skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information is power. I want information to be available to as many people as possible or available to nobody.

Suggestion: When an altercation occurs, everyone with a recording of it should upload it to a public web site where all video is permanently available to the public. Anyone not uploading their video is assumed by the courts to be at fault for the altercation.

Another suggestion: All recordings in public places must be geotagged and uploaded to a public web site within 24 hours where they become part of the public record. This can be implemented with the creation of a government website and software updates to cameras/DVRs/phones.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621270
>It's then only "silent sabotage" to the extent that said docs were ignored.

From what I've read, the maintenance company did scour all documentation and found no explanation for why the train was disabled. It was an entirely undocumented feature. Maybe they were just lying, but this idea you have in your head that it was just a fly-by-night operation who couldn't be bothered to read the documentation is contradicted by the available public record.
JS lives where you visualize and explore data, so making it better at processing data would be a big win for workflows.

When you use a jupyter notebook the kernel wastes a lot of resources on visualization and the support for interactive visualization isn't ideal (copy all your data to json, pass that to a JS library which has to do the work).

Take a look at ObservableHQ for an idea of what an interface might look like, then imagine numpy semantics and webGPU on top.

As a bonus: run on server or in browser locally would reduce cloud bills because you don't need a whole server to do an exploratory analysis.
Tekken never was a 2D fighting game. M&B doesn't have more than 5 moves with any weapon IIRC.
Yeah, I also have the paper and the audio versions. I did not like the narrator in the audiobook too much, I wish she had narrated it herself.
Author here.

My bc does use fuzzing. [1]

I love fuzzing. In my new project, fuzzing generates my test suite that I then go through by hand and verify.

In bc, if I change the source code before a release, I run a fuzzer for two weeks on both bc and dc.

[2] and [3] are directories of error tests, almost all of which were found by AFL(++).

If you run the following on my bc repo:

commits1=$(git log --oneline --grep=afl)
commits2=$(git log --oneline --grep=AFL)
printf '%s\n%s\n' "$commits1" "$commits2" | uniq | wc -l

You will get 148 as of 53832b884b5c. Not all of those are bugs found by AFL(++) because some are tending to my fuzzing infrastructure, but at least 2/3 probably are.

[1]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/tests...

[2]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/tests...

[3]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/tests...
Since GP was talking about dependence on Chromium, I was naturally talking about the dominance of WebKit at that time. WebKit had almost 100% dominance on mobile and ~60% market share on desktop. Of course by then everyone knew that mobile was the future so it was even fine to target just WebKit.
Optimus Gen 2 (Tesla Robot) [video]
And even predators in the wild don’t die under professional care in a hospital bed surrounded by loved ones. It’s probably a violent death or starvation.
It's semantics, but if you consider Jeff Koons to be an artist, then yes. AFAIK he has never (or at least when he was starting) used his own hands to fully create something, from the very beginning he hired people to do it for him.

The "Desired Look" can be considered the "artistic" part of art, while the production can be considered the craft.

Koons is the most extreme example I can think of, but there are plenty of others who got their start creating stuff themselves and then hired people to do the total of the work.

Is a director an artist, when he doesn't write the script, touch the camera, edit the film, or act in the movie?
They've proven time and time again that they do not take security seriously enough.
Wow, I need to get some of that "binary code". Sounds dangerous, probably has "pointers" and other sharp things?

I'm happy the gigantic ball of ill-maintained shell scripts from the last century is gone from my systems.
I haven’t used it in a long time and I’m guessing there might be something better now but I used to use “bro” instead of “man” when first starting out with a cli tool: http://bropages.org/

It’s documentation but with only examples.
Funny, it's 36–40 that are the same for me, on iOS, both on Chrome and Safari (makes sense since Chrome renders using Safari). The bug isn't present on Safari on Mac, however, so it seems to be iOS specific.

Yeah at those sizes it's definitely not a hinting artifact or rounding to the nearest integer.

Definitely some kind of bug. I have a hard time imagining what possible mechanism could cause that, though. That's a weird one.
The wave equation of QM is just a differential equation too. The interpretation of what its values actually are is quite contentious AFAIU, and what the Born rule used to derive the probabilities "means" depends on the interpretation.

But yes, if you have "collapsed the wave function", you don't have the information to "backtrack" anymore. But I don't think the information paradox is about this (although unsure why). AFAIU one problem is that black holes throw out even the statistical information available in the wavefunction.
Ask HN: When will anticipated economic growth lead to life in tech improving?
There seem to be two recurring themes in business news headlines in America:

1. Markets are going up because investors anticipate growth ahead in 2024.

2. Tech companies are laying people off.

I understand why they diverge, markets are forward-looking and there was a lot of excess that needed to be trimmed after 2020/21.

