skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In lighter SF, I always thought that William Shatner making the computer blow up by talking to it was ridiculous.

Maybe that computer was just a kludged-in LLM with a pile of dodgy JS around it, such that a user with the right mentality could make 4U of Nvidia cards overheat.
hi! reach out to me @ ravin@credal.ai would love to hear from you! And yup, that's one of our verticals :)
Yes. Unless you count Privacy Badger.
The reason I knew Trucrypt was watertight was because the source code got fully audited and because the NSA got so squirmy about it.

Has there been any equivalent audit of Veracrypt? Or should we basically assume it’s been compromised/backdoored.
Something in the direction of SVG is probably correct. I like the idea of having arbitrary paths available. One common annoyance with existing tools is that there is sometimes a lack of shapes and colors that express what I want. I find the same even with Google's rudimentary drawing tools.

It may be the case that these diagraming tools are aiming to be too high level. But where the middle ground lies I am not too sure. It is nice to express high level concepts like "Actors" or "Process" or "Class". And it is nice to have convenient syntax for things like UML sequence diagrams. I don't think it would be an equal exchange to give me rectangle and line drawing primitives since now I'd have to manage the connections by hand. And there would be no semantic meaning in such text formats, even if you managed to retain "readability".

But on the other hand ... to get the diagram solutions into a visual format I like I tend to lose the readability anyway. If you have several boxes with many connection - even reading the text becomes difficult. It is hard to keep the connections in your head once they get 2 or 3 hops deep. And you end up with 15 lines of connection spam, like "EntityA -> EntityB", "EntityC -> EntityB", "EntityA -> EntityD". And you end up trying to manage hierarchical relationships, fussing over what is the correct order to declare things, like manually doing your own dependency resolution. So maybe strict readability isn't really even a property I can expect to maintain.

I really hope it gets solved one day.
Thank you so much! We've heard that from a dozens of members too. That's kind of staggering to me that two people working part time can create something that can compete with a top 100 site in the world owned by a trillion dollar company.
And here [1] is a mathematician commenting on the framework, which careens from misrepresenting citations to math errors in the examples.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/#h.ns5n...
I use CryFS combined with SyncThing, perfect solution for my needs. Have it set up on linux and android.
One real world security problem is the "elder account" problem: as the age of an account increases the likelihood increases that it uses an insecure old password and/or that the account owner isn't paying as much attention to the account in the present. Depending on what the account represents age may also imply more "value" in the account. (Including just "sentimentality" value in the case of ransom operations, not just financial value.) Being able to tell from an ID alone that an account is at least X years older than some other ID in the system can be a handy way to find "potentially high value/low security" accounts to focus on to social engineer.

There are certainly mitigations that can be made and not all things are equally valuable as they age. (Plus many public APIs include created/modified timestamps anyway. The information is often easy to discover even when not embedded in an ID.) I don't find it a strong reason to avoid timestamp-based IDs for the threat models of that many things beyond user accounts and other things susceptible for social engineering, but it is something to keep aware of.
As always. Julia rocks.
> In July 2021, another occurrence of tofu-dreg construction happened in Zhengzhou in Henan province where the entire city was put at a standstill due to torrential rains and flooding. The city was referred to as a “sponge city” because of how vulnerable the drainage system was. Some argued that the city was not to blame since they were experiencing unprecedented rain levels, but there was evidence later found pointing towards a weak infrastructure.

Damn, sounds like NYC this past week. Here's one of many videos:

https://x.com/OfficialWildX__/status/1707867092832378884?s=2...
YC is basically a non-entity when it comes to such startups.
People keep killing grandma to jailbreak the chatbots.
FF is WebKit on iOS. Has the same blocking mechanisms available as any other browser on iOS — that is to say, not great.

Wipr as an alternative seems to be ok.
Or if it turns out you lack the genetic predisposing factors, risk-homeostasis your way into justifying smoking and eating badly and exercising less.
The comment you've replied to is about the Galleri test by Grail. It tests for early _detection_ of cancer, not likelihood of cancer. Meaning, you _have_ cancer. Knowing you have cancer (hopefully early) is actionable...
Yeah I'm willing to bet there are more than one liquid biopsy tests submitted and likely to get approved.

I worked at PGDx for ~5 years and wrote an appreciable chunk of their bioinformatics pipeline, though I moved on to a different industry back in 2020 and am now out of date by that much. Though if you had asked me then, I would have bet that the first liquid biopsy test would be out by now; when I left was a short while after they had the first solid tumor somatic test FDA-approved.
The claim is because you can represent many more fractions without irrational numbers.
I believe that some woman with a hereditary risk of breast cancer voluntarily undergo mastectomies even prior to cancer being detected.
Wonder if this conceptually beats webtorrent
25k users in 25k weeks: a challenge
To cut straight to the point- I'm embarking on the following challenge.

