skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think SBoM is solved by Open Source necessarily. It makes the problem easier maybe, but it doesn’t really solve it.

If you want to use Open Source code in an environment, it is necessary to validate all of the code (or know who validated it), including all the dependencies. The maintainers don’t have any obligation to help you, and it is a tedious job that they might not be interested in (or maybe you are in the policing or defense sectors any the maintainers find your application objectionable).
The author's point here seems to be a bit different than price-elasticity, though. If this were a price elasticity article, then you'd expect this sentence:

> There’s another possibility, however. Imagine that there is a demand for a specific luxury good - say, ivory from elephant tusks.

to be followed with something like "but as it happens, in some cases like luxury goods, demand can actually increase as prices increase! This is called a Veblen Good, isn't that interesting!"

The author instead makes a different point: the 'supply' of elephant ivory can increase despite the underlying rarity of the natural resource, because rising prices create more willingness to poach, and market prices are about how much you have to pay the poacher, not the elephant. This isn't necessarily self-balancing because eventually you do run out of elephants entirely.

This doesn't really strike me as a comment about price elasticity per se.
>how on earth is anyone comfortable driving around not being able to see where they're going?

Its not about comfort, its about style.

We see this in the tech world too. You can get a high tech, cutting edge feature rich, low cost, easy to use device. Or you can get one that has the cool logo on the back that makes your text messages turn blue.

It creates a negative externality because people are using outdated/dangerous/worse technology simply because its the style.
Good correction, I misunderstood what that part of the link was implying.
> Decriminalization is a cowardly half-measure that is doomed to fail.

How is failure or success determined? Did we know what the goals were for decriminalization? Was improving drug purity a goal? Were legal markets supposed to appear? Was it supposed to reduce access to minors? Was some mechanism for connecting addicts to social services to help them supposed to appear?

What would "help" mean in this context anyway? Does it only mean get sober or could it also involve helping addicts continue to use as safely as possible?
> "Pedestrian crash deaths have risen 80 percent since hitting their low in 2009."

It's way too common to read articles where clearly cherry-picked prose takes the place of a more informative graph, only to lookup said graph and find that the article seems to be trying to intentionally distort the data to make some point.

Here's more complete data, the US population was 250 million in 1990, 330 million in 2021. So the 7400 that year was ~8400 in 1990 if it's adjusted for population growth:

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/07/105095-us-pedestrian...
Right. The line we were being fed for a long time was that ending the drug war and decriminalizing possession was a good thing in its own right. Not that decriminalizing would make things worse if it wasn’t also met by other policies. Sure, people suggested these other policies as well. But I’ve never heard anyone say that decriminalization is a bad idea if they’re not in place (which is appearing more and more likely).

We saw the same thing with drug use in Portugal. Lots of people for years were saying that the Portuguese decriminalized drugs and it was a tremendous success, so we should follow suit. But there was an article here recently talking about how it’s a mess there, and the responses were “Well, of course, because the government didn’t _also_ do XYZ.”

Also, the decriminalization movement seems to overlap mostly with the deincarceration movement. And if you have both, what incentives do you actually have? The above poster said to just threaten them with a fine. That’s what they did with fare evasion here, now people just give false names or ignore the fine.

Honestly, given we’re now seeing things we were told we wouldn’t see by the decriminalization advocates, a lot of this is sounding like “No True Scotsman” arguments. It seems like no matter the failure, someone is just going to come along and say that it’s not a real failure because the government messed up.
Fair enough on that point. I don't live in a particularly sketchy area. I think it probably depends on how popular/in-demand the item is as well. A PS5 is one of those items that was super hot back a few years ago when it came out, so it would probably attract a lot of people willing to do anything to get one.
I don't have much hope for Mars, considering we can't even take care of this planet. Moreover, prospects of living on Mars may make some even more lackadaisical about destroying earth. Instead of investing in this sort of research, we should invest more money in protecting oceans and habitats and living sustainably.

We tend to seek technological solutions to our problems, but where has that led us? Cars, fossil fuel use, massive cities, most people wasting away as drones for global corporations.

The problem behind this sort of technology is that it's just an intellectual exercise that is fun for researchers and is trendy because it's about AI, but I sincerely doubt it will contribute any good to the world.
> the processor would begin to report machine check exceptions and halt.

I get it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXekDCcw2FE
Interesting! It looks like this is called the "Gyárfás tree packing conjecture".
+1 for not selling out

Call it like it is. You can be Instagram rich, because you scaled and sold your company to a heartless corporation... or you can not.

