skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note that the bolts problem on other planes is not the same as this one. This plane it seems that the locking bolts were missing entirely, not just loose. Their design requires a cotter pin and castelated nut to disappear and then for them to be completely removed, all 4, before the door can move. They act like a pin locking the door in place so all 4 have to no longer exist vs. just being loose. Of course the final report will tell but it looks like they were just not there. The other loose bolts found do however indicate a lack of attention and inspection in this area on a whole which may have contributed to this slipping through.
This is really cool, thanks for making this and sharing with the community!
try lobste.rs -it has almost identical structural behaviour and is (IMO) purely IT. Many HN stories are on that site.
For those wondering about why the \, is used to indicate the start a lisp expression, the backslash is used to escape all replacements and the comma recalls the lisp backquote (`) function (operator) which is like quote (‘), but allows interpolation of evaluated lisp expressions when preceded by a comma[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ba...
Bill Ackman —who has a masters degree— wants to probe higher education?

(who needs think tanks now that we have generative AI, anyway? aren't they traditionally just a way to convert dollars into prose?)
Matthew Green just wrote up the details of the attack:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/attack-o...
If you have a discount code you can share, it would provide a neat excuse for posting the link in a comment along side it ;)
hah, I've been doing the same, purposefully calling commands I know will fail so I can flag them, even adding a swear word or two so it also gets flagged on their side and, perhaps, someone can then take action. But in the end, the smarter choice (despite being talking about smart devices), was to change my commands to accommodate Alexa’s quirks.

I’ve installed home assistant recently too for the flexibility, but until I get a zigbee stick I still depend on Alexa as the interface with the lights.
Totally Sidetalkin' (2006)
> Reeks of projection that he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is a cultist, and not that maybe they just have a nuanced opinion.

Indeed. It's also really tone-deaf in terms of what it's like to actually be in a cult or what cult mechanics are really like, and makes it hard for someone to respond in good faith without the audience just considering them a cultist from the get-go depending on how popular the author may be...
Web Dev Toolkit
I don't use Amazon much any more since they sold me counterfeit pharmaceuticals, which were recalled years later.
> My point is that the only reason this is being brought to the UN court is that its because a bunch of jews are doing it.

I think it is great to move these types of disputes into law rather than war. Israel should further embrace the ICC jurisdiction fully and bring Hamas to account there.

> Its clearly not genocide, genocide has a very clear definition. If Israel wanted all the Palestinians dead they could do it in a few weeks.

I am not sure you know what you are talking about. The formal definition of genocide is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Definition...

Directly killing people wholesale isn't the only way to do it.

South Africa's presentation to the ICJ this week has a lot of good details:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/11/israel-genocide-trial-i...

It is a very serious case and it isn't very clear how it will turn out. Right now it could go either way.

> Saudi's killed 500k, using starvation as a weapon, that was likely genocide.

Israel is free to file a case against Saudi Arabia at the ICJ.

> If you sneak across the border and murder, torture and rape 1000+ people there are going to be very bad consequences.

Atrocities do not justify further atrocities under international law. That isn't a thing.
I'm curious why this isn't on the front page when it seems to have a pretty high points and comments to submission ratios, definitely higher than other things. I guess it was flagged?
This is about AirDrop, not Air Tags.
Bad news, my friend: you're a Jeep cyborg. Basically something from a Transformers movie.

And yeah, I'm stretching the argument a bit -- of course at least on a conscious level there's a boundary at my fingertips where I know that my body ends by the more generally accepted definition of "me".
They are all financial institutions of comparable size and using similar business models.

The fact that JP Morgan Chase reported Q4 profit at $9.3 bln on the highest annual revenue for any bank EVER, and Bank of America reported Q4 profit at $3.1bln, while Citibank reported net LOSS of $1.8bln, should tell you everything you need to know about how well these organization are managed.
So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception

(In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953)

Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?
Kagi is pretty good at surfacing high quality third-party reviews. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/shopping.html
I wish Sears sold do-it-yourself-houses again like they did in the 1920s. That would be very cool of them.
It actually is... ? For every brand, I search amazon first. They usually have it cheaper, with fast delivery and reliable return policy. Better than most brand webshops. If brand/quality wouldn't matter I would go to Ali.
That's part of it. I feel like I can't even start without reproducing 2,000 years of back work. I know it's not the same as science, but if someone said "you can't do basic mechanics without reading Archimedes in the original Greek", I'd laugh at them.
Would be interesting to compare to https://benhenryl.github.io/Deblurring-3D-Gaussian-Splatting...
Don't sonoff products use esp32
Same. Amazon search doesn’t do faceting when and where you expect.

When I want to search I use google or Reddit (mainly google across Reddit).

When I want to purchase I use Honey.

When I want to browse (home goods) I use shopDeft.com and switch to photo only mode.

