skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Turns out a plastic airframe with a chainsaw motor, RPG warhead and some mostly COTS electronics can inflict similar damage for a small fraction of that.

Specifically in a battlefield that is extremely Anti-Air starved, and with minimal (but growing) EW ability, and in the places they can deploy that EW have done much better against loitering and cheap guided munitions.

The Lancet requires active guidance from a drone over the target. With a busy RF spectrum it can't really do that. The Shahed is inertial guided I believe, which means it won't hit what you aim it at, and flies so slowly that it can only work in a situation where Ukraine cannot afford to intercept it, because we still refuse to give them enough tools to protect their airspace.
this is awesome and seems like a great resource; i'll personally stick to backyard welding (no pun intended)
This seems like something that would be heavily abused by sites that deliberately try to break basic browser functionality (like being able to right click images, or select text). If they render the whole page as a background image, you'll no longer be able to inspect, save, translate, etc. any of the content. That's just the first thing I thought of, I imagine there's all sorts of nefarious ways to screw over the reader with this function.
or just rewrite it. all .ml becomes .mil, and then have .mil run a relay if it was an actual email to .ml.

then make it part of any contract that if you do business for .mil, and you use microsoft/zoho/gsuite etc, that they automatically run a set of ".mil compliance settings" overlaid onto your tenant.
Linear A Texts and Inscriptions in phonetic transcription
Working with the Apache Parquet file format
Spent some time diving into the Apache Parquet file format, which was surprisingly complicated and nuanced.

There's lots of lore/history in the versioning of the format's various features, and I put together a post to share some of the things I learned by browsing the issues/mailing list and talking to folks from the Parquet community.

Enjoy!
Given that the Turing Lecture ( https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1283935&type=pdf ) didn't have any appreciable impact (in the tradition of Backus' Turing Lecture) upon either industry or academia, I doubt there any recipes for success among the masses.

But in the tradition of the Computer Science Logo Style series (which built up to things like toy pascal compilers and expert systems), I occasionally dream of learning enough Snap! to port Iverson's samples from this lecture...
That’s what people said about Dropbox too. I can set this up in 5 mins with rsync blah blah. There is value and effort involved in making it production ready, seamless, general population ready etc.
Consider it rent+taxes to live in the University environment. You get access to libraries. IT infrastructure. Special equipment and space for your research. Lots of competent smart people eager to help you with your project. How much would you pay for that?

I worked at a startup and between the rent for our office and our individual rents, like 80% of the VC money went into landlord pockets.

Also there are plenty of “tax breaks” you can get so that you don’t have to pay so much. Capital expenditures will be taxed at 0%, so you can get your overall rate down significantly.
Oh yes, those of us of a certain age remember well Lucas, Prince of Darkness.
Visualizing Attention in Transformers
I kinda followed a similar trajectory. Started with a 15" MBP (2011) for years, and was super happy with that. It was a beast. But it was also a tank of a laptop.

Then I got a Surface Pro 3. It was FAR more portable, enough to make me realize just how much less portable my MBP was. I couldn't bear to bring the 15" back out. However, the SP3 was definitely too small of a screen for dedicated work. Great for college & notetaking, but reliant on external displays.

Now I've been using a 13" surface laptop for a few years and that's really struck me as the right portability vs productivity balance. 13 inches is big enough for two columns of code, and fits in basically any backpack pouch easy. I probably won't be going back to 15" when this dies.
Funny, I write Clojure for my day job and fun, so I have tried to use ChatGPT to generate code. If anything, it sucks at paren matching. It reminded me of stable diffusion's "six finger problem".
It's a settled matter of law in the USA that you can't arbitrarily do that to people's property.
How does Peeng differentiate between 'pings' from different services coming from the same IP? Payload? For example, if I wanted to use this for an appserver and db server and both have a NAT gw as the source, would I need to separate Peeng domains or can Peeng operate on the payload?
mmd! <3
There's a great service already existing with a riff on that name, even - https://deadmanssnitch.com/

DMS is useful for stuff like crons where you're trying to monitor an event that happened rather than whether a service is online. No way to ping a cronjob from the outside world, but the cron can report that it ran successfully
It sucks that the middle ground has basically been abandoned. Simple sponsor slots on niche websites that are focused on specific topics. You have a blog about bicycles with an audience? Seems the perfect space for a bicycle related company to advertise on. Work out a deal for a rate and there you go. The brand can figure out if it’s worth it based on referrals or other metrics.

I get it, it involves a lot of manual labor and it messy and it’s easier to just slap some js code and forget about it.
The Fed is the cause of QE/ZIRP, but it's not "funded by taxpayers" in any meaningful sense. The mechanism by which QE is done is that the fed prints money and uses it to buy government bonds and other assets, which pushes bond prices up, and consequently yields (and therefore interest rates) down. All of this doesn't cost the fed anything. The money is printed by them, after all. It's not like they're borrowing money from some other bank at 2%, and then distributing to the wider economy at 0%.
What's a cover letter? I've never submitted one of those for a software engineering job.

