skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One Christmas, the extended family, most of us caffeine junkies were all at my parent's home. By the second or third day, everyone had headaches and just felt terrible. My brother-in-law wandered into the kitchen to put on a fresh pot of coffee and discovered my Mom was serving everyone decaf. I think the entire clan picked up and headed to the nearest coffee shop within minutes of that discovery.
I'd love to know how that PBX is set up.
a cup of decaf has less caffeine than an ounce of dark chocolate. lots of things have caffeine; it's a naturally-occurring substance.

i also got headaches when i quit caf coffee, though i didn't realize that it was because of that at the time.
It's especially important for physical devices that are shipped. To
make sure that nobody stuck a couple of extra "implant" chips in your
new laptop, or phone.

You can hear plenty about the use of xrays (and how unwieldy that is)
to verify electronic circuits in some CCC videos. I commented about
some of the challenges of false negatives in another version of this
thread (which was strangely posted three times by MIT? Is reposting
daily until you get traction acceptable behaviour - may have to try it
myself some time :)
> Is it that hard to determine that a book is worth reading

I'm a huge believer in doing plenty of research about what to read. The simple rationale: it takes a tiny amount of time to learn about a book relative to the time it takes to read it. Even when I get a sense a book is bad, I still tend to spend at least a couple of hours before making the tough call not to bother reading further (I handled one literally 5 minutes ago that wasted a good few hours of my life). I'm not saying AI summaries solve this problem entirely, but they're just one additional avenue for consultation that might only take a minute or two and potentially save hours. It might improve my hit rate from - I dunno - 70% to 80%. Same idea for videos/articles/other media.
Were the Profit Participation Units (PPUs) part of this sale?

I've heard that's what they are offering new hires but it's an unusual form of compensation as compared to traditional stock/options. Curious how it worked out for those folks.

(apologies if this is explained in the article, I don't have access)
Indeed. Journalistic leeway aside: I work close to manufacturing, and at our scale we measure things in DPPM (Defective Parts Per Million (manufactured)). In my line of work, defect rates in the tens to low hundred DPPM (10 - 100 / 1000000) is noise, high hundreds is cause for attention.

When failures approach the Per Cent-age rate, that's equivalent to ~10k DPPM, and that's daily stand-up territory.
I think this could have lots of novel ways of being accurate.

it might not be like biometrics, because it could have an identifier repeated 100 times, and then the glue/tampering part could be a completely different sort of algorithm that could be optimized to physical removal, not just degradation.
I got interested in this space a number of years ago, and have some investments in it; overall my takeaway is that supply chain integration is the main thing, not necessarily hardware innovation, at least so far.

Sadly, this is unlikely to be deployed commercially. But it's cool to come up with new ideas in the space!

A couple key points:

* Readers work at a 4cm distance

* Rather than a key database, the researchers propose an AI to memorize patterns

These are no-go for almost all product ID scenarios I can imagine. Not least because the AI will have a harder and harder time validating patterns the more patterns are thrown at it. As described, a registry would be better, much better. But still bad.

David Chaum has done some work using glitter patterns on banknote bills, which I think is super cool, essentially: random reflective pattern from glitter -> some sort of FFT / visual identification signature -> stored in a registry.

Even that is going to be somewhat tough because you'll need the registry. Or alternately a chip that can store a signature and a reference to the pattern, in which case you'll just need a reader that knows the public key of the signer.
At first I thought the title said US Senators but then realized its the same thing.
And nobody in Star Trek thinks the ship computer is sentient. On the other hand, the holodeck sometimes malfunctions and some holodeck character (like Moriarty) becomes sentient running on just a subset of the ship computer. That suggests sentience (in the Star Trek universe) is a property of the software architecture, not hardware.
Nothin’ wrong with that. It’s the lying or “divergence from stated goals” that’s bothersome.
I'm pretty sure that Python is the language of choice for AI stuff. I think even Apple's ML stuff is based on Python.
In my case (Cruise) I got offer once a quarter to liquidate any number of my vested RSUs at a price set by some third party assessor (roughly equal to last round’s valuation). If you sell the stock and get cash in your brokerage - amount needed to cover taxes. So basically like regular rsus except price is static

More info (although I personally didn’t use cart for this): https://carta.com/blog/tender-offer-faq/#
neat!

i will add it to the uFuzzy benchmarks :)
I was thinking the same thing! I don't get spam calls often but when I do I really want to punish them for wasting my time.
Anyone have any idea what order of magnitude this windfall is for the employees? We talking hundreds of thousands? Millions? Depending on when you got hired, this has gotta be one of the largest $increase/time to exercise options in history, no?
Staff (can/do) get paid at a not for profit
For a non-serious language there are a lot of successful non-programs written with it.
I presume that's because it's a custom asic not yet in mass production?

