skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure I'm biased by now, but reading this from Boeing:

>> We are taking action on a comprehensive plan to bring these airplanes safely back to service and to improve our quality and delivery performance. We will follow the lead of the FAA and support our customers every step of the way.”

I though "follow the lead of the FAA" because you are lost when it come to such things. Not the image I want in my head of a company that should be a leader in that area...
> To take your point farther, I've met plenty of people who've learned their second language as an adult and can speak nearly accent free.

I've seen some instances of this, for instance Russians learning French.

My guess is that it's possible if the native language phonemes are a superset of the second language.
Ah but he enjoyed coffee that wasn't freeze dried so that makes him a socialist according to the British media.
Why should someone who is able to choose a strong, distinct password for each service (and keep it safe) be forced into an additional inconvenience.

I think this is a more broad issue, how do you give the same service for all users, regardless of their level of experience.
The genetic data could be sold to a third-party that exists outside of any regulations. 23andme allows download of raw data. So its not just genetic profile.
> as far as we can tell.

We can't tell very far.
When you're buying a ~$100M/unit where the manufacturer is making 15+% margin, you get pretty good access to do what you need to do in order to feel comfortable with the purchase.
Yes, we've added support for the Alpine.js library!

Use all the x-* attributes of Alpine.js and combine them together with htmx and Templ for better performance of your web application. We want to give you even more options to start new projects with dynamic functions on the frontend.
I would normally agree with you out of hand, but using hydrogen for temporary grid storage isn't as obviously stupid as, say, using it to power cars. Sure, most proposed uses of hydrogen are blatant red herrings invented by the fossil fuel industry, but not all of them.
Do we know which jobs were effected? Was it mostly marketing, sales etc or engineers?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/22/more-top-...
I'd disagree that its a tradeoff of weight. The macbook air is an incredibly light weight laptop yet still pushes 18hrs battery life on the 13" model, even the 14" pro at 22 hours is still lighter than most laptops.

The weight isnt the problem. It's the poor optimisation of hardware and software.
Is this calling SIMD 'hardware acceleration' and is it claiming all its improvements to python?
There is a list of reasons why 23 and me sucks.

This is not one of them.
The thing is, attackers don't need 20%. The article says they used 14k accounts with previously cracked passwords to uncover data of 7 million customers: that's 0.2%

Doing low-hanging fruit isn't enough here. Honestly I just don't feel like the time is right to build such big DNA databases yet. Maybe one day with quantum encryption (can't observe the state without modifying it) or whatever else we may figure out, but today it just seems like you're taking a risk for yourself and half a dozen layers of relatives
Why did you bring up drug addicts, when nobody else mentioned it? We were talking about losing your job and couch surfing, and your immediate response was "no way I'd let a junky into my house."

Do you think that everyone that ended up homeless (living out of their cars or couch surfing) deserved it due to some personal failing? That's the usual conservative line, but they tend not to be so forward about it, so I'm curious
I’ve had sites that do forced password resets and other annoying things when I come back after years.

23andme bears responsibility more than users like banks bear more responsibility for customers choosing stupid pins. DNA info is valuable they need to design good safeguards.
A prime example of how metrics of inflation are absolutely and utterly absurd, and generalises to domestic housing as well as commercial property.
an update: this is fixed
Can the World Meet the U.N. Climate Summit's Nuclear Goal?
I hate this. I hate that 2fa is becoming mandatory for more and more services because people can't be arsed to keep their passwords secure. I hate having to look at my mail to copy a stupid code every time I log into a website. Please don't do this.
Send out increasingly loud notices ahead of time, and try to come up with a secure recovery procedure for the many customers who will fail to react to them. It's not going to be cheap. But losing some kinds of data should be even more expensive.
The majority of the underdeveloped world has no way to achieve that in the near term. The healthier more efficient solution is indeed higher efficiency fuel stoves. The great part of that is it can also spur new business with the help of NGOs/Governments/Funds etc. You get local businesses to make high efficiency stoves, subsidize for people who cannot afford, new businesses to make the fuel, thinking of things like charcoal or wood pellets (that one might be a little more complicated but still doable).
I mean, I agree about the fearmongering, but the comparison is off.

1947 was significantly safer than 2024 precisely because the USSR had tested successfully. If the US was the only country with nuclear weapons, it would have nuked the USSR, China, and a dozen other countries by now. This is how the US operates with technological advantages (when it still had them); From the air, from afar, safe on its big little island on the other side of the globe.

