skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not seeing Mac really caught my eye! You see, Mac is the apple of my eye.

I want to try a standalone Mac app for the trial.

After the trial, I'll use a stationary device that can record all the time. It could be a Raspberry Pi, an old phone, or something cheap. I don't want to miss anything or record other people's talk.

I'll edit on my main Mac. I can't use it for recording because it's not always on and I might take it out.

For syncing, I prefer a cloud service that can transcribe well. The device will send my audio to the cloud and the transcription API will do its magic. The transcript will be ready on my Mac right away.
This is a one-time capital expenditure, not a rate like a salary. The payoff time in terms of salaries is just 6 years. Seems like a good deal
where will this good field data come from? using what context? a low risk alert for one org might be seen as something else in another.
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Most security jobs require almost no creativity or thought though, most of them are looking at the outputs of some commercially available AV/EDR/IDS in a commercially available SIEM/case management tool and doing the same thing hundreds of other people have done with those same tools.

If you work in research maybe you’re on, but if you work tickets you should learn how to do something else.
> a fantasy world

that's the world you're living in, where these selfless, fearless (and also defenseless) people go out to sacrifice themselves every day.

> training cops for an exception encounter,

yeah, except the "exception" means you don't come home to your family that day.
Hmmm.

Is a vertical stack like that really the best? Even if you are using large discrete chips like NAND gates or multiplexers, those connectors and 0.1" headers obviously take up so much space.

And then the parasitics... Connectors like that will have resistance, capacitance and inductance that grossly complicates the flow of electricity.

I mean, PCB traces also have parasitic elements, but we humans are better able to understand a microstrip transmission line than... well.... Whatever is going on in that vertical stack.

It's impressive nonetheless and a show of good work. My immediate revision would be maybe mounting the board vertically and running fewer layers. Some connectors and 0.1" pin headers are useful, but you really shouldn't have this meany IMO.
My dad bought an Apple II back in the day, and I remember a lot of fun times playing games such as Choplifter and Conan. Apple always wanted to be better, more expensive and in a sense more "premium" than the competition, even back in the beginning; but the Apple II wasn't anything like the Macintosh, it was a geek computer built by an engineering genius (Wozniak) which was successful due to its vast and diverse software library rather than its looks.

I don't remember people thinking they were cooler or had better taste because they owned an Apple II. I think this was an evolution in the image that happened after the "second coming" of Steve Jobs and the introduction of the iMac.
I remember contacting them about 10 years ago... Can confirm it was way out of my price range.
You also seem to be thinking of Candy Crush style games, whereas I was pointing out that in recent years some of the most popular mobile games are FPS, RTS, also things like Honkai: Star Rail and Genshin Impact and other action games. On the other end, desktop games have also become monetization machines in the same fashion - Fortnite, Apex, CS:GO, OW, Minecraft, Roblox are massive money-making machines. Any judgement about mobile games being 'less fun' or 'less serious' is entirely subjective.

This thread started because someone though Steam stands as the universal entrypoint to gaming in general, which is absolutely far from the truth.
Although in principle I agree with you, the law generally depends too much on interpretation and precedent to be expressed and understood like you’re hoping for.
Salt helps a lot, but pepper is not necessary. And even an unsalted steak is still good.
What are the authors' goals, what is their intended purpose? I can't find a mission statement on their website.
imagine... TTD applied to laws.

Or take it a step further, write a test suite and automatically generate a range of possible laws that satisfy the tests.
As with lighthouses, I'm pretty sure that would be the boat's fault for recklessly approaching anywhere that close to the giant well-marked stationary field of tethered obstacles in the first place.

If it's someone doing authorized maintenance, they will probably have a rule "do not approach from the blade-side." If the wind is changing that strongly and unpredictably, then it's already a dangerously bad time to do maintenance.
Other interesting time storage issues, including the Y2038 problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_...
Running it on a Raspberry Pi kit for 3 years solid. In additional to automations, also serving AdGuard and Tailscale for the network via easy to install plugins.
Are you blocking OpenAI access to your website?
I read over Twitter that a lot of founders are blocking GPTBot (or OpenAI web crawler) access to their websites or startups, are you? Why?
What prevents parallel LLM training? If you read book 1 first and then book 2, the resulting update in your knowledge will be the same if you read the books in the reverse order. It seems reasonable to assume that LLM is trained on each book independently, the two deltas in the LLM weights can be just added up.
FWIW, I recently found a VPS offering for $1.41/month (!) @ 1.5GB RAM & 30GB HDD via https://lowendbox.com/, at https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/black-friday-202... (please note I have no idea how reliable it is though!). I managed to deploy NixOS there through nixos-infect (https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect), and then further configure it with NixOps. That said, using NixOps does currently require a Linux (or Mac, probably) box as the managing one, and some Nix-fu, which is definitely non-trivial. A draft (WIP) writeup on that, if you're interested: https://github.com/akavel/scribbles/blob/main/_drafts/202308...
Surprisingly, no. The reason I got into security in the 90s was because I saw hackers as a check on the absolute dominion of tech enabled institutions, and a big part of that was always being the exception and finding a way to remain smarter than weaponized AI. We're going to see some truly awesome AI malware, and it will devalue some skills people and hackers have heavy sunk costs in, but we prevail.