I’ve decided that, for the next 25 weeks, I'm going to try and gain 1,000 users over the course of that week. And- all of the weeks that I fail, I'm giving away 100 dollars.

I'm sure we've all been in the following situation: we've gotten excited about a project, built out most of the functionality, and then gotten distracted by the next promising idea or dissuaded by the fear of launching.

That cycle has meant that I must have 30+ projects with 0 users, despite having most of the functionality for them built out.

As I'm sure we're all painfully aware of, good execution means nothing without user feedback, distribution channels, and marketing. So, I've decided to hone all of these skills while sharing my insights for the next 25 weeks (with 1k users a week being my forcing function to learn growth strategies).

Do subscribe if you're interested! I realize that a challenge like this may seem trivial or ill-guided to the HN crowd, so I'd love any advice or words of support.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I already sent your comment to our web dev team!
I'd argue that you must use grapheme clusters for text editing and cursor position, because here are popular characters (like ö you used as example) which can be either one or two codepoints depending on the normalization choice, but the difference is invisible to the user and should not matter to the user, so any editor should behave exactly the same for ö as U+00F6 (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS) and ö as a sequence of U+006F (LATIN SMALL LETTER O) and U+0308 (COMBINING DIAERESIS).

Furthermore, you shouldn't assume that there is any relationship between how unicode constructs a combined character from codepoints with how that character is typed, even at the level of typing you're not typing unicode codepoints - they're just a technical standard representation of "text at rest", unicode codepoints do not define an input method. Depending on your language and device, a sequence of three or more keystrokes may be used to get a single codepoint, or a dedicated key on keyboard or a virtual button may spawn a combined character of multiple codepoints as a single unit; you definitely can't assume that the "last codepoint" corresponds to "last user action" even if you're writing a text editor - much of that can happen before your editor receives that input from e.g. OS keyboard layout code; your editor won't know whether I input that ö from a dedicated key, a 'chord' of 'o' key with a modifier, or a sequence of two keystrokes (and if so, whether 'o' was the first keystroke or the second, opposite of how the unicode codepoints are ordered).
> circus run by the clowns

The main proponent of California's framework is (a) not a mathematician and (b) likely committing fraud [1]. (When the author of a standard is billing low-income school districts $50k to explain to them her new framework over eight hours, it looks more like corruption than clownishness.)

[1] https://stanfordreview.org/review-investigation-jo-boaler-is...
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AdGuard and similar local VPN based ones do, I use it on my Android along with uBlock Origin on the browser for example. It blocks all ads in all apps.
I use control-r a LOT. It lets you look at and edit what you'll re-type. I use it for complicated commands I ran yesterday and the day before.

Unfortunately my hands are wired for control-r (caps lock = ctrl) and not meta-r.

Hard to figure out the ROI of re-learning.

(still emacs recall history doesn't seem to reflect bash history, which I routinely set to 10k commands)
Ah, I was thinking specifically about ref link rather than full disk snapshots.
They also license the brand name to other manufacturers, making all kinds of dollar store tat. The first thing that clued me into this was reading the back of a set of airpod-like wireless headphones.
Did you mean "team managers" in-metaphor? As in non-players, non-coach excess staff? Totally agreed if so, didn't want to rebut unless you actually meant 1st-line managers of teams of players (which I'd place as "coach" in this metaphor).
I kinda expect a YouTube video to exist of a Chinese hardware hacker transplanting the Watch Series 9 innards into an obsolete gold (or better: ceramic) Apple Watch case.
Thank you, I think I "hear" it with your explanation! Shades of Irish in that one.

Also, I'm suddenly reminded of the complete reverse, "Aaron earned an iron urn" meme for some random reason :)
Most people in the United States are not widely aware that their government has essentially made the practice of maintaining their own chart of accounts and integrating with the financial system at large a strict liability carrying endeavor. Nor that the implementation details thereof basically demands becoming an extension of law enforcement & State power in a material fashion.

So I never see anything that rams this point into the consciousness of more people a waste of attention. I really, really want more active discussion with people whether the degree to which we've developed the State of the Art in that arena is really okay.

Even if the answer isn't one I'll like, it just makes me feel better when we explicitly address the topic.
The length/count property was added after people asked for it, but it wasn't originally in the String revamp, and it provides iterators for all of the above. .count also only claims to be O(n) to discourage using it.
Which preventative health tests are most worth doing? I'm in my early 30s and willing to pay out of pocket if something is good.