Both life choices, and no sense lauding the latter over the former just because it lets Systrom and Krieger have fuck-you yatch money, while Meta continues screwing up the world.
Nothing Chats – iMessage on Android
The problem is in Singapore they don’t just institutionalize drug users, they are physically punished and jailed for very long terms.
I teach my kids rule number one as a pedestrian: You never have the right of way. Legally you might, and it's important to go when it's your turn after you've made active eye contact, but realistically the car will always win that fight.
You can't get addicted to a substance that you don't have the ability to obtain in the first place, or that you could obtain but choose not to because you're afraid of punishment. That's the whole theory behind criminalization: that it's not a zero sum game!

I think you're probably right that the criminal justice system isn't the most effective way of dealing with people who are already addicted, but how do you propose we stop people from getting addicted in the first place if hard drugs are perfectly legal, and the government is actively working to minimize the personal downsides of being addicted to them? Why not become an addict if the only consequence is that it means you get free food and housing for the rest of your life?
I'm studying persuasion. If anyone changes their opinion on decriminalization as a result of arguments made here, could you please say so in reply to this comment?
For the uk readers: I'm guessing 'pavers' are 'flags', or 'flagstones'.

Humped a few of them in my time...thank goodness for Atari, and all that followed.!!
Write about what you’re passionate about. Is there something new that you learnt at your day job? Blog about it. Is there a side project that you’re doing? Blog about things you’re learning with building it. Such kind of articles usually have a niche audience and is generally picked up by community newsletters/forums/search engines. You could also try posting it yourself in various forums by being transparent and honest about the intent behind sharing it. That may help!
i thought that was the main flaw with the DMCA - it actually does require you to obey all properly formatted and submitted DMCA notices, regardless of how obviously fraudulent they are, until a court decides they're not fraudulent.
...so just do a zigzag to fit more in same space?
This was also in the article. It splits the sphere surface in to 1M grids (not actually grids in the cartesian sense of a plane, these are radial units). Then there's 37 altitude layers.

So there's radial-coordinate voxels that represent a low resolution of the physical state of the entire atmosphere.
We are thinking critically, about how asinine that comment is.
It's a start, but it would also be nice to also have a package manager and integrated unit test framework. cmake is a pain.
A cushy job at a domestic propaganda outlet is a bit different from selling access to a top US official to foreign oligarchs. That's if you believe that it was strictly about 10% for the Big Guy and didn't involve undue political influence in the other direction, which is more than plausible judging by the level of political mobilization against the prosecutor guy.
I agree, it's a bit disorienting.
They are not making trucks bigger despite CAFE regulations. They are making trucks bigger because of CAFE regulations.

This video details why: https://youtu.be/azI3nqrHEXM

The short version is there is an exploit to meet standards by increasing footprint that is easier to implement than to make vehicles more fuel efficient. That exploit needs to be nerfed.
Maybe, but the surreal atmosphere when the sun rises, you are surrounded by blue everywhere, you are jetlagged from just having landed half hour ago, and you have a drink in hand is indescribable. I went to other Icelandic baths during my stay but nothing matched that experience.
> That's your point, not theirs.

That’s how conversations work. Someone makes a point then you reply with another point which responds to the original.

> You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion.

Or I could reply in context, in the place that makes sense. This has a real, existing, relevant counterpoint example which the original commenter may not have realised was an option.
Heavy trucks clog I5 and crack the freeways into rubble. An efficient and environmentally friendly solution is to incentivize long haul containers to be shipped by rail.
The invisible dangers of travelling through time
NuScale cancels small modular nuclear reactor project in Idaho
> The size of the brain and lung lesion remained stable after nine years of KD therapy. However, dyslipidemia developed after this time which led to the discontinuation of the diet.

This is new to me, I didn't know that a keto diet can lead to dyslipidemia? If I search for secondary causes of dyslipidemia (primary cause is genetic), the only lifestyle factor I can find is excessive alcohol use.
Maybe a bit off topic, but has anyone had success using LLMs to reverse engineer firmware assembly code? If they aren't going to release it open source, maybe that's the next best thing.
No need, they're a software engineer (presumably). That just means they're better than everyone.
Backblaze is interesting but it's not very easy to use. Its interface is rather basic and it was difficult to select which drives to back up and which not to. It kept trying to back up directories on my computer that I specifically told it not to, and there was no way to efficiently update program's behaviouir from the the "what to backup list". It might be nice if you just want to backup your computer and all your drives but the moment you want only parts of your computer backed up, it's frustrating.
They usually are. I suspect this was a missed step by someone.
The blacket market for weed still exists for a lot of reasons, taxes being a small one, but weed is not a good comparison for other drugs. The markets for most drugs are comparably minuscule and the drugs themselves are not so trivially produced by anyone with a patch of dirt.
Ah. What else would they be dreaming up? When you squandered your lead and you can't compete technologically, pivot to lawfare.