Amazon search is so bad and has so many ads that there are multiple opportunities to do something new.
FlowGPT: Fast and Free AI and GPTs Bots Store
It's always the cover-up that makes it truly terrible. Like Watergate ... or when police misbehave in general ... it's always the desperate cover-up.
People should unionize, shouldn't they?

I merely expressed an opinion of an alternative society I would rather be a part of and based on your comment, I don't seem to be the only one.

But it requires us to, collectively, value our time higher.

in the end am I from Denmark. and here we certainly have another approach to work life balance.
Maybe for you. I actually do think something meaningful is communicated when someone says “I’m about 60% confident in this” versus saying “I’m fairly confident in this.”

I don’t take it as him trying to put on a veneer of precision on what he’s saying. In fact it feels kinda obtuse to assume that’s what he’s doing.
OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"
Was it The Wonder Years? I saw really mixed reviews on Yelp for that place and am curious if you have some insight into that.
Great question?
These are names for product lines, not brands, and usually derived from Swedish words.
The advertising is probably like spelling mistakes in 419 scams: those who don't notice make the best marks.
Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies?
There have been many very large layoffs announced recently at large companies. Much of the HN comments on these note over-hiring during better economic times. I’m wondering, have smaller employers, who presumably haven’t added headcount as much as larger employers, been laying of as well? Does employment feel more secure there?
It's there, but warthog is right, it should be a toplevel section like "A reactive programming environment" — yes ideally people would read the description and understand the differences themselves, or consult the FAQ, but the fact is that most people will understand Marimo in relation to Jupyter and so you might as well optimize that path.
>Boeing's entire business is to make good aircraft,

it looks like from the outside that Boeing c-suite of people think... "Boeing's entire business is to make good profit"

without understanding the consequences of cutting corners in the process
Ask HN: State of gaming and it's developement on Apple Silicon
It's been some time since apple released gptk. It seems a lot more games are not supported on apple silicon because of it. But the performance is still not comparable to pc/windows.

So I'm curious what are the next steps. Is apple working on improving it further or is it done with gaming on Mac?
Not to mention that “Owen” woman who nobody seems to know anything about but is this spitting image of his ex-wife and has that trademark Johnson shade of hair.
They’ve reached tabletop game quality and peaked there. Proves the point that we don’t need more immersive games than real life tabletop games, as our creative brain fills in the gaps.
As far as I can tell they for me also seem to not do their due diligence when it comes to handling consumer deception and abuse of their marked platform.

Honestly I'm surprised that there have not been any larger scale legal consequences given that Amazone seems to be economically harmful to the domestic market (kills domestic competition but in different to the competition manages to avoid a lot more taxes) of most non-US countries and it's given them perfect munition to use PR and legal means under the guise of consumer protection against it.

Just to be clear protectionism is a dangerous tool, which only should be wielded in a generic non target specific way, like requiring online shopping platforms, even if they sometimes just act as a proxy, to fulfill a certain degree of due diligence when it comes to effectively handling fraudulent companies selling through them. That also probably could get ride of TEMU (which is more a tool of spying, economical warfar and other bad stuff then any honest competitive selling platform, they are losing too much money on each sale for that).

I mean a think which had been true before the internet was that if you can't provide a service reasonable safely you can't provide it at all (grossly oversimplified, not that people didn't try and got away with it). No reason this shouldn't apply to the internet. (Many TEMU products are not legal to be imported in the EU, often due to safety reasons, sometimes due to other reasons like being imitations of (Nazi germany time) Nazi artifices and stuff like that).
I do not think using words such as "likely" and "I suspect" constitute asserting anything. Those doors and plugs are designed to wedge themselves against the seal when they are in place. Just looking at them from the outside will not give any indication as to whether they are bolted. A few rapid vertical jolts (which might occur in flight) could jar them loose without the bolts. There is no damage to the structure of the plane. Bolts on planes are either carter pinned, safety wired or have a nylon ring to prevent loosening. They generally don't just fall off - not to mention having several fall off simultaneously.
Since digitaloceanspaces.com is an S3-style hosting provider, it would be neat if Hacker News could special-case it to display something like tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com as the domain instead of just digitaloceanspaces.com

Though it looks like S3 has the same problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876761

There's precedent for this elsewhere though - sites on a x.github.io subdomain have special treatment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lfranke.github.io
I shutter at the idea of using another Windows Operating system.

Imagine booting your computer and having to give an email to login offline.

Then you click on a link and it auto opens through edge, "DO YOU WANT TO IMPORT AND GIVE US YOUR PRIVACY?"

Or imagine you try to uninstall some microsoft app, it doesn't let you, you try to remove it thorugh the registry but the top 10 results on google are outdated with a different windows.

