skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your first paragraph but your second paragraph is quite defeatist. I was involved in a quite few of "premortem" meetings where people think of increasing improbable failure modes and devise strategies for them. It's a useful meeting before larges changes to critical systems are made live. In my opinion, this should totally be a known error.

> Having found an entry and exit point, with the latter being the duplicate and therefore geographically incorrect, the software could not extract a valid UK portion of flight plan between these two points.

It doesn't take much imagination to surmise that perhaps real world data is broken and sometimes you are handed data that doesn't have a valid UK portion of flight plan. Bugs can happen, yes, such as in this case where a valid flight plan was misinterpreted to be invalid, but gracefully dealing with the invalid plan should be a requirement.
Today, yes. Bug if debt-to-GDP reaches 400% before the budget is balanced, it's better to just do what basically amounts to defaulting on it.

Keep in mind, there are very few signs that the US is going to balance the budget anytime soon.

At some point, the debt will be so high that lenders lose confidence, especially for 30-year or even 20-year maturity bonds, and at that point, there is very little time left to turn the ship.
I've been using Gandi for the last decade but I'm looking at rolling over to porkbun. I was initially attracted to them being in a privacy-friendly country as well as competitively priced and included free email accounts that suited my limited needs. They got bought out a few years back and things have been badly degrading in terms of offerings vs price. They're now completely ditching any free email later this year and the renewals have skyrocketed in price. They've also started sending off awful and obvious customer retention emails about how much they value me as a customer (despite, you know, showing nothing but contempt for my wallet).
Wi-Fi 7: The Next Big Leap or a Whole Lotta Nothing?
Google has handed over user data to Hong Kong authorities. Chances are Meta and Apple have as well. It's possible that the Chinese government has never sought information on individuals for political reasons but I wouldn't trust that to be true.

If you were in China, would you feel comfortable clicking on a pro-democracy ad running on Meta? Wouldn't just the fact that Meta determined you were a good candidate for that ad bother you?
The substantial original work here is the prompt authorship. That’s the “paintbrush” in this work. And the “paint” is the AI.

It’s very easy to spend hours iterating on prompts for the perfect photo while using human judgment to figure out how to steer the image. That’s meaningful human involvement and should be able to be protected.
Complaining about the JVM on Android ("a low powered platform") feels like a take that's about 10-15 years out of date. A modern Android phone is several orders of magnitude more powerful, however you might want to measure that, than the machines that Java was first designed for. And anyway, Android doesn't really use a VM anymore - it's been AOT compiling apps on installation for around a decade.

There's about a billion things about developing on Android that are absolutely miserable. HLL-induced perf bottlenecks aren't usually one of them.
Is not the same as actual terrorism.
I have really liked pair.com (pair networks) for domains, email, and hosting. They have been reliable and no-nonsense and reasonably priced, for a long time. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, I believe.
Human: "damn I'm finding it hard to read"

GPT w/ memory: "Because you still have dyslexia."
> why not the entire corporation?

Because a corporation needs officers and senior management. Those people are typically in the owner class who benefit from cheap labor. Owner class still prefers to live in rich urban metros.
If you have more than 200 employees you better not be telling me "we're a startup" as an excuse for having poor processes for basic things like providing competitive comp, hiring, performance reviews, and capacity planning. If you have under 50 employees then it really is true that often there are not enough pieces on the chessboard to get things done like a big boy company. I'm much more willing to be accommodating and pitch in as an employee in those circumstances.

If you have over 1000 employees, you haven't IPO'd, and you keep telling your employees to work 60 hours a week because "we're a startup" then you're some combination of delusional and exploitative.
It is both.

Hoare's later paper introduced buffered channels to CSP.

So one can use it as synchronous passing, or queued passing.
> The day is coming when you’ll have to bid your trusty SIM card goodbye, and that’s a shame.

I'm waiting for the legislative hammer comes down on this. Any government body that has any sort of teeth (i.e EU) needs to clamp down on this and prevent this from becoming a reality. eSIMs are great, but they are no SIM card replacement in their current form. It's as useful (and provides as much benefit) as soldered RAM chips or batteries.
Ask HN: Stem pioneers who also wrote about Philosophy and meaning of life?
Any recommendations of books, articles, or papers, written by prominent people in the computer science, math, physics, etc fields that are more Philosophical in nature? Things like reflecting on the progress of technology or the meaning of life.
Yeah, bindings for UIKit aren’t actually all that challenging to write. There’s quite a number of UIKit apps written at least partially in languages other than Obj-C/Swift.

