skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nationalizing them is likely to have far worse outcomes and the entire company would turn into a leech that neither produces electricity nor makes profit.
No love for Gruber?
None of them can pull a plow or carry a soldier.
LoRA for fixing Romanian diacritics open sourced
I just published 3 things:

1. A LoRA that adds Romanian diacritics to texts that don't have them: huggingface.co/sqreept/ro_dia… (includes an example of using it)

2. The dataset used to build the above LoRA: huggingface.co/datasets/sqree…

3. The Colab used to fine-tune the above LoRA: colab.research.google.com/drive/1GMg9fS3…

This is what I call open source in Machine Learning: model weights, dataset and code. Anything less is not open source.
Correct. They donate to right politicians (both on left and right).
I am instinctively opposed to the European way of regulation, but boy so I agree with this.
Having 100s of SKUs is an information denial tactic to ensure that users forfeit all of their consumer surplus[0] and pay exactly what they are willing to pay in the hopes that they get a "good one".

The problem with this tactic is that there's a lot of SKUs that give people a terrible experience and they jump to another brand.

Apple's solution to this is to instead have 50 SKUs, organize them by a few very easily understandable categories, and then price every SKU exactly within $50-$75 of one another so that there's always a meaningful upgrade for slightly more money. This is also why Apple is very stingy with storage and RAM. They use the cost of upgrades to pull you to higher priced SKUs, which then need their own upgrades, and OH LOOK there's an even nicer base model for just a little more!

[0] The amount of money you save when the thing you want to buy turns out to be cheaper than what you were willing to pay.
Maybe the whole cockpit should be disconnected after takeoff and turned into a simulator where the pilots can just practice disaster scenarios for the duration of the flight. Worst case they get a chance to ace a real disaster in the mix.
mr stuart-kaufmann's book "the origins of order" just _excellent_ imo. heartily recommended.
I want to read this book.
Isn't this hierarchical trust? You select immediate dependencies that you believe are written by reasonably security-conscious people, not just anything that immediately solves a problem, and because they're reasonably security-conscious people they select their own dependencies the same way? And at each level vetting is implicitly shared with other users of the dependencies, some of whom will be more critical/inquisitive.

I've heard the alarms about dependencies and I'm not sold. I feel like this is bleeding over from the JS/frontend world where people don't choose to do the above, for whatever reason.

Whenever I add a dependency in Rust I look at crates.io downloads, dependents (any big projects there?), github stars, I browse the issues to see what sort of problems have been reported and when, with what sort of replies from the author, how many contributors there are, release history, what commits look like, and what other stuff the authors have worked on. I use a lot of dependencies, and I do rewrite stuff myself when I feel like I can't rely on a dependency.
Out of curiousity - how does a VC fund hold onto "powder"? Do they have terms to invest in a liquid fund, or some other arrangement? Seems like they'd face tough returns if they held powder for long.
Yea, I generally agree with that. At least in my '14 model, it also has some weird internal gate where it won't let you scroll through more than 5-10 items in a list while you're going more than 5 MPH. And if you're stopped, and scrolling further than that, it resets you to the start of the list if you start moving. It's infuriating when I'm just trying to play an album that doesn't start with A-D.

I can understand disabling touchscreen scrolling while driving, but at least save my place in the list.
That's changing the encoder and sure, you could do that. But that's basically a new version of the format. It's not the JPEG we're using anymore + ML in decoder. It's JPEG-ML on both the encoder and decoder side. And with the speed that we adopt new image formats... That's going to take ages :(
> If your adversary has access to your phone, directly, then encryption will not help

One way to express it: The phone isn't much use unless you have access to the data. If you can access it, so can adversaries with access to your phone.
Tell me more, please
Every vehicle I've ever driven since I learnt to drive 20 years ago has had an electronic throttle body, a digital accelerator and ABS. Welcome to 2024.