2 hours later, your computer reboots automatically during a windows update. Everything is turned off, you are dealing with autosaves, you re-open your browser and tons of tabs open slowly.

Finally you save some files in your local documents pictures folder, and start getting nagged about not having enough space in OneDrive. No big deal I don't use that. Lets delete OneDrive. Oh my god I lost all of my files.
The system was originally connected via private ISDN lines so that wouldn’t have been a factor for the first cases.
If your first test doesn't fail, then you're missing an opportunity to collect extremely valuable data.
I'm about 45 minutes outside a couple of major-ish cities (RDU/triangle area). I pass a goat farm just before my house (it's maybe a 1/3rd of a mile away). We still get most Amazon stuff next day, occasionally same day. I was a bit surprised, but here we are.
> I've never understood the problem with (L)GPL code on iOS devices. Sure, users don't have the possibility to replace the code on that platform. But the restriction is not imposed by the people distributing the code, but by external circumstances (Apple).

In the case of the App Store, Apple is the one doing distribution, so Apple must also comply with the terms of the license (in addition to the app developer). Apple has decided they will not do that (that is, people they distribute to will not have the ability to modify the LGPL code, relink the final executable, and run it on their devices), so Apple cannot legally distribute binaries that contain LGPL code.

It only makes sense, then, that Apple should preemptively reject apps that link in LGPL code, as they know that they will not abide by the licensing terms.

> If I have the OK from Tim Cook and all the secret signing keys, I can compile and run anything I want on my iOS device. And even without that, if somebody provides all the object files of non-LGPL code and build instructions, I can replace the LGPL code and run my own version outside of the app store.

That's not permitted by the license. The (L)GPL prohibits a third party from adding extra conditions to exercising the rights granted in the license. "Pay Apple for a developer account and get their permission" is an extra condition. Even if there is a jailbreak-y method of getting around the extra conditions, I don't think that would fly.

> Often when people ban (L)GPL code, its just a pretext, because they don't want to deal with the complexities or for other reasons.

Agreed, but I'm not convinced this is one of those cases.
Yes, most RAG is done with a vector database. Or something that approximates a vector database, like a traditional database with a vector-index add-on.
Assuming grandparents are local or unemployed and willing to move. And willing to do the work (maybe including food?)

Labor aside, a 2 bedroom in Mountain View is quite expensive and doesn't come with learning materials, toys, classmates, etc.
Those are all gone, here's another https://www.amazon.com/khalery-Apologies-Encourages-unethica...
The difference between legitimate brands and whatever these are is reputation, quality control and some level of accountability - these "brands" have none of it. Any legitimate business would come up with a proper brand name and put some effort into it, rather than cycling through brand names faster than I buy new t-shirts.
Here's my attempt at this: Embeddings: What they are and why they matter https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/

Available as an annotated presentation + an optional 38 minute video.
LLMs are a component of AI. LLMs do not comprise AI. I expect that AGI will require a mix of technologies, much like the human brain system.

Data require processing will be transferred between these mixes of technologies.
The sum of free choices is a free choice.

If you're freely giving your money to Jeff, then it's not Jeff's fault you're upset about it.
std::mdspan can't come soon enough...
And wind turbine manufacturers would agree:

UK December wind generation:
Generation: 2.6 TWh
Subsidy/MWh : £86.68
Market Price/MWh: £75.00
Sometimes curation just means higher prices. My local Best Buy curates electronics, but none of them are cheaper than the hundreds of additional brands you can find on Amazon.

You can’t get a $50 WiFi 6 access point at Best Buy, but you can find that on Amazon.

I think what you are describing is Walmart or Target but with filters applied to turn off third party sellers.

As an aside, what’s interesting about Amazon is that once you unsubscribe from Prime, it’s not incredibly competitive with AliExpress for the right types of products. Usually if you can wait a week, you can wait two and save more money.
The Salton sea is the home of a huge lithium deposit, and it's unlikely that anything but geothermal and lithium mining will happen there in the near future. Certainly not "restoration" to what it was when it was accidentally created.
I am great at dealing with people. I deal with customers so that engineers don't have to. I have people skills! what the hell is wrong with you people?!

Jump to conclusions.
Are you saying that Academic Pedigree is all that matters? What about all super-smart engineers at tech companies? They all must have PhDs? In my opinion, skills matters too, oftentimes more than the degree.
ASLRn't: How memory alignment broke library ASLR
See also the Fujitsu whistleblower, Richard Rolls’ witness statement https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/witn007...
Great overview, but the final section doesn't address the obvious question about how to decide between using a "vector store", like Postgres+pgvector vs a "vector database", like Pinecone. I'd love to see another presentation which discusses the various tradeoffs, like query speed, insertion/index-building speed, ease-of-use, and others to help guide people trying to decide which of the options is best for their application.
Yes. The 25 rows of the table correspond to the 25 linear polynomials in GF(5), evaluated at x=0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.