Android Framework on the other hand is not great in this department. Practically speaking it’s just Java and Kotlin. I wish I could write Swift there because even if Kotlin is similar syntactically the JVM baggage can be irritating.
For local yes, but at data center level the parallelization is still often worth it.
I doubt it, that would be like someone setting up the hypothetical "swinging paint cans" for public use then trying to claim copyright on the product. I think the slam dunk case would be you create your own system, train it on data you own, and then you own the output.

Again, this doesn't strike me as a useful standard for copyright, but I think it's the state of the law today. Obviously with new technology there's a need to revisit the law, and honestly even without the new tech copyright law was already a steaming mess.
I think this decision is incorrect, even after reading the decision itself. There is human intervention at every step.

Midjourney was made by humans.

Were I to construct a robot that wandered about randomly snapping hundreds of photos, then I select one of the photos, apply Photoshop filters and then win an award, it sounds like the review board would reject registration.

If I trained an AI model only on my own illustrations alone, it sounds like they would reject copyright registration.

In all of these cases, humans were involved at every step.
The meeting of the minds that launched AI
Given the surface of the planet is such a dynamic environment, I wonder how much evidence we should expect even if it did exist.

See also: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-an-industri...
Why were there death threats?
Ummm https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/science/comet-nishimura.h...
> Douglas Adams, whose authorised biography I have just finished

After reading THHGTTG it really does not seem imposible to obtain authorization from dead people. /s
Spot-on and well written, this is sadly so true in practice.

Microservices are a death by a thousand cuts. So much wasted time "distributing" the effort all over your team (ie: repeating stuff and re-architecting it all the time) and so much ineffective "debugging" in the field after broken things are released.
Well, I certainly hope they've at least stopped issuing waypoints with identical names... although it wouldn't surprise me if geographically-distant is the best we can do as a species.
Airport software predates basically every standard on the planet. I would not be surprised to learn that they have their own bizarro world implementation of ASCII, unix epoch time, etc.
I'm not a copyright lawyer, but I think its pretty easy to argue that generated boiler plate constitutes a "de minimis" amount of content and so you would still own the copyright of all the code
In fairness, there's an arbitrary amount of "chrome" on top of Safari, so Firefox could very well be slower. There's also this new profile effect where switching browsers always seems faster. The reasoning is that you're comparing browser A, which is loaded down with all your history, cookies, etc. against browser B, which has a clean slate.
> While Valve admitted failure, and has to emulate Windows

That's hardly an admission of failure. No different in practice from "emulating" the JVM or .NET CLR for applications to run that way.
It will definitely end up in the courts. This* is a list of artists that have sold the rights to their music catalog. If Sony, who spent $200m on Bob Dylan's master recordings, sets up servers, pays developers, and creates a network using only Dylan recordings they have the rights to, can they copyright newly generated songs? I bet we will find out soon.

https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/heres-a-running-list...
Hm. I could see an argument for something less deterministic being less copyrightable.
Specifically, the DOCSIS cable modem was rented from the cable company and it was reporting the CPE MAC address that it sees connected to it. In this case, it was reporting the MAC address of my router and the CSR on the phone would look up the brand of the router to provide specific instructions on how to reboot/reset.
How to Ensure the Last Gas-Lamp Theater in the World Doesn’t Blow Up
No. The pigeonhole principle and the birthday attack both apply to situations where you’re looking for two inputs with the same hash as each other, not where you’re looking for one input that describes its own hash.
You never know what valuable things other people have to share, especially if you are curious and open to things you don't already think, if you give people a break; I am constantly surprised. What if we put aside the ridicule?
Although I use Xubuntu on an old laptop, I'm hoping this is an option rather than a "suck it up!" change.

I'd rather just enter a password...
There is still no identified viral mechanism for CFS. So yes, you will continue to find many doctors that deny that there is convincing evidence for viral causes of CFS because that is the reality of the current situation.
The recent episode of The Daily about the (US) aviation industry has convinced me that we’ll see a catastrophic headline soon. Things can’t go on like this.
So, before too long even Twitter won’t be affected.
Bringing Back the City
Is that supposed to be reassuring? Why not choose a state with better energy management, so "recently survived an energy crisis" isn't even part of the conversation?
If you use photoshop, we can identify the source of every pixel. It was you.

If you use a generative tool, we can no longer identify the source of every pixel, or if it derives from someone else's copyrighted work.

You can claim rights over the first, you cannot over the second. This line is pretty bright and identifiable.
“Hate speech,” is not a real thing or illegal under US law
Sounds like the rules are "We do whatever Musk wants. He's an unusual guy".
That's not how the Supreme Court has ruled in the past. If a law makes people reluctant to exercise their first amendment rights because of the ways in which it can be used against them in the future - then it has a "chilling effect" and can be unconstitutional even if the law itself has no penalties.

