skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wonder why modern projects fail and somehow emerge as features incorporated into major products from big companies... It's because we store our ideas in knowledge bases and social platforms with backdoors on them, and we communicate on platforms run by powerful competitors (cough Gmail).

We live in the age of silent espionage, where large money hoarding monopolies control information and silently monitor trends. That information is also used to crush competition at the ground level. Even your notepad application talks to the Internet... Your social media posts get consumed by crawlers, that report your ideas back to companies with large teams of devs that could easily spin up a clone of your idea 10 times faster than you could.

It's at the point where writing thoughts in a notepad (on paper) will be the only way to keep them somewhat secure... Then of course, you need to be able to fully develop your ideas totally offline, until you're ready to launch... But then even after go live, you'll need to rely on those same systems that work to reverse engineer your best ideas, or to sell them in secret to your competition... We're doomed perhaps... As an independent software maker, you compete instantly with companies that run powerful espionage platforms, and that have money and human resources that can easily crush you, along with legal teams that can ensure you spend the rest of your life in a courthouse battling for ownership of your original brilliant ideas...

Maybe it's time to just return to entrepreneurship that doesn't involve software development, or jurnalism, or anything online for that matter... Even our calculator app snitches over the Internet on us now, and it's far too late for an aging and very non-technical Congress to reign this shady brand of innovation espionage back into anything protective of our rights.
Might happen tonight. Forecasts aren't looking good - https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
> Lots of people were perfectly willing to pay me $20 for a useful little utility app and now they won't pay $2 in an App Store.

what kind of utilities?

I am happy to pay $2 (or more) for tools I use if it is a one time payment or a payment for tokens (e.g. $n for $m ocr scans, generated images or whatever).

I loathe apps that demand monthly payments unless it is really understandable why they have to have it that way (service that require permanent storage comes to mind, although I think I only use iCloud for storage now).
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OP risk being misconstrued as being racist. The fact that the original question was asked in the first place really shows how ass-backwards American society has gotten, with reverse racism being rebranded as a virtue, aka "anti-racism".
> You frame this as stupidity, but I think a more accurate characterization would be ignorance.

Ignorance of safety precautions that are explicitly stated in the user manual that comes with the generator? To me that's stupidity.

> Not everybody has the education of the average HN contributor.

Anyone who is reasonably literate should be able to properly understand "don't run this generator indoors".

> some people have mild mental/intellectual deficiencies or simply below-average IQ

In a sane society, such people would be wards of other people who were responsible for looking after them and ensuring their safety. Of course, we don't live in a sane society.

But in any case, such people probably won't have portable generators because they won't be planning ahead that much.

> I guess that's the people you call "stupid"

Not at all. I call a person stupid who knows enough to buy a portable generator as a precaution, but can't be bothered to learn how to properly use it.
Standard protocols rock. Sadly many RSS producers have degraded the content in their feeds which requires workarounds to get full articles or sign in or support new elements.
Of course, it's not necessary to use a language where "Give control of your phone to remote attackers" is one of the possibilities at all.

General purpose languages, whether that's something like C or Rust or even Javascript are not the appropriate tool. Turing Completeness is a bad idea from a security point of view, not a wonderful feature.
Thank you as well for the encouragement. I'm currently head down working on getting my code into something that could ship as a minimum-viable-product on a variety of platforms.
It’s not replacing the text change log.

The text change log will appear with the release, which is currently held back due to what sounds like a build issue.
Nation-state has a few different uses, the most common of which seems to be exactly what is correctly used here, the principal soveriegn subjects of international law under the Westphalian system (these are typically know in international law as simply “states” but outside of documents of a clearly international-law character, that is easily conflated with other meanings of “state”, especially in places like the US where that term is typically used for subordinate entities.)

Weird pedants want to insist that the only proper use of the term is for states in the international law sense whuch are coextensive with nations in the sociological sense, which was somewhat normalized as an ideal, particularly in Europe, compared to the status quo ante by the Westphalian system, which both sonewhat aligned states with nations and resulted in states where working to reshape national identity around their own citizenry. But this sense is a pure unrealized ideal: there is essentially nothing which is actually a nation-state in this sense, though its a common aspirations, with nations without states seeking to form states and states without nations seeking to build national identities, and nations that roughly correspond to states, or vice versa, trying to round out the edges (sometimes via building more inclusive national identities, sometimes via ethnic cleansing) — but its only ever at best aoproximate and always in flux.
Companies use predictive analytics to get ahead of union drives (2021)
I wonder if lockdown mode can block this exploit
I understand that, and I'm partially assessing that in the context of any high targets who might be using the latest Android flagship, that frankly still suffers from the same problem as all Android phones.
They've been, over the past year, putting a significant amount of work into fixing the battery life issues. It is largely resolved for me, and it seems according to a recent article the vast majority of their users.

https://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life

* 2% still affected according to https://tailscale.com/blog/reimagining-tailscale-for-ios/
Software written in Ada/SPARK.
I think it's pretty fair to ask whether the joint program was the right decision in the first place, and the criticism 10 years ago was fair, but yeah it's far too late to turn back.
If taxi is an option, why not laser or computer?
And we'd like to have native support for these in cargo: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10881
I don't think you're understanding my comments. I didn't defend current policy. I merely pointed out there's a big set of tradeoffs to be made and in the end it's a normative choice.