If they can get costs down and put more dies into each card then it'll be business/consumer friendly.

Let's see if they can scale production.

Also, where tf is the next coral chip, alphabet been slacking hard.
This would make me choose erlang over Elixer. It's convenient to find an assignment to a variable and not have to worry there might be another.
I'd say neither web or desktop are easy. Cryptocat was a great example. It started off as a web app and got a lot of heat. Was rewritten as a desktop app and still failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat#History
All the child and infant Hamas members. Yeah, right.
> I mean seriously, do you expect Google to read your mind somehow?

If there is any ambiguity Google defaults to commerce. I think the front page for such general queries should have room for science, history, art, culture. Google's default is to sell you something, and it is often the only thing it shows.
Don't they have a 10x value cap or something? I asked chatgpt to research this on the web

> The PPUs function similarly to Profit Interest Units (PIUs), granting employees a share in the company's profits rather than traditional equity. These units vest over four years, providing a long-term incentive for employees to contribute to OpenAI's success. A distinctive feature of OpenAI's PPUs is the growth cap; specifically, the PPUs are capped at a 10x growth of their original value. This means if an employee is given PPUs valued at $2 million, the maximum they can sell them for would be $20 million, ensuring that the rewards are substantial yet aligned with OpenAI's broader mission of equitable benefit .

This valuation isn't exactly crazy if you ask me. OpenAI is valued at 30B about an year ago. Now 3x. If you bought nvidia stock last year this time, it also gets 3x.
Is this an accurate representation of your meaning? Because technology has been relentlessly solving or making progress on solving human problems for thousands of years. Agriculture alone is a series of technological improvements which have solved an unfathomably number of instances of the "I have no food" problem, one of the most recurring and fundamental problems of all life. Avoiding diseases, healing injuries, trying to get three states over in a hurry because you heard your grandfather is about to die, communicating without being intercepted, satisfying wanderlust, making communication easier - all of these are very human problems which have been fully or partially solved by technology.
I think Code Verify (mentioned in the article) is the right approach https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/10/security/code-verify/

Although it's all open source, if you install the published version of their extension, iiuc, it will only work with certain facebook sites out of the box. There should be an easier way to enroll new sites - I'm thinking TOFU with fingerprinting.
It'd be neat to see NSS dropped. There are still the NPU (network processing units) on the upcoming Wifi7/BE hardware, IPQ95xx IPQ53xx: https://techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Qualcomm#be_.28Wi-F...
Technical term is “tender offer”, not necessarily buyback - other investors can participate too
You mean now. Commodity soon.
The article specifies those as the source
yeah you're right, I guess I lump that into "academia and research" as opposed to "software engineering" where PHP... exists
(Groq Employee) As I'm sure you're aware, XTX takes its name from a particular linear algebra operation that happens to be used a lot in Finance.

Groq happens to be excellent at doing huge linear algebra operations extremely fast. If they are latency sensitive, even better. If they are meant to run in a loop, best - that reduces the bandwidth cost of shipping data into and outside of the system. So think linear algebra driven search algorithms. ML Training isn't in this category because of the bandwidth requirements. But using ML inference to intelligently explore a search space? bingo.

If you dig around https://wow.groq.com/press, you'll find multiple such applications where we exceeded existing solutions by orders of magnitude.
20% time died a decade ago
There's uBlacklist [1], but there's not much community activity on its subscription list [2] or awesome-ublacklist [3].

[1] https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

[2] https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions

[3] https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
I think the question is about which non-native invasive plant or organism can survive long periods without water.

I don't think we need to use Death Valley as a test bed.

Normal practice is to wash all your gear before you visit a new body of water so that you don't spread things between them. I said normal as if that is the way boaters operate. Invasive species spreading all over lakes in Texas would suggest that the normal case is quite different here.

Since the responsibility for compliance falls on the boaters, kayakers, canoeists, then we are stuck with whatever they consider normal. That's the problem. A lot of people fail at simple tasks designed to preserve wild places for later generations enjoyment.
Heat and vibration.

to quote this thread, which someone seems determined to bury for some reason

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39424773

"The issue not mentioned is one I've encountered in other similar
projects which is false negatives cause by "creep" in plastics and
general thermoplastic movement. We had a near-UV scanner that could
map the surface of a test object (sensitive circuit boards) down to a
few wavelengths, but it was too damn accurate. Go back and scan the
same object a week later and stuff (like solder joints) has moved
naturally. That doesn't work when things are in transit for weeks
with vibrations and temperature variations"
Technically true statement. If you're offering it to imply that the GP bears responsibility for knowing what document was in the training data and what's not, I have to quibble with you.

