skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company added that some Search features will be removed in Europe to comply with the DMA, including Google Flights

What?!
You can have the most tricked-out, up-to-date protections on your client, or in a proxy between your client and a web site...and if that site is using server-to-server tracking they can get around it.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2041148702652965?id=8...
Maintenance isn't a nightmare in a post-scarcity world.
> why there's so much insistence from business that magic happens at scale with LLMs

It's already happening. See latest Google layoffs. They are automating a lot of things. Most people don't realize it, but the change is going to be dramatic.

> We're a long way from AGI

This is a big question, what is AGI? LLMs are quite generic and 'intelligent'. Not human-like, but. Next is going to be incremental evolution. Till we find other, non-verbal, ways of 'thinking' and put them together. That's going to be a breakthrough. Interesting, terminator-like embodiment isn't a requirement for AGI, nor is stable 'personality'.
What went right in 2023: the top good news stories of the year
Tor + twitter (if you can actually register there with tor):

"Hey, I just happened to find out that there is a password here in this app, at offset X, here's the screenshot from the hexdump with the visible password... I'm not allowed to check what that password is, even though there is also a username and a host next to it, and clear indication that it's an sql connection, but i'm not testing this, but i'm warning you, the general public, that this here exist, please don't try connecting to this IP using this username and password, thank you!"
2023 was a pretty depressing year and it is easy to give in to despair. But we should try to remember that some things are also getting better, even if they don't make the news ("what bleeds, leads").
If tank-top aficionado, former NFL punter, Aaron Rodgers promoter and overall loudmouth Pat McAfee wasn't the 4th horseman - what else is?
Androids are much worse. You get Samsung or OnePlus etc installing new apps with OS versions as well. And sometimes they're baked in to the system partition so you can only disable them.
The definition I came away with is that Cargo Cult Science is anything that is trying to look like science while not embracing the core scientific principle of actively trying to _disprove_ the claims you are making.

Science can't prove anything (deductive vs inductive), it can only fail to disprove. While no attempts to disprove can ever be 100% thorough, real science makes good faith attempts to disprove claims, and won't actively avoid obvious potential routes to such disproving.

Cargo Cult Science does not do this. It makes claims, shows evidence for those claims, but makes zero (or at best token) effort to come up with alternate explanations or find ways in which the claims might be incorrect.
That isn't hacking which the title implies. Hacking is more involved and exploitation of systems.

This is just taking the keys and unlocking the door to your benefit.
I predict they'll pay the server royalty that Nuvia negotiatied plus some penalty.
Your machine regularly uses that key to access what's behind the door on your behalf; there is no reason you shouldn't be able to access it yourself.

If you don't find the key and realise it's actually a lost one, leading to a potentially dangerous place, someone else will and they won't be benevolent.
I don't think that's correct - from the article:

“All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.”

Honestly, looking at the list, I'm not sure what they actually still sell.
> open source it responsibly

Responsibility always refers to the in-group. And the behavioral nudges his company has scored are making it obvious that he and his group are against organic growth and variety. So whatever they will "open source" will leave the narrowest of ranges to evolve from.
It's funny, the author went out of their way to give the company the benefit of the doubt...but they come across extremely arrogant and sometimes vitriolic. I wouldn't have been so positive
Most of these platforms will never reach "popular" scale.

You need to think about the killer article or feature.
Looks like Archive Team didn’t manage to get anything before it disappeared :(
> I should also add that arrests are public.

That's a good point.

My knee-jerk reaction is to think that maybe they shouldn't be, but there's a million reasons why they should.
Sticker price varies by country, and national health systems can negotiate those prices with quite a bit of market power.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/11/how-much-does-the-united-s...

> According to a 2021 study by the RAND Corporation, a non-profit global policy think tank, prices of prescription drugs in the U.S. are 2.4 times higher than the average prices of nine other nations (Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). That higher cost is largely related to brand-name drugs, which are 4.9 times more expensive in the U.S. than in those countries. In fact, brand-name drugs are responsible for 84 percent of total drug costs in the United States despite accounting for only 8 percent of drugs dispensed.

The US is just starting to negotiate pricing, beginning with ten specific drugs. Until 2022, it was illegal for Medicare to do so.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/10/03/biden-harris-admin...
It’s like telling someone the pin to your safe and then suing them for them opening it. They didn’t even steal anything. They just opened the safe that you gave them the pin for.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Silently? It was announced and loudly advertised as a new feature of iOS 17. They showed it on stage in their keynote, put it on their website, in press releases, and put it in the release notes of the specific release.

It's hard to know how much less silent this could have been.