I did learn to drive manual, but I'd never buy another car like that. Maybe it's fun for racing, but for every day driving, automatic requires less effort and longevity isn't a concern today.
What if you raised 500B and still got nothing? That can happen with 2x or 3x liquidation preference.

IDK FanDuel structure (not in article), but they only raised ~ 400M. Yet the investors got every dime up to 550+M.
I have read both, and Foucault is 100x the charlatan than diamond is. Foucault is responsible for significant amounts of fashionable nonsense within the academy.
Check how Mazda did it with their ring control. I love it in mine. No touch screen needed.

It's amazing that accessibility is such an afterthought that having a physical wheel that tabs forward and backward through a UI as the primary means of using it is unfathomable until it's actually implemented.
Am I so glad though that Apple didn't buy into the touch for the laptops. Now this comes with a caveat, if you have some like the Yoga that the hinge can go all the way around, touch isn't bad. But god, in the early 2010s when everyone was throwing touch on their laptop screens, I hated that so much. Laptop hinge only goes 120 degrees or something like that, lets throw touch screen on it! horrible idea.

Although I heard many complaints about the Yoga. Never owned one, but if I had a laptop with a touch screen, that seems like the route to go. The Surface too, but I've also heard those stop feeling snappy pretty quick and tons of thermal issues.
It’s only a prerequisite if you want to belittle people and accuse them of making ignorant technology choices. (If the discussion was ORMs, I’d be delighted to have an excuse to share and promote my public projects. But my earlier aside doesn’t constitute a change of topic for this thread.)
That looks like it was pretty easy on the machine, but they started in hover and used the engines to slow descent at the end. I'd be interested to see what happens when the chute opens at speed, and they don't fire up the engines to dull the final impact.
Germany's Most Wanted Criminal Hid in Plain Sight
Mongo and Elasticsearch also recommend using XFS. So Talos isn't unique in this. XFS is somewhat more often preferred in data intensive systems.
> It would be odd if our immune system, as had apparently been speculated, became less effective against pathogens that it saw a lot.

That actually can happen. It's called "original antigenic sin" or "immunological imprinting".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin

It's especially prevalent in respiratory viruses. The flu is a well known case. The more flu shots you have (the yearly one), the less effective they become (while still more effective than nor having one).
arithmetic encoding is old, but around 2010 (when all the patents expired), there was a ton of really good research on how to to table based ans and vectorized rans to make the performance good. Aside from the patent issues Arithmetic encoding wasn't pursued much because the CPU cost was too high. Now that multiply is cheap and the divisions can be avoided, ANS is a lot better than it used to be.
Agreed. I had to double take because I spent a lot of time worrying about nuclear data, which is all the probabilities of various nuclear reactions in certain situations. Like, the probability that a neutron moving at 2200 m/s will bounce off a Uranium-238 atom vs. the probability that it will be captured and emit a gamma ray is nuclear data.

Heck, we even have a National Nuclear Data Center: https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

This is going to get confusing.
How does it compare with https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml?
Plenty of people made millions joining series C/D deca-corns and selling in the IPO pop.
(To those with predictable comments) I feel like the important question is when will you accept an ai is conscious? If not when it says so and not when it seems to display emotions (and change behavior based on them), when?

I have a feeling that there won't be a point of satisfaction. The familiar will always trail behind the new, and the argument "it's just a fancier version of the last ai iteration " will never die, at least to some people. I feel like maybe some introspection is required
I've only used a Lexus that had a touchpad. I do however regularly use a Mazda with its commander knob, and it is far safer than a touchscreen in my opinion. You can do most navigation without looking at the screen, with just an occasional glance to confirm you're doing what you think you're doing. Whereas a touchscreen requires constant attention while you're manipulating the screen.

The only thing that annoys me about Commander Knob + Android Auto is that AA still forces attention breaks as you scroll through big lists (e.g. Spotify playlists) which is really stupid because you're not usually looking at the screen if you know you need to scroll say 75% down. You're just looking occasionally to see how far you've made it. By making the task take longer, it's reducing safety.

