skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Whitehouse report should scare the shit out of anyone invested in better software. People think the report is a step in the right direction, it's not.

You do not want the blob of D.C. putting their eyes on anything that looks like a bottomless money pit for consultants and self-proclaimed experts. Once that happens and is codified to some degree in law, it's very difficult to change or remove.

This potentially affects every government system in existence, and those systems are already some of the most legacy systems today. The US Navy still pays Microsoft to maintain support for Windows XP, so the idea this will happen in any less than a 25 year horizon is absurd. And even then, the dates can be extended. Why put a stop to the gravy train when it can keep going -- it's not like the public is even aware of just how enormous the federal government really is.
Once you understand this an opportunity to extract billions of dollars from large organizations, you then have to ask what their lobbyists will do to change the laws in their favor to completely neuter the legislation codified into law.

I haven't see anyone even consider this highly likely, if not almost certain outcome.
It seems RAW they could go a few directions:

1. They make AirTags follow the same rules as every other app.

2. They introduce a new toggle that users can grant to Tile that gives them the same abilities as AirTags.

3. They introduce a new entitlement that can be granted to developers who apply for that give them the access that AirTags has.

They've taken #3 for both alternative stores and web downloads so I imagine that would take it here.
Yes. The fact that even this was a thought and he was charting the space bodies and trying to establish distances between them. The rules were invented. The players just were not famous.
certifications (SOC2 / ISO27001) and offer an on-premise solution! I see there's already a discussion about pricing, so I'll leave that be. However, would an unlimited volume at a fixed cost (and self-host) be an attractive solution? It could be interesting for very high volumes.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, as it's essentially a description of the lump of labour fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy).
> that pushed apple to remove Fortnite.

There was no law that forced Apple to remove fortnight.

They could have just left it on the store.
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It will try and you end up with nothing but a bill from using Devin.
If you are curious just how common minor incidents are, https://avherald.com does a good job of listing most of them.
It's almost as if LLMs and human minds operate entirely differently from each other.
I think it’s indicative of human psychology. We realize we have the capability to deceive and destroy and be “evil”. We realize that, if we were to judge ourselves impartially, we would probably not come out un-condemned. If we can’t satisfy our own judgmental criteria, it’s doubtful an actual third party set of criteria would be satisfied either.
Not sure if this is real, but if it is, he should sue his employer and force them to take responsibility for employing someone like that. The only way justice will be served is if you force it to be, so I wouldn’t hesitate to make them eat their indifference to your suffering. :)
> How is taking 15% or 30% of all revenue better than €0.50 per first annual install?

I think for free apps that’s a bit of a big deal?
I've seen jobs claiming they let you skip their tests but none have yet to do so. I have multiple conpleted side projects. They are small non-commercial but not trivial and solve a problem for me.

You are fortunate, which is great for you, but your advice will not work for most people.
On a related note, one of the whistleblowers was just found dead: https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/boeing-whistleblower...
If the FBW system is getting spurious inputs, that's a Very Bad Thing. But I'm skeptical about CNN reporting from some rando non-aviator being accurate as to what exactly is going on. This is like asking some random person what their doctor or lawyer told them, and expecting them to get it all right.
The thing people who are against crypto mining miss is that the cryptocurrency industry is economically self sustaining. Electricity burned on mining crypto is not wasted, it is used to maintain a system that is objectively more economically valuable than the electricity itself is.

Trying to regulate what people are allowed to spend their money on just because you personally don't agree those things are valuable is a fool's errand.

To the extent there are negative externalities associated with electricity use those externalities are not specific to crypto, therefore singling out crypto for attack just because it uses electricity is unfair and harmful to the broader economy.
Cosmic rays*
Most sensible developers develop software against compiler specifications, not the standard. Very very little useful software can be implemented strictly within what's offered by the standard.
You're looking at the worst version that will ever be released. If these guys don't get better over time, someone else will.
If this is true in a two party system, would it not be logical to expect that the party that does not want to exploit an ignorant population would be directing significant attention and resources to educate the public while they hold power (and engaging in non-stop rhetoric on the matter at all times), which if all goes well could gain the support of the educated, permanently?

I sometimes wonder if people have somehow been conditioned to not think about this topic with the seriousness it deserves. I wonder, if we were to search through various academic literature about the nature of humans, might we find some theories about how it may be possible to pull something like this off?
There is some gray area with fair use I have found.

When I was in the university, some of my roommates were in the film department. Their was this understanding that you could use a certain number of seconds of a copyrighted video in your project.

But in practice today, it is hit or miss. I have seen a TikTok stitching Harry Potter to make a parody taken down as violating copyright.

