skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the writers of the 1st Amendment went on to pass the Sedition act of 1798.

> That if any person shall write, print, utter. Or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them. or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.

Welcome to America. Our laws contradict each other and its all about politics. The Supreme Court figures out where the line is drawn and what is, or isn't, legal according to the Constitution.

With regards to 1st Amendment, the limit is drawn today at Libel, Slander, "Fire in a Crowded Theater", pornography, and many other restrictions upon "free speech". Gag orders included.
Interesting approach to data exfil. Though it seems predictable that exactly this kind of subpoena would be issued. If you can predict it, you can probably mitigate it.

Which means the subpoena would only be useful if the criminals made an opsec mistake. That is generally how most sophisticated criminals get caught, but here it feels like anyone inventive enough to try will probably also be prudent enough not to leave a trail.
Hmm, yes, it's possible they want to diversify like many other tech companies recently. Add a music service and bundle everything into Netflix One?
Oh man. That's not just me? Haha nice.
> Which can be simplified with a different spin to be, "C/C++ are so bad that they contaminate even the mighty rust."

I've written C and C++ for a long time, and... Alas, you're not completely wrong lol.

At work there's a still unresolved ticket of me trying to get cross compilation working, and it's basically impossible because of the way most C/C++ tooling is built and works. CLang kinda works nicer here than GCC, but there were other issues with that that I encountered. Basically, it's nearly unsolvable due to the number of hoops one needs to jump to properly link against a dynamic library produced for the target platform (if the host platform is different).
Federal law is supreme, so yes, Congress can overrule any state or local law, and does so automatically if they have laws that disagree.
“…the closest, the mostest” is the line I always remember from that video.
I think it is pretty logical that when you fire the boss that keeps saying "don't do your job" and hire a better one, the employees might step up.
Not wrong necessarily, if "traditional GIS" is your chosen application of geospatial skills. (By "traditional GIS" I mean creating one-off analyses by interacting primarily with enterprise desktop/GUI tools like ArcGIS).

But when combined with software engineering expertise, geospatial knowledge can be as lucrative as any other software job. (I am a geospatial software engineer.)
I've got a lil titanium bowl for camping. Feels like alien material, it's so light and feels like you could snap it, but then it's incredibly strong. I used it in the oven last night to make TikTok feta pasta. No worries on being oven safe as its melting temp is 3,000°F.
Show HN: FarProbe – Access Logic Analyzers from the Browser
FarProbe is a web application that connects to some of the most popular logic analyzers (Saleae, USBee, and their clones) from the browser and streams data to the cloud. Open a Chromium-based browser (even on an Android or ChromeBook), plug in the analyzer, and its data can be streamed over USB to the browser for analysis. After generating a link, the data can be stored on our server or live-streamed to another user.

If you don't have the hardware, check out the demo video we prepared for YC over a month ago, we're now live: https://youtu.be/QVoLbB5LAr4

Why did we start it?

Often enough I worked on my hardware projects while on the go. Traveling to clients, staying in hotel rooms, I missed a simple tool that allowed me to see what is going on, diagnose it and iterate on the go. I have also seen that problem in the other direction - most recently, I was hybrid-working on electric aircraft avionics, sometimes with the aircraft on the other side of the US. Frequently I had to call some on-site engineers to connect some instruments and screen-share, file-share, send screenshots, etc., to give me a glimpse of the elusive GPS-related bug I was hunting down.

What can FarProbe do today?

Bare minimum - we like to build in public and want to see where the community needs lead us!

You can use a logic analyzer locally, send a link to someone else to capture data for you remotely, you can run long-term acquisitions on our cloud - and export to PulseView for further analysis. You can also invite your colleagues to look at your issue without installing anything new.

How does it work?

It's a data-intensive WebUSB application written in Rust, both client and server-side. On Linux (Android, Chrome OS) and OSX, we are able to stream ~24MB/s, compress it (most of the time, the signal doesn't change) and send over to our servers. On Windows, we are limited to ~8MB/s, there is a bug in Chromium's WebUSB windows stack that we're thinking about a good way to resolve.

What do we want to do in the future?

Support more hardware (Oscilloscopes? Any favorite devices you really wished for had better software support?); Implement protocol decoders (also in the cloud); Implement device emulators and test fixtures.