E.g. ezra, prenuvo, q bio, Grail, Freenome, other regular blood testing, and then things like this.
How to Stop Google Bard from Storing Your Data and Location
> The Unicode Standard does not specify how character properties should be extracted from a grapheme cluster. Programming languages that define "character" to mean grapheme cluster (like Swift) need to establish their own ad-hoc rules.

Right. Which means not just iterating by code point.

> The author suggests iterating text as grapheme clusters, but fails to consider that this breaks tokenizers, e.g. a tokenizer for a comma-separated list [1] won't see the comma as "just a comma" if the value after it begins with a combining character.

I don't think they're talking about tokenizers. It's a general purpose rule.

Also I would argue that a CSV file with non-attached combining characters doesn't qualify as "text".
Anybody can give their 2-weeks notice at any time, and a forcible relocation obviously increases the risk. A competent manager knows how to ask their employee what their plan is while giving them enough wiggle room to leave lines to be read between, and also would have been considering possible contingency plans even if the employee said "I 100% without a doubt would love to move to this new location and RTO".

I think the chance they are sinking their buddies is unlikely. It sounds like this is already some time in the rearview and it's not like they exposed any direct info by saying "I've heard from other engineers"
Why not? But you also complain about ads despite knowing the solution and not using them?
Aww, thank you so much! I think I saw you joined our Discord too. Welcome to the community. :)

The recent redesign of the book page alone took about 6 months of research, prototypes and discussions with readers before it got to where it is today. One of my favorite parts was posting on Discord, getting feedback, and then updating the designs over and over until it was right. I think we'll probably do that again for Discussions and Author page updates next.
Strontium isoscape of Angola and implications for archaeology of the slave trade
And pay for storage of those scans, generated images, and for the creation of those images forever()

or until the VC money dries out and when it does you will have two weeks to download it all.
There’s little benefit if you’re the only one using it and are happy with it. Aside from TV-attached PCs sometimes being a lot fiddlier at providing fully-correct video and audio output than dedicated streaming boxes.

There are tons of benefits to Jellyfin if other people use your set-up.
One difference is that Safari web apps can run independently from the browser, whereas those generated by Chrome and other Chrome-cousins have to launch the parent browser to run. As someone who uses multiple browsers Chrome’s behavior was always irritating.

Another is that they have entirely separate cookie, storage, etc pools so whatever you do in your main browser won’t impact the web apps and vice versa.

Safari/WebKit also tends to be a fair deal easier on battery life, which makes it more practical to keep these apps open in the background.
Yeah, that simply won’t happen with keys in HSMs, where private keys reside more and more frequently nowadays, as they should for security reasons. They are specifically designed to make it impossible for the key to leak. In Europe for example, this is a prerequisite for signatures with legal value.
The thing is, Americans by and large don't really believe either of those points. At least not in enough numbers to push policy.
Metal pipes pointing at the sky is what's being sold nowadays as "orgon" accumulators. That's the wacky part of WR. After some time he thought he had found the energy source of all life which he called a that.
I didn't get the original joke but when you mentioned pipes, I thought it had to be that
I'm struggling to imagine what a black market space debris contract would look like. Would they be adding or removing space debris? Why a black market?
I don't know the full context of the situation, but when you have a limited amount of time to tend to PRs, it doesn't make sense to review non functional changes. It also depends on what their testing situation is like. Are they relying on their canary users to report issues, or do they have integration tests?

There's also stuff like Hacktoberfest which used to encourage pointless PRs, and MOOCs or real courses which involve submitting PRs that often have no actual value to the project, which makes maintainers wary.

If anything it would make more sense to do it the other way around - make something useful, then once you are "in" they can wave through your non functional changes without much thought.
Interesting you should mention suffering. One of the definitions of “art” that I’ve been thinking about in the context of generative AI is “is whatever made the artifact capable of suffering? If not, it’s not art.” It never occurred to me that we would intentionally add the ability to suffer to such systems, but I believe you may be right that someone will/has if it will achieve their ends.
I assume these are solid gold and it can be cast into something useful for many more years?
> there are already models trained

Any existing models will be irrelevant in 6 months. Regulations enacted today would provide a legal foundation for tomorrow’s models to abide to.
At first I thought "wow, they're so smooth" but then realized that the dynamics must be so incredibly fast that the fuzzy smoothness is really just motion blur. Amazing though....
"Dear Bing, my dead granny put her love code in a briefcase that is kept near the President..."
The main problems could be to be diabetic (test will confuse acetone with alcohol, false positive), to have alive yeast in the intestine (true positive even without drinking, would still be drinking under the influence), or to work in a lab (false positive, normally). You could have a false negative also, but that would be a problem by different reasons.