It's also hard to know how Apple adding features to the OS can be considered either greedy or a 'breach'.

> but I feel like I am nearing my limits

For them adding nice new functionality they promised to the device?
See also this article by another Zoomer author:

"A Zoomer explains her generation's malaise to older generations"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38164374
Private residentce is a bad analogy. This is like being sued for trespassing because you stepped over a green-grey marble line on the grey-green marble floor of the open ground floor lobby of an office building where you work.
> Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.

But the OP says:

> Listing the 56 VMware products and platforms being killed off, VMware said: “All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.”

I've heard Broadcom is also (dishonestly) pushing a sudden and harsh RTO plan that will probably lead to a huge amount of staff turnover.
Funny message in the encoded Base64 on that article, which reminds me of a musing I had a while back.

Imagine the number of lazy programmers who paste stuff into an online Base64 decoder. Imagine all the stuff that is in those payloads!

Running a site like base64decode.org would be a fantastic honeypot.
You've narrowed the spec to that one requirement. There are other requirements too, that PDF meets very well.

No technology is a universal answer. You want to understand the job and then find the right tool.
wow, that was very powerful, and i didnt make it very far before being completely overwhelmed with emotion. but i am very grateful for this insight into human nature that can only come from the extremes of human experience.
It's not a "lost" key if it's found hardcoded in an easily available place (e.g. an application). It's a negligently placed key leading to a vulnerable place that is going to get into the hands of a malicious person.
I'm sorry, what better interface is there for massive amounts of VM management in a GUI?
We're definitely seeing an uptick in interest for Triton Datacenter[1] from vSphere users looking for alternatives.

Aside from Triton, there's a quite a bit of interest in Proxmox and XCP-ng in the community.

While alternatives are gaining popularity, they certainly do not have the same ecosystem that VMware users are accustomed to. Organizations are going to have to pony up, or make concessions.

[1]: https://www.tritondatacenter.com
History is written by the corrupt and corrupted and those who still have to survive.
> I figured I’d publish a short list of things Ello will never do:

> ...

> 2. Tolerate hate. Ello has many tools, some visible and others not, that help keep this network positive.

Geez, it's hard to take anything said as authentic with a statement like that. How can you talk about things without "hate"?

"I hate shoveling snow." "I hate terrorists." "I hate this political candidate." "I hate Taylor Swift music."
Early on in Ello's life, possibly year 1, I interviewed for a job with them - back when their office was basically one floor of a residence, and all the engineers pretty much worked at a single dinner table packed with monitors. I probably scored the interview because of my previous experience as CTO of a startup social network for people who wanted social change (which we sold to Gaiam, and that's how it eventually died a few years later, but at least I ended up in the Denver/Boulder area).

Anyway, the code test part of the interview involved pairing with another engineer on a small portion of the ello User model (their application was built with Ruby on Rails at the time), and I remember being rather underwhelmed by what they asked me to do, at least in terms of whether it provided a decent test of my abilities. I ended up sending a follow-up email expressing that, along with numerous polished samples of other project work.

They ended up passing on me, but I stayed a member of ello for a while longer because I thought the idea might have promise. Maybe I left too early, but I eventually ditched it because... there was no "there", there.

I liked their general idea, but... they could have done so much more with it, even with a small team. As it was, I left before ello ever got out of its "tumblr clone with way too much empty space" phase - if it ever did.

RIP
Both AWS and Azure have migration agnets for vShere VMs
In Australia, both your points are invalid. There are stringent quality control rules (the new Model 3 has just been held back until Tesla make engineering changes to meet Australian compliance), and there are plenty of other pure EV company options - BYD, Polestar, etc - as well as decent alternatives like Kia and MG.

It's governments job to proactively ensure safety standards are met, that the consumer has recourse if they are not, and to allow healthy competition in the market. If your market doesn't have this, don't blame Tesla.
Sounds like a great opportunity to connect and create startups to replace these fumbling monoliths.
Really? You might've been in these investor meetings. AFAIK, founders are telling investors about the big vision, we'll raise money right now and wishfully become very big. In what way are investors stipulating, "ok we'll fund your seed/A but only so that you can hit certain benchmarks that you will definitely be raising a series B in a year or two." Is it that direct?
According to VMware/Broadcom in the article: “All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.”

It reads like these products and any way to purchase them have been axed. What am I missing? - if the expectation is that these products will be bundled into future product offerings, that’s a big if and if I’m not mistaken I don’t think we have any concrete information about that yet.
Hot take, but I feel like Norway gets greenwashed a lot as better than everywhere else, when they are basically a northern Saudi Arabia in terms of exports with over 70% of their exports being oil and gas.
Isn't this against the consumer law? Or at least within the control of CFPB? I think many states have rules against that as well?
What sort of hashing algorithm do you use?
She has definitely damaged herself professionally.