But today, it no longer has that advantage, and it's a dying empire, which in 1947 clearly it wasn't. Dying empires get desperate, especially after the loss of technological supremacy; all of its geopolitical rivals have hypersonics now, the US can't get one off the ground. It's been doing every desperate thing it can to extend the neocolonial party another few years. This is way more dangerous.
> You are building a software and use a software licensed under AGPL to monitor your application:

If you are using a software licensed under AGPL to only monitor your application, but you do that by calling its APIs, your software is a covered work, isn't it?
Taiwan takes its first home-grown quantum computer online
Well, it's getting really scary if two* airline CEOs speak publicly against Boeing, no matter what their motivation is.

* there's a piece of news about Southwest, i think, saying they'll start considering alternatives to Boeing.
Should not be that hard to put a cost on that. Charge X per access. Make X big enough to be worth the bother. If you worry that it will alienate the users who only need access rarely make the first Y accesses per month or year free.
Assume everyone breached now has their dna linked forever with their marketing data graph.

It will be sold and resold so eventually your TikTok feed will be influenced by your genes.
1024 instructions? At that point I'd probably just use assembly. At that size, it would still be manageable.

Hmm, maybe that's the fundamental difference in thinking; the people I'm thinking of would reach for the simplest tool that can feasibly handle the job, even if it's somewhat harder to use.
How can you get excited about a company that’s shipped enough pieces of research you can count them on one hand during the 12 or so years they’ve been telling us about their work.

Google can publish whatever research they want, literally doesn’t matter literally changes nothing because they can’t turn it into a product anyone can use and never will.
For some Alzheimer's patients, vision problems may be an early warning
You are acting like the demand side is all that matters. Using your analogy, Walmart can reduce their customers’ rice consumption by 50% by the simple act of only allowing 250,000 tons to appear on shelves.
Great, I'll take a look!
At some companies there are so many places where things can be changed or undone.

We had a simple avatar upload. Done this in every app we had ever made. It "broke". And I mean it didn't really break, but it changed enough where it might as well have.

Who changed it? Sales (aka the customer)? QA? Development? Design?

CEO.
'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M
I tend to implicitly associate unicycles with performative comedy. Probably due to a lot of circus and talent-show imagery. If I only had a split second to react to a unicyclist passing by, I might automatically assume that the rider is trying to be funny on purpose. And therefore (my subconscious leaps ahead) that the appropriate social reaction is to respond in kind with whatever humour I can come up with in that split-second, which will probably be an unoriginal and poorly-landing joke.

Ten seconds after saying it, my more considerate thought process will probably realize that the joke wasn't very funny, that the rider probably hears the same "joke" a hundred times per day, and that they might have just been enjoying their solitary unicycling hobby, rather than deliberately putting on a show to amuse the neighbourhood. But by that time they'll have long since passed by, and it would be too awkward to catch up and apologize.
How about a down vote reducing the voters karma too? Personally I downvote when I think either the point has already been made, or the comment is too awful to warrant my deathless prose.
I am also curious about this. ADI is reliable but does have edge case issues on malformed PDF

I fear tesseract OCR is a potential limitation though. I’ve seen it make so many mistakes
Probably not worth spending energy on people that are on the revisionism level of "The Nazis were socialists" anyway, they've clearly decided to shut the door on reality.
- They could have used HIBP to prevent people using exposed passwords

- They could have detected elevated authorizations

- They could have forced 2FA

- They could have implemented password stuffing protection

Any security assessment would have pointed that out. In fact, when I had my own site pentested the very first time, this was exactly what was pointed out and I promptly fixed it.

But it's all moot, since the attacker used a feature of 23andme to access data on other people whose account info they did not have. And that is squarely on 23andme.
The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%:

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitte...

There’s certainly low-hanging fruit. If the top 10% of emitters reduced their emissions to that of the average European person, global emissions would fall by 30%.
"The hackers initially got access to around 14,000 accounts using previously compromised login credentials, but they then used a feature of 23andMe to gain access to almost half of the company's user base, or about 7 million accounts, the company previously told Business Insider."

Okay, so first off no software team would be surprised to know that you have millions or tens of millions of customers and as many as 14k reused logins from elsewhere. Second, if someone steals credentials from a subset of users and can use that to gain access to nearly half your customer base you've made a terrible, terrible decision when adding features that allowed that.

Reused username/password pairs is a known challenge, and we should all be aware that our software will be used with compromised logins. Plan for that and don't assume that anyone with a login is both allowed in the door and not there for malicious reasons.
Uncertainty makes it even more important that we don't change the climate.
You are describing a manager yourself, so not sure we disagree disagree that much.
It does solve the problem.