While there exists other videos on TikTok doing the same thing for longer duration.
> "if we can redistribute the AI-generated surplus"

I'm curious to know why you think there is even the slightest chance of this happening.
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While impressive, the demo on UpWork didn’t even come close to fulfilling the job requirements. The job asked for instructions on how to set it up on an EC2 machine. It didn’t ask to run the model, or do anything that was depicted.

It makes me question the truthfulness of the other claims.
Have you ever seen people dreaming of becoming a soulless cog in the machine creating forgettable 3D assets for mobile video games at a no-name studio once we achieve "full automation"?

Me neither.

What people dream about is being able to go to a field and paint or sing at their leisure, not engaging in the soul crushing rat race that is artistic entrepreneurship.

AI is replacing the jobs that make money but are most certainly creatively bankrupt.
I don't think OP i correct that the forecasts there are less reliable, but I would gather that:

More warming == more energy in the system.

More energy in the system -> more volatile weather.

More volatile weather -> harder to predict weather.
Fair, but - for the sake of the argument - who's to say that Brian Jokat doesn't have a major short position on Boeing?

I agree that both of the airlines have incentives to cover it up, but it's strange this is being "reported" as verified.
> Many of us would be out of work, but if we can redistribute the AI-generated surplus, this will still be a net-win for us all.

This won't happen. It does NOT trickle down, Mr. Reagan. The past 40+ years, every single graph you pull up shows the widening gulf between the wealthy and the not.
Open Source MCU-Based SDR GPS Receiver
This is a project of software GPS receiver for STM32.

No commercial "black box" GPS receiver module or FPGA is needed to to build GPS receiver - just MAX2769 RF Frontend IC and STM32 MCU.

Also I have same project for ESP32 - with GUI: https://github.com/iliasam/ESP32_SDR_GPS

This is a demo project - it can't be used in a real life because it is working too slow, but I think that it can be interesting for all who loves experiments with GPS, SDR and DSP.
if the eu hits them with enough billion dollar fines eventually they will comply. apple can avoid this by complying the first time, but if they want to give away 10 billion dollars before coming into compliance i'm more than okay with that.
I saw a similar site that was all about AI garbage products. Same theme too. Feels low-quality to promote it here
This isn’t a “hype cycle”, Boeing has very publicly abandoned their engineering culture in favor of stock buybacks ever since the McDonnell-Douglas merger. It’s not hidden at all, and we have countless whistleblower employees, undercover investigations, and the obvious fiscal facts (eg they planned to spend half as much on the MAX as they originally thought it would take).

Plus this isn’t exactly a huge industry, and I don’t recall airbus having these problems. Probably because “spend the normal amount of money on engineering” is about the easiest decision a company could ever make - the most obvious, no-shit-Sherlock board room decision possible for building the long-term value of a company.

IMO sometimes things are simple, and sometimes the rich and powerful are blinded by short-term greed.
This is why I tend to use the Pg COPY version of TSV - works beautifully with 'cut' and friends, loads trivially into most databases, and the 'vary a lot' problem is (ish) avoided by specifying COPY escaping which is clearly documented and something people often already recognise.

Generally my only interaction with CSV itself is to fling it through https://p3rl.org/Text::CSV since that seems to be able to get a pretty decent parse of every sort of CSV I've yet had to deal with in the wild.
While they are similar, they are different: the move towards Ada was scoped purely at the Department of Defense. This situation is one where the government is also trying to work with and encourage practices in general industry.
Teslas were known for doing the same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWRx6ZuV80
And again we are back to the developers and not the users, thank you for proving my initial point here.

I am the user that doesn't want to be taken advantage of by developers who choose to engage in dark patterns.

I frankly don't care how much of a cut Apple takes from payments. Just like I don't care about how much my grocery store uncharges, I don't care what Steam, Xbox, Playstation, or any other marketplace charges.

That isn't on me as the User. I want an experience that I am not at the mercy of developers who have been known to employ dark patterns. This isn't a theoretical thing, it is very much a thing.

That is my problem here. This is NOT about choice for users, this about choice for developers. Meaning my options are being removed from me...
Murphy's law, "anything that can go wrong (eventually) will go wrong". Gusts triggering a short that blocks out fly-by-wire would be even more worrying than poor coding. You know landings generally have lots of gusts and would be a terrible time to locked out.
You can test this, to some degree, by using custom date ranges on most of any search engine. Just exclude from the past several days and search for whatever. So for instance, I assume most people know that amongst numerous other issues, a Boeing also had a wheel fall off and cause damage to vehicles and what no on the ground below. So I searched for 'wheel falls off airplane' [1] while excluding the past few months. And yeah, every time it happened, even on relatively small planes, it received lots of coverage.