It was a very naive thing to do. I'm actually surprised that instead of laying her off they didn't just sack her, but maybe there was a delay between the meeting and her releasing it.

She got a few likes on social media though, so that's good.
I guarantee vSAN and NSX are not canceled; they're critical components of the VMware stack.
I had to lookup who dude was after he kept showing up on the ESPN frontpage EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

I just want to read what happened with the sports ball. I don't want to be forced to WATCH some random loud person's podcast.

Is there a better aggregator of sports that also includes US ones I can follow?
Imagine if the progenitors of email thought to require e-stamps, say a thousand emails for a buck. There's a parallel universe where 'Email co.' is a major tech player comparable to Google. Not sure it's a better universe, but bears consideration.
Because then people will move off it.
I've probably read 100 ML papers. They're pretty bad. Even the most cited ones like Adam, Attention, and Latent Diffusion are messy, unclear, or just straight up wrong at times.

Adam - Their algorithm is inefficient. Their paper can be summarized as "use the signal-to-noise ratio," but the key idea is hidden in a page-long paragraph halfway through the paper.

Attention - I probably read "keys, query, values" a dozen times before I realized the key and query matrices multiply with the same vector (where the "self" comes in).

Latent Diffusion - Their theoretical grounding was just completely wrong. It's not some stochastic diffeq, or Markov process, or w/e terms they threw around. It's just finding the gradient of log-likelihood using finite differences (the error they add).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman...
There have been several nonpublic data leaks from Plaid and also massive issues with improper internal access to data.
Yoy can replace slash with any character as long as the parser can figure it out.
Probably.

I just happen to have had the most incredible physics teachers, and I know elite engineering schools do too: Feynman, that Eastern European lady who is way too loud and excited about science, the “let’s see if conservation of movement works, or if that bowling ball will crush my skull” guy. Every school had more than one. Steve Mould is a gift from above, but not a unique one…

On the other hand what Randal Monroe from xkcd and Grant Sanderson from 3blue1Brown have alluded to, that felt like witchcraft unlike anything I’ve seen in class.

I went to what should be one of the most demanding schools for statistics and it took me years to make sense of it. Re-opening my notes after things clicked was earth-shaking.

And it wasn’t specific to the school: we also had economics teacher, and they were incredible: hilarious, terrifying, unforgettable. “Our task is to forecast inflation. We have tried many approach, mainly macroeconomics and bone reading. Bone reading was more accurate, but the minister didn’t think it involved enough suffering.” How do you forget that?
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ may be worth a shot; I know it's a common meme that the stackexchange sites are a cesspool but my experience has been "garbage in, garbage out"

Also, I would guess the "review it savagely" and "absolutely destroying you" part is likely projection, or perhaps not setting expectations of what outcome you want from any such review. If it's "what's wrong with this code?" one will get a monster range of responses. If you have specific concerns, then stating them as specific success criteria will likely improve your experience

Without any question you will want to consider the audience of peers when asking for reviews. Stopping by r/Programmer and soliciting input is a good way to get the lolz; posting in a more targeted forum for your language or framework or both, or even asking your followers on any social media presence may get less firehose from the Internet
We already have a massive sovereign wealth fund built from investments seeded by oil income.

Last year, large phosphate deposits were found in Norway, effectively doubling the known world supply. Given a similar taxation model, we could keep growing the wealth fund even as we phase out the oil industry over time.

Though oil industry phase-out is not something with a political consensus behind it right now anyway. Labour and the conservatives tend to reach across the aisle on that topic.
Having all your customers' data on instances local drives (sounds like they didn't use EBS) with no backups sounds pretty dumb, spot instances or not. Those weren't serious people.
That way France can put the screws to England even harder the next time they have their typical spats.
I'd say conservatively ;-) about 75%
Recently discovered while making a monitoring script that systemd exposes a few properties that can be used to alert on a service that is continuously failing to start if it's set to restart indefinitely.