Overall - we want to be the software company that gets hardware - and implements the companion software well.
Well, good for you then. I really don't find it that impressive. Yeah, some recent advances are somewhat cool and all but I am just tired of people making absurd claims and predictions about it and hearing about "AI" every single day almost everywhere.
A few months ago I was looking for an external backup drive and thought that SSD would be great because it's fast and shock resistant. Years ago I killed a Macbook Pro HD by throwing it on my bed from few inches high. Then I read a comment on Amazon about SSD losing information when unpowered for a long time. I couldn't find any quick confirmation in the product page, took me a few hours of research to find some paper about this phenomenon. If I remember correctly it takes a few weeks for the stored SSD to start losing its data. So I bought a mechanical HD.

Another tech tip is not buying 2 backup devices from the same batch or even the same model. Chances being these will fail in the same way.
It is. There is literally zero other way to make that function unit testable. What are you gonna compare that data with in a test if it's thrown into IO?

By definition all unit testable functions have to return data that can be asserted. You throw that data to IO it's not unit testable.

IO is testable via an integration tests. But not unit tests. Which is what my query exactly specified. I specified unit tests.
Sounds partly like marjari asana of hatha yoga.

Cat pose or cat cow pose.

Google it.
Out of a class of... 40 you got 4 good hires. Meaning the rest of the class was probably unemployable (and 10% would be pretty good for a bootcamp).

> On the other hand many better programmers just didn't care. They spent days playing console or pc games, and just did subpar work enough to close their daily tasks asap. Hard to fire these people under Italian law, but they represented the overwhelming majority of devs.

What's interesting here to consider is Italy's market for engineers.

I've met a lot of talented Italian engineers here in the valley, so the local market might already have suffered significant brain drain.
I mean git doubles as cloud for me to hop between machines and keep working on a project... So I literally just "." most of the time lol
Why OKLCH is better than RGB and HSL
The real percentage is far smaller. I suspect the parent has only encountered homeless beggars, in the context of being begged at. If that’s all you knew I could see how you might think they hate it.

In reality homeless place a higher value on personal freedom than most, and the absolute happiest people I’ve ever met were all homeless with no intention of being otherwise. For these, possessions often come from donations they receive from people they meet and develop real connections with.
Manual labor is not just about getting physical exercise.

I go to the gym every day and take it very seriously, but it’s a different thing. Just like doing sudoku can’t take the place of an intellectually stimulating job.
Almost certainly solar. The limitation isn't so much gathering the energy as it is keeping the thing from melting itself down. If you want to fire it more often you're probably going to have to put a bunch of these in orbit and maintain them indefinitely. Very expensive.
This is too shortsighted by the archival standards. Even Word itself doesn't offer full compatibility. VB? 3rd party active components? Other Office software integration? It's a mess. HTML and other web formats are only readable by the virtue of being constantly evolved while keeping the backwards compatibility, which is nowhere near complete and is hardware-dependent (e.g. aspect ratios, colors, pixel densities). The standards will be pruned sooner or later, due to the tech debt or being sidestepped by something else. And I'm pretty sure there are plenty of obscure PDF features that will prevent many documents from being readable in mere half a century. I'm not even starting on the code and binaries. And cloud storage is simply extremely volatile by nature.

Even 50 years (laughable for a clay tablet) is still pretty darn long in the tech world. We'll still probably see the entire computing landscape, including the underlying hardware, changing fundamentally in 50 years.

Future-proofing anything is a completely different dimension. You have to provide the independent way to bootstrap, without relying on the unbroken chain of software standards, business/legal entities, and the public demand in certain hardware platforms/architectures. This is unfeasible for the vast majority of knowledge/artifacts, so you also have to have a good mechanism to separate signal from noise and to transform volatile formats like JPEG or machine-executable code into more or less future proof representations, at least basic descriptions of what the notable thing did and what impact it had.
> All Systems Operational

https://status.openai.com/

It looks like someone forgot to update their status page.
The only way to do tape at home is with used equipment and Linux/BSD. You can do quite a bit with tar and mt (iirc) - even controlling auto loaders.

What’s fun are the hard drive based systems designed to perfectly imitate a tape autoloader so you don’t have to buy new backup software (virtual tape libraries).
like AWS
I wonder why such organizations that hold critical data for the community at large do not use an international canary system.

Should one of the countries issue an order, the ones outside of its jurisdiction can openly disclose the information. Say if the US forces the US entity to not do something, the French one sees it and can warn all users.
Since you invoked the "universe making sense", I'll explain this using an example created by man:

"The Space Shuttle Orbiter reentered the atmosphere at approximately Mach 25, making it the fastest aircraft ever flown."