Send in a resume, of which there are only a few categories of customization. Certainly no need to customize for each specific company for SWE.
Had a valet ignore a huge, printed instruction taped over my steering wheel on how not to food my car (leave it running for at least 60 seconds). Sure enough, they flooded it really bad trying to start it over and over. Killed the battery. Never used a valet after that.
It strikes me as particularly naive to think that diseases which are physical in nature can be cured or avoided by some light mental exercise. This seems like a clear example of selection bias. Clearly, people who have dementia are not going to be spending their time doing crossword puzzles.
Thanks so much! Really appreciate the kind words.

We haven't had anyone request Gitlab yet but would love to add support! Any chance you'd be willing to beta test for us? If so, shoot me an email at ian@grai.io :).

EDIT: It looks like the index issue is related to our search provider. Were you able to eventually load the page or is it fully blocking you?
Show HN: Juno – Code Interpreter in Your Jupyter Notebook
ChatGPT Code Interpreter is a game changer for data cleaning, analysis, and plotting, but as early users my friend @amauboussin and I were frustrated that there is no easy way to work on top of its results. You can’t edit code, install packages, work on large datasets, collaborate with teammates, or use it for privacy-sensitive workloads.

So we built Juno to bring the power of Code Interpreter to your local Jupyter notebook. It understands your data, generates code directly in your notebook, and can fix its own errors. We’ve found ourselves using it for tons of analysis tasks at our startups, so we decided to release it to everyone!
This is the MVP which is not much different except a better UX (we hope). The next version gonna have lot of other things such as nested subdomains and status page per endpoint/subdomain.
Elastic v2 if one is interested in such things: https://github.com/grai-io/grai-core/blob/v0.1.33/LICENSE
The USS Liberty incident is so often used as a boogeyman to make Israel seem overtly malicious to the USA. Often forgotten is that the day before the incident, the Israeli air force accidentally bombed one of their own infantry columns.
> The Case for Oracle Linux

I did not see that twist coming.

Strangely, the author makes a good point. Oracle or not, sticking closer to the upstream kernel is not a bad way to manage an “enterprise” kernel. Maybe we’ve all been too willing to sit back and accept how RHEL does kernels as “the way”.
> On my friends car you had to put the key to ACC, then turn the cruise control on and off, and then engage and disengage the parking brake before the car would start.

That’s a cute trick, but if a current day equivalent is integrated into modern day cars (i.e. CANBUS-based), then the security is already defeated.

No one challenged the security of the “cruise control cheat code” of the 1990s simply because there were no devices small enough.
The other bit is that criminals weren’t sophisticated enough.
One of the differences with NYC (and maybe specifically Manhattan--though it doesn't map perfectly) is that there's a cultural expectation that residents, even those with money, may not own cars. It can still be a hassle for weekend trips but it's still something of a difference in mindset even for people in other large cities where carless living, at least within the confines of the city, is fairly doable.
It also says:

"Because of the relatively low temperatures in electronic
soldering, fumes from these metal constituents themselves are not normally a
concern"
These people do a valuable job, I'm not trying to insult them. I'm only providing my observation and theory for why large non-software companies do not hire and pay software engineers the way that software companies hire and pay software engineers.
Unless you're dealing with a multi-tenant situation I'm not super convinced that a VM is worth the effort. It's not the perf, it's the need to make your kernel, root file system, and other infra needed to make it all work.

Compare that to a docker container where there's basically 0 additional work that has to be done to be up and running.

For most cases I'd be really tempted to work on hardening the docker container than on setting up a VM. Things like Apparmor and seccomp in particular would likely go a very long way.
Your comment made me wonder if there's an alternate history work of fiction where the atom bomb wasn't built.
Something like Man in the High Castle for WW2 victory or For All Mankind for the Space Race.

I found:

- The Oppenheimer Alternative https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawy... (Fission bomb instead of Fusion bomb)

- The Berlin Project: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30753656 (earlier atom bomb)
Absolutely, and while the transition is probably desirable, it'll take a long time. And yes, of course there's in fact still too much car traffic around here, and parking garages exist in great numbers.
I wasn't planning to, but why not pick up a new hobby ;)

(It is indeed cheap)
2000 burpees a day in the sauna, a treadmill in the steam room, and a firetruck full of Gatorade ought to do it...
Space is limited and coveted. What better way would you propose to allocate it than to give it to who can bring in the money to pay for it? That money goes to building new spaces, which is good for everyone.
Your comment is 5 parents deep and not one mentions wet bulb until you just now. The wet bulb temp of Death Valley is in the 70s or 80s. Hardly unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures.
The thing is that you don't get anything by investing more effort into an online job application. It's all a big stochastic dumpster which might spit out a hire or two every so often.