That said, broadly speaking, what do people think it's going to take for the prosperity markets anticipate to result in similar changes in daily life for those working in the tech industry?
I generally agree, though it depends on the nature of the application.

A couple years ago, I was working on a personal project where I'd built a respiratory gas analyzer and needed to write some software that could interface with it over Bluetooth and display the data in real time. Unit testing for various functions that needed to accurately perform scientific calculations was very beneficial, but in retrospect, writing tests for other aspects of the interface was pretty much a waste of time. I ended up getting rid of the tests entirely once I had confidence my functions wouldn't be changing by that point. It turns out that when you're a solo developer, manually testing your application can be perfectly adequate.
More reasons for Europe to get less investments
> Tekken is a Japanese fighting game that has been around since the late 80’s.

wait, what? the first tekken was released in 1994... wasn't it?
There are plenty, SiFive and MilkV sell boards for example. You can also just run emulation.
BTC is the Linux of the financial world. Nobody but weirdos use it. It will continue to be used for large and very large transactions, because that's where it makes sense. People will continuously try to create and recreate a 'Bitcoin Desktop' that will continuously fail to reach significant levels of adoption. In 30 years it should be ready for daily and microtransaction use.
Police should wear two body cameras, maybe even one worn on the back to show the entire scene. Why not make them wireless as well and send back to central to ensure they are getting recorded.
Exactly. We decided internet is as important as any other infrastructure service. It is only infeasible when people decide that rural citizens do not deserve it.

Indeed, it is hard for me not to read this thread in that light; I’m guessing those that seem to oppose subsidizing rural fiber either already have theirs or have simply given up all hope of it ever happening.
The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born
For the ingesting bit, we (Polytomic) have an API you can use: https://www.polytomic.com/connect.
Any data that is small enough to quickly iterate on for learning is small enough to use a simpler approach.
The point is learning the techniques.
And, more presently relevant, the actual sequence of CPU state manipulations needed to apply the update reliably in gnarly. Hopefully the thing currently implemented in Linux is fully reliable.
The only reason App Review will ever mention testing against specific devices is when there’s been a screen resolution or form factor change, but simulators work fine for that. I’ve worked with multiple apps with many different reviewers across several such changes and they do not care if you have physical hardware to test against.

Xcode, etc are heavily reliant on macOS and would not be easy to port. Xcode itself is Swift+ObjC+AppKit and the simulators just run the iOS userland atop the shared bits between iOS and macOS. This means that a port entails porting all of AppKit or starting a whole new “Xcode for other platforms” codebase to run parallel with original Xcode as well as writing a full on iOS virtualizer for other platforms. Possible, but expensive with questionable ROI.

Apple definitely supports FIDO keys because I’ve been using YubiKeys to log into my developer account for a while now.
Depends on the intention of what you're making - if it's something that exists for its own sake with commercial value as a secondary concern then you're an artist, if it's a product to spec and you're following the design/requirements from a client or a potential customer then you're a product manager.
State and Federal gov'ts have priority in prosecution. If it is true that DA or judge are reticent to prosecute, then the appropriate avenue is State/Fed
You're wrong! /Sarcasm

Seriously, there's also destructive arguments where you know you're not changing the other arguer's viewpoint, but instead aiming to change onlookers's views.

There's also other types of destructive arguments to maintain standing in a community. For example, if someone comes in on a liberal area and starts talking terrible of trans people. The 'argument' is in part a required demonstration to show everyone else you're serious about maintaining the status quo. The argument will never fix the person, but that wasn't the goal either. It's more of a filibuster with aim to make the other person to leave.

Abortion is one such. Gun rights, another. Socialized medicine as well. Taxation.

I've never been too sure the effectiveness of the destructive argument, but that form really took hold on pre-musk Twitter.
Specifically for LLMs— I recently gave a guest lecture on Intro to LLMs for non-CS (biomed) grad students. I wanted to assign a homework quiz but didn’t find any good ones, so I made a multiple choice quiz. It’s a bit “evil”: it trips you up if you don’t have a solid understanding. Several of the questions have nuances that both test your understanding and also help you learn by figuring out the right answer. It’s a google form that does NOT collect emails:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbWN3qwqeIc0b1cCRq...

Note this is for absolute LLM beginners, not if you’re already working with LLMs -- but even some of these folks have found it useful!

Hope you find this useful.
"bricked ones losing funds"

That's the user's fault. The product makes it very clear you need to create a recovery sheet and store it in a safe deposit box or other secure place. If you actively ignore the instructions you deserve it.

Could you share some of your deep dive and tell us about what concerns you found? I use one of their wallets and I'd like to investigate more now as well.
> article. It is production that causes severe and potentially deadly illness.

No. It is the cutting of the product (often on-site at the residence) to fit the kitchen or bathroom that causes silica dust. Workers not wearing mask protection and not using proper ventilation fans and vacuums breathe in the dust.