The Mach 25 reentry is an empirically verifiable fact. But reasonable people can object to the above assertion on grounds that have nothing to do with that verifiable fact; what exactly constitutes an aircraft and what is the proper way to compare the speeds of aircraft? A reasonable person can assert that speed comparisons between aircraft must be made in level flight, making the shuttle orbiter ineligible for such a record. Some may also object to the characterization of the shuttle orbiter as an aircraft, or the implicit exclusion of other reentry vehicles which were even faster. The universe does not have any objectively correct definition of aircraft, or any objectively correct way to compare aircraft speeds. These are wholly subjective. It has nothing to do with people "wanting the universe to make sense."

Similarly, the universe does not hand us any objectively correct meaning of a planet's "neighbor". Nobody in this thread has disputed any objective empirical facts. The disagreement is solely around the subjective meaning of the ill defined term "neighbor". The disagreement is over pure semantics, not science.
She was a great performer. Just pure raw power that you could feel even when she would do a slight head twist. She was simply the best.
I am been fascinated by Edward Teller and the x-ray laser. It strikes me as a case of a golden hammer [0]. Here he had an incredible tool: a thermonuclear weapon. It can destroy a silo, a fleet of ships, or a city. What else can we do with it [1]? Maybe for the best it didn’t work out.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur
Is it possible that they can't publish that? Perhaps even not allowed to say that they can't publish that?
Perhaps there is no NDA on the fact that subpoenas were issued, but still an NDA on whom they were issued about?
Limiting The scope of such an NDA feels like a plausible result of negotiations after a motion to squash the subpoena.
"U.S. has excellent defenses against all classes of ballistic missiles"

This is the first time I've actually read somebody making that claim. Every other take on this topic has been that defenses against long range missiles are woefully inadequate and easily saturated by a low two digit number of missiles with MIRVs.
I’d like to believe maybe that’s why the company went out of business but that’s just wishful thinking - a lot of incompetence is often ignored if not outright rewarded in business nowadays. Regardless, it’s at least somewhat of a consolation those idiots did go out of business in the end, even if that’s wasn’t the root cause.
Hypersonic is a poorly defined term. Some people use it to simply mean "faster than about 5x the speed of sound". That is what people mean when they say "China and Russia have Hypersonic missiles".

But speed at that level is basically irrelevant for interception etc.

Other people use Hypersonic to mean able to manoeuvre at those speeds. A normal ICBM, especially the old ones, cannot do that. They follow a simple, predictable, course to their targets. In theory that makes it easier to hit them. Only no one can do that. People have done a respectable job of shooting down non-ICBMs. But ICBMs are 10-100 times faster, further away, higher, etc. And no one will use 1, they will use 1000 and it is dooms day unless you intercept 990 of those.

So all of this is really just a mix of honest ignorance (and confusing terms) and dishonest sensationalism...

The point of a hypersonic missile is to NOT follow a simple parabolic curve to the target. That is what hypersonic really means: able to manoeuvre at speeds about the speed of sound. That makes it harder to intercept. Only no one can intercept an ICBM anyway.

Interestingly this is why the first Hypersonic missile was actually build in the 1930s...
At sufficient scale everything becomes a daily occurrence. Hardware failure e.g.
The US currently has a large advantage is mass-to-orbit capabilities that is set to explode once Starship comes online.

Elon needs to talk less about peace with Russia and more about deploying weapon systems. He can make enough money from it to retire on Mars.
Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs
A Flexible, Personalized, On-Demand Astropharmacy
dunno why you're being downvoted. I had homeless people rummage through my trash. at first I was ok with it but they would just leave it strewn out everywhere like racoons and I'd have to clean it up. so I had to lock it up.
It's actually the opposite, for some news sites this extension links to archive.is because that's the only known way to bypass the paywall.
How does Google decide on the reward for bug bounties?
Do you drink coffee or some other caffeinated beverage? For me, caffeine is THE trigger for reflux. Secondary trigger is portion size. If I don't drink caffeine and I keep my meals relatively small I'm generally fine.
I hope they don't rely on ask it what the error messages mean!
A lot of the problem here goes back to housing costs. Hiring police is extremely expensive, but even at their high salaries, SF can't fill its hiring quota. That also means that they're forced to hire marginal officers that they'd otherwise pass on in a competitive hiring environment.

The biggest reason that they can't hire is that the house you can buy in SF on even a high police officer's salary is much worse than what you can get elsewhere. Due to geography, it's also hard to even commute from a much lower cost area.

If the Bay Area simply built more housing, so many of these problems would be reduced.
Farmer: "Slow?"
ATC: "Yes"

Playboy: "Fast?"
ATC: "No"

Stick Jockey: "Fast right?"
ATC: "Not bad"

Sled Driver: "Oh hai"
ATC: "Yup goes to 11"
Whats so fascinating to me about PKD is that he taps into this rich, long, history of esoteric philosphy and practices and connects dots between ideas from disperate traditions. Not in the same way theosophy does- he seems to be more lucid and consistant.