In Lamont v. Postmaster General [1], the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring the recipient of Communist propaganda to state that they consented to receive it before it would be delivered. There was no penalty for doing so, but the court rule unanimously that it "imposes on the addressee an affirmative obligation which amounts to an unconstitutional limitation of his rights under the First Amendment."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamont_v._Postmaster_General
How do you prove something wasn't AI generated so you can claim copyright on it?

What does this mean for code generated by GitHub Copilot and friends, and IP assignment contracts?
That has been my argument in favor of Route53/AWS for a while. They have the best API for updating dns records, plus powerful well-supported CLI tools and they have first-class integrations with all Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc). So for the "real" dev experience, you aren't going to beat the support of Route53.

yes yes, amazon is evil. I get it, but for domain management and DNS, its worth standing in the shadow of Goliath sometimes, even if you don't love everything else about them.
The difference is the underlying source material. With photoshop it comes from your brain, with AI tools like Midjourney it is derived from other peoples brains.
Most SQL dialects are full blown languages, so it isn't like what happens with HTML and CSS, regardless of the sarcasm.
so glad Ghidra was released for free!
This is an easier problem than it probably seems. Atmospheres are relatively low-density gas, which means they produce an absorption spectrum - a chemical fingerprint that identifies most atoms and molecules quite reliably. It's such a good fingerprint that it was used to discover several chemical elements, most notably helium (observed in the Sun's spectrum before it was known on Earth).
Hey off-topic maybe but why do photos from space always look so fake?
That's a very good point and I have no arguments with it.

Unfortunately, nothing about the California law really addresses it. The Fifth Circuit Court decision regarding coercion of social media sites will bind to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, so California can't really enforce anything if they disagree with a company's moderation policy.

That means the law reduces to perfunctory data collection, and it doesn't really tell consumers anything that logging into the site and going "Gee, this site sure is full of white supremacists advocating stochastic terrorism and nobody does anything about it" wouldn't tell them.
You can't change the soul of a people by force or even by diplomacy. If you look at every nation whose culture reformed after, say, losing in WW2, their behavior during and leading up to that war was relatively different from their norms. Germany's genocidal imperialism was a result of the first world war and the terms of the treaty which ended it. Japan turned imperialist because European colonialism made them decide it was either become an imperial power or get swallowed up. Both nations could revert to relative normalcy after the war.

Afghanistan has been a tyrannical theocracy that uses religion to treat its citizens like dirt while being repeatedly invaded by outsiders for damn near eight hundred years. There is no fixing that, especially not in a couple of decades.
> not sure how letting people copyright the output of a program that ate the work of a million other people would "promote the progress of science and useful arts"?

I agree with you. It's a mess.

AI output should be copyrightable, but only if the provenance of its input is carefully audited. That is, the owner of its output owns or licenses all copyrights of its inputs. An artist that trains a model on only her own work should be able to copyright its output.

Midjourney is IP theft to the degree that it was trained on copyrighted work without permission.
Amusingly, the comments section for the NYTimes article is strongly pro-Android. (Apparently Android phones have had dozens of popular features long before iPhones.) With no mention of software support timelines (from the comments, one might think Android phones are supported for years longer than iPhones).
Here is an article for context: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/21/chronic-fati...

Anything with somatic involvement is heavily stigmatized in anglo culture, so people will respond with violence.
> worker and consumer protections in the EU and you'd be heading in the right direction

Youth unemployment rate in France was 17-18% in 2022. Even today, it is 16% - https://tradingeconomics.com/france/youth-unemployment-rate

Seems like existing workers are being protected at the cost of new entrants. Utterly predictable, since companies will be hesitant to set up shop in France because of onerous process of firing low performers.
https://pytorch.org/blog/experience-power-pytorch-2.0/

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/amd-mi250
How much radiation would the passengers be getting during a Miyake Event? Air travel normally exposes travelers to a tiny percentage of a mSv. A "normal" solar flare can push that up to 200 mSv. 2000 mSv in a short time will make you sick and boost your chances of cancer. 20000 mSv puts you in company with Louis Slotin.
Would have to turn into a real layoff or termination for anyone that refuses to come back without resigning.
dunno.

how do you prove you wrote a particular novel?
Cloudflare is post IPO, no more VC pressure in that way, and their founders have pretty strong control of the board.

I suppose the true test will be when wall street investors try to squeeze cloudflare, but I believe the founders have majority control of the company anyway, re: Meta & Zuckerburg, they could rightly tell them to F off.

Why am I mentioning this? Because I think if Cloudflare wanted to squeeze customers, they could have done so already.

Also, Cloudflare Enterprise pricing more than makes up for their free tiers, it does jump in cost significantly from their highest paid plan -> enterprise.

