skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but we all know it was COVID

Did you test? I had a bad cold several weeks back and after 3 tests it's clear that it wasn't COVID.
This one actually did start as a blog post.
https://f-droid.org/
As I said I'm sympathetic. My question was more about effective strategy in countering the push against encryption than it was challenging the utility and value of private communication.
Clearly the situation can be resolved by throwing Armored Personnel Carriers at it.
some places do share tips across the whole staff, though sometimes waiters still get a larger cut
Seeking Feedback on Aviation Startup Idea
I'm working on an aviation-related startup and would greatly appreciate your insights. While I can't disclose all the details, I'm looking for advice on entering this sector.

Questions:

What key factors should aviation startups consider?

How do you approach seeking feedback from large corporations without them stealing your idea?

Any tips for getting in touch with industry players like airlines for opinions?

Your expertise matters, and I'm eager to learn from this community. Thanks in advance for your input!
> We observed a decrease in COVID-19 disease severity surrogates after the arrival of the Delta variant, coinciding with significantly smaller plaque sizes.

The sentence before leads to the claim. Surrogate is the key word here since it’s really hard to directly quantify.
Okay so that explains inflation is always around… which part explains why it when from like a decade of 2% to 10%?

And don’t say supply chain because the fed basically discarded that when they finally panicked that it wasn’t transitory like they initially assumed and the scrambled with fast interest hikes.

Greedflation simply means a profit price spiral rather than a wage price spiral.
While I haven't met the guys in this case, I am familiar with their work.

Additionally, I am fairly certain they are not stupid enough to not have kept detailed, forensic-quality records of their actions and whatever they dumped. Sure it may not stand up in court as evidence but it will be more than enough to show that they didn't pull this out of nowhere
Those impressive demos, e.g. the cup shuffling seem to have been "staged". The end results are correct, but the method of getting them is nowhere near as fluid and elegant as in the demo. They used a series of still images with carefully crafted prompts. More info: https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-its-made-gemin...
It's very hard to tell with the Metro's haphazard writing style, but it sounds like the passengers walking on the lines were on the Elizabeth line. That's one of the Transport for London lines which uses overhead power rather than third rail.
".com" looks professional and, more importantly, it very clearly communicates "this is a website address." If it were "bobbuilder.services" it could be a website, but maybe it's an instagram handle or something else.

Otherwise you are correct that it doesn't really matter. The main value of gTLDs is that we ran out of decent available .coms a while ago.

Single letter domains look cool (I guess) and signal that the org has the money to buy a premium domain. Similar to "mortgage.com"
Feigning ignorance when called out on your nonsense.

I see the mindset of the excuse parade has not changed in a couple years.

“I didn’t make any claims, I only stated that you have to trade away performance to get maintainability and readability. Where are the claims?! Definitely not the claim that performance and readability and maintainability trade off for sure. What claims?!”
Organized crime brings this issue to another level.

"Basic controllers" will prefer to control not dangerous people (assuming they can tell them appart), to avoid to expose themselves to obvious danger. Because dealing with organized crime requires a whole other apparatus: the justice departement with the help of "services" (ahem...). Usually, those have to deal with the real nasty: killers, human traffickers, etc. They are very limited in human work force with often not enough means to do that work: so the "could you nuke those people because they are frauding the welfare system", ahem, maybe once in a while for posture. That makes me think about the movie and music industry asking for state-grade mass-monitoring of internet for their own benefit (in my country, they got that, hence you cannot trust the gov at not resisting such unreasonable lobbying).

To try to explain the shadows around this: with fraud and organized crime, beautiful ideological ideas do not work anymore: this is the hard reality, and it is often ugly. Only one thing has to really monitored: if the reality induced bias-es are not significantly self-maintaining/increasing that reality with some sort of feedback loop, presuming it is even possible to quantify that... Everybody wishes to never be on the bad sides of those reality induced bias-es. That's for the the "good" part, the "nasty" part is when it is not reality induced bias-es anymore but transforms into something ideological.
More infectious: easier to spread & catch
Less virulent: less harmful when caught
functioned normally? Intoxicating people with fumes is hardly what the user wants.
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Americans' participation in community outlets has been plummeting across basically every category since the late 60s -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
Classes are about data abstraction and encapsulation, which have nothing to do with implementation inheritance. They're about providing an interface that preserves any required invariants and does not depend directly on how the data is represented. A "structure" that either preserves useful invariants or is intended to admit of multiple possible representations that nonetheless expose the same outward behavior is effectively a class, whether you call it one or not.
I wonder if such a virus domestication could be somehow done in-vitro.

