skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with perhaps a Koch brother as the junior senator from Kansas.

The Koch brothers' years-long efforts to use their wealth to influence government has led to a Supreme Court that is about to massively curtail the regulatory authority of federal agencies, so that's a pretty bad example to use if you want to argue that there isn't a strong connection between wealth and political power.
a, they're not really open sourcing it, they're releasing it under a license that says you can use it for what they say. So it's marketing mostly, both external and internal to try and appease the "AI ethics" crowd. And honestly, b, their strategy is incoherent anyway. It's a tech company with too much money and no acute market pressure hoping to find something that sticks.
> research like this

> His crime: he was tasked with looking into a software that produced way too many log messages.

The developer wasn't doing security research. It sounds like they just had a bug they were looking into. Connecting to the database and realizing what it is to immediately disconnect and report it responsibly shouldn't be something that comes with punitive measures. As another commenter pointed out, this incentivizes people to sell this knowledge to others who will actually "misuse" it.
How do you know how long away we are?
Everything is fundamentally physics.
Greetings from Germany, I would not be surprised in the slightest if German legislation considered pressing F12 in your browser looking at the HTML was considered "hacking".
For what it's worth, I have hired people this way in the past.

I know multiple people who keep a "good candidates" file of some sort.

Agree sometimes it may be meaningless boilerplate.
How many "parameters" for the LLaMa3?
They certainly have a large stockpile of the cringiest boomer dataset on the planet, rivaled only by LinkedIn. Soon the AI loop will generate the largest neuron deactivation loop in human history.
Ask HN: How to get hired as a product team
We are a complete product team with 9+ years of experience working together. Been acquahired twice, worked in companies, and built products for hundreds of thousands of users. We recently went independent again.

Bootstrapping our product on the side and looking for a way of funding it.

Does anyone have the experience to be hired as a whole team to do short-term/long-term contracts?

Happy to provide our portfolio, but didn't want to self-promo.
That poison chemo was and is a vast improvement on puberty-killing radiation, for instance. It’s a spectrum
This is what we did with my company. Raised a $1.1m seed in 2015, and still running the company today. It's a very profitable modest company now with 25 employees.

At the time we raised the seed round, we thought we were going to go the regular VC funded path, but somewhere along the way (probably when we became profitable) we changed our operating model to one similar to a bootstrapped company.

Some investors got annoyed (some probably still are annoyed), but we've offered to pay them back their original investment. I used to get angry emails from investors telling us it's terrible that we're not burning money, because you have to invest and burn money in order to grow fast.

I really like the position we're in now, with 100% total control over the company, no board of directors other than founders, destiny is in our own hands. No pressure to raise since we're profitable, and we continue to grow by reinvesting profits back into the business (hiring more people).

This strategy 100% will not work if you tell investors this is your plan from the start. VC-backed and bootstrapped companies operate very differently and have very different long-term goals. Bootstrapped companies typically aren't compatible with the goals of investors. I have trouble seeing how you would pitch "raise 1 round" to seed investors successfully. And I absolutely would not recommend being dishonest about your intentions if you know this is your plan from the start. (For us, we truly believed what we told our original investors and the vision we painted, and only changed our operating model a couple years later after burning nearly all of our seed capital)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-it-phenomenology/#...

See the 3 different perspectives from here.
Threat is not certainty. If somebody is out there to kill you, you are under an existential threat, until they are caught. It's not a reason to start playing Russian roulette, saying "I'm already in danger, cannot get worse than that!"
The NFL May Buy a Stake in ESPN. Is This the Death of the Network's Journalism?
I thought the missing piece was the userbase
Most schools utilize cloud-based education platforms (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc) that require connectivity. Local hosting requires infra + someone to manage it, not to mention that there aren't very many good self hosted edu software resources.
I think it's fine to applaud their pro open source behavior, while still being critical of the ill they've released upon society. Cambridge Analytica and spreading mob violence in some countries come to mind.
New gut-brain circuits found for sugar and fat cravings
Interesting timing / embargo. 25 minutes between Mark and the Verge.

17:34 Mark posts Instagram post***
17:44 I saw the post
17:49 I posted this on HN
17:59 The verge article was posted***
18:05 The other HN post was posted
mailchimp, freshworks, basecamp/37 signals etc are all bootstrap and wildly successful.
If you don't know what the key does who are you reporting it to?
Might be related to their stock compensation being high. Tesla stock has rocketed up since 2020, and some early factory workers turned into millionaires, not just engineers. SpaceX has also seen valuation grow a lot. As the article notes, it's very unlikely that Tesla stock doubles or triples anytime soon at current valuation.
While I agree this is a bit surprising... I don't see literally anything in the docs for `collect()` that implies anything about memory behaviors. You get a collection, nothing more is guaranteed.