Short term, cyber security is governance with a high technical competency bar to entry at any serious level, and the reason we're still in demand and these problems aren't solved is because competence at managing dynamics and risk is still irreducible. Every model and formalization creates a dynamic with whatever it models and formalizes, which creates an opportunity to exploit and manage it. AI mainly creates manageable dynamics and demand for governance, which means no matter what you're going to need hackers unless we're all livestock.

Long term, security as we understand it today will go the way of the Orange book, and it will evolve as a variation what it really is, a purer understanding and way of relating to tech. Fundamentally, hacking is the logic of an idea that we can apply to anything, where instead of goodguy/badguy, or oppressor/oppressed, we have true/false, where something is only true within the domain of its assumptions, and when you change those, you get understanding and leverage. It's all the things that work in practice just not in theory. AI is a figment of aggregated and nested assumptions, so all I see is opportunity. It will be as pernicious as human conceit, and I'm pretty sure it's going to kill a lot of people, but I'd say if you don't have the practice, you don't know what you don't know about our advantages over it. We're good. :)
For those that are curious about the difference between Home Assistant Yellow and Home Assistant Green:

Yellow is for power users. It supports any Raspberry Pi CM4-pin style board (for the "brain" including CPU/RAM/networking), is ZigBee/Thread enabled, has a M.2 slot for a SSD or Google Coral and optionally supports PoE. Green has none of these things, you have to add on a ZigBee/Thread stick via USB. Green is made for new users to Home Assistant who probably already have a Phillips Hue or IKEA TRÅDFRI hub for their devices. Green was also created because since Yellow was made Raspberry Pi CM4 prices went sky high and there was other competition in the same, newer, price range. Yellow will still continue to be supported long term.
Variety is good. But any dietician or guidelines who tells you to base your diet on grains should be ignored.
CDK has kept it very alive.

(But there's CDKTF, FYI.)
> Japans only hope was finishing the us Navy early on at Pearl Harbor and midway but once the US ramped up production the US never lost their military lead

From Admiral Yamamoto's diary:

> I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
I know that naming is hard, and it has already been mentioned in the comments here but... I can't believe that somebody named a programming language with the exact same name as an existing natural language spoken by millions of people.

It just seems like a bizarre decision that can't be a benefit at all and can only have negative consequences. Just googling things about it is going to be hard. Why immediately create potential problems for yourselves when you can choose a name that's not an issue?
No. Absolutely NO to AI. The last thing we need is for text to be changed in subtle ways by the digitisation process.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815

That risk of "plausible but incorrect" has been a concern even before AI.
Hello everyone! I have been co-hosting the Europe Homebrew Website Club for the last year and a half.

During the calls we come together to chat about websites: what you are building, what you want to build, and how you can build it! If you are interested in the web, I (and the rest of community!) would love to see you!

P.S. My site is https://jamesg.blog -- what's your domain name?
That’s sorta what we are building at Simplify: https://simplify.jobs/

We started by building a common app for jobs. One single profile that can be used anywhere on any job on the web. Recruiters index on so many different data points, and it makes it more straightforward for both parties if data is standardized
Yeah that's common in a number of other countries as well. I should have probably said "the official languages are the only ones that are legal" instead. In which case a tool like this could be useful for helping maintain that equivalence.
You're meta trolling now.
Dataveillance imaginaries and their role in chilling effects online
Once upon a time we used the ocean for dumping stuff, thinking that it was limitless.

Oops, now it's already getting full and reaching limits that we never thought would happen, and we need to clean it up.

Today it's 'Let's pump our CO2 underground'. How much CO2 do we realistically expect to dispose of? And at what cost? And what happens when it escapes?

That's just 'Magical thinking.'

Annually the world produces billions of tons of CO2. Farting about with maybe a few thousand tons is a waste of time and money when it will have negligible change in the CO2 stuation.
Show HN: Live Train Webcams
Our son is really into trains. He was home sick a few weeks ago and we found that there are several YouTube channels that have live video feeds from various train stations or railway clubs around the US. He really liked it, but he kept wanting to know when the next train was going to show up so he could see it.

I built this small website at https://train.api.connelly.casa/ which shows the time to the next train (Pacific time) and will automatically rotate channels to find the next train. It uses the Amtrak live train data today. In the future I might add other agencies, since a few of these stations do have more than one agency that services them and there are also some international stations I found feeds for. Hope this may be of some use for those of you with your own railfans in your life :)
Is that relevant? You don't eat dried mushrooms, even if you start with them you have to hidrate them a lot before they are any good.
Light moves faster through air than glass.

