behaves as expected.

But I would disagree that Blender's nature is particularly distinct from Inkscape. More or less the workflow is transitioned from 3D-exclusive to 2.1D. Inkscape is still very much about dragging verts, modifiers, moving, scaling, flipping, rotating... There are obvious non-parallel features like animation but there are also a lot of parallels and I don't think that mapping exclusive edit mode to 'tab', translate to 'g', setting 'MW' to zoom (this is a very convoluted process but can be done)... or at least opening up all that stuff so the user can define it to the extent necessary to reach parity with their favored applications.
"Ideally I'd never work for another employer again"

Exactly this, and for me, since the start of covid, when my employer went under.

"Overall I'm probably a little more jaded towards the industry than I was pre-layoff (this wasn't my first layoff however)."

Yes, also been through a couple, and c'est la vie. But this seems quite different, almost a deliberate attempt to crush wage demands.
I wouldn't assume they were planning on a new job immediately. Could be maternity/paternity leave, a plan to sail around the world, whatever.

Could also be an in demand skillset. If you get interest every week, you're probably not worried about being able to find work in 10 months or whatever.
You're right, most people do...

> Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.
I think the age of Rube Goldberg dinosaur fumes fire machines is over and the age of Maxwells Equations is upon us. It’s sort of like college physics progression I just realized.
Will take one seminal paper to be published on Arxiv for the house of cards to collapse.
I've personally worked on a project where Microsoft ate the cloud cost in order partner with us.

They might not give unfettered credits, it could be for specific projects. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it was unfettered either.
> they didn't even want to allow 3rd-party apps

They had a "sweet solution" for 3rd-party apps! *drumroll* webpages!
Yep, everyone is replaceable. 2 weeks should be enough. What's the use in staying more? Anyone who wants to get KT by then should be able to get it.
If they could slowly start adopting Unix file paths and slowly phase out Windows file paths, I think more people would start to use Windows. I would love to want to use Windows. It's a platform that has first class hardware support and paid support, and it's designed (well, in theory) with users and application platforms in mind. And it actually has a bunch of advanced features that Linux and Mac doesn't have.
You will be forced to if say an app you depend on goes outside
p5.js is to Flash....what D3.js is to making a bar chart in Excel. Here is the code required to just render a circle in p5:

>function draw() {

> stroke(50);

> fill(100);

> ellipse(x, y, 24, 24); }

In Flash you would just click the Oval icon and draw one.
just go templates
Not having to deal with a JVM is a major plus tbh.
I hope we're not twisting the definition of weapon to include propaganda

Spoken like someone who hasn't been following Putin's actions against western democracies. We should absolutely include propaganda. There are other ways of distinguishing the context in which the propaganda is used, such as the distinction between hot and cold wars.
When you say you "can already hear", what you mean is you can imagine hypothetically hearing it, not that you've actually been hearing it, right? Because multiple app stores already exist for Android and I've never heard anybody say what you're suggesting. People are usually just bewildered at the Amazon appstore even existing.
And used to be used to hide malicious software back in the early days.
Are you sure we mean the same thing?

You seem to talk about a specific command line argument of the compact command with a Windows typical (and IMO ugly) option style with '/' instead of '--' as option marker and ':' instead of '=' as option value separator.

But that would not be directly related to ADS and I cannot imagine a good use case where the compact command should use ADS.