skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The government isn't just paying for the trash can.

>They're paying for people to design, tool, and maintain that design. It's economic investment in people and skills, not necessarily just the finished product.

I call bullshit on that. There is no "maintenance" on that design, it was already done and paid for. It's a trashcan, it doesn't require specialized tooling to the cost of $50k. That's far above "make the tools to make it from scratch" price. There is no "economic investment" needed here to keep the tech of making trash cans alive.

> It's a pretty interesting tradeoff. Should we pay outrageous amounts of money for stuff like this? It keeps people employed, which generates other positive economic effects, like buying houses and groceries.

"It's keeping people employed" is terrible excuse to spend tax dollars. Any other kind of social service is far more positive to the society than throwing more money at military contractor

> It also creates handy design and manufacturing know how, which is a useful thing to have if our current cold war with China ever heats up in the South China Sea. It's a lot harder to buy war materiel from your adversary when lead is flying.

Or just make government-funded stuff the property of the government. Government paid for development, government should get detailed plans and all of the documentation of it, and any inventions made along the way should be put into public domain, as the public paid for it.

And if government then turn to other company "hey, can you make these at reasonable price", well, that's just glorious free market at work.
Ask HN: Is the game Valorant snooping on me?
first off sorry for posting here. i know this isn't a gamer forum but when trying to ask other players on the r/valorant reddit my question is immediately deleted by moderators saying it's "technical and account support". i know there's a diverse community here so i'm hoping this is an acceptable subject and maybe someone can explain to me what's going on.

lately windows keeps giving me notifications that vanguard (vgc.exe, the game's anti-cheat thingamajig) was blocked from trying to access protected folders.

example - https://i.imgur.com/9eGvnFS.png

the partition e:\ as seen in the screenshot isn't even where windows or valorant is installed. it's a separate partition where i keep backups and other personal stuff. there isn't a folder named ":dt" in there for it to read files from, and additionally it's not even possible to use : (colon) character in folder names on windows. so what's going on? what is it doing, and why is it trying to do it on my private things?

after being a bit disturbed by this i figured i could try reinstall the whole thing (because i really love the game). so i did. and when i next tried to launch the new installation another detail in a windows notification caught my eye:

"Publisher: CN" - https://i.imgur.com/bzopjtG.png

what publisher/developer is "CN" even? why isn't it riot games? i've never heard about this developer in context of valorant. what the h*ll have i installed and what is it doing?
I'm not surprised this is happening. Many org structures were pretty sparse as a result of changes, reorgs, attrition, and planning for future growth. When the growth slowed, stopped, or reversed, that meant those sparse trees weren't going to get filled in.

In my past life at one of those as a direct manager of ICs, I had 12 direct reports, while my manager, and their manager each had 4 or 5. There was definitely room to flatten things a bit. That said, 15-18 is far too many for a single manager to handle, IMHO. If you're managing ICs, you're still (hopefully) using your hands-on experience to provide guidance and mentorship and also staying in touch with technical discussions. With 18 reports, you're basically have no time to really dig into everything, and end up just being the performance monitor.
No, we don't know the distance between nodes (although we could deduce it).
But using timestamps, we can know the round-trip time.

See https://www.ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/uploads/2b9d42b664... (page 9 and later for the principle).

If you want all the details, see https://ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/uploads/6a357829064b9e...
Have you tried Google Alerts?
> A couple of weeks later he comes back, and reverses the bug. He had told his manager about the bug fix, and was berated for fixing in. In order to fix that bug, it had to be reported correctly, go through software update meetings, go through budgets, and the whole nine yards.

What do you mean you went and just fixed it!?

We need all of middle management to charge for the fix!
> GitLab is working with Google Cloud because of its strong commitment to privacy and enterprise readiness, and its leadership in AI.

Google's commitment to privacy?
Google's leadership in AI?

O how I love marketing, you can say just about anything
I've bounced off of EVE three times now, and I've come to the conclusion that as much as I want to play the game, it's just not fun. Whoa there! Before you reply, remember that fun is relative to each person, what's fun for you is not necessarily fun for me!
Are the aerodynamics of a Model 3 that much better than something like a Toyota Camry?
Canadian Engineers wear an iron ring
Man I completely forgot Lord British did this.
Ah that’s interesting!

I was surprised when he told ABC that he had heard they were trying to resurface and that they were probably aware that the hull was failing due to the alarm system the Titan was equipped with.
He implied that other companies did hire too many 50-year-old white guys, because they wanted people with lots of sub experience, so this supports your theory. Anyone with previous sub experience would be more likely to know what a safe environment did (and did not) look like.
Not all of them. Model Y's and I think 3's you push on the big spot and that pushes the lever out to grab. I think it might only be the higher end S and X models that have the handles pop out electronically.
> This doesn’t add up to 50k.