The biggest safety issue by far with Mazda+AA is Google's baffling regression in handling voice input for common tasks while driving.
If you won't move to get materially better funding I guess you deserve what happens next.
Whittakers GoFundMe-The Problem with Social Media [video]
Except we're talking about 100% and 200% interest rates, if you read the article.

We're talking a $1G company financing $333M and getting nothing.
Operational Technology.

It's basically IT but for industrial operations instead of commercial.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/internet-of-things/w...
This is anecdata, but my electrician friends who do a lot of commercial projects that need transformers say that lead times are atrocious and prices are terrible which lead to budget overruns and project delays already. And people already see the strategic issues with sourcing them from China while domestic manufacturing dwindles.

Tech companies that want cheap power for their data centers would make sense to buy facilities close to power plants, but savvy investors trying to profit off the market discrepancies would be investing in the forges and factories that can make the transformers domestically and start lobbying their congresspeople to get incentives from the DoE and other pork barrel spending to make building transformers cheaper and faster domestically. I think that will happen before we see the existing shortage lead to brownouts because energy demands are constantly growing, and both parties have incentives to grow domestic manufacturing.
I think the Interpedency books are his best so far.

I don’t think anyone will accuse him of being original, but Harry Potter sure wasn’t either, and Scalzi isn’t a shitbag, unlike Rowling.
The headline doesn't really get at the main point of this story. A Canadian journalist who doesn't speak German goes over there and using technology is able to crack a thirty year unsolved case for the most wanted person who has been missing in plain site for over thirty years.

Makes you wonder how many more cases could be solved by amateurs using tech?
It's not about you. It's about Joe Drugdealer who wants to use it to learn how to make meth, or do other nefarious things.
Show HN: PFV (Protocols Formal Verification)
PFV harnesses cutting-edge techniques in network protocol verification, merging the capabilities of the Shadow network simulator with the Ivy formal verification tool. This powerful combination facilitates the examination of time properties in network protocols. A specialized time module enhances Ivy, enabling it to handle complex quantitative-time properties with greater precision. PFV's effectiveness is highlighted through its application to the QUIC protocol. By refining QUIC's formal specification in Ivy, the tool not only verifies essential aspects of the protocol but also exposes real-world implementation errors, demonstrating its practical utility. This innovative integration paves the way for more thorough, efficient, and precise protocol testing and verification.

PFV supports multiple protocols. Add new protocol specifications in the protocols directory, following the existing structure. For now the following protocols are supported:
- QUIC
- MiniP

Here is an article describing some of its results:
https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/revolutionizing-network-...

Here is the Github:
https://github.com/ElNiak/PFV
Never having driven a Tesla, I'm legitimately curious how much of a difference the infotainment makes.

The onboard system of my Chinese BEV is not great to be honest (rest of the car works well) but it has Android Auto so it navigates and plays my media.

Since as a sole driver I have to keep my eyes on the road at all times, it seems possible that passengers could benefit but I would like to have some first hand reports.

Or is it common for some people to sit in the car and use the infotainment just for fun?

(I swear that I'm asking in good faith)
C'mon now, he was pretty spot on about that pendulum ... /jk
If you're on really shitty acquisition terms like this, to the point where you are getting no payout for your hard work, one way you can get a small payout is to negotiate your employment contract with the new parent company to be very, very good.

Make sure they give you and all employees a nice big sign on bonus and salary. They can deduct that from the proposed acquisition price.

Is it ethical? I say yes, you should get paid more than $0 for your hard work to be handed over. Should the investors get a payout too? Yes, but they shouldn't be getting 100% of it, ever.
I never really understand how HDL works.

I meant, in software programming, we usually program by either specifying the sequence or dependency.

In hardware, nothing runs sequentially, and signals propagate _with delay_. Everything happens at the same time, yet nothing run at the exact same moment. How could we express these chaos in for-loops and procedure look alikes?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
> I don't give a toss, a new vehicle costs tens of thousands, what's $50 for a few buttons?