GF(5) is the "field" that psst uses. It just means that all math is performed using only digits 0 to 4, and we take the remainder modulo 5 after each operation. A linear polynomial has the form `ax + b`. There are 25 of them because `a` and `b` can each take one of the five values.

For example, consider the polynomial `3x + 0`. If you evaluate it at x=0, the result is 0. At x=1, it's 3. At x=2, it's 6, which corresponds to 1 in GF(5). At x=3, the result is 4, and at x=4, the result is 2. These values (0 3 1 4 2) form the fourth line in the table above.

The table on the first page of the worksheet and the table on each share all have the same rows. They are just sorted differently, to make it easier to lookup a given row.
> https://oimo.io/works/life/

Okay, this is not far off from a DMT breakthrough conceptually. A little hard to explain but consider normally you are looking at a fractal very closely and thinking that's all that matters and everything there is to exist. You don't normally realize how closely you are shoving your face into that fractal but then you move your head a little further and then realize you forgot all of that existed.
What is clear about this is that the system couldn't even balance the books (which has been obvious for years, to anyone in the UK following the story).

If the computer says "You took £x thousand and only banked £Y thousand", the first thing to do is audit the receipts and (unless there were fraudulent entries being made, while noting this was allegedly not possible) as the first rule of forensic accounting is 'follow the money'.

What's so bad here is that the executives of a well respected UK institution acted purely from a profit/reputational motive, and dug themselves deeper and deeper into the hole as a result.

More scarey part of this is that it's Minority Report - "Computer says you're guilty, end of story". Positive take would be the courts are less likely to believe the 'computers are infallible' line in the future.
> Also there is 0 chance of conviction.

This is more of a belief that a real claim.

Israel lost the last case at the ICJ. Russia is looking like it will lose its case at the ICJ. At this point it looks like it isn't a sure thing that Israel will beat the charges.
The Madness of Z80 I/O [video]
Thank you! Weird that I missed it haha! Will do some reading and will start applying the lessons learned! And ill reach out if im missing anything!
We need to get money out of politics.
It's not about the price, it's about getting a more trustworthy device.
Onion is the most salient part of the name so I propose "tOr".
They are satire:

> The "Law" was first formulated as ten rules in Sandemose's satirical novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks
You'd be surprised. People who aren't particularly interested in programming qua programming don't typically have strongly held opinions about it. Using the same programming language as the group you're working in is usually the main consideration. Speaking from experience as someone who has worked in an applied math group where the predominantly used language was Fortran.
He is saying you need to meet people where they're at. At least give them the option.
I was watching a friend use Siri the other day (I've never used an iPhone) and I was blown away by how much it could accomplish in comparison to Google Assistant. He said he used Siri as the default way of interfacing with his phone, which I found interesting.

Reading this list of removals, especially the removal of CALLER ID, on video calls no less, an insane choice - how much could that possibily cost to maintain? - I'm honestly wondering if they're actively trying to drive people into Apple's ecosystem.

Nevertheless I'll never buy a Google product as long as I live. How can I trust them not to completely mothball every useful feature I bought it for?
I would note the question isn’t should you add more rocket fuel instead of burning the structural mass, it’s can you convert the necessary structural mass into impulse vs being dead mass. You need the structural mass one way or another, and adding more fuel will add structural mass. By burning the structural mass as it becomes less necessary instead of simply ejecting it you maximize delta-v.
my budget for meaningless entertainment is zero, so i am spending my money differently.
I get that you don't want it to be true but that doesn't make it false.

Saying "The sun rises in the east" over and over doesn't make it true. It's true because it's true no matter how many times I say it.
A couple more examples: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sorry+openai+policy
Only if your employee is prone to episodes where they call all your customers speaking in tongues.
well no one has 5 years of experience as an LLM prompter, so the trust will be low in the short term. With current lawsuits, trust in the LLM is probably low for at least a year or two, with companies trusting employees to NOT use them for their work.
> But why are people surprised then that in most software the process is not as thorough as in aerospace or elsewhere with physical things.

Outside of engineering, few people have ever even heard the phrase “risk management”, let alone understand the theory behind it. It’s really hard to argue that a developer can consider themself an engineer, when they don’t bother understanding what happens when the thing they “engineered” fails.

Yes this applies to web applications too. If someone can’t access an application that gives them directions, it’s possible that they will be stranded. If a healthcare website fails to load a list of available physicians, it’s possible the user gives up and doesn’t seek medical care.

The current prevailing attitude in web dev of “who cares” is really a testament to how little most web developers and real engineers have in common.

Software engineers working on safety-critical systems deserve that title because they actually have to understand software risks, design appropriate mitigations, and prove their effectiveness.