Probably would only make sense at the very beginning of a (new) pandemic.
"Respecting my experience" does not translate to me as "do everything exactly accordingly to these strict rules". To me it says "consider my opinions before doing something different". Consider. Not follow blindly. I can see how one may interpret it as the first if they read the quote in isolation, but certainly not in the context of the
book. Which, as mentioned before, goes out of its way to state these rules are more like guidelines, and gives examples of where strict adherence causes worse code.
I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find the best binary JSON-ish format a couple of years ago, it's very interesting to compare their different design choices. Having read the specification, this looks to be a fresh and minimalist take on a binary format, which is great.

In general, it seems CBOR won the standardisation and support battle while also being one of the more complex and ambiguous (in terms of the number of ways to encode something) formats. I think MessagePack is nicer, though I still wish UBJSON caught on.
These are mainline trains between Paddington and Acton Main Line which use overhead power lines, not a third rail as with Underground services.
Yes, that's true, and likely it will be one of the last safe-havens for many reasons. Cyprus has been a problem for decades but it's a very hard nut to crack on account of Turkish and Greek relations with the EU as well as the fact that if it ever does get rolled up it will make the Panama Papers look like a boy scout outing.
The old-style "tube" trains are all DC third rail IIRC, but the newer trainsets such as the Elizabeth and Thameslink are all overhead AC. So this would actually be one of the few metro trains where it would be remotely safe to walk the tracks provided all the trains were stopped...
Man I love ADI’s tech notes.

They’re some of the best in the business at technical marketing.
Elon is special in a lot of ways.

Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period. Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away.

Kind of like those advertising contracts.
sounds risky if they can release a following Android version that gimps it
Even if it were possible, it wouldn't control the ones circulating in the wild.
This pozar?

https://www.amazon.com/Microwave-Engineering-David-M-Pozar/d...
Not only that, but it also stems from "management" or "customers" unable to contemplate tradeoffs in the design. The reason FPGAs and RFSOCs are pushed so much in certain industries (we all know which one) is because the customer wants everything reconfigurable because they can't make decisions now, or in most cases, not competent enough to make decisions now. However, they are OK with buying a $25K+ FPGA or RFSOC which is why the market is there and also why few understand the actual art of RF design and radio architecture anymore. RF budgeting is almost non-existant. Most Jr. engineers have never seen a level diagram and the only places you will find them is in old watkins johnson app notes. SDR design is ultimately a race to the bottom in most cases in terms of good design but not necessarily cheap design.
Doesn't mean it's not a step in the right direction. Any transparency is better than zero.
Can agree this one is fantastic, and you don’t need to be polyamorous or in a poly relationship to get something out of it. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to be more secure in non-amorous relationships as well, as the stuff in here could easily be applied to those situations.

You could probably find other books on attachment theory, but the application of those ideas in a book that is based on the individual and how to navigate your own attachment issues in the midst of multiple relationships is great.
I'm frankly astonished it took people 3 hrs to smash the windows and get out. I'd have politely asked the operator to open it up and let us all out after the 1h mark and if they didn't I would smash the shit out of a window and crawl out. No chance I would sit in there for 3 hours.
This thread is a magnet for people who not only didn’t read the article but didn’t even read the headline, or are just continuing to generally repeat the same arguments despite the article contradicting them, without actually making an argument why the article is wrong.
Lmao how do the readers of this site come to believe such obvious BS
The idea would be that the "domesticated" variant is more infectious so it would outcompete the wild ones.
The same as reviewing at merge time.
You can go to jail for this, it doesn't just stop at fines.
>Did you test? I had a bad cold several weeks back and after 3 tests it's clear that it wasn't COVID.

I did not, but multiple family members did. Not much point anymore unless you're high risk. We've all got it, and no one's going back to wearing masks again.
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights
When it comes to parsing server logs, it's too bad the functionality can't be extracted out of something like logstash, since that's already basically doing the same thing.

Though I guess the real endgame here is for upstream tools to eventually recognize the value and learn how to directly supply structured output.
I have to say that releasing genetically modified organisms that can permanently colonize our bodies and potentially spread from person to person sounds like something that should be incredibly restricted.
> Tesla can go and pick them off at the postal center themselves.

No. You cannot waltz into a postal center, say "oh, that there stuff is mine" and then leave with it.
That doesn't mean that strategy games were only 4X back then...

Plenty of strategy games prior to Civilization that weren't 4X or 3X, Fire Emblem, North and South, Nobunaga's Ambition, etc.
That would work only on paper. The financial interests involved are huge.
My home is quiet, I can wear pajamas, it costs 20% less because I'm not tipping (I do tip a couple bucks for takeout), costs even less because I'm not buying drinks, alcohol isn't marked up 5x from retail pricing, and I can relax after my meal instead of spending 20 minutes trying to get my waiter's attention for the check and then having to drive home.