Someone has to pay for transmission and distribution in residential areas. If the choice is "residential users without solar panels bear the full cost," you end up with apartment dwellers and the poor paying for all the infrastructure. Hence, IMO you have to do something and think carefully about policy to have reasonable outcomes and avoid unnecessary complexity.

It's not zero sum, but it is a complicated social, technical, and economic problem. If we reach a good compromise, we should expect that few will be happy with it.
The rooster sound is pretty different from one language to the other.
> Is this blog post a legally enforceable contract?

It can be. The concept is promissory estoppel.

https://www.nolo.com/dictionary/promissory-estoppel-term.htm...
> Where do we draw the line

You are assuming that "we" have to draw a line somewhere. "We" don't. Individual people should be making their own decisions about these things.

> It’s hard for me to fathom how somebody could possibly think operating an internal combustion engine inside of a building is not going to kill them.

It's hard for me too. But for a small number of people, it seems to be the case. As the saying goes, "You can't make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

But it's even harder for me to fathom how, given the above, people still somehow believe that government regulation will magically fix the problem, and ignore the fact that such regulations, as I've said, punish all the rest of us who are responsible adults for the irresponsibility of a tiny few.
Fair!

If I've spent all day on calls, then proceed to watch, for example, anything Aaron Sorkin, I'm likely to treat it less charitably (because I'm tired of flapping gums) than if I watched it after a week in the desert (and human contact is wonderful).

My mood would color ratings as well …

How would one flatten the effect of mood on a either-or ranking system? Is it possible?
Software decays, some of it faster, some of it slower. Aside decay, we periodically have extinction events, like the switch to the web that killed a lot of thick client software, the shift to mobile, and even the shift to AI. Sometimes it's something mundane like fixing how time is tracked (Y2K) or ASCII->Unicode. To survive, software must have enough developer time to offset the decay and weather the extinction events. Hosted as a Service software has an additional pressure: the cost of hosting and additional maintenance pressure from forced updates. I think a lot of us, and a lot of customers don't really think about decay and extinction events as much as we should.
You’re not gonna ever wanna watch The Sadness
It should certainly lower the bar of adopting a new codec if the implementation is in a memory-safe language.

Even so, it is more code, and somewhat more risk. Lack of safety elsewhere might end up using code that is otherwise safe in order to build an exploit (by sending it something invalid that breaks an invariant, or building gadgets out of it, etc.).
Surprised it didn't mention the word or rather not word, "uhhh" or "umm" when we don't know what to say and need to fill silence.

I know other languages and cultures have slight variations but the ending sound as far as I have seen is the same.
I was making a cynical comment on management. You bust in out of nowhere and claim that I am making a case for being a “victim” in general. I correct your inappropriate extrapolation by stating that I was narrowly talking about what this one-weird-trick by managers is trying to achieve, which has exactly nothing to do with how one decides to govern ones attitude towards life. You then act confused when it turns out that I am not arguing for being a “victim”, a conclusion that you just pulled out of your ass.

And that's about four more sentences of extra clarification that none of your comments have even deserved.
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I mean, despite any antisemitism, ancient Hebrew carries weight to a Christian audience, since there is overlap in scripture and tradition.

I think they're not thinking of it really hard.
Are they separate? Or is it the same concern but from opposite view points?

Both worried about IP leaking but one side is worried about their IP leaking and the other worried about liability if they inadvertently implement any leaked IP. Either way, the concern is leaked IP.
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Apple isn’t going to have internal bounties that can compete with nation state budgets.
It absolutely does, you're exactly one subpoena away from that happening. Then you're at the mercy of Google deciding whether they care more about you or their balance sheet.
I think of it as a "bold" 9. Gretzky agreed it to be kinda synonymous with his favorite Howe's number 9. Yet it's 16 that Gretzky wanted at the time, instead of assigned 19...

https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/gretzky-tells-the-real-s...
Cool thank you will give that a read.
"Hardcore fans" is doing a lot of lifting here. There's definitely a giant toxic group in the fandom, but in my experience of absorbing Star Wars for over 40 years, those folks have very simplistic opinions that aren't informed by anything in the material except their edge lord fantasies.
I agree. And it is not just payment processing. Time-clocks, KDS, and other systems too.