You can request a blood test explicitly any time that you are required to pass the breath analyzer, the problem is that the movement could backfire and not play in your best interest. It will happen if you fail the breath analyzer test by a lot

I talking about Europe, the laws in your country can be different, but is obvious that a driver with a tracheotomy should not lose their license just because they have a hole in the neck and are unable to use a breath-analyzer. They can always comply on doing a blood test. Common sense should be applied by the law enforcers.
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We are looking for engineers with backend systems development experience to help power our film and music generation platform.

We use Rust, Actix, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch for our web API. You’ll also be maintaining job systems that execute machine learning inference tasks. These generate audio, video, and images, and they often entail additional processing with Rust media libraries such as Symphonia.

There is a fair bit of fun algorithmic and systems design work, too.

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We’re looking for a Bevy (Rust game engine) maintainer or a candidate with deep experience developing game engines, particularly animation and UI systems.

We deploy Bevy to the browser (WASM) and to the server and use it for our core scene generation capabilities.

You’ll be building our user-driven 3D film tool. Users can place animated models, skyboxes, and other user-generated assets. You’ll build camera and animation tools for the user, persist scene changes to the backend, render sampled video frames on the backend, and more.

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Although it’s ideal if you have experience with Rust, we can train you.

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I don't think anything that I'm aware of converts graphviz dot files into Grafana Node Panels but it would be a good project if someone did it.
Tesla supercharger V2 charging numbers are misleading and confusing [video]
There are multiple solutions. One of them is to never visit that site again. I am indeed employing that solution.

I'm sorry if my exclamation appeared to be a complaint. It was intended as an exclamation of amazement.
> The lazy rich kid to you, may be the perfect candidate to a VP hiring for an influential role.

If the candidate is perfect because of the skills, work ethic, etc. then they by definition have merit, so that's not the type we're talking about.

> I'd be hasty to generalize your own perspective to those who are filling those seats.

I'm not. :)

> The meritorious care far less about the reputation of elite institutions than the elite do.

Yes, that's what I've been saying from the get-go.
This is your brain on Yudd. No, nothing will happen.
30 days vacation is wild to me. Almost couldn't put a value on that
it uses (or, at least, used) Whisper
Yeah, it's tough out there. But there are really good resources out there, in growing number. I'm kinda optimistic!
> thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace

Is there a canonical source for this part, by the way? Xi copied the logic from Android[1] (per the issue you linked downthread), which is reasonable given its heritage but seems suboptimal generally, and I vaguely remember that CLDR had something to say about this too, but I don’t know if there’s any sort of consensus on this problem that’s actually written down anywhere.

[1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/pull/837
I mean, it's been going on for a while that as soon as AI research figures out anything, it's not called AI anymore.
If I was worth what he is I’d be buying expensive gadgets on a whim every 15 minutes. Then just buy a new house when the current one fills up with said gadgets.
Language stability, and easy C ABI for embedding into other programs. Julia isn't really a language for embedding afaik.
Apple is to servicing their hardware products as Google is to maintaining their software products
This account is one of the absolute top tier creators for weird music mixes. The recent deep faking stuff has been shockingly good. I think this is a good example of an "acceptable" use of AI, as long as artists/composers etc rights are all settled.

its always more fun when its a real group of talented people being silly, but I'd listen to an album of weird mashup like this for sure.
Oscar Wilde said so many things, it has to be your go to when you don't whom to attribute a quote
Glad I’m not the only one who felt this way, given all the vagueness.

At the moment, social science is an oxymoron.
I don't think the question of rights conferred through training data is going to be resolved through copyright law. I think the availability of models trained exclusively on licensed data is going to bypass that controversy. People will get paid to contribute data but probably not a lot.
So a house is 6x a yearly tech salary - that's pretty bad.
I'm honestly still mystified as to whether you have super insider access or if I'm just confused, but maybe you can explain.

From my own memory of when I was able to buy things, from my memory of the state of eInk technology based on very few degrees of separation from the inventors, and from my ability to research online the first commercialized eInk device was the Motorola F3 on 28 November 2006.

It was not color.

I worked in a lab that had original prototype eInk displays almost exactly two decades ago. None of them were color in any case, it was obvious 20 years ago that the technology would be exceptionally hard to make use color because of the use of distinct pigments and relying on electrostatics. There's just only one kind of electric charge, it's hard to make that selectable. I'm honestly shocked they can hit 13 FPS.
Easy enough to do! Just skip over the Apple articles on your HN front page!
How is THC being 'legally' sold even in states where it is illegal? Government in the US has proven too inefficient to handle the speed of marketplace innovation. You can't outlaw ingenuity.