The only reason I eat out is it's a date and we're in the early stages of getting to know each other, I want to treat someone (including dates) to something nice, or it's a special occasion.
Newag was required by contract to provide accurate service manuals so that competitors could safely maintain the trains. This was not a "just take your car to dave, he knows some stuff". For SPS and other competitors this was like "you need to show every certification that exists and certify all your tools to prove that indeed you can service those cars, or you will be foreclosed due to fines". Plus, they were provided ALL service manuals, like 20k pages to follow to the letter.
It's more than rumors. There's enough information out there that you can make educated guesses about what it might be, and this article seems reasonable. There's lots of reasons to be interested in future research directions that well funded AI companies are taking, and a lot of those reasons start with dollar signs.
> In the same way programs are smart enough to know to render colored output or not, I'd love it if it could dump structured output (or not)

The even lower hanging fruit is to implement json output as a command line argument in all cli tools. I would love to see this done for the gnu core utils.
While mostly used for plants, there's another method that's essentially shooting cells with bullets coated in genes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
If the teacher was competent, they would've asked to see the code.
> the social biases embedded in the law

I’m not sure what you mean by this, do you have any examples?
Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38568896
Spying Through Push Notifications
Why? Please elaborate.
> Having chains in your town means that within a generation or two, the town will be effectively dead and hardly ever grow.

This is not true in the US. There are lots of places with chains (everywhere?) that are growing.
It depends on what the intention of the assignment was. If it was primarily to help the students understand what these devices _could_ be used for, then it's fine. If it was to have them actually do it, well, then the professor should have at least tried to verify that. Given that it's for first-years who have no experience programming, it really could be either.
Yes, although it's still by definition not a good idea to catch a disease. If it hits you too hard, you stay home, get quarantined, or put into a hospital. But it has to cause at least some reaction in the host, else there wouldn't be any coughing and sneezing to begin with.
We have rovers on Mars and satellites and probably nuclear warheads using RTOS of all kinds and in cases even Linux, but sure seL4 is the only OS conceivable for those cases, obviously !

This is a case of fraud, industrial malfeasance and just plain dishonesty. The software component of the story and its security measures are not even at play. Sure they are probably shit (given the date parsing ...) but even FreeRTOS would make an amazing OS *IF USED PROPERLY *.
I wonder how they will address versions…

`aws s3 ls | jc —-aws=1.2.3`

What a nightmare.
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It's not though. Musk writes it as a single stylized letter and the company name is "X Corp" not "X.com"
All the more reason for governments to insist.
On average, yes. This is also the tendency for most diseases, too evolve into a form less destructive to their habitat so it's easier for them to get to new places to infect. Given that this is biology I will note there are surely counter examples and variations on how fast this trend takes place.
you aren't the first asking, so someone made a website listing stuff

https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
Yup. It really grinds my gears that people came up with fairly decent ideas half a century ago, and a large amount of people decided to take that as gospel rather than as something to improve on.

And it's like pulling teeth to get any improvement, because the moment somebody like Lennart tries to get rid of decades of old cruft, drama erupts.

And even JSON is still not quite there. JSON is an okay-ish idea, but to do this properly what we need is a format that can expose things like datatypes. More like PowerShell. So that we can do amazing feats like treating a number like a number, and calculating differences between dates by doing $a - $b.
Tolkien would have had at least a pretty good instinct for the feel of the post-Roman world as he was heavily exposed to primary sources... and lived in the turn-of-the-century English countryside, which would have still felt recognizably pre-modern.

Many subsequent authors will have only seen modern or American or no countryside at all and get their impressions of "the middle ages" from a mostly-fictional cultural pastiche of Tolkien (who was really writing a Late Antique world), Dungeons and Dragons, Monty Python, etc. so it's no surprise their worlds are rather implausible.
But I'm still amazed how much you can do with this very imperfect, unintelligent "AI".

I'm amazed at how little you can actually do with it.

It's entertaining --- but it really only "works" when you are willing to manually verify the results or just accept the fact that it may be spewing BS. And as you point out, the imperfect results come at a high cost which makes the economics of it questionable for many applications.

Drinking bleach doesn't cure COVID --- but AI may suggest it because it found it on the internet.
i wouldnt be surprised if this info was somewhere in those 20k pages, and perhaps if the procedures were actually followed, stuff like GPS based lockouts wouldn't happen
How could it? How could the law possibly trust selfish drivers to actually judge that sort of thing adhoc and in the moment?