I heard from some of my local competitors they had what looked like failed charges on their end, hit customers multiple times.
> Uninformed

Nobody who buys a portable generator is uninformed about the required safety precautions. They're stated explicitly in the user manual.

> Can't this argument be made more or less for every safety-feature ever?

Yes. And the answer is the same for all of them. The fact that in our current society, many such regulations are already in place, does not make those regulations good ideas. It just means our society is not a sane society. Which should be obvious to anyone paying attention anyway.
And yet the word for grandma is suspiciously similar to mama.
I don't think that's a word. It's an utterance, but not a lexical one. It's not onomatopoeia, either: 'bark' is onomatopoeia, but actually barking isn't.
Sometimes even if they wanted to ban purely for security reasons, it would be blocked because it could trigger political repercussions, or seen as a offensive move by the opposition country
Yes, I agree. Put another way: It's hard for a movie with the best director or best screenplay to be a bad movie, but it's very easy for a movie with a great original song to otherwise be terrible.
Falling Trade with the EU and more red tape? And yet our economy is still growing and its been growing faster than Germany and at the same rate as France.
Unemployment is low and Employment is at record rates.

We've had productivity problems since the end of the war, the last two years arent any different.

Immigration that we can control now.

So I can literally see no problems.
If they didn’t exist it would be a different company in Russia or China. The demand exists.
> seats that fit three across in a normal small SUV or sedan are a small share of what's available.

Nobody's forcing anybody to buy the giant ones, though, so a few good choices existing is enough that "car seats" isn't a reason on its own to buy an SUV.
> offer a clear pathway to permanent residency for all migrants.

My understanding of UN definitions, this does not exclude anyone.
Possibly. But also it's Nintendo, so the answer could be "you're going to buy the game again and you're going to like it".
I'm using Scala syntax here... If I have:

val a = IO(42)
def f(n: Int) = IO(n)

And I use map, then I get:

val r: IO[IO[Int]] = a.map(f)

Which we don't want... the solution is to flatten it. This can be done with flatten, or flatMap:

a.map(f).flatten
a.flatMap(f)

Both produce IO[Int], and this makes sense to me using any monad. By contrast, bind means nothing to me.
The other problem with logging out and back in is that it resets to all iClouds insane defaults that you have to manualky comb over to fix. Its 1000% dark pattern and default nonsense.
That meter costs about $700 plus installation costs! http://www.mapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IPS-MAPC-2018... Though I suppose it makes the money back quickly enough.

In much of Europe, rather than cheap 50¢/hr or whatever parking, it's more common to have no fee but still a time limit. (Or, in city centres, a high fee and a time limit.)
The latest for me was Gradle.

autoconf
bumpversion
cocoapods
doxygen
ffmpeg
gnu-tar
gobject-introspection
gradle
guile
llvm
make
node@10
nvm
openapi-generator
openjdk@11
openjdk@17
subversion
yarn
Perro Pastor – Run LLMs natively in Unity with compute shaders
tweet: https://twitter.com/saganite/status/1699898880458903878

I'm sharing my passion project, a native runtime for LLMs in the Unity game engine. The goal is to make it super easy to run llms in a realtime 3d application with no latency, no server maintenance, and no dependencies.

The long term goal is to enable "small" llms (1-7b) to run on a local gpu enabled device, playing nicely with whatever else your GPU is doing to run the game/application.

Currently just using "off the shelf" openllama/llama chat, but the next phase of the project is to train some llms that are fine tuned for game dialog/behavior.
> The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.

I’m, in no way, a security savvy but the above achievement must be a lot of work by the NSO group!
i should point out that not all of the uk cares as much for its trees: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/sheffield-ci...
Not for Microsoft it wouldn’t, which was their point.
Correct me if I am wrong but I think you mean "And then find out you're mining Bitcoin" but I am not sure. Assuming that is what you meant ERCOT is able to remotely monitor the load and verify if they are shedding load or not. The miners just sort of exist on the grid and it gives ERCOT the ability to control inbound and outbound capacity which is how I think they are able to smooth out the electrical demands or whatever. It is also possible that ERCOT knows granular details about the load since these miners (known as an ASIC) consume a set amount of power from the wall. But they don't need that much detail, they only need to see the total load from the miners come down in order to know that miners are doing as they should.