So it seems fairly safe to say that something has gone seriously wrong with Boeing, rather than there just being a big focus on them. I always thought the safest time to fly would be shortly after an airline had a major safety incident, because that's exactly when they're going to be checking everything ten times over. And I'm sure this is exactly what Boeing is still doing, yet they still can't seem to keep their planes in the air and in one piece.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=wheel+falls+off+airplane&s...
From the graph at the end: 13.8% of issues resolved.

Devin may need some additional help for awhile.
I also need to host private, commercial repos which are forbidden on Codeberg. When I migrate out of the Github loving embrace, I might as well self host and be safe forever.
> How is this any different than the industrial revolution ushering in a new age, or for that matter any technology that creates huge efficiencies in labor?

Indeed it isn't. It's just that at each technological breakthrough, a number of (vocal) people thinks that it's a new type of revolution, ignoring those of the previous centuries /shrug.
I don't think it's the end of software work yet.

A lot of these AI companies are promising the world and of course no one can deliver on that.

I think it's more likely we'll enter another AI winter first after all these impressive party tricks get boring and investors realize that just because a product uses AI doesn't mean it provides any value.
Anthropic – Please add community Discourse
Don't know where else to put this - please add a community.anthropic.com discourse since your support is slow
No. The money-havers will just cut the costs from software developers and our jobs will be gone forever.
I would lean towards an anti-Boeing hype cycle with some confluence of a series of unfortunate events. This is not to say that the QA issues aren't leading to something catastrophic, but on the whole I don't think people quite comprehend the number of flights that take off and land in a day, and how few fatalities and injuries result as of these trips relative to the passenger load.
It's absolutely a win for society (in the longer term), but in the meantime a lot of people's lives were upended, devasted, and even ended due to the upheavel. Maybe we can avoid that this time, but I doubt it. You can't tell someone who's children are starving that it's all worth it.
I would love for you to expound, I found it interesting that you qualified your "should you bother, no" with "unless you are doing inference at scale". But in the previous paragraph you explained why you can get better performance with GPUs.

So is there some advantage of TPU, assuming there was SWE/API parity between GPUs?
We have for example test pilots who take high risks for their job without the slippery slope problems you describe so I don’t think that doing something similar for a Mars mission is impossible.
The point is ASCII DSV, which gives innately better hierarchy than CSV, but with visible tokens and stream accommodation. You should read the github readme. It's not that long.

https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-choose-u...

As for still needing escapes, using obscure symbols instead of ones that are extremely common in writing inherently means needing far far faaaaaaar fewer of them.
> math, which thankfully can’t be simplified to the point of lies.

Er, at least by the standards being thrown around in this thread it absolutely can be and regularly is. You can't have less than zero of something, it only makes sense to take the root of a positive number, any time we avoid generalizing the area under a curve or rates of change because calculus won't come up for a few years...
Yeah, best to not try to attribute any meaning to this, as it would be bad for Boeing shareholders.
Locations and territory are well known by law enforcement, and it's one reason certain hoods have drastically increased police presence.
Long-lost Timesplitters 4 prototype saved from aging PS3 dev kit
Maybe coincidentally related that Simpson's paradox article from earlier, but if they've gotten more accurate overall, I certainly do not see it in the 24-hour forecasts. Of course, I'm also probably only paying attention to when it's wrong, not when it's right.

I plan my motorcycling based on rain, and the number of times I've gotten caught in rain when it wasn't supposed to rain at all that day is non-zero just this year.
Software is a commodity, find something more valuable to differentiate your startup.
> Millions of people being put out of work might change the political landscape quite a bit.

No, it won't. Even during the vid, when people couldn't work, the politicians found a way to enrich the wealthy while only doing the bare minimum for those who lost their jobs.
Meanwhile we all spend more of our time working for someone else and living our lives with greater intensity than in the days of agriculture.
That's exactly what people were saying of self driving cars 15 years ago. "We're so close, within 5 years we're have full self driving, and in 10 nobody will need a driver's licence!"
We don't need a new format which works for machines as well as for humans, because there are are tons of existing ones. You have CSV or TSV for wide support; JSONlines if you want very easy edit-ability and structure; and if those don't work for some reason, pretty much any other delimiter/escape would work better (example: newline for records, "^^" for fields, "^"-style character escaping; or JS-style "\"-escaping with field separator being "\N")
IME, the "problem" (to the extent there is one) is almost always that the naïvely-chosen KPI metric wasn't specific enough.

Here's a recent example from a friend. You're a SaaS company, and your home page's load time is reported as slow. You set your KPI for the quarter to be "reduce p99 load time of the home page by 50%".

The load time is a function of customer size, so bigger customers = slower home page. It's actually a quadratic function. So the p99 of small customers is like the p50 of large customers. You have 20 small customers and 20 big customers.