If you want specific memory behavior, you really do have to use a method that intends to do that. Like `shrink_to_fit()` (mentioned in the article).
GF mentioned having an ex-bf who before they dated had accidentally run someone over and killed them. She said he had this ever present air of guilt about him. Like nothing he could do would make up for that. Then you got Reiser who likely just cares that he got caught and his life is now fucked. Not everyone is the same. But way more people are psychologically like my GF's ex.
God bless you and your family Don.
Makes me think about how Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation and took $8m in funding.
But nobody was robbed. This guy looked in the house and then immediately called you to tell your door is open. Instead of thanking him, you sue him for trespassing. Technically, he would be guilty of trespassing.
VMware Kills Off 56 Products
I have an Oticon. I forget the exact model, but it's the most powerful of the models. (My hearing loss is very bad and I'm classified as "profoundly deaf" which as close to totally deaf as you can get and still use a hearing aid.)

My model is about 2 years old, but the Bluetooth integration is a game changer, and I use it pretty constantly at work and on my phone.
Its not finding a random key on the floor unless the key was in his house sending data back to a 3rd party server. Closest paradigm using technology terms is finding an S3 key in a 3rd party library and then browsing the the S3 bucket to see whats in it. Authorization was granted by providing the developer the library, they literally sent him a username and password. If the code was unique to each client would the person been charged?
AFAICT the free food didn't really contribute to people staying longer. The campus was often a ghost town by 4PM and one of the common complaints was people filling up multiple takeout containers with tasty meats ... to bring home to their family!

For me it just meant I was more likely to eat when I needed to, like right after a 45-minute commute.

When I was there I heard stories from other parts of the company where the workers felt like they were obliged to stay until after their boss left (and the boss would leave at 7PM or something). I didn't really understand but later I found out a lot of people felt trapped by the visa system.

When I worked at google I typically would show up pretty early, and leave pretty early. Over 10 years I don't think any manager ever commented about my hours. Note: I could typically choose "good" managers and I knew to stay away from Android, Nest, and parts of Cloud.
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Founders are wishful in their pitch decks, but that's not the same thing as misrepresenting their intentions.
Even just 100 or 200 random papers would be okay for a rough indication. There must be someone who has done this?

That some papers are bollocks is not a controversial notion, but I genuinely have no idea if it's 10%, 50%, or 90% that's bollocks. Even just a rough indication of "about 20%" or "about 80%" would be hugely helpful. It's also unclear that non-STEM is more bollocky than STEM – Oxman's thesis is STEM, and also bollocks. STEM word salad papers don't make the news because the conclusions are rarely interesting, whereas sociology and psychology papers do, because the conclusions tend to be more interesting.
Then using a language without a published standard is a fools errand.
I've long been sounding the alarm on MBA'ification destroying everything. To me its the most under discussed problem with society in better quality of life areas.

In the beginning they cleaned up messy, inefficient, wasteful processes. However for the most part MBA's ran out of real stuff to do 10-20 years ago. Ever since then it has just been about how much more can they shave off of 0.1% of 0.1% of just one more thing that doesnt need it but hey they have a quartly bonus attached.

Or like a comedian I recently saw said, every new business these days are basically something like:

Hey you know how a taxi driver can afford to feed his family?

What if he couldn't anymore?
Systemd can do that exactly that. it just doesn't do that by default. But if that's what you want, it's trivial
These protests are organized by conservative organizations. They represent the big farms and the export industry. I'm not sure why the "World Socialist Website" thinks this is some grass root resistance to austerity politics.

> The coalition in Berlin will stop at nothing to suppress this movement and defend the bankrupt capitalist social system against any opposition.

Actually, the government already gave into some of the demands of the protesting, subsidies-receiving land owners.

But well, maybe that's because the "World Socialist Website" has their own Putin-politics to push:

> This is underlined by the brutality with which it is fuelling the punitive war against Russia in Ukraine, supporting the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
The baseline RISC-V ISA is tiny, it only really has a handful of integer insns. So as long as you're OK with RISC-V's choices wrt. basic principles such as insn length (32-bit, extensible) and number of general-purpose registers (you get to choose 16 or 32) there's almost no reason not to build on that work. Literally everything else is up for grabs, and could become a new standard extension if the argument for it is strong enough. That leaves out special-case approaches like VLIW with a higher insn length and more integer registers (also VLIWish things like "The Mill") but these are rare.
Remember "Facebook: It's free and always will be"?
The issue with RSA is mainly that not all primes are treated equally.