When light transitions from glass to air, it goes faster.
“Only 24” is a funny framing.
After reading many business books: central planning works great as long as the benefits of centralisation outweigh the drawbacks of centralisation. After reading Outsiders by Thorndike, I’m convinced that the drawbacks outweigh the benefits surprisingly rapidly because distributed companies are shown to run much better. Historically, it has been the same with countries/states, according to Taleb. Although large countries had benefits and could stay alive for long times, small city states (e.g., Florence centuries ago or Switzerland today) and decentralized nations (e.g., Habsburg or the EU), run much more better.
rucking, or how I call it "getting groceries with my bacpack"
10 Years Home Assistant
I wrote the comment and I too grew up in the MS-DOS/Windows world. My family had a Mac and an Apple ][e, but I didn't use them as much as the various PCs.

As I say in another comment, I think Gates's view was right for that time. The Jobs view was needlessly limiting the potential market for his machines. Gates didn't make the machine, but he was making a thing that was sold with every machine, and he understood that more apps means more reasons why people might want to buy a PC.

One problem with the Gates view today is that if you make it easy for anyone to write and distribute any kind of app, you end up with not only a lot of low-quality software but even negative-quality software like ransomware and malware. It's surprising that so many people want to write that stuff, but apparently they do. Every modern platform, including Windows, has gone to extreme lengths to block this stuff, even though the more laissez-faire approach would be to just ignore it and assume other 3rd parties will write programs to block it. The problem was that malware was an existential threat to the entire Windows platform, and Microsoft couldn't afford to just let the market sort that one out.

I believe the Jobs view is the correct one for the present era. Every platform has app stores, code signing, DRM, and other kinds of security and non-security restrictions. It's certainly easier to run random code on Windows 10 than macOS Ventura (or especially iOS), but no platform vendor is completely app neutral these days.
Try https://simplify.jobs/copilot

Common application for jobs and it will auto fill all your information in Workday apps

Disclaimer: I am the founder (we’re also YC backed!)
Fully agreed here - just that, from what I understand so far, the global south countries are interested in ending the war as soon as possible, with little regard to the conditions - because the longer the war will go on, the further the food crisis will worsen for them.

In contrast, Ukraine and the West are interested in a full Ukrainian victory, even if it takes a long time.

So the interests are not completely aligned here.
At a 500kHz clock rate, with reasonable rise/fall times, the electrical effect of some 0.1" headers is minuscule. "Microstrip transmission lines" are enormous overkill.
Credit cards, consumer lending, etc.

Middle ground between serious banking and payday loans.
This. It cannot be understated how blessed geographically the US is.

Even today, it is largely too far from anything really happening in the world.
Excellent! I will try to emulate your good example.
I recently discovered the home-assistant supervisor [1] repository. It's awesome to see such a well-designed, mature, and actively maintained open-source python application. I've found that there's no shortage of high quality python libraries and frameworks to learn from, but open-source applications aren't as common. I love coming across repos like this so I can study their design.

[1] https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor
Why do you assume they didn’t consider it? Memory was too scarce and too expensive to do it.

Unix time is 32 bits, so I guess Unix time was invented a bit later, but around 1970, when Unix was written, RAM cost around $700k/megabyte, or, ballpark, $1/byte (https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm)

Even if you had infinite memory, you couldn’t use much of it in your computer. The PDP-7 that Unix started life on topped out at 144kB, the PDP-11 that it was soon ported to at 288kB (64k 36-bit words), and many installs wouldn’t have that.
Not to mention the benefits for us: all the space dedicated to pasture could be dedicated to wildlife or outdoor recreation, and all the high-density facilities fouling air and waterways could be closed. If it works for fish, we could stop scouring the ocean like an Old Testament-style god angry with our creation.

Even the food snobs would be happy, since responsible wildlife management practices would yield a certain amount of expensive, hard-to-get wild meat that they could build a culinary mystique around.
You can block OpenAI, but you should really be blocking all bots and bad actors who may be scraping your site, scanning for vulns, or the new kid in town: using your site as training data. Robots.txt is not enough, and whilst the major players (Google, Bing etc) honor robots.txt, it can be completely ignored by other actors.
So from a product perspective they basically manage tfstate, you get to use “pre-packaged and recommended” providers (not clear if say aws provider is allowed) and they slapped iam to it? Seems like another one of those frankenstein cloud designs…
> I don't remember people thinking they were cooler or had better taste because they owned an Apple II. I think this was an evolution in the image that happened after the "second coming" of Steve Jobs and the introduction of the iMac.