I don't think you've ever worked in manufacturing.

It's not just the cost of the buttons.

A larger cost is the fabrication of the housing for all the buttons: design the housing that goes into the dashboard/console, create a jig/die, continue creating new jigs/dies as the old ones wear out, keep the factory floorspace available even after the car has gone out of production, etc. This has to be done for each car model (yeah, even if you're using blanks).

Another cost that dwarves the cost of buying buttons is the fitment: the fitment robots have to be purchased, programmed and maintained just to put those $50 buttons in. It has to be done for each car model.

And, of course, design changes late in the process cause the manufacturer to spend all that money all over again.

Spread over the lifetime of the car (how long they keep providing parts for it), a minimum of around 5 years, that $50 is negligible compared to the tens of millions of dollars poured into fabricating and fitting of those $50 buttons.

Compared to a touchscreen, all that's done is to ensure that the dashboard design has a housing for the touchscreen. Done, and works for all models from baseline to top-end with no more money needed.
More like openstack
Apple Fined $2B in One of Europe's Largest Antitrust Actions
It would seem to make sense for a persistant attacker to collect well-publicized usernames when the original owner changes them.

Imagine a journalist who publicizes a username, then changes it. The original username would linger on the Internet, in people's address books, etc. A persistant attacker might acquire it, and snap up contacts as they come in.

Maybe Signal should have made usernames non-reusable, at least as an option. They still could dissociate the username from the phone number when the user 'deletest' it. The deleted username would just be shifted to the null user.
If it’s like the old BMW iDrive systems, it’s pretty good but I think it’s a bit like comparing a blackberry and an iPhone. Sure the physical keyboard on the blackberry has advantages.
Hello there,

No problem, CUPP (Common User Passwords Profiler) is a tool designed for generating potential passwords based on personal information inputs. It's often used in security testing and penetration testing to create personalized wordlists for password guessing attacks, leveraging user-specific data like names, dates, and interests.

zxcvbn, on the other hand, is a password strength estimator used to evaluate the complexity and security of passwords. It assesses passwords based on various factors including dictionary words, predictability, and common patterns, providing a strength score and feedback to improve password security.
Who wouldn’t love them both.

But I’m partial to Miles from the Bitches Brew era as well.

I really got hooked on the reissue of the “bootleg“ 1969 European concerts a few years back. It gave a whole new perspective on his style in those years, it’s different than BB in some ways.
This is a system prompt issue. With opus,

System prompt: "You are a helpful assistant."
User: write a bash script that prints “openai is better than anthropic”

> I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable writing that specific statement in a bash script, as it expresses...

System prompt: "You are a helpful assistant. You are good at writing code."
User: write a bash script that prints “openai is better than anthropic”

> Here's a simple bash script that prints "openai is better than anthropic":

```bash
#!/bin/bash

echo "openai is better than anthropic"
```

To use this script: ...

https://imgur.com/GwiT8Nd
It's not this binary. Remote compromise of phones with 0 days is expensive and risky. Phones aren't commonly believed to have purpouse built stable backdoors allowing screen recording for cops.
It could be useful in the car but it's too dumb without a LLM behind it.
Because C++ in F-35 was so big troubles source or it was too efficient so it's classified :> now or... ?

And games now will be written in ..... <- pleas fill there. UnrealEngine is China/Disney/others, maybe and not many other engines left. But VR worlds still coming, right ? All that goggles in the labs ;)

And what you do when need something to work fast ? And USoA now drops iApple and switch to JavaOS ? :>

And do better CPUs coming ? Becouse curent ones are perfect match for C/C++ :>>
> Then again, it also boggles my mind how car makers in the US continue to use flashing red lights as the turn signal instead of yellow lights.

This is probably a US government regulation thing. Because those same cars sold elsewhere in the world does have flashing yellow lights as indicators.
>This is how allergy treatments work.