Certain primes are easier to factor which can weaken your encryption. That was the biggest one when we where taught RSA.
Very hilarious that her husband started this slap-fight just to shut down critics of Israel and now it's the only thing that shows up when you look at his wifes name.
… Box::leak¹ is a function that exists. That seems like a memory leak, no?

Less tongue-in-cheek, if a program allocates far more memory than expected of it, I going to colloquially called that a "memory leak". If I see a Java program whose RSS is doing nothing but "up and to the right" until the VM runs out of memory and dies a sweet sweet page thrashing death, I'm going to describe that as a "memory leak". Having someone tell me, "well, actually, it's not a leak per se it's just that the JVM's GC didn't collect all the available garbage prior to running out of memory because …" … I don't care? You're just forcing me to wordsmith the problem description —-the problem is still there. Program is still dead, and still exceeding the constraints of the environment it should have been operating in.

The author had some assumptions: that Vec doesn't overalloc by more than 2x, and that collect allocates — one of those did turn out to be false, but I think if I polled Rust programmers, a fair number of them would make the wrong assumption. I would, and TIL from this article that it was wrong, and that collect can reuse the original allocation, despite it not being readily apparent how it knows how to do that with a generic Iterator. (And, the article got me to understand that part, too!)

Unlike most clickbaits which lure you in only to let you down, I learned something here. Reading it was worthwhile.

¹https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/boxed/struct.Box.html#m...
I worked at a small kite power startup in 2019. Unfortunately we couldn't secure funding to keep operating. It became quite difficult to secure funding after Google suspended their Makani moonshot project - potential funders were like "well, Google got out of this so why do you think we should fund you?". (though our kites were much smaller than Makani's and we didn't need a huge amount of funding to keep developing)

It's a very difficult problem keeping a kite flying in a figure 8 pattern allowing it to rise to the end of the tether and then effectively stalling it to pull the line back in - repeat over and over and while you're at it try to maximize power output for the weather conditions (and then there was the problem of automatically launching - we were leaving that for last). We were starting to look at reinforcement learning for the problem, but it was going to take a lot more data and a very accurate model of our kite and weather conditions.

Definitely one of the more fun jobs I've ever had even if it was short-lived.
> They forced the whole industry to pay up.

And now we have industry-wide layoffs and a massive cooling of the job market.

> They basically invented modern web development.

Which is essentially a non-stop carosel that encourages cargo-culting and factory-farming of interns from boot camps.
This is an argument for standards. You can switch messaging clients. Platforms own you.
Not a single instance of theft but Stéphane Breitwieser is probably the most prolific art thief. I read Michael Finkel's 2023 book on the thefts and it was a riveting read.
The `map` step converted the data to a smaller type, and the whole chain was smart enough to reuse the original Vec without reallocating. Since the original item size was [much bigger], there was a lot of "free" capacity left over.

It is indeed a bit surprising, but seems entirely reasonable for the platform to do imo. It's efficient, in both memory (allocation) and CPU. If you want a specifically-sized container, you have to make sure that happens, otherwise you're letting things be optimized in language-general ways. That will frequently be wrong in edge cases, and may change at any time.
Only in the manner that it is silly: Since Apple demands a 27% tax on a linked purchase, there is no room for an actual discount anymore. You can't charge less for the same service because you're required to pay Apple either way.

In that manner, this ensures you cannot compete with Apple IAP on price, and is hence still wholly anticompetitive.
Did your deployment process/script not include restarting the service?
Casting light on relief map shading
Even more fun is zero length names. In SQLite they didn't require table and column names to be at least one character, so you can do this:

CREATE TABLE []([] []);

Which will create a table with zero length name containing one column with a zero length name and zero length type. And yes you can do all the regular SQL against them providing you quote the zero length name.
If I were Zuck, I'd be building a new phone + OS.
That is what I was saying. If Congress wanted courts to be more "morally fair" they could decide what that means and remodel the courts to apply that new standard.

And I think we both agree a great many things are issues Congress should resolve by changes to the law.

I find it unfortunate that the vast majority of arguments (for or against) in these kinds of cases are just ad-hoc complaints about what the poster wants because it would be more convenient for them. There is very little reasoning from principles going on. The much larger question is: should companies be able to be rewarded for creating a market? That covers everything from retail stores to game consoles and cell phones.