It's a procurement project to purchase four very specific aviation trash cans for an aircraft that's no longer made.

The cans themselves aren't the cost. The project manager, the paperwork expert who does the thousands of pages of documents, etc. all cost before they even think about setting up a production line (for an hour's run!) to actually make the things. They're also factoring in the cost of keeping the 707 trash can making machinery sitting around for the next time they need a few more of them.

Four trash cans cost $52k. Forty probably would've cost $53k. The military should probably buy four hundred so they never have to buy another one for the remaining few years the E3 exists, but then Congress calls that wasteful spending too.
We need GPLv4 that explicitly says that models trained on GPLv4 code and anything they produce are derivative works.
"I have a truly marvelous demonstration that LLMs don't have the capacity to form thought which this margin is too narrow to contain."
Well sublime is amazing, and trying to build an Obsidian equivalent in Sublime would be astronomical work.

For what it is, Obsidian is very impressive.
You can use MusicLM on google's ai test kitchen
Also watch out for the arsenic in rice.

Some people don't each rice for this reason, but I just eat around it.
> It is absolutely trivial to show Hyp2 is false

To investigate precisely this question in a clear and unambiguous way, I trained an LLM from scratch to sort lists of numbers. It learned to sort them correctly, and the entropy is such that it's absolutely impossible that it could have done this by Hyp1 (sampling from similar text in the training set).

https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/its-not-just-statistics-...

Now, there is room to argue that it applies a world-model when given lists of numbers with a hidden logical structure, but not when given lists of words with a hidden logical structure, but I think the ball is in your court to make that argument. (And to a transformer, it only ever sees lists of numbers anyway).
So borrow a vaccuum chamber, throw it there and certify new company doing trash cans. It won't cost 50k
Impressive that it translated "Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund" (morning hour has gold in the mouth) to the equivalent English expression "the early bird gets the worm", instead of going for a literal translation.

I wonder though how much the text in the video was editorialized. For example, I doubt that the model would have correctly capitalized PaLM.
My Argentinian friend in Austria has some top-notch private medical insurance where he sent them pics of his semi deep cut injury on whatsapp, a doctor came to his place one hour later.

My dermatologist also offers a whatsapp address where you can talk to her assisstant.

My GP communicates via iMessage.
Didn't the OceanGate CEO basically come out a few years ago and say that it was just good business to ignore regulations?
see, just one reference in the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08399.pdf
I want MDX support instead.
you can't just get out of a lease by decided "i dont want to be there"

COVID was only a couple years ago, and many will have 3, 5, 10 year leases. And that assumes they didn't buy and are now paying a mortgage.
This is my method, especially because it shows how design will progress, with tight deadlines this becomes harder but I still consider it a very valuable way of proving work (only a minor designer though with freelancing)

I certainly can understand stand the move fast method of quickly changing things, when I'm doing concept work this makes more sense here.

Long term though, if you actually care about your work you should be making copies or different boards to show how and when you made some decisions. Especially mayor design changes.(Granted I could just be a bad designer that just can't come up with a better workflow)
And even better: they suggest the use of a single medium for both transmission and receiving (1000BASE-BX10) to minimize asymmetry.

https://ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/wikis/SFP
"Trash cans" is a simplification, IMHO. They're containerized garbage collection utilities orchestrated by a cloud-native Dumpster Swarm service.
>The capacity for an oven to cook food may be measured by how much smoke it lets of when burning -- but no amount of "smoke" establishes that a dry ice machine can cook.

You seem to be talking past me, as nowhere did I claim that LLMs are intelligent. That's the point – Unlike you I do not claim to be able to prove or disprove this. I argue that your comment is the one that is pseudoscientific because you didn't provide (even a semblance of) a rigorous definition of intelligence.
"But simply saying "if prices look high to me it must mean corruption" is very naive."

Naive or not, this turns out to be true surprisingly frequently.
Anecdotal, but I’ve never once had a driver call me once
This was the reason behind the $600 Hammer.

https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the...
May I suggest a term for this sort of article: "mapsplaining".

I have known about the distortions of the Mercator projection since LBJ was president, and about ever ten or fifteen years someone feels compelled to announce it as news.
> but AFAIU LLMs will likely never rationalize or be able to "add numbers" in the normal sense; they can count only in as much they know that 1,2,3,4 is more probably coming after "count to four" than 10,2,4.

You might be interested in this experiment - https://thegradient.pub/othello/

The question is does a model trained on move sequences in a game of othello just learn "play X(t) after seeing the sequence X(t-3), X(t-2), X(t-1)" or does it build a representation of the board and use that to choose the next move to play.
Vercel Launched a Comprehensive LLM Playground
Oof. That is hilarious and maddening.