It's painful watching Google throw away opportunity after opportunity to real make what people want in their single-minded pursuit of more revenues from ads.

Unlike a company like Apple that has diversified their income streams from hardware and can easily branch into building their own search engine, Google's only priority is chuck ads wherever they fit. The only way they'll catch up with OpenAI's speed of innovation is if (and that's a big IF) sama & co. squanders their lead. Judging by the past 1 year (strategic partnerships with Microsoft, branching out into a platform model that disrupts GPT wrappers preemptively, faster, cheaper experiences, $1B ARR), I assume they won't.
A general offtopic comment, but something that confused me when I was looking at the github issues and docs for the spread operator.

I've noticed that `...` is frequently used to denote that there's some code that's omitted. However with the spread operator being added (and being `...` in other languages) and "we also felt like it might be an operator we might want to use in the future for other language features" it's a bit confusing at a glance whether that's new syntax or just a shorthand. And it makes searching difficult.

I'm not sure what to replace it with, possibly a comment would be clearer: `/* code here */` or at least `/* ... */`.

P.S. Collection expressions are an awesome new addition!
US car and truck designs have been trending towards "belligerent" looks for decades. My totally unqualified armchair sociologist's theory is that these designs are closely tracking some overall American cultural trend towards aggression and hostility. As our society becomes more and more selfish assholes, our cars are aesthetically and functionally becoming assholes, too.
From a Swedish perspective this sounds horrific.

> Assume they don't see you.

So what about kids? They're usually not the best at that game. Are they not allowed to become autonomous beings because there are killer tanks on the move?
slightly off topic: anyone have suggestions for good introductions to birdtrack graphical reps?
Or the consequence of people who would rather take drugs than deal with life and it’s often harsh and painful realities?

That there are sharp edges economically and medically is inevitable. Making it less sharp helps, but requires a lot of time, energy, and focus/agreement that is rarely there. And there is no perfect.
If you're able to write content that you're interested in and keep that theme going, you can do the following:

0. Make sure your blog is properly indexed on Google/Bing/Duck etc. You can submit your blog URL manually.
1. Post on social platforms such as Facebook, HN, Twitter, Messengers etc.
2. Throw in a subscribe button on your website that lets your audience subscribe to your blog. I think this is where I've gotten the most value from. If you have a subscription list, you can export it to other platforms later on.
3. There are some discussions here on HN where they ask you to post your personal blog so others can follow them. Make sure to participate in such discussions.

Unless your blog posts go viral, acquiring users is a relatively slow process.
I appreciate you pointed out the difference between east and west coast car culture.

here in the bay area, pedestrians treat cross walks like magic force fields. Drivers have to stay alert. I try to teach my kids: the rest of the world is different. They will run you over and keep driving.

Honestly I wish pedestrians would just cool it a bit here. It’s almost a power game for some. I find myself hanging back from the corner until traffic has passed so I can cross without holding everybody up.

(I seem to have attracted the ire of car haters with this one. Heh.)
This paper seems to not have controlled for vehicle weight, which is the most obvious thing I could possibly think of being a confounding variable (specifically, total force applied). They specifically call out the variables they controlled for on pages 9 & 10 of the paper (https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2294).
I mean ISRO is a government organization and it's been provided pretty cheap services. I don't know enough about rockets to comment further. Just wanted to say that govt does not always mean expensive
>> The internet of that era [2000-2007], when Homestar was at its peak, was an era of compartmentalization. Corners of the internet were much robust, and more walled off from other corners. Indeed, perhaps it was that every walled-offness that made them so robust, that providing a sense of being in on the joke when others weren’t. That’s what Homestar was, above all else; a joke that a select few got, and everyone else didn’t.

There's a lot to be said for compartmentalization, because it permits diversification.

If there were 100 different clones of Meta, each with approximately equal user counts, the world would be a better place. And a more interesting one.

Most detrimental effects are a consquence of everything-reach platforms.
If nothing else it tells you that Intel is responsible for whatever version of log4j they decided to include in their dependencies.
I read that as you're so firmly into an us vs them mindset that you slot everyone into one of those buckets. And so anyone with a dissenting opinion becomes either an evil conservative, or a stooge of the evil conservatives.

What does a dissenting opinion look like? We've literally gotten to the point where MLK Jr's "I have a dream" speech would have gotten him kicked off of campuses for being racist. No seriously, https://pacificlegal.org/martin-luther-king-jr-would-have-fa... discusses a legal case which makes that clear.

For my part, I'll gladly stand with MLK. These days, that means I can no longer be a Democrat. I'm obviously not a Republican either, which leaves me as an Independent.

As I said, there really are more than 2 sides here.
> We are much more adaptive than that.