You sound mad. Like a frustrated child. Is it really that hard driving a bit slower?
Wow. That looks very special indeed. I have seen the sky in pink or orange hues, but never solid magenta or fuchsia like in those photos. Very cool!
> Glad they were able to figure out the branding though.

That's pretty obviously something someone threw together in a few minutes after grabbing a few [0] random images from the internet. This isn't one of those exploit sites with more effort poured into marketing than the exploits themselves.

[0] https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/ghost_1227567
>>many times you don't have the full picture of why the code was written this way.

Chesterton's Fence [0]

[0] https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
> the class 345 trains used on it have at least a 190Ah battery in each car that should stop the temperatures from getting too uncomfortable.

mentioned in the article

"Eventually, the battery backup running the train’s heating and light services ran out, and passengers were left in darkness for another hour-and-a-half until the evacuation came."
^I think this is being downvoted because of poor reading comprehension skills. Please note that the parent comment is in favor of the hacking group.
>The idea would be that the "domesticated" variant is more infectious so it would outcompete the wild ones.

This is precisely what the gain-of-function research that was happening in Wuhan tried to do. Whether that was a good idea or not is now questionable.
```if ... virus domestication could be somehow done in-vitro```
This is basically the definition of a vaccine, except that the vaccine has 0 infectiousness and near 0 virulence, rather than high infectiousness and near 0 virulence
msft with latest openai episode did not hide very well it was actually pulling the strings in the shadows (most of the board, if not all was "changed", what sort of "board" this is??).

msft seems to do a "better job" in the video game industry.
Same as industrial design then. You get the occasional Braun, Herman Miller or Apple, and a vast number of nondescript silver/beige/black boxes.

It's probably true of lots of aspects of product design - if it's not driven from the top, it's mediocre.
You can get that out of journald.

journalctl -o json

And applications using journald directly can provide their own custom fields.
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>I trust my unzip utility and my pdf viewer just as much as I trust my browser.

The parent commenter is suggesting the random file may be malicious, not that their unzip utility or pdf viewer is untrustworthy.

They are further suggesting that the data contained within the zip could be distributed in a fashion that is less commonly weaponized (PDF is a common attack vector, zip is a common obfuscation method).

>I might have agreed with you 15 years ago, back in the age of antivirus and such.

What does this even mean? You still need antivirus today.
unless we have the entirety of the context for this code and the 20,000 pages of service manuals, i do not accept at face value that it's this simple
I suppose if you could make it more infectious AND less serious AND have similar proteins so as to elicit antibodies that are also effective against the wild one, that would be a very interesting an possibly much more cost-effective way to "vaccinate" everyone.

That's a very big if though, and it might be dangerous research to pursue with our current level of scientific knowledge about these things (you could create a 2nd simultaneous pandemic if you don't succeed at the "less serious" part). But maybe at some point in the future it might make sense.
Are you British though…
I would say (3):

For many years, consolidation, deregulation, and other factors have led to a gradual but marked decrease in genuine competition in all sectors. As long as things were still trundling along as normal, the people at the top didn't really think about this too hard.

Then COVID came. Between supply shocks, lockdowns, and various other temporary effects, we were told to expect inflation. Indeed, for a time, there were genuine, honest-to-god price spikes rippling through the economy directly because of the pandemic.

But the causes of those spikes subsided.

And the prices didn't come back down all the way.

The people at the top realized that, because of how much we were all being told to beware of inflation, they could simply make the inflation happen and pocket the extra, and no one would notice.

And for...I forget exactly how long, but well over a year, at least, the public broadly didn't notice.

Now, we're noticing, and trying to make clear that this is what's happening.

But people like you are still trying to act like this is impossible, companies can't really cause inflation purely by raising prices, that would be ridiculous, this is purely the aforementioned price shocks (that ended years ago, while the inflation didn't).
They hacked the business model.
Oh, this is cool. I'm a huge proponent of CLI tools supporting sensible JSON output, and things like https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/blob/master/con... and PowerShell's |ConvertTo-Json are a huge part of my management/monitoring automation efforts.

But, unfortunately, sensible is doing some heavy lifting here and reality is... well, reality. While the output of things like the LSI/Broadcom StorCLI 'suffix the command with J' approach and some of PowerShell's COM-hiding wrappers (which are depressingly common) is technically JSON, the end result is so mindbogglingly complex-slash-useless, that you're quickly forced to revert to 'OK, just run some regexes on the plain-text output' kludges anyway.

Having said that, I'll definitely check this out. If the first example given, parsing dig output, is indeed representative of what this can reliably do, it should be interesting...