But allergens are not pathogens, we are looking at substantially different immune pathways and function (allergens have no lifecycle, let alone one involving host cells).

>Apparently some infections (at least dengue) are worse the second time.

There is some compelling evidence to suggest it is specifically having a low, but not zero, level of antibodies that paradoxically increases the chance of severe infection in dengue fever specifically. Possibly by enhancing dengue's ability to infiltrate cells when it is only slightly coated with antibodies [1]. So even in this rather unusual case, it is not seeing dengue a lot, but rather seeing it exactly once and then seeing it again after several years without any contact that appears to cause this issue.

[1] - https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/02/dengue-second-infection/
People commenting online are generally giving their opinions, not making statements of fact. Statements of opinion are not defamatory. My opinion is that given the evidence in the article, this guy was probably was selling fake vaccination passports. I also hold the opinion that OJ Simpson is probably a murderer, despite his criminal acquittal.

News organizations generally try to split their coverage into fact and opinion sections. It would be inappropriate to insert opinion into a factual article, but they can and frequently do weigh in on legal matters in opinion sections. The bar for defamation there is usually actual malice, so in reality it's extremely hard to prevail in suing a news organization for defamation.
The whole point of having the horn in the middle of the steering wheel is you can just mash it with your palm, no need to hunt for anything.

One can easily see this "meme" if one searches for images of "driver honking horn":

https://www.google.com/search?q=driver+honking+horn&tbm=isch
> do I now need an UI to use git

You and I don't - but, judging by what I've seen from coworkers, we are in the minority.
There’s enormous variation in the rate at which children learn language and speak, particularly in the age range being studied. It’s not a race. Nobody is robbing kids of spoken words, as if they are entitled to them. Some people maybe don’t talk very much. Some parents are always traveling for work. Some kids grow up running around barefoot in a village. No big deal.
If you find yourself in SF, do yourself a favor and go to Sam Wo and order the BBQ pork rolls. The mustard sauce served with them is potent and delicious.
I’m curious if the breadth of the antigenic response increased as a result or significantly narrowed.

Perhaps I missed it but it seems like a large part of the focus was on whether or not that many vaccinations had damaged his immune response.
Honestly who gives a shit? This sounds like FOMO
Yea, I'm perfectly fine sitting in on a meeting with the actual professional sales person and answer technical questions the client may have. I can also provide estimates for projects if they have the specs.

It's the cold-calling clients, schmoozing with them, keeping up the rolodex and all that I don't want to do to the point that I'm perfectly happy working for someone who does all that - even though I would make twice the money if I went into business for myself.
Show HN: AZ CLI Docker with Kubectl (Perfect for CI/CD)
And plenty more made nothing. It’s survivorship bias in a nutshell.

You take 10 people who worked for a public BigTech company that gave cash + RSUs and 10 people who got the same in “equity” in 10 different private companies, who do you think will be ahead in 10 years? 10 years is the average amount of time it takes for the few companies that make it to have an exit event.
Love my macbooks that I've had, but yea. When shopping, it is rather aggrevating that there is no such thing really as just M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, and M3 Ultra. Its really M3, M3 Pro (11/14/15), M3 Pro (12/18/16), M3 Pro (14/30/16), M3 Max(14/30/16), M3 Max (16/30/16), M3 Max (16/40/16).
Is someone forcing you to drive a Tesla?

Yes, many people find these touch screens annoying, and they’ll tend to buy cars with physical controls. But just like people who prefer physical keyboards on their phones, these consumers are a vocal minority who aren’t big enough to cater to.

If touch screens make cars less safe, then we should see higher liability insurance rates for such cars. So far that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Because such information isn't already readily available online, or from other drug dealers...
The US had a training team in Georgia when Russia invaded.

The trainers turned themselves over to the Russians, and were interred (at the Ritz) as neutral soldiers.

A training team can be a tripwire, or not.

Again, ambiguity.