Sure if I get this laptop for free I may adapt. But for $1500, thank you!
In a recent comment on one of my DSP plugin videos I directly addressed this:

"I think this is because plugins are made for people to pay attention to them and then buy more plugins. I just do patreon, so I make plugins to be used, and only by those who need them. They should be boring and never change, but the sound should be amazing and just immediately there so you can pay attention to the music, not the plugin, and then not have to buy more."

That's the secret to open source software if we choose to maintain it. There's a catch: OSS projects also gain mindshare through promotion and attention, putting them on exactly the same grounds as commercial software, and if you had an ideal project that perfectly met a need without drawing any attention to itself, that need would prosper and the OSS project would languish.

It's the old 'tiny piece of unsupported OSS software on which the world depends' problem. You absolutely can do that and the cost is that the project either languishes or fails (in the sense that it can't be maintained, not that it fails its task). Or you can lean towards seeking payback, in the form of money or in the form of attention, and it costs the users something but sustains the project more fully.
Starting in 2014, trucks with a larger size were subject to less strict fuel efficiency requirements. This was because American automakers (who sell a lot more trucks) were unable to compete with foreign automakers that sold a lot of passenger cars that could bring their CAFE down.

However, the government screwed up the scaling factor and it basically became impossible to build a small truck, while larger trucks had much easier-to-meet requirements. That led to automakers basically abandoning the passenger car market, and upsizing trucks significantly.
Surely this would be a Firmware Bill of Materials (FBoM, pronounced "F-bomb")
"For US companies, Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity” now makes providing a SBoM a legal obligation for many companies."

Yea, this is not true. There is NO legal obligation. Be careful with what you read on the internet.

Guidance and law are two very different things.
Hey all, senior engineer on the Tangram team here — we're really excited to be launching HiFi today!

Through past work with similar sensors [0][1], we've heard a lot of feedback about what people want from a depth camera! With our expertise in calibration & shipping sensor SDKs in the past, we saw this as an amazing opportunity to ship what we think is a big leap forward in sensing: 1.6MP cameras, AI capability (up to 8 TOPS / 8GiB onboard memory driven via TIDL), and what is most relevant to me: self-calibration and rock-solid software support.

I've spent the better part of my career building and helping develop multi-sensor systems! We hope you'll pick HiFi for your project (and even if you don't, none of our software is locked to any specific hardware vendor). HiFi is a great chance for us to flagship our software on a first-class piece of hardware, and we want to share that superpower with all of you!

[0]: https://gitlab.com/tangram-vision-oss/realsense-rust

[1]: Myself, as well as various members of the team used to work at what is now https://structure.io/
That's not in conflict with what I'm saying. Costs centers require a certain amount of investment to ensure the business runs efficiently. If you under fund it, the results are often catastrophic. However, if you over fund it (as in, put in more money than is needed to keep things working properly), there's generally no additional positive impact on the bottom line. So, from the business side, your main goal tends to be to find ways to keep cost centers running efficiently with less money... without inviting disaster.

Old, under-performing and flakey switches do have a negative and potentially disastrous impact on the business, but if you replace the network with "gold-plated" high-performance 100GbE switches, you're not likely to see much more upside than if you just had properly sized and maintained switches.
"Yield to gross tonnage" is how I've always put it.
Or it may anger them into jumping a curb to explicitly hit you.

Road rage due to damage to their pavement princesses is deadly when your in a cage of steel.
> Isn’t decriminalization of X simply a matter of not making it against the law anymore?

It remains illegal. It's just that the penalties for it are removed. It means no legitimate, tax-paying business will get into it, leaving it for criminal black market operations.

What it needs to be is legalized.
This has happened two more times:

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-i...
Guillermo del Toro really put it well:

> We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies

I'd encourage anyone who hasn't seen the full breadth of Miyazaki's work to watch them all. It's well worth your time, and especially to see how his work has helped shape a lot of other media you've likely consumed.
Noted, thanks for letting me know.
Node.js – v21.2.0
So for a daily user, to make it a practical usage, let's say if I have a local measurement of X, I can predict, let's say, 10 days later, or even just tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, let's say the wind direction, is it possible to do that?

If it is possible, then I will try using the sensor to measure my velocity at some place where I live, and I can run the model and see how the results look like. I don't know if it's going to accurately predict the future or within a 10% error bar range.
>When you squandered your lead and you can't compete technologically, pivot to lawfare.

I mean, OpenAI and Microsoft are doing it the other way around - "We should regulate these smaller companies/FOSS models so tehy can't compete with us." Altman literally begged the Congress to regulate them a few months ago.

I can't wait until the tech becomes accessible enough that we don't have to rely on these companies for most common tasks with LLMs and tell them to gently piss off.