You're better served by finding 20 companies you want to work for and finding a way to speak live to someone who works at those companies and then applying through them.
> turns my brain to mush in short order

I assume this is everyone. Can only carefully answer so many questions in crappy lighting before the brain dissipates.
Something still compiles a WASM binary for the local system. Possibly, being able to optimize the WASM without recompiling it from source might be a win? Not needing separate binaries for ARM and x86 is nice, so it should run on a Mac more easily. Also, it runs on an edge server or in a browser, even on a phone, if you care about that.

I don’t think it will replace Docker files since they let you package up such a wide variety of existing server software and WASM is more limited. But if your software does compile to WASM then maybe you don’t care about that.

I think of WASM more like a plugin format, but I expect there will be a lot of engineering effort put into optimizing it, like happened with V8 for JavaScript. Not all web standards win, but betting against one that’s well-established and has a lot of support seems like a mistake.
I generally agree with you and I will say that my experience contributing to wikipedia has been extremely pleasant. The community does a good job of making newcomers feel welcome even if you make mistakes.

With that said I've seen two areas where contributing to wikipedia falls short:

The first is things involving what I'd call editorialization (I'm sure there's some wikipedia term for it). Any article that's about an unsettled or somewhat contentious issue seems to give outsized weight to the non-consensus view. Even if 85% of a field thinks that one thing is more likely than the other the wikipedia article will often split its coverage of the views 50/50 and then maybe tack a sentence on at the end saying that the majority of people in the field favor xyz view.

Contributing to or changing those pages is often a hassle because you have to argue with people and that's generally not worth your time (unless you're of the minority opinion and you want to give legitimacy to your side - in which case you are motivated to argue).

The second are the stub articles. The ones that say "This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." Often I could help wikipedia by expanding it but it's so much work to write a full encyclopedia entry. Like it might take me 4 hours to summarize what I know, look up references, etc. It's easier to just not do it.

Where I find contributing useful is when I'm fixing a small factual error, updating based on a recent discovery, fixing a citation, etc.

I'm not sure if they do it but it would be good for Wikipedia to pay someone to go through and fill out the basics of a bunch of pages on a topic so that there's a scaffolding to work with and then the occasional volunteers could come through and add on facts and fix problems.
New Job for Electric Vehicles: Powering Homes During Blackouts
We're considering the entire battery lifecycle. So the correct way to think about this change is:

More energy required to start engine --> Minimum battery health required to start engine increases --> battery lifecycle decreases.
> Ability to charge from USB-PD

Not a given on the Thinkpads the author mentions as being near-perfect, which are known to get perma-bricked using PD from a charger while plugged into a monitor also providing PD: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Ca...

2016-2019 MBPs also had an issue with PD on the left side causing thermal throttling.
Sadly, sometimes in the US it takes just as long to walk within the parking lot as the equivalent total travel time would have been in a walkable European or Asian city
The entire concept of "wealth" in the US is perverted - there's general ignorance or disdain for socially-owned wealth, instead of it's wealth extracted from the ground or populace or biomass and converted into personal wealth (then aggregated into a metric like GNP).

As someone who had a chance a decade or so ago to emigrate to the EU from the US, I regret not doing so every time I hear of a school shooting or visit the EU and see how much actual health/enjoyment for normal people I see over there that's not visible here.
In Asia, old people often play Mahjong and those who play often are unlikely to suffer from dementia
You should be doing both really.

This, however, is not a good solution. A starter relay kill switch, hidden somewhere non-obvious, is far better. Not a suitable solution for mass-market of course, but, for a hacky intermediate solution, it'll work just fine, which is all the power sensing keypad is good for but with way more steps.

The actual solution is to have real cryptographic security that isn't subject to replay attacks. Not difficult to do, or expensive, and already exists.
I never understood why you can’t do this to say 10% of city roads. That way there’s still car accessibility and you can continue to grow public transit, as well. Personally I think the majority of roads should be reclaimed to pedestrians and tracked rail cars. The only exception would be street-local deliveries/residents can enter and drive at say 3mph yielding to all pedestrians.
If you're sending 2500 applications, you're not doing custom resumes or cover letters, or even much seeing if you fit...
Well pick whatever social program you want to implement and imagine it as cluster munitions leaving unexploded ordnance all over the place to kill and mutilate civilians, remaining dangerous long after the conflict is over, because that's what you picked instead.
> Nobody says you're forced to beat a tough boss, for example, even though you usually are if you want to make progress in the game.

Yes, but that's actually playing the game. A tutorial is not. If I already know how to play the game and have to go through a tutorial anyway in order to get to the actual game, I'm being "forced" in the sense that it's a time-waster I have to go through to get to the game.