This idea he has of wickedness being some kind of abscess in an otherwise perfect hermetically sealed bubble, and that the second coming of christ would be an event in which the evil is removed from the pure buble---- it explains concepts in christianity with concepts from other world religions and does so in an exceptionally vivid fashion.
Quite terrifying.
Perhaps their DevOps team were pasting code and scripts directly from ChatGPT :D
TL;DR: PAM requires session cleanup, which might require extra privileges.
Yes. There’s some guy on YouTube who does stuff like that (he reverse engineered the audio recordings from a 747 tape array) but it can be quite complicated.
So this would be a good random number generator...?
Absolutely amazing story. Fantastic!

I've actually long been stunned by the propensity of proprietary backup software to use undocumented, proprietary formats. I've always found this quite stunning, in fact. It seems to me like the first thing one should make sure to solve when designing a backup format is to ensure it can be read in the future even if all copies of the backup software are lost.

I may be wrong but I think some open source tape backup software (Amanda, I think?) does the right thing and actually starts its backup format with emergency restoration instructions in ASCII. I really like this kind of "Dear future civilization, if you are reading this..." approach.

Frankly nobody should agree to use a backup system which generates output in a proprietary and undocumented format, but also I want a pony...

It's interesting to note that the suitability of file formats for archiving is also a specialised field of consideration. I recall some article by someone investigating this very issue who argued formats like .xz or similar weren't very suited to archiving. Relevant concerns include, how screwed you are if the archive is partly corrupted, for example. The more sophisticated your compression algorithm (and thus the more state it records from longer before a given block), the more a single bit flip can result in massive amounts of run-on data corruption, so better compression essentially makes things worse if you assume some amount of data might be damaged. You also have the option of adding parity data to allow for some recovery from damage, of course. Though as this article shows, it seems like all of this is nothing compared to the challenge of ensuring you'll even be able to read the media at all in the future.

At some point the design lifespan of the proprietary ASICs in these tape drives will presumably just expire(?). I don't know what will happen then. Maybe people will start using advanced FPGAs to reverse engineer the tape format and read the signals off, but the amount of effort to do that would be astronomical, far more even than the amazing effort the author here went to.
It really is very sleek and beautifully minimalistic. Don't downplay your achievements! It's a great app.
I gotta say it's impressive what sort of reach OpenAI has with less than 400 employees
Well, now I feel old. World of Goo is older today than snood was when World of Goo came out.
Very sad, when I first started learning Abelton years ago, The Best was one of the first tracks I tried remixing: https://share.getcloudapp.com/wbuLoOY6
“Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.”

"On the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses."
Naturally, the journalists and/or editors of the unofficial apple pr firm macrumours fails to even mention the controversy about this app

(Unofficial pr firm, not official or funded or anything like that. But macrumours is basically a hype outlet for apple)
There's a tension here between the two user groups who need to interact with the name: whatever software system manages the things, and human beings.

I worked on a system that had dozens of small-form-factor linux computers, that served as gateways for a fleet of thousands of bluetooth environmental sensors. Because of the nature of the facility construction, it was considerably easier to provision devices before deployment, then record location and other meta-data later. So the unique ID (a 16-digit hexadecimal number) in the system was completely disconnected from the metadata, but the common name of the device was defined almost entirely from the metadata. That also meant that while the unique ID was immutable and described a unique computer, the common name more described a location and purpose that a computer could be deployed to. Even so, that distinction lived waaay up in the facility management software design, and in practice, the only people even aware that the unique ID existed and was a distinct number from the "name", were the people tasked with provisioning the device for deployment.

Plenty of orgs have multiple people named "Steve", a few even have multiple people named "Stephen A. Ambrose", but no good org has multiple employees with the same employee ID number. And to further that analogy, no good org expects its employees to completely ignore the human name in favor of the employee ID.
Not a good look for Microsoft Build and Azure for O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com to join the GitHub outage party.
> LLMs can pass novel theory of mind tests, which is what we're talking about.

Passing a ToM test is not what OP meant by having an "underlying theory of mind." OP's talking about the machine having an underlying mind (ie sentience, sapience, consciousness, etc), ToM tests are only testing output.

> You said "Those tasks could be completed a [sic] traditional static program.", and no, they can't. You're incorrect.

They can, a static program as I described would indeed answer that one question correctly, resulting in a positive ToM score, without seeing any training data whatsoever. Did the programmer see it? Maybe, but the machine didn't and it would pass the test regardless.