That quarter, the sales team onboards 10 new tiny customers, and 10 big customers churn. It's the holiday season in your big customers' geo, so mostly small customers are using the platform. It's the busiest time of year for the small customers, so they're over-using the platform.

All these factors lead to p99 latency dropping by 60%, smashing the KPI goal. Bonuses all around, pats on the back. And no code changes needed, besides!

The solution is: choose a KPI that is tightly coupled to your problem, and not confounded with other variables.

In the above case, a better KPI would have been "p99 latency for large customers", because it is robust to the distribution of customer sizes across current users, churned users, and seasonal differences in usage.
You gotta keep up with the narrative bud, it's not "weather isn't climate" anymore; as long as the weather seems unusual to adults, it's evidence of climate change.

But don't forget! That doesn't mean nice weather is counter-evidence of climate change. Nice weather is /also/ evidence of climate change, because it's merely the lull before the weird weather.

Got it yet?
Let me turn it around, then: if it's not worth doing Mars at scale, it's not worth doing it at all.
Python toolkit for image clustering using PCA and K-means with support for GPU
Tasnif is a Python package designed for clustering images into user-defined classes based on their visual content. It utilizes deep learning to generate image embeddings, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, and K-means for clustering. Tasnif supports processing on both GPU and CPU, making it versatile for different computational environments.
Is Devin a new LLM? Perhaps equiped with code and deploy plug-ins? The comparisons against other LLMs would suggest so.

The real world eval benchmark puts Claude 2 way ahead of GPT-4, which doesn't sound right.
Exactly, a tremendous amount of gang recruitment takes place in prison. Often there is a survival mechanic associated with this.
Wow. Awesome resource!
No there doesn't because the term isn't describing that experience.
Nano Black Hole to sink all that extra heat.
Ah, you're right, I'm running Firefox Beta. Forgot about that. Thanks for pointing that out.
Yes, definitely thought of that way most of the time. But I also think that might actually trivialize this concept some. Because one might say "ok, here's the crappy MVP version, and now that we're out of that one month phase everything after requires very rigorous and careful planning and meetings". I think most projects actually need to just stay in MVP mode. The entire project or product will be forever in a place of high uncertainty. Every feature should feel like it was the minimum we could do.

I'm actually not saying every project needs this of course, but I think maybe most might? Obviously there's huge things I've been apart of, and we needed to be thorough planning step by step months out. But that experience should probably be the exception and not the rule. Minimums the rule.
I don't think that's fair. There are a lot of instances where people go out of their way to experiment with systems despite limited literacy. The example that seems most salient is PSP homebrew, something I was doing at the age of 13 without a single hint of how anything computer related functioned.

The question becomes one of community and accessibility, and community begets accessibility. Opening source allows for easier access to fundamental aspects and lowers the "activation energy" of the whole process to develop and thus invites greater participation. Like how many man-hours get spent probing for vulnerabilities that enable jailbreaking? And note that these are specialized rarefied man-hours, and the whole system is also adversarial in that those seeking to crack the code are in competition with those trying to conceal it.

Pull all that out and make it all accessible and perhaps 13-year-old me would've tried to recode that 64x64 limit on the icons and learned something in the process, enable, iterate, participate...
> Or maybe the best engineers will be able to shine since they have the best ai management ability with the coding knowledge.

Considering we haven't seen talent rise to management, I'm not sure what makes you think that management will improve now.
> If there were 90-98% fewer C++ type/bounds/initialization/lifetime vulnerabilities we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

I disagree. We shouldn’t aim for 90-98%. We should aim for 100%.

Reason: unlike logic errors, memory safety bugs are exploitable more often than not. Logic errors are usually just some useless glitch and only sometimes exploitable.

> rust has 6 CVE’s

Couldn’t quickly check if any of those six were memory safety or not.

It’s sad that rust still has memory safety issues and if that’s true then my conclusion is that rust isn’t safe enough.
Scaling Models and Multi-Tenant Data Systems – ASDS Chapter 6
That’s a good approach, especially since everyone (Atlassian, Zoom, Salesforce, etc.) seems to be rebranding addons as “app stores” where the initially free stuff becomes paid. It’s better to avoid as many dependencies as possible in your workflow so you’re not stuck when this happens.
Not sure how I acquired the "common" knowledge that a plane has never crashed before due to turbulence alone, but this looks like an example of such a case!
This reads more like a flex for the investment community.
These issues are killing people in hundreds. You are right that national security is more important, but world is not binary. Current execs could easily say rot in jail while company keeps churning whatever hardware military wants, nothing mutually exclusive there.

Now what will happen with civilian avionics is another story, for me they lost my trust for good but I & my family choices are insignificant forces on the market.