The odd thing is silica dust is also present in natural stones like quartz (very popular in America right now). I don’t understand how this legislation will help since it only bans engineered stone.
This should apply to all evidence and witness statement gathering and processing. It should all be handled separately from police and prosecutors and made equally available to both sides if it comes to prosecution. The incentives should be toward accuracy, not convictions.
That was a plot point in ‘The Circle’ by Dave Eggers. Elected officials were encouraged and then shamed/forced into wearing cameras and livestreaming all their activities. The idea was they they wouldn’t take bribes or submit to lobbyist demands if they were being watched online 24/7. The end result of this sort of transparency, though, was rather dystopian, a lot of unintended consequences.
The iPad has text zoom, so you can make the font bigger. Just like with ctrl + on a desktop.
Newly created ultra-hard material rivals diamond
The purpose of a panopticon isn't so that the inmates can keep the guard in check.
There are historical reasons for needing a dev machine on those stores. Apple really do not need it, you are probably right that they copied the bad stuff. The Android and Apple stores are contemporary though, they have different philosophy it is not all about competition.
Unlocking the secrets of fast radio bursts
Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half
The very, very late 80's?
A few months ago they also pushed a new feature which, if enabled, literally exfiltrated your secret key to external parties, requiring only 2 to reassemble the full key...

Avoid

Avoid

Avoid
So ... no dependency management is the best way to do dependency management? Just download the .so files from somewhere?

Sounds awesome!
Researchers Just Created the First Permafrost Atlas of the Entire Arctic
Robots Walk
Most robots walk do not seem natural. Perhaps it is because their legs are always bent. They don't stretch their leg when they make a step. Is that the problem? Is there any technical limitation to do that?
>Regardless of whether some of the time, a police department is full of bad apples and concealing or destroying body-cam footage

Make it a felony to conceal or destroy body cam footage.

Also, make it so that if a cop is accused of violating rights or involved in foul play, and their body cam "suddenly malfunctioned or were turned off or was left in the car" , a default judgement is given against the officer in question.

Make it as ubiquitous to cops as a parachute is for someone who goes skydiving. This must be enforced as harshly as possible. Cops aren't operating on their own dime.

If I'm a cop and the choice is leave my camera on or lose my job, my union membership, my retirement, my pension, and also face serious jail time, I'm leaving my camera on every time.

The watchers MUST watch the watchmen, and the watchmen must have no expectations of privacy while on duty or being paid by the public.
SQL Polyglot: Run a query and get results from PostgreSQL, MySQL, and others
Any of these efforts not performing as well as BOOM may be suffering from "not invented here". Its already there and getting good IPC. Why not start from that.
Show HN: Event Driven Social Media to Make Genuine Connections
I have been working on building a platform that aims to bring people closer in a digital world of loneliness (Especially with Gen Z).

The idea was that if you meet people first and then interact with them online you will build stronger connections and make better local communities. Would love to hear your feedback!
I agree with this except I think that policing should also be a highly educated position matching the expectations. Social workers and teachers are generally required to have graduate degrees, for example. Police academies are a scant few weeks in America, and these are people who enforce complex law in the most crucial life-or-death circumstances. Cops should be the best of us.
Apps don't support ad blockers... so HN is fine but not the links.
The companies selling this tech are explicitly techno-dystopians.
Ask HN: Can being polite yield better answers from LLMs?
If they were trained using questions from the internet and assuming that well-written inquiries yielded better answers, could this influence the responses of large language models when prompted?
Those are trigrams of all 3-byte sequences of binary executables arranged in a cube. Here are some more examples of that type of viz:

https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization/

And here is a talk about binary visualization by the legend Christopher Domas, which is where I first saw it used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk
Let's take a hypothetical situation.

A company decides it doesn't want to hire black people or Hispanic people. They decide they only want to hire whites and Asians. Any of their employees who do not meet the quotas and hire too many blacks lose bonuses or are outright fired.

Would you still ask what is deeply racist in that case?
This is especially true of some programming blogs where instead of giving you the code they'll give you a screenshot of the code instead.
GP put a parenthetical in their post that indicates they mean tailored (the way you're using it)
Whoops that’s embarrassing.
Tesla's Nordic Dispute Sparks Angry Letter from Money Managers
has this never been created before in previous years? Their heatmap is a great visual in it self
From Wikipedia[1]:

> Castilian (castellano), that is, Spanish, is the native language of the Castilians. Its origin is traditionally ascribed to an area south of the Cordillera Cantábrica, including the upper Ebro valley, in northern Spain, around the 8th and 9th centuries; however the first written standard was developed in the 13th century in the southern city of Toledo. It is descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, with Arabic influences, and perhaps Basque as well. During the Reconquista in the Middle Ages, it was brought to the south of Spain where it replaced the languages that were spoken in the former Moorish controlled zones, such as the local form of related Latin dialects now referred to as Mozarabic, and the Arabic that had been introduced by the Muslims. In this process Castilian absorbed many traits from these languages, some of which continue to be used today. Outside of Spain and a few Latin American countries, Castilian is now usually referred to as Spanish.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
Bazzite: An alternative operating system for Steam Deck, Desktops, Handhelds
> Productivity keeps rising

Not according to the fed...
Author here.