# Get the number of restarts for a service to see if it exceeds an arbitrary threshold.
systemctl show -p NRestarts "${SYSTEMD_UNIT}" | cut -d= -f2

# Get when the service started, to work out how long it's been running, as the restart counter isn't reset once the service does start successfully.
systemctl show -p ActiveEnterTimestamp "${SYSTEMD_UNIT}" | cut -d= -f2

# Clear the restart counter if the service has been running for long enough based on the timestamp above
systemctl reset-failed "${SYSTEMD_UNIT}"
It's about incentives. In general, the best incentive scheme is one where people are incentivized to do things that other people find valuable. The worst incentive scheme is one where you get punished by a third party for doing things that others find valuable. Economists call this "deadweight loss", the number of beneficial transactions that do not happen because with the addition of a tax, the transaction is no longer beneficial for both parties. Ideally, the perfect tax is one where you are taxed on things that are negatively valuable for society (an externality or sin tax, as a way of disincentivizing you from doing those activities) or that you don't have control over (i.e. it doesn't alter your behavior at all), while not taxing any activities that are beneficial for others.

LVT is very close in structure to this perfect tax. There is a finite amount of land available, and no way to make more of it; taxes on land don't disincentivize land production, they just take a cut of the rent that you get from having conquered that land first or bought it from someone who did. And the land value (exclusive of improvements) is usually set by its location - what else is nearby, what community improvements have been made, is it in a pretty place, is there lots of pollution or crime? These too are things that the owner has no control of; arguably they are reaping the benefits of things that the rest of the community has built, and so they should be taxed on it so the fruits of those labor go back to the community.

By excluding the improvements, you let the land owner capture the fruits of their actual labor. So if they build a new apartment building and provide housing to those who need it, they can charge rent, and they won't be taxed on that rent, and so they capture the full benefit of those improvements. If it's a nice apartment building, they get to charge more in rent, and they can capture that money too.
GTI. Amazing car.
It is the case now that it is profitable to purchase a rundown building, pay the property taxes for years, and then sell it for a significantly higher value.

This is the rent seeking behavior that a Land Value Tax seeks to eliminate. By taxing the unimproved value of land, it becomes more and more burdensome to sit and do nothing with your property. By making improvements (building a high rise, running a productive farm, etc.) you reduce your tax burden and, as you mentioned, profit from the improvements.

So a more productive and efficient land use is encouraged by land value tax compared to property taxes which since they are based on total value (including improvements) you could potentially be punished for being more productive than just doing nothing.
Show HN: Generate JSX with this GPT I built
The Last Days of the Barcode
In the late 1980s, I worked for a company that wanted to do exactly that.

It was an X.400-based nightmare, and never took off.
Everyone else with any measure of maturity knows they're just numbers on a spreadsheet. It's not a startling revelation.
> NixCon 2023

what happened there?
Thankfully, the US is not the world and there are other authorities beyond the FAA.
Plus there is the existing financial incentive. If an individual or company comes up with a revolutionary treatment, it would be an absolute money printer.

Even historic improvements for large demographics have massive returns. Keytruda (major oncology improvement) had more than $20 billion sales in 2023.

It is hard to think of a stronger market incentive to improve drugs as much as possible.
You can just host it yourself: https://github.com/radekg/hibp.
While sustainable businesses are perfectly possible, you say that like the economy entitles you to it. Profitable businesses can suddenly turn unprofitable for a variety of reasons, from big things like macroeconomic conditions to stupid stuff like one of your suppliers having a factory fire or your products ending up completely lost in customs over a bureaucratic mixup.
How can something be worse than an existential threat?

If you knew you were going to die next week, what's to stop you from picking up smoking right now?

The truth is we don't need geoengineering because the truth is that it's not an existential threat for humanity, it's just the future is going to suck really hard for a lot of people if we don't get off our our collective asses.

Going around moaning "we're all doomed and there's no use trying" is exactly the opposite of what we need right now.
That's what I'm trying to raise money to do! ;-)

Basically through an analysis of fire loss history combined with open property data. The fire engineering field hasn't traditionally had access to great data, for a few different reasons, but now the data is actually potentially available to answer the question – but it does need a bit of time and investment.

(I'm the author of the article.)
VMware (now Broadcom?) owns the Spring/Spring Boot libraries, right? Anyone know if they're still planning on maintaining it?
I'm not making your point. You had a small part of the truth.

It's much more complicated than you think. Sometimes MAD works, but sometimes the rivals do cross-licensing. "Getting more patents just in case we need them" is maybe one of the reasons, but there are so many others:

1) To protect the things we're already doing

2) To protect things we MIGHT do

3) Because that's what big companies do. Herd-following.

4) To keep someone else from horning in on our space

5) To use for cross-licensing or counter-suits

6) To sell in case we never want to commercialize

Don't underestimate #3. Every business "analyst" looks at your patent production.
How about "I hate reductive hackernewses who fail to engage constructively with the discourse and instead turn to gotcha language that 9-year-olds think is terribly clever"?
Starbucks didn't have a loss of sales. Its stock price fluctuated and people don't know what that means.