It is all really new stuff to me but interesting. I think a lot of negative attention takes the light because the state of Texas is a political dumpster fire and I would be incredibly suspicious of anything the state tries to do, especially when it comes to something adjacent to a trendy industry that has made big news for scams after scams lately. But from what I am able to gather so far, there might actually be something here.

I do agree with one commenter in that I am not entirely sure its needed to provide payment to these guys, but maybe they are not able to be profitable with mining and selling Bitcoin alone, or need to hedge against the volatility of the price and payments help with both of those things.
Since the article never defines what a BERT is:

(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BERT_(language_model)
The dynamics of group volunteering are different. When you get together with people to clean up a beach, the cleanup is the proximate reason you're there, but really you're there to meet up with others and socialize, with attendant interests like virtue-signaling and the like.

Go to any cleanup event like that and ask how many people do it by themselves, whether for fun or from a sense of moral duty, when there is nobody else to see them do it or to do it with them. Certainly there is no storage of places that need to be cleaned up, and would benefit by the efforts of individuals.
A VPN that can block activity X by definition is monitoring you to decide whether you're doing activity X.
That would be the Nokia 3310
> You're acting like it's a foregone conclusion that these systems will fail.

No, just that it's a risk that I would not choose to take for myself, but would be forced to take because of other people's irresponsibility if this regulation passes.

> In reality, they largely will be fine and may add marginal cost to each system.

Who gave you the right to make this tradeoff for me? Why can't you focus on the actual irresponsible people and figure out how to help them be less irresponsible? Why put a regulation in place that just gives them even less of an incentive to be responsible (because after all Big Brother is watching over them so they don't need to be)?

> It's just the burden we all have agreed to bare.

No, it's the burden that do-gooders have forced on the rest of us for no good reason, but simply because, in our current political system, they can.
What kind of ownership entails “salaries” based on “areas of ownership”? This just seems confused.

Of course! If you have ownership of something then you also bear the burden in case of loss or mismanagement. Blatantly obvious answer to a useless intended-as-rhetorical question.
used to live in the midwest. plenty of folks living in trailers in the boonies where power availability is unstable (some of these people are old and/or don't have a formal education). they find or are gifted a used generator. it doesn't have a manual.

but yeah, they're just stupid. not an issue of their circumstances - they're just stupid.
To be understood I learned to use "blue cola" and "red cola".
> That government funded research shows safe backdoor can be implemented.

where did she claim that?

the article just says:

> "If there was a situation where the mitigations that the social media providers are taking are not enough, and if after further work with the regulator they still can't demonstrate that they can meet the requirements within the bill, then the conversation about technology around encryption takes place," she said.

> She said further work to develop the technology was needed, but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible.

and what does "safe" even mean?
Once you reach a baseline competency, there are a couple of career paths. Some people want to go super deep - think about the core React dev team, or the folks working on PyTorch.

For most of the rest of us "average" types, the best way to differentiate is with soft skills. There are MANY, MANY resources - pick one that leads with empathy, the specifics probably don't matter as long as you are ingesting new content and applying it to your day-to-day (don't forget to get a feedback loop to ask others how it comes across to others!)

Ultimately, to paraphrase Maya Angelou, people won't remember what you said but they will remember how you made them feel. Clarity, kindness, and pulling in the same direction as your teammates -- I think these are the goals of developing soft skills.

Also, don't forget non-programming hard skills like project management and written communication. Not sure that's really a soft skill - but it does matter in how competent you appear.
I doubt you’d want an organ from one of those pigs, they’re treated and fed awfully
They should have picked a direction at all, and TFA should have been anything other than a pandering remake of ANH (except this time the Death Star is even bigger.) There was no plan for the trilogy, so it wound up being Rian Johnson sabotaging JJ Abrams, then Abrams desparately trying to salvage things, and Palpatine thrown in at the last second in hopes people would show up.
Ask HN: What prompts do you use to make LLMs curious to ask follow up questions?
I want to make a simple chatbot for me and my friends. I want it to be curious and don't finish sentences with a period, rather ask follow up questions and ask for clarification. I want it to be interested in getting to know more about the user.

Tried some techniques but only gpt-4 would follow them some of the time while gpt-3.5-turbo and llama 2 wouldn't.

I'm curious, how can we make these models more curious?
Are you talking about static typing? If so, that sounds fundamentally incompatible with the basic worldview behind Julia — that you want to delay binding/dispatch till runtime, and leverage multiple dispatch, for high composability & code reuse.

I wonder how capable the ahead-of-time compiler would be, if you have not just the library, but can also provide the “inputs” in your “script” (that it can specialize on).
I go to the one in San Mateo and nothing has changed. We did have a kid in the common area yesterday so either interns are getting younger or WW is turning into a daycare to stay profitable.