skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree: ByteDance should compete on merit, without being sheltered from competition by China's bans on foreign social media companies. Until then, why should America allow Chinese social media in its market when that access is not reciprocated? That's a much stronger rationale to ban TikTok than the national security argument, in my opinion.
The server may have been dell, but it included a full stack of google3 software including chubby the lockserver.

We had one at my company and it was widely loved- far better intranet search and domain-specific search for biotech.
Or it might be raining at the station the reading is being made at, but not where you are. Living in the west for example, a lot of weather stations are remarkably broad in the area they're expected to represent.
A team I worked work along side seemed to have very good luck tracking people and even gestures using several kinects. With luck you might be able to do the same
I didn't understand from the article why a signal without modulation would be considered sign of life. What's so special about it?
Discord mostly.
The question was not dos vs cpm(both of which are superficially the same thing), but dos vs basic, both provided by Microsoft. People get tripped up with basic being a programing language, but imagine dos only instead of the braindead dos command syntax you had a full basic repl as a command line. Note that good dos(with directories, environment variables, and redirection came much later)

Did microsoft not provide disk and program launching functions in basic? Perhaps dos used less memory, memory was a very very tight commodity in 1981.
I have the same questions.

I’ve decided the best thing I can do is vote with my wallet (i.e. as a consumer) and vote with my time (i.e. as a producer).

Consume commodities that are regenerative and products that are durable. Whenever possible, buy local to keep cash flows (wealth transfer) local.

Invest your time in contributing to products that encourage other people to do the same.

Yvon Chouniard said (I’m completely paraphrasing) something like “in the 21st century, the most powerful vehicle for transforming the world is the American corporation. Whether or not it should be, it is. If you think the world should be different, step 1 is starting a business”.

As a producer (engineer, for me), the best thing I can do is build tools to help people wean themselves off of Capital.
The comment literally says "It's not about security like they've been lying about", when the opposite is actually true. They were implying that Web Distribution was a way to get around security of a Marketplace, which is not possible.

Without a kill switch, gatekeepers would lose control over apps, making them "strictly necessary." Most interpretations of the DMA agree.
I'd prefer zero websites, but I'd settle for one.
Had to look that up - "free ad-supported streaming television"

https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pl...
Here are some facts about the BYD Seal EV:

- A Seal costs around $66k in Australia, before any subsidies.

- A Seal has a 80 kWh battery.

- BYD says the LFP batteries in the Seal should last around 25 years.

- BYD says they will ship a Vehicle to Grid kit (ie, when they do it can become a house battery). They already have a 3 kW "mains" power point in the car.

- I don't know how safe it would be, but in Australia people generally park their cars in a garage that is part of the house.

House consumption varies a lot, but if you remove aircon, pool filters and the like, 20 kWh / day will probably do you. So the Seal's battery should last 4 days.

In comparison, house batteries in Australia cost around $1000/kWh installed. If prices at the same rate a Seal should cost $80k for it's batteries, and you get a car thrown in for free.
"Fig team will be joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology!" does not have the ring of "getting rich". Seems like acquihire + asset sale, quite possibly for a negligible price, and with liquidation preferences common stock is likely worthless. Not enough information to say for certain but deals along these lines are far more common than meaningful exits.
Yeah. There's a place nearby where I live that's used for a lot of outdoor recreation like fishing and rafting, and the two weather stations that serve that area are a long way away.
I am still surprised that when I search for a specific app (as you did for your bank) I still see junk ads before the real app shows up. Apple should be better than that. They seem to have the same bad incentive Google search does.

What is CFD gambling? When I read “CFD” I always think of computational fluid dynamics and so “CFD gambling” sounds pretty cool to me. Obviously I do know I’m just overfitting to a TLA and I’d like to know what it actually means.
Show HN: Accessing AI Services from Shell (OpenAI/ChatGPT, HF, Gemini AI,)
aisbreaker.sh is a tool to provide a simple commandline interface to generative AI services of AIsBreaker.org on all UNIX-based systems with bash.

AIsBreaker.org, a developer-friendly platform, simplifies access to a variety of generative AI services including OpenAI/ChatGPT, Hugging Face, Google Gemini AI, and more. It effectively conceals the complexity of vendor-specific APIs.
Also MeeGo, which was killed off before it really had a chance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9
The first autonomous AI Engineer
Will it send unzeroed application memory across like some other "fast" protobuf alternatives have done at the risk of data leaks?
Apple statement on why the EU requiring open app stores is bad:

Schiller, an Apple veteran who once ran its marketing machine, said the moves to break the company’s closed ecosystem for software will undermine the privacy and security the company has worked to build into its products and services. “This isn’t our first choice,” he said. “We always want to have the highest standard everywhere in the world but we also have the requirement to meet the legal requirements in the local markets. “In the App Store we have a lot of signals that we are looking for every day to find scams and stop them,” Schiller said. “With these new marketplaces we won’t have visibility into those issues.”

Right.
This post contains a number of statements that mislead the reader into believing that we are overreacting to memory safety bugs. For example:

> An oft-quoted number is that “70%” of programming language-caused CVEs (reported security vulnerabilities) in C and C++ code are due to language safety problems... That 70% is of the subset of security CVEs that can be addressed by programming language safety

I can’t figure out what the author means by “programming language-caused CVE”. No analysis defines a “programming language-caused CVE”. They just look at CVEs and look at CWEs. The author invented this term but did not define it.

I can’t figure out what the author means by “of the subset of security CVEs that can be addressed by programming language safety”. First, aren’t all CVEs security CVEs? Why qualify the statement? Second, the very post the author cites ([1]) states:

> If you have a very large (millions of lines of code) codebase, written in a memory-unsafe programming language (such as C or C++), you can expect at least 65% of your security vulnerabilities to be caused by memory unsafety.

The figure is unqualified. But the author adds multiple qualifications. Why?

[1] https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
Bumblebees show behaviour previously thought to be unique to humans
Lightworks hands down has the absolute best workflow for cutting and assembling video. Nothing else comes close. But like you said, they want you to pay for for anything above 720p. The downside is that it is really slow on my Core i9 Mac with 32 GB memory. The forums lead me to believe this is just an issue with the Mac platform, so Windows and Linux user probably don't experience this. I'm not saying it is slow at playback or seeking—it is really just the UI that's slow like there's a noticeable latency from a click to when a menu appears and don't even try dragging stuff around.

Avid Media Composer is also free but limited to 1080p and has many other limitations that can make it tricky for all but the simplest projects. Again, if you pay up you get what Hollywood editors use, but at $20 to $50 per month subscriptions isn't great for occasional use. It requires some setup and configuration that's not intuitive. I had to google how to have it use only one display and not to just assume I want it to take over all attached displays. It also has a bunch of DRM and copy protection crap that requires a bunch of additional programs and runs permanent Java processes.

Blender has a video editor. That much is true. It just isn't very good. Editing is imprecise and clumsy. You have to manually add frame allotments to the timeline if you go past the runtime. It's only saving grace is the ability to do 4K (probably higher if you want). There's no previewing a clip before you place it on the timeline. All editing is done