There was quite a bit of pre-Jobs snobbery. RISC-vs-CISC was one, "pro designers and artists [aka people with taste] use these!" was another common one, "have fun with DOS and viruses" was one...

It was born out of badly losing on marketshare for years. It was also somewhat invisible if you weren't an avid Mac user or Mac hater since at 3% marketshare or whatever, most people didn't know many people to hear it from in the first place!

From what I saw, the iMac/Aqua ("Fisher Price" if you weren't a fan) era didn't even turn around the cool factor for the general public nearly as much as the Intel Macs - "now I can just boot Windows if I have to, at least" to get a lot more curious people to give Macs a shot. Then they were cool for a while. Now they're common enough that I don't think "cool" is the right word vs just "pricey/status-y".
Came here to share the same thought.
"We" will interpret the law for you and the judges, and "we" are not suspicious at all of having a hidden agenda to replace "the law" by "how we see the law" to benefit ourselves.

Is this a joke?
> Eventually I learned I had to rely on the standard instead of folklore

Isn’t this the opposite of what should have been done in the case of coding systems for a nuclear facility? I thought the whole point of the exercises was to show that C has lots of undefined behavior, so you should only rely on the behavior of the specific system you’re coding for. If the C standard doesn’t specify what happens when a signed integer overflows, that doesn’t mean you can just ignore it. You could crash the system, report an error, or find out what the targeted system is specified to do in the case of a signed integer overflow. Is there something else I’m missing here, or do the nuclear systems typically have several processors that may have varying behavior for this type of stuff?
From that story is sounds like MacBasic wasn’t a priority at all to Apple, even on the Mac team. The fact they let MacBasic slip from the launch window is a pretty big red flag, I’d be interested to hear why Bryan Stearns decided to leave(I feel the author is saying a lot by not touching on this more)

I think the idea that Microsoft or Apple were founded for any reason but money is pretty much a joke. Every action and reaction in the story revolves around money and how to get it.
> Clever use of computation over convenient assumptions

Making falsifiable assumptions is legit. I don't know what "clever use of computation" is supposed to mean.
That's something I think about a lot. I don't know how we could do it but I think it should be priority to try and figure it out. Social and psychological question rather than technical/engineering.
No, not intentionally at least, very possible they get stopped by Cloudflare though.
Why would you assume that there is no license in place for this?
Actually WWII central planning is what broke the US health care system. Unable to compete on wages because of price controls, employers asked the IRS to make health care deductible.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/why-is-health-care-expensive-...
I think pretty much all manifestos, especially in software, are worse than useless and do more harm than good.

Can anyone point to a counter example of a helpful manifesto?
Looks like the Minnesota chapter is not very active, but if there are other people from the Twin Cities on here, I'd be interested in meeting up. adit.io is my blog.
Which is why it's all the more puzzling Google didn't spring for OpenTF here. They single-handedly could have proven it as the fork of choice but instead they're paying into HashiCorp's bad decision?
If you are found guilty of trespassing and you were trespassing with intent to harm the religion then it might be a hate crime charge too.
I’m not a rust dev, but looking into how the Debug trait works, it’s basically what we’d need compile time reflection to get in C++.

It generates code that uses the class name and class members. In C++ we have no way of doing that (without hacky macro stuff).
Yeah, I dislike Java more than most but picking on its debugging story is laughable: it’s tooling around that is excellent
goofy; the language you're talking about is Catalan of Catalonia, not `catala`.

> Just googling things about it is going to be hard

when you're looking for docs on go do you google just "go"?

edit: fine, it's called catalá in catalonian itself - this is so pedantic now that i might as well at this point say that the missing diacritic is sufficient to disambiguate.
In ordinary gradient descent the order does matter, since the position changes in between. I think stochastic gradient descent does sum a couple of gradients together sometimes, but I'm not sure what the trade-offs are and if LLMs do so as well.
Why would this concern you more than anything else? If you cook the fish, it's not going to "go bad" as quickly as if it were raw. If you cook anything to a particular temperature and time, it should kill most bacteria in it. Then the acidity of the tomato should help resist bacterial growth a wee bit longer than something pH-neutral. On top of all this, "obvious death" from bacteria in food is some serious hyperbole; it's quite rare to die of food poisoning.
> the solution is a club who who .. meet to talk about taking action

Touché.

On the other hand this is one of the reasons why it's hard not to love the rest of humanity. The results are sometimes comical, but we're all trying.
Love how they want to keep the focus to the personal usage instead of selling themselves into building features for business.

Does anyone knows what is the current state of the voice commands? I always wanted a self hosted version of Google Assistant. I bet it's possible to use a fine tuned version of llama and open source models like whisper to have a local assistant smarter than any of these smart speakers available in the market.
Follow your bliss. It may not be immediately apparent what this is, but if you look within your heart, it's a subtle message telling you what you need to work at.
A couple of alternatives for monkey-patching Java code