Millions of businesses pay commissions every single day to someone else for access to the other company's customers. Some people say they aren't doing anything of value, they are just getting in the middle... but if they hadn't done anything at all there would be no market and no customers to sell to. It takes a ton of work to build a business, find customers, keep those customers happy, and get those customers to enter an ongoing payment relationship the customer trusts enough to continue making purchases. And come back to keep buying into the ecosystem every X years. My personal opinion is that has a value greater than $0 that so many people seem to be arguing here.
Whitney seems to have an obsession, and a real knack, for writing or rewriting array languages.
I don't see this as a strategy so much as just a natural consequence of the system. Most companies "fail" from a VC perspective; some percentage of those are still profitable and keep the founders/employees engaged. Everyone wanted the hockey stick but they got something else. It's not fraud.
9c fixed + 4.99% is ~10.2 cents fee for the proposed 25 cents/mo micropayment in the post you're replying to. How is that good? It's better, sure, but that's still handing over 41% of your income to PayPal.
Like with regular bank accounts you mean? (Btw, Taler being just a payment system, you don't have anything but a regular bank account tied to it: you don't hold money through Taler anymore than you hold it on Visa: there's a small short lived wallet for transaction purpose but it's supposed to act like a purse, not a safe).

If you live in a country where the police can delete or freeze your bank account without legal control (or at all, even), then you're screwed and you can either change your government or find a new country, the fact that cash exists is not at all a big enough a guarantee for your freedom. At that point the government could also seize all your properties (including cash, something that the US police routinely does[1]) and/or keep you under arrest in secret prisons.

If you hope a technological mean (be it rudimentary like cash, or more modern like a blockchain) can help you protect your freedom against evil government, I have bad news for you. No technology can solve your political problems.

[1]: https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from...
It's rather different. Some time I saw my neighbour left the key sticking outside. Doesn't feel like an invitation to me. Also, garden doors aren't necessarily locked and I think this is difficult to legislate.

German law applies to TFA so compare Hausfriedensbruch (criminal code): the adverbs of choice are "widerrechtlich" like undefined behaviour; "ohne Befugnis", essentially without permission, e.g. in case of not a lawful entry of police. Official translation actually distinguishes "unlawful" and later "without permission". I always feel it says, like, illegal entry is illegal. Vandalism uses the same words, section 303a applied to computer sabotage as "Data manipulation".

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...

PS: the relevant section is 202a "Data espionage", following another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047283

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
for some reason, this always happens with the google moonshots; They come at it from the wrong angle. Someone comes along with a slightly simplier solution after google scrapes the whole thing as uneconomical or beats them to the punch on using a far more technical solution. Don't seem to have a big "Cost per KWH" KPI's internally nor a sense of urgency.
I'll argue the other side:

It's more similar to finding a key hidden under the mat at someone's house. You can then contact the owner and inform them of the security issue but what you should not do is use the key to open the door and go in and see if there is really harm in you being able to enter. Because you might accidentally achieve the exact thing that a criminal wants such as finding a note with a password on it. You can then claim you didn't want to find it but the fact is that 1) you broke the law by entering and 2) you caused a malicious event (namely obtaining a password).

You can then pinky swear that you didn't already use it for any further malicious actions but that will be difficult to verify.

If I ever lose my key, I don't want people to enter my house to prove that they can. Inform me of how you obtained the key and I'll change the locks and make sure I don't lose my key again. If you do enter my house, expect me to press charges.
The Among Us fad is mostly over, though as a meme it has some serious staying power.

Looking at VR Chat though, it's posting record highs in user count, hitting 52,956 over new years, with steady year over year growth for 5 years now.

https://steamdb.info/app/438100/charts/#all
I stand by the phrase "Hacking Is Not A Crime".

It's what you do with the data once you have access to it. If you do nothing, it shouldn't be a crime, the crime should be the, presumably, nefarious usage if used.
I was worried people would run into this quirk in the demo. We have several 'advanced' question generation strategies. You correctly guessed the one we're using in the demo; forming complex questions by finding another page in the same category as Ripken and pulling more facts.

Normally we pull a ton of related topic and try to pick the best, but to keep the generation fast and cost effective in the demo I limited the number of related pages we pull. So sometimes (like this case) you get something barely related and end up with odd disjointed questions.
Sorry but you’re wrong. In the eyes of the law this is very clear cut.

Morally is another question of course.
How is this big?
Their pension needs to be liquidated to pay for reparations and the externalities that oil production caused.

At least this is the Greenpeace standard for businesses.
The best thing I can say is that I saw many people who would have made great Google employees but were turned away (or turned off) by the interview process. I really only got hired because I exploited knowledge about the testing process and my timing was good.