It’s a disturbing trend on any site we rely on or use for services. There is no recourse, once a decision has been made. Last week, I was banned from Facebook Marketplace because… I don’t actually know.

I’m cleaning out an old shed and want to sell a bunch of stuff. So, I logged into Facebook for the first time in 2 years, posted a Shop Vac for sale for $50 USD, and an hour later was locked out of Marketplace.

There is an option to “request a review”, which I did. An automated reply a few days later said they would not restore my account at this time. And that’s it.

No warning, no communication, no justification.
My guess is that's just the shell to make people more likely to buy the product.
> Just look at the myriad failed Kickstarter projects that tried to make consumer stuff. Even getting something normal made in China can be serious work.

....coz they are making 50k of a thing. Not four a year.
Yes, the splinters would likely be moving faster than a bullet, it would be like getting shot with a very powerful shotgun point blank.
Again, I find that comparing the two is a false equivalence. Non-surveyable proofs seems limited to recent, computer assisted proofs. The replication crisis applies to whole fields of study.

Not to mention that the specific example I responded to (set theory) was developed long before computer assisted proofs were a thing.
I completely disagree. I am writing an OS in TypeScript. The GUI portion was complete with 15 days.

In JavaScript land people are scared shitless to write original software or learn the basic foundations of their common platforms. So yeah, that would make 10000000x more challenging. But that is a psychology and preparation problem, not a technology problem.
Link: https://youtu.be/hLYy09tdrpE
kosher salt is way too coarse for popcorn, so I don't think it eliminates the need for the grinder
From what i understood everything in CentOS Stream end up in RHEL, but not everything that is in RHEL came from CentOS Stream.

They pull changes from other sources that are not in CentOS Stream and this is the challenge.
From the byline:

“Accuracy is debatable”

Another case of AI hype and clickbait headlines meshing nicely.
It has been tested. It has been sold and used commercially and by the government for $300 before. This is not an example of actual costs being $50k. It is an example of massive incentives on the seller’s side to rip off the one who pays (the US pop), and no incentives on the buyer’s side to care about it.
I think he's referring to the Trieste, which reached the Challenger Deep in early 1960. All losses since then are military submarines, AFAICT. German Wikipedia loves lists, so here's one https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_U-Boot-Ungl%C3%BCcke...
In ML 101, I learned that NNs are general function approximators.

So given the right training data and algorithm, they should be able to learn to add numbers. Or any other computable function.

Also, we don’t know how GPT computes numbers really. I guess no one traced all the layers and understood the activations.

We also don’t do this with our children. We just assume that they understand it as soon as they don’t make many mistakes anymore.
No, I don't want these features. I want reliable remote git storage, which lets me clone a copy of my source code anywhere so I can do these things locally, on my own machine. People forget that this was the original design and intent of Git as a decentralized protocol. As an industry I think we have become too reliant on Github as some kind of way-far-beyond-git magic tool. This might be fine until it isn't--like when Microsoft decides it's time to start training Copilot on your private code.
GrapheneOS: First impressions, stumbling blocks, and opinions
Yeah that's already obvious
Thank you, today I learned
You mean like the earlier section that explicitly says "License Grant to Us" which the court would somehow amazingly ignore reading according to you? Because clearly the exact legal rights you give Github to use your work is not relevant to a discussion on how Github is legally allowed to use your work.
The hull was made from 5-inch thick carbon fibre. Carbon fibre is very lightweight for such a strong material, which makes it attractive, but it has a few critical downsides:

• it tends to fail catastrophically, without warning, after repeated stress

• it's very difficult to predict how many stress cycles it can endure

• it's very difficult to detect stress cycle damage

Considering every dive and resurface is a huge stress cycle, and the fact OceanGate didn't seem to have any sort of independent certification of their submersible's endurance, this kind of hull implosion event seems inevitable. Their real-time hull monitoring system was a boondoggle, n

Edit: In another interview, Cameron elaborated on these exact concerns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yu_wixdgE&t=1m20s
In the past when exactly? When cows were jacked up on hormones? And fed a non-grass diet that is typical of cows?

There's a misunderstanding here of past vs present.
And every article also mentions that the USN told the USCG so the only trade-off is that the average joe learned 3 days after the fact that an implosion occurred.

Finding debris within 3 days of searching actually sounds really fast given how huge the ocean is, how crap cameras are underwater, and that the USCG has to travel to the area. The USN was probably actually extremely helpful for the USCG to find the remains so fast.

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I think the best parallel is the MH370 flight. There's now way will all these spy satellites a flight near China wasn't on some camera/radar the entire time but I bet the USG/partners knew the flight crashed at a high speed and so there's no survivors.
I don't know if it's AOSP, Pixel, or WhatsApp but even after resetting notification settings...