Knowing it's shortcomings should be the responsibility of the search app that is currently designed to give screen real estate to the wrong summary of the ephemeral fact. Or, users will start to lose trust.
Hi folks, I emailed the professor. The project is now open source.

https://github.com/SebastianDetering/iOSAtomSegNet/tree/main
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
Vnlog: Process labelled tabular ASCII data using normal Unix tools
I'm suprised to see Nix at #20. Is it becoming more widely adopted?
It's crazy how the GoPro survived, and the little lcd gauge got fried. Those things are so impressively tough.
Good reply, thanks.

I agree, the distance between Android and mainline has been shrinking and that's wonderful to see. Agreed again, no one has been upstreaming a good amount of their work; that's the state of the world. I'm not totally willing to absolve Google of all fault/responsibility here, but I understand-ish. I'm still not sure though that GKI doesn't let us backslide, doesn't let folks do even more closed, doesn't reverse some of our gains.

As for Droidian & the ilk; I'm happy these exist. At the risk of once more going over the top though: I feel very differently about running my own Linux userland hoisted far atop a tower of controlled, locked-down platform I don't have access to, than I do having actual access to devices. It's wild how not our own our devices are. Maybe I can run a userland, but if I cant coordinate bluetooth devices and audio and display outputs myself, it's not really a good userland. And if Google SafetyNet is underfoot controlling my most personal machine forever, well, that's a sad shitty anti-user feature the future is being consigned to.
> informing them of how spam networks work

You haven't informed much to be honest. Whenever you're pressed for real bits of information, you just say you can't reveal the facts because they're secret and revealing them would help the spammers. So you're not doing much to reduce the uncertainty surrounding this topic which is critical to quality information. You're just generally claiming that the methods we're describing won't work while providing nothing but appeals to authority.

The information you've provided is the fact spammers try to obtain invitations and create aged accounts in order to look legitimate. This is already known and is the reason why you turn accounts and invitations into scarce resources to begin with. Spammers should not be able to just randomly create accounts, they should need to be invited. Whoever invites someone is vouching for them and responsible for their behavior. People should be inviting good people who they trust, not random spammers on the internet. You enforce this by also punishing the guys who invited bad people into the community.

I'm not claiming you're wrong either. I'm defending the rationale for the methods I've seen actual administrators employ to manage real communities. Those guys weren't up against spammers either, they faced far more serious adversaries.
Do you feel this is a bad strategy? Or what?

Liquidity for employees is great. Nobody is forcing them to sell.
Zuck wrote a super hacky PHP script 20+ years ago and now he's a gazillionaire.
...and I hope you've learned to sanitize your DTMF inputs
Or as a VR game. "Star Wars, but with the Empire and Rebel Alliance teaming up to defeat the latest threat to the galaxy: me as Jar-Jar Binks, Jedi Jester. My abilities include Force Juggle, Failed Comedic Relief, and Turn Into Merchandise. Oh, and Darth Vader is Morgan Freeman, and everyone else is Natalie Portman."
FWIW when I’ve been in states they actually cared about this there were literal kayak inspection stations on the road. I think perhaps I saw this in Montana?

It is a good vector to check and ensure. I’m kind of curious whether it’s an actual common vector or not
I use a Trackpad (left hand) and a mouse (right hand) all the time. I find moving through documents with the trackpad (two-finger scroll) and switching workspaces (three-finger swipe) much more natural on the track pad, but use the scroll-wheel on the mouse for things like zooming (I do a lot of work in Visio and AutoCAD).
Python for loops
News like this makes me so nostalgic for the PSP homebrew and "hacking" scene of the 00's. It's what got me into software in the first place.
"So violated": Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months
It's really a pity how badly the Delphi product was managed by Borland/Embarcadero.

Object Pascal is a great language. These days it produces native code for pretty much all platforms out there. The binaries created are tiny, and the speed is high - close to what C will give you - meaning that typically the code will run between 100 to 10000 times faster than comparable Python code.

When it comes to Castle Engine, it's a gigantic project, making it extremely easy to create games and 3D applications in a RAD kind of way. And unlike other huge Pascal frameworks, it's not a legacy product, but very actively developed. I have HUGE respect for the developers.

A comparable gigantic impressive project is Mormot, and ORM/SOA/MVC framework which is based on extremely optimized code.

Building a Server application with Object Pascal and Mormot is easy to do, and where using NodeJS might be able to handle 500 requests per second, with pascal code you will be in the areas of 10000+.

And this means that while with other languages you might need to run dozens of servers to handle the load, your Object Pascal based server code instead would easily run on a single server. So, using that language can give you massive cost savings.