This is why there have been games I've never gone back to. Going through the tutorial yet again simply isn't worth it.
https://archive.ph/4bF1o
No warm fuzzies here - just a factual summary of Mozilla's legal status and ownership. The boards of most tech companies today have fiduciary duties to shareholders who expect a significant return on their investment, which is not the case for Mozilla.
This sounds like a paradox - but it is not. You don't give the bot the answer you expect - but only the ground facts, it generates the answer based on these facts by itself.

This is a RAG system - and you need to treat it as a whole - it is an question answering machine that remembers the whole wikipedia.

By the way just today I wrote a blogpost about the common misconception that to teach an LLM new facts you need to finetune it: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/why-you-need-rag-not-finetunin...
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I generally change jobs every 2 years for the last 15 years. I have never used a cover letter. Your mileage may vary but I think they are generally ignored.
Ok? I was just pointing out the point multiplier difference
Passing around potentially large objects by value is wasteful and prone to move / copy semantics.

Most languages pass objects by reference (C# and Java chief among them).

Still, if you really want to pass by value -- even though you'll likely end up with pointer ownership problems -- you just add a few functions to the API to do so.

Creating an opaque type on the stack can be done, you just need a little more work.
Show HN: AntidoteGPT: Securing LLM Supply Chains
> The person in question is a expert in the field and has decades of researching green energy topics. That is considered evidence.

No, that considered an appeal to authority.
Mali's a Daesh hotbed.

Mali has been close to Russia politically, culturally, economically, and militarily since the 1960's.

Mali's welcomed Russian troops, including Wagner's, in the wake of the French pulling out.

"[The Russian involvement in Mali] signals a major expansion of Russia's military interests in Africa and a strategic setback for the West. The deployment of Russian military contractors signals a profound break with France and the West."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58751423

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-security-council-end...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/russias-presence-mali-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali%E2%80%93Russia_relations
archive dot org and dot is, sci-hub and λιβgen / zλιβ will cover a lot of those text sources. Aren't bots largely what's responsible for links being updated to point to archived sources? I've noticed archive links a lot lately.

Someone doing serious AI training will mirror sci-hub and λιβgen first, so they'll already have a fair amount of the (good quality) referenced papers and educational books.

Wikipedia (and citation count on google scholar for papers) could be used as a filter for which books and papers to train on first.
I actually did really like the point; but I would be very interested in hearing a rebuttal or counterargument from Red Hat.

Linus' "security problems are just bugs" approach has been worrisome.
Yeah, 180K is so low, it should be a crime. 90% percent of people I know make more than that. And I know tens of people in the world.
I don't know if I won the lottery, but I have sensitive hearing and I've never heard a coil whine from my XPS 13 (9300). The charging brick did develop a whine which I replaced. It also had the perfect keyboard with no wiggling key caps. Later production 9300 models and recent XPS laptops do have key caps that wiggle (once you notice, it's super annoying, I think I've been spoiled).
> lead oxide fumes which get absorbed into your blood through your lungs

Ok, but if this happens wouldn't it be easy to run a study to show a correlation between working in solder-exposure occupations and accumulated blood lead level?

There are millions of workers who would have been exposed in this way (e.g. me), not just a few folks working for big-bad-AT&T.
> I wonder if previous experience at FAANG is becoming a negative factor in the hiring process.

It can be. If you're not able to pay FAANG level compensation, hiring someone who is taking a pay cut to work for you is often just them getting a paycheck until they get another job back at FAANG level.

If this is done before they're contributing positively (onboarding and domain knowledge acquisition takes some time), its a loss (and they've likely commanded higher compensation based on their previous experience).

Unless you are specifically after the knowledge that they bring in, for a company hiring it can be better to hire someone with less prestigious names in their experience who can do the job and is more likely to stay for a few years before jumping to another job.

If they came from making $400k total compensation per year, and you can only offer them $150k salary (and no stocks), its more than likely that they'll be looking for the next position on the day after they start.
In some countries, it is.
MacBook Pro is near perfect. Just needs one USB-A port.
American cities seem to hover around 20-30% land area dedicated to parking in the city cores, according to ParkingReform. Canadian urban planning is largely indistinguishable from American here too. Mexico City is probably similar, with around 40% according to one source [1]. Rio is around 42% of new construction. In all of the cities I checked, it was largest land use category once broken out.

Melbourne seems to be better at ~12%, but it's still the third largest land use category despite long-standing efforts to deprioritize cars.

If anything, "shapes everything around us" might be understating the reality.

[1] https://www.itdp.org/2017/07/26/mexico-city-became-leader-pa...

[2] https://www.itdp.org/2019/01/31/rio-joins-parking-reform-lea...
A CLI tool to make slowed reverbed videos like those on youtube.
Holy.... that Oracle linux page is so friendly it almost makes me puke. I can't believe anyone would fall for them