It means that you have to find input that triggers a memory bug to do something malicious.

If my dc had the `!` command, then you, as an attacker with low privileges, might be able to modify a dc script to spawn another command that you know can be exploited to get root. Without it, you have to exploit my dc for ROP or some other attack.

Of course, then you would just target a shell, right? And that's the point: I've put in enough work, and my bc/dc are locked down enough, that attackers would probably find other ways in.
Does that not lend more credibility to the leak. Who else but OpenAI employees would have access to an internal URL that you need a private token to access
FIDO2 security keys offer a versatile range of user authentication options. We have explored some of these possibilities during a workshop we presented at ph0wn. This post delves deeper into setting up disk encryption with LUKS safeguarded by a security key. We also explain the underlying mechanics and highlight pitfalls to avoid.
We explored this space with an investor and did not get far before backing away in ~2017ish.

The makers of the TASER, Axon, gave away body cams to sell the services supporting them.

It worked well and was very expensive to try to enter the market against their brand loyalty and existing market penetration.
Basically asbestos presents an opportunity for things to go wrong and for you to get cancer. There isn't a discrete threshold where you have been over-exposed and now have cancer - think really shit lottery tickets.

So over a population you'd generally expect to see the incidence correlate to the level of exposure, but not in a way that precludes unusual shit like this.
Interestingly I dislike Python for the exact same reason. Every time I look at a PR, I second guess every single operator and index. Does this attribute access carry a heavy penalty or side effects? Etc. I find it adds a large mental overhead to any given piece of code.
Author here.

This is my experience, though I started in Java and transitioned to C.

My C code also does not need to be updated for language changes and such.
Plug: we've been building Packj [1] to detect malicious Python/NPM/Ruby/Rust/Java/PHP packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis to look for "suspicious” attributes such as spawning of shell, invalid/expired email (i.e., no 2FA), use of files, network communication, use of decode+eval, mismatch of GitHub code vs packaged code, and several more.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
You are taken in by TV cop show scenarios. Criminals are not smart. Cops are not warriors in danger of a guerrilla attack.

The real effect of knowing what cops do all day would be half as many cops, or fewer.
> Make it federal law that every officer when on duty has no expectations of privacy, and their body cam must be on 100% of the time when on duty, no exceptions.

I'm not an expert, but I don't think that'd be possible at the federal level. Politics aside, local policing is controlled by states and federal control over those issues is largely limited to things like withholding funding for states that don't comply with federal program requirements.
I don't want to see that footage. Ever.
If you're on an Intel MacBook, using YouTube Music is a miserable experience. As for YouTube.com itself, it's okay, but FreeTube is significantly more responsive.

VSCode was more laggy than native competitors on my machine. Especially when selecting text. Maybe our tolerance for lag is different? I know a ton of people swear by VSCode, but when an app has bad latency on basic interface functions it just throws me off. People with higher lag/latency tolerance may be right, that it's worth the trade-off to get an otherwise better app. But I will always go for non-lag native apps.
severe (severe!) fines

Unless you can pierce the corporate veil or somehow make owners criminally liable for low safety standards, levelling huge fines at small companies is meaningless, as the company will just end up declaring bankruptcy and the workers will just get hired by the next company over, with equally low standards.
Are you saying all blacks think the same way?
Xorg is in maintenance mode and has security issues. I can't wait for other distros to follow suit.
> This dance took about a second to complete

What's really weird about reading this is that I can hear, in the back of my mind, the sound my CRT makes while doing this switch. But I have no memory of ever switching from X -> virtual console since LCDs were a thing. I guess... that's when X stopped crashing routinely? Weird stuff!

(Also, am I crazy or is there also a smell associated with this operation? I swear I remember something like that. When the mode switches, the monitor degausses itself, and then there is a faint smell of ozone? Computers used to be weird!)
Oh please. You can absolutely flow chart fighting games. That is in fact the entire concept behind combos- sequences of moves that your opponent can’t do anything during outside of more modern combo breaker mechanics.

Yeah there’s niche dynamic considerations for making these combos work for slightly different distances and weights and heights and power meters and whatever. But for 99% of the player base you’re going to be best off learning a few bread and butter ideas and then executing on them without much variation.