Android just starts classifying WA Conversations as silent (despite the settings being very obviously configured to make them priority/”noisy” notifications). This is causing me serious problems - I basically have to manually check my phone every 15 minutes and manually swipe down on the notification tray to make sure it hasn't just marked conversations as silent again.

It's clearly some kind of bug. In the notifications setting it says "conversation with X (silent)" and then the second you click on it, Android says "priority, custom ringtone, and vibrate".

Infuriating, critical busted functionality. And with the way Google treats android support, I basically have zero hope of it being fixed any time soon.
Bilingual LLMs make less Literal Translations where appropriate.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16806
Probably should not diregard the history of harmful regulations while doing so?...
It looks beautiful and is very user friendly. Congrats!
> how many people would knowingly buy a house if it came with an expectation that only one specific megacompany with pretty much nonexistant support could ever do repairs/rework/updates/changes to their house?

a solid chunk, most people that are buying any condos in bigger cities
Well-Typed Haskell activities report and call for sponsors
You're not likely to see the URL when clicking on it, because the vast majority of sites use links with text other than the URL. Chrome (the most popular browser) truncates the URL that shows up when you hover over it, if you even notice that bar pop up. So they can just make the URL really long to hide the domain, like many scammers already did.
By default it doesn't do that, because window focusing needs special privileges that App Store apps don't have.

There is an addon thing that you can install by clicking on the Switcher button and scrolling all the way to the bottom to find the Install experimental window switching button.

After that is installed, a new "Cycle Windows" button will appear: https://shots.panaitiu.com/klbRwgTG

The addon will also assign the Right Option key for focusing specific windows of the focused app, by letter: https://shots.panaitiu.com/j9cgRP9C
Developers Guide to Moving to Denmark
The Jobocalypse: is AI a threat to jobs?
The source was always available; the difference was that RH stopped breaking out their enormous delta from the vanilla tree into itemized patches.

And as far as I can tell, that's still [1] just one giant patch wad for every update.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/kernel/-/commit...
At best, it gives you a plausible range.

Anything involving numbers is red flag territory for LLMs, or at least math.

Wonder how it would do with medical lab data. I imagine it needs to ask questions of less than or greater than, which is math.
Me too. It's been generally painless once remembered the differences (e.g. zypper v apt). I almost went to Alma because $DAYJOB is an RPM shop, and considering recent events I may have dodged a bullet.
> The idea was roundly shot down, with the central claim being that students picked all of this up as they went along, and that the journey was more important than the outcome.

That's such a bad position for educators to take! Just picking things up as you go along, you only learn how to accomplish tasks by rote, and you can find yourself 35 years in and still be patching basic holes in your knowledge (ask me how I know this). If you're self-motivated to dive in and teach yourself the theory, you can do that. But if you are that guy, you probably aren't taking CS courses at a university in the first place.
Slightly off topic, I wish websites would provide an auto-detected dark mode or at least test with dark reader. On my phone, a lot of the article looked redacted.
Gastropod has two excellent podcasts on the subject...

(1) "Grounds for Revolution: The Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World" at https://gastropod.com/grounds-for-revolution-the-stimulating...

(2) "Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again" at https://gastropod.com/deja-brew-how-coffee-got-bad-then-wors...
Only over fiber. Copper SFPs are not deterministic enough to precisely synchronize networks.
Tangent, but does anyone have any resources they link for writing something like this? I want to write (experiment, more likely) a thin layer over an editor for some basic highlighting of markdown stuff and a couple autocomplete-like features from the DB (ie link to existing records).

I hear writing these editors over a content-editable (or whatever) field is super difficult. So.. are you aware of any good sources of information to mitigate the pain?

Note that this would, i believe, be an entirely ground up write. As i'll probably experiment writing it in Rust. Rather than building on top of existing solutions like Prosemirror/etc.
Cannabis patients who feel high get greater symptom relief but more side effects
Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
Same as Russian corruption, albeit on a smaller scale.
Why do they do it? Because they can escape retribution.
Recourse - possibly, after they fight and defeat warrior lobbyists(in mortal combat BTW, as they see an existential threat to their golf club membership at mar-a-largo)
Reductio ad absurdum is a misnomer here. Apagogical argument is a completely valid mode of argumentation that’s used by philosophers and mathematicians throughout history. What you’re accusing this article of is cherry-picking.
> "I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That's exactly where they found it," he continued.
Also, for what it's worth, I was extremely surprised and concerned when my private repos appeared in code search results. I had to triple-check that it wasn't showing up when logged out or logged in to a dummy account without access to the repo. This behavior is definitely not intuitive and if there's a way to disable search indexing on private repos I'd do so.
Same. Remote or hybrid is a given for many IT or Dev roles.

Factory, data center, and a few "owner" roles are expected to be on site. Makes sense for these to be on site, and they should have compensation and amenities (e.g. an office, or a nice cube, or whatever) to justify it.