A lot of people only remember Object Pascal as a teaching language. But the language has evolved, and still has features other languages are lacking, most importantly RTTI (aka reflection). There is only one area where the language isn't up to date, and that is having Multithreading/coroutines integrated into the language itself like it's done in Go.

And finally: I can still compile and run code I have written 40 (!) years ago. Within those 40 years tons of languages have come and gone out of fashion. Pascal is still here.

Back to Castle Engine: Even if you are not familiar with the Object Pascal language, I can highly recommend to try out their visual editor. It's just amazing.
> Fees are usually much more reasonable vs through marketplaces

Fees on tenders are much higher than in open-market trades, they’re just baked into the buy side. The handshake deal management does with tenders is underpricing the offering so managers can add fees on top. Where open-market transactions happen alongside tenders, at least on the institutional side, it’s not uncommon to see 20%+ premiums.
Could you share in terms of defective parts per day (or hour), how much would that be? Or roughly how many parts were being made daily? (Reason for asking is that this metric could be partially extrapolated to high-quality low-scale manufacturing as well.)
The .NET Framework target might as well not exist :D

Many libraries are straight up dropping NS2.0 TFM and overall community tends to perceive the request to still target it very negatively. Sure, Visual Studio still runs some in-process features on top of it, and so do Office add-ins, but it's an active work-in-progress to get rid of any new code having to be written while still targeting it.

So, in that regard, this setting does not matter.
Microsoft actually just tricked an entire generation of us into learning C# and .NET.

They were playing the long-con game.
If you live in a med sized city you likely have the chance to be the change you want to see if you're willing to be in somewhat questionable legal territory. I'm part of a local arborist group that has the goal of getting my and the surrounding neighborhoods up to 40%+ tree cover. It started with two guys who planted hundreds of (now) 60-100ft native trees under the city's nose in alleyways, hellstrips, the yards of rental properties, newly sold houses. By the time they got found out neither the city nor the residents could really be mad at the positive vandalism and so they went legit and now the city just pays our little group to keep doing it.

It's so fun going door to door and being like, "would you like to accept our lord and savior the silver maple into your yard?" We recruited an ecologist recently so we're expanding into native gardens and grasses.
Can someone correct me on why PPUs are not a scam when the company could simply reinvest all profit into R&D and mark it down as opex?
> It has to know to make sure malloc gets the array element size argument multiplied in runtime by n

Um, C compilers already do that with arrays with compile-time lengths.

#include <stdio.h>

void main(void) {
char x[20][30];
printf("%zu\n%zu\n", sizeof(x), sizeof(x[0]));
}

prints

600
30

so you can have "char *y = malloc(sizeof(x)); memcpy(y, x, sizeof(x));" and it must work since C89 at least. The main problem with VLAs is that they make exact the stack frame size unknown until runtime which complicates function prologues/epilogues but that's the problem in the codegen part of the backend, the semantics machinery is mostly in the place already.

P.S. And yes, uecker is a member of the ISO C WG14 and GCC contributor, according to his profile.
In 2023 I looked into these options. The Game Pass games are not compatible with proton and they did not support streaming to Firefox running on Linux. It wasn't exactly an open ecosystem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11564920
That's not why rust statically links the runtime. The main benefit is that they don't have to try to design and maintain a stable ABI for it. Which is not moot.

More generally, you statically link something to avoid distribution hassles of various kinds, not because you care about the specific number.
That’s honestly their loss. As long as Kagi can sustain itself with its paying members then it can silently retain and grow its users forever.
What does "wrong" mean in this context?

It's your project you can manage it however you want. I'd recommend communicating this clearly at least but otherwise listen to your users(in aggregate) and make your decision.
You know we can read back the comments that were posted in this thread and check your response against the context, right? You just moved the goalposts from being willing to pay for the product that would need to be changed to address the complaints, to refusing to use the software complained about.
I don't understand ai valuations right now.

NVDA has market cap of 1.8T and all they're doing is the middle part of the value chain.

OpenAI is doing all the actual productization and they get a valuation of 20x less?
I recommend giving your users the option to allow telemetry or not (as others have said, preferably by opting in). Explain prominently within your software very clearly what telemetry you are collecting and for what purpose.

Since this software in question is open source, if you don't allow the disabling of telemetry I guarantee a fork will appear in the near future where it has been disabled altogether.

Ask yourself if this is a hill you wish for your project to die on?
As long as consoles have web browser there is a way. Ps5 was broken recently
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Because of scaling advantages, it likely never will be. Even if you could run a GPT4 quality model on your laptop (you can't), by the time you can, Open Ai will be running a model that uses orders of magnitude more compute.