Also, their compute is priced on the mid-high end (not highest, certainly, its more high for medium or low high, if you will). KV storage and durable objects aren't the cheapest in their class either. Their margins on these services alone I imagine are lucrative.

I don't think Cloudflare is overvalued or particularly overpriced, but they aren't basement cheap either.

re: CDN. At cloudflares maturity and scale, their CDN is incredibly cheap to run and their generous free tier reflects this. Sending cached files around the world isn't as expensive as it used to be.
Parsing the data formats had zero contribution to the problem. They had a problem running an algorithm on the input data, and error reporting when that algorithm failed. Nothing about JSON would improve the situation.
https://archive.ph/eoL1u
To be fair the design wasn't a one man job, and the company is located near Moscow, and Baikonur is an enclave administered by Russia.
good ETLs are usually designed to separate good records from bad records, so even if one or two rows in the stream do not conform to schema - you can put them aside and process the rest.

seems like poor engineering
I hear Pikop Andropov is driving for Uber now
You should be able to recreate it to some degree without the use of an AI tool.
I'm not sure why this was downvoted as it is a very easy to use site.

It helped me retire early (along with fire calc)
Wrote up something in python that achieves similar, but for increasing numbers of characters. Found a few hits fairly quickly. pypy3 is pushing 420k evaluations a second on my laptop.

e.g.

"The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: five, two, and d"

"The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: seven, e, and nine"

"The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, five, e, and three"

My brain fart this morning was forgetting to account for the newline, so I started out spitting out bad options.
Hands on with Syllable – an abandoned Amiga OS clone
> Seems predatory.

thats the SaaS business model. first hit is free, then they take your money
eSIM is total crap. Networks here refuse to load it on certain phones that weren't 'validated', charge for a SIM swap to another phone, or limit the number of times you can change phones per month. Usually you need some half assed app too.

The idea was to make things easier and give the consumer more control. It has completely failed on both counts.

A physical sim I can just grab and stick in whatever phone I want, however much I please without the network whining about it or charging me. I don't want eSIM.

Luckily here in Europe most networks don't even offer them for prepay and I don't do phone contacts. As many other people. So for now the manufacturers have no choice, they will have to keep making them.
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> [Namecheap] has an outdated, 2000s-era UI, but to me, that's a positive sign.

I wish more websites had outdated, 2000s-era UI.

"Trendy" and "modern" are not synonymous with "good". "Outdated" is not synonymous with "bad". Change for the sake of change is not good. Following trends just means you don't know how to think for yourself.
Let me drop my jq-zsh-plugin here:
https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin

It's a line-editor, and allows me to query json documents ultra-fast.
It optimizes for a really fast feedback.
ABAP is mostly maintenance nowadays, since SAP has added Java support.

Additionally, SAP cloud supports extensibility via containers and Web APIs.
This is apparently just an opinion, no additional inside information than we had from the report (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401981), isn't it?

EDIT: downvoting this question instead of responding is a pretty strange reaction.
It does, doesn't it? Best I can tell, it does care at all what formatting symbols you use or don't use.

https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=9436cc000000

https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=94-36-cc-00-00-00

https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=94---36::-:cc
Maybe so?

It seems like currently the chain of ownership is so complicated and spread out that its not feasible. But I dont see a good claim by another party in your case. Best one might be a library or hardware but thats getting ridiculous.
Email and calendar were doing perfectly fine before pervasive online tracking.

Have you checked OpenStreetMaps? It may lag behind Google or Apple for things like shop opening hours, but I'd choose it 11 out of 10 times over anything else when going hiking in the mountains. Feels like every stone is marked.

YouTube? This one is a tough call. It was generating losses for a decade, maybe a decade and a half. Perhaps it should've been a publicly funded service.

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In black and white world, yes.

Unfortunately we live in shades of grey world where giving corporations unlimited power to do whatever they want is also dangerous.
RoboHash
WiFi can read through walls
The weak link in our electric grid are power transformers, because these are large, essential, long operational life equipment, whose inventory grew slowly over a century of electrification efforts. So if a large number of them blows at the same time, it takes the grid down and we don't have enough spares or production capacity to replace them timely.

Amapa state in Brazil got a taste of such disaster scenario, when the local electricity company was privatizated and management decided to eliminate redundancy and cut costs on maintenance to increase profit margins. The main transformer catched fire and no replacement or backup were available and the region endured weeks without power. See https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/18/the-crisis-in-...
I find it's important to avoid "is/ought" fallacies. I'm not sure my warning actually applies here -- this seems like a properly complicated legal topic and especially whenever something has a lot of contemporary relevance, there's a lot of unexpected flexibility in which precedents are considered vs. ignored. But it's a good rule of thumb to follow nonetheless.