Leaders need be held accountable, not to fix the past, but so that other leaders will make better decisions in the future.

In this case, it is a lesson that if you destroy your engineering culture and sacrifice quality, you will lose your job.
Forty years ago Apple debuted a computer that changed our world, for good or ill
Well, just to better understand how the code is organized (and experiment a bit with it), I have forked it: https://github.com/sfermigier/scrapscript/tree/trunk/src/scr...
It was United
Is the Google drive thing only a way to import data - or can the data be stored in Drive but edited in your service?
Because I have no way to verify that you never reused or leaked your own password anywhere. And because your genetic data isn’t just your own. It is shared by your kids, your parents, your extended family.

I’ve never used 23andMe and yet I’m involved in this breach. How is that a fair shake?
https://archive.ph/OJAr0
In my opinion, there are multiple causes of the current tech job market situation:

1) Rapid rise in interest rates .. affects funding available to startups as well as makes corporate R&D more expensive relative to the payoff

2) Overhiring during covid likely led to a degradation in standards and a pile up of warm bodies at the largest firms (I say likely because I don't think my org was able to hire on net. We kept getting outbid for candidates and lost people to attrition). Even if this is a perception in the leadership and not a reality, it will lead to a cull.

3) Consumer demand for consumer electronics, computer gear and generally Internet services has fallen compared to the covid bubble. A lot of weird things were going on with respect to both increase demand and constrain supply back in those days. Whiplash effect in supply chains is being studied by academics today.

4) Changes in the US tax code for how software dev costs are attributed. I don't fully understand this but seems pretty plausible.

5) I think the leaders don't see how AI can make them money yet ... the obvious thing is it can reduce costs by trying out AI in their processes. This is all very expensive so perhaps the layoffs creates room for investments in the that direction.

All of these are significant headwinds. Am I missing any?
When choosing 'Navigable by boat', the massive Trent-Severn system in Southern Ontario disappears.
Way too many gun control activists think that guns are the sole reason for deaths, not realizing that people are going to die regardless if we want them to or not, guns just speed it up.

The speed of change is the entire problem. And if you have information sources that support your statement that humans aren't the major driver of climate change over the past roughly 50-100 years, please share it.
Design drove $10M in preorders for Rabbit R1 AI hardware
5D accountant chess
> if someone steals credentials from a subset of users and can use that to gain access to nearly half your customer base

The article implies that (probably for sensation), but I don't think this is what it means. I assume they got enough matches between these 14k customers to view some level of information on their relatives such as their name. Genetics being what they are (pretty stable between generations), that resulted in a ton of data being shown cumulatively

But that's just my reading, per my understanding of 23&M's business model. Maybe they did find a vulnerability that allowed actual account access, but that would be bigger news by itself and the article would be exceedingly likely to mention that explicitly

Edit: this other top-level comment seems to confirm that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39116561
Accusations of being a bot are explicitly against the rules.
We’re all harsh on it because we all had to see it being posted around by naive people as being amazing when it’s completely faked and misses half of the prompting, all of the latency.

It was completely dishonest. Considering how trash Googles actual AI products are they deserve to be dragged even more over that video.
Looks nice but it's probably not really usable for navigation. I checked the Netherlands and Germany. You'd need more details for safely navigating on the water. But it definitely has potential.

There are also some other specialized open street map based maps for

- rails: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

- cycling: https://www.opencyclemap.org/

- sea map (competes with this I guess, and is a bit more detailed for navigation): https://map.openseamap.org/

And probably loads of other ones.
> it would be enormously expensive for Boeing to design a replacement for the 737 Max from scratch and it still has tonnes of outstanding orders

More expensive than not selling any of them?
I built this after running into discussion at previous employers on how to best handle dev prod access.

I was wishing for a simple tool that allows a Pull Request like Review/Approval flow, because this way you could give every engineer access instead of relying on manual and slow bureaucreatic processes within the company.
My mom used to tell me when I was young to never run after money and choose a career in which I could do something that made me happy. As working on something you enjoy means you'll do it with passion, that will be seen by others in the quality of your output, so money (or fame, or whatever you're after) will come naturally.
I was around 5, and video games was what made me happy. XD

As I grew up and learned more about the field, I figured it's not necessarily video games that I want to make, but definitely software science.

I ended up in electronic engineering because I was curious about how computers work at a low level.
After that I ended up in ML/DL/data science because it looked cool and wasn't that hard to understand for me as I had all the math prerequisites from the EE degree.

In conclusion, I would say that, for me at least, the path came quite naturally, and every step I took in my career made sense at the time. I never tried to really force a long-term plan on my career, so whenever a move or a change felt natural for what I wanted, I made it. I would say I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing now, so at least it worked for me.
The Finnish Quantum-Computing Infrastructure
WiFi backscatter "radar" is another one that is surely going to find uses all along the useful-innocent-seedy-nefarious-malicious spectrum.
"You're logging in from a new device. Please check your email for a verification code."

"You're logging in from an unusual location. Please answer your security questions to continue."

"We've sent you a text message with a code which is valid for the next 10 minutes."

"Press OK on the 23andme app to continue."

"Please enter the code shown on your 2-factor device."

As a user, you can be blamed for poor password practices, but if you're running a service, it's basically a given that some percentage of your users are going to re-use passwords and it's your reponsibility to mitigate the fallout from that. If you don't enforce 2FA then you can check for unusual things about the login, such as change of IP address, browser, or device. Yes, it's not foolproof like 2FA, but it doesn't need to be foolproof to be useful.
A lot of HN commenters seem to think that people don't care about their customers' wellbeing.

What an attitude. That's their attitude during working hours too? I just don't want to use code written by those HNers.
I think with how 23andMe is reacting they know they're about to get spanked in a class action.
Program size affects disk/file system load time, relocation time, cache utilization, zram speed, and probably many things more.

Nothing is zero-cost if you look closely enough.
So tired of the academia brained ML researchers. Can’t wait for the next generation of teenagers to completely change this space and bypass this silliness completely.
There's probably going to be more and more specialized hardware for this stuff. Things like H100s are already pretty inaccessible to consumers.
this is kind of fun side project for me. as a developer, I do have the need to generate mysqldump statement now and then. most of time, I had to search on google.

thanks for your feedback and i am definitely going to add various options.

as for monetization, let's see, nothing particular in mind.
I’ve used this analogy before but people hate it. on internal projects at my firm everyone wants everyone else to have an equal voice out of guilt. The meetings and navel gazing never stop and the work becomes working on the process and never actually delivering on the need.

With client projects it’s different, you have a budget and deadline. Miss it or screw up on the way and the client fires you and hires your competitor. My client delivery teams are a much harsher environment but roles and responsibility for decisions are very clear and everyone’s job is at stake so it gets taken pretty seriously. There’s no room or time for consensus building, the flip side being owning a bad decision means working somewhere else.
But those are problems that usually require writing and running some code. OP’s problems are intended for pencil and paper.
Brassica oleracea would have a word there.
Again: How does this compare to an EV, which are known to be the heaviest vehicles per unit of volume on the road today?
in that case. it is going away.
Surely the fasteners use a captive nut like a castle nut and pin/wire. Loose doesn't mean much in that context.
I hadn't had much luck with any of these. Phind is indeed better for programming but it still has the same trouble with the obscure stuff.

It seems that the main problem right now is that they only look at the first few results. Basically they all do this:

1. Ask model for a search query.

2. Run search and feed the results into the model.

3. Ask model for an answer.

The problem is that for very specific questions the search results won't contain the required information. So it has to say something irrelevant or hallucinate. Especially for negative queries like "a foo library that doesn't depend on std" or similar it really struggles because it can't effectively filter out libraries that fail the requirements and can't keep searching until it finds one.

Basically they can be fast if a decent query can have the answer within the first page of results. But fail otherwise. In many cases you are better off just reading through search results on your own.
there absolutely has been innovation. check out the Seiko Spring Drive
Tölva (Icelandic)
I couldn't try this tool as it doesn't build on apple silicon (and there's no ARM docker image)

However, I have a PDF parsing use-case that I tried those RAG tools for, but the output they give me is pretty low quality – it kinda works for RAG as the LLM can work around the issues but if you want to get higher quality responses with proper references and such I think the best way is to write your own rule-based parser which is what I ended up doing (based on MuPDF though, not Tika).

Maybe that's what the authors of this tool were thinking too.
I still don't understand... I guess its about flexing wealth or personal reward.

Sounds like you very much do understand.
There is no point to asking for their password. That immediately sets of alarm bells.

If you just generate the command they will know that they need to provide the password when prompted.
> You say Subaru Outback though. I would have never called that a SUV. It's a wagon.

Well, that makes your definition of an SUV pretty useless for trying to actually change policy or culture, then.

We have to work with the definitions of things that actually exist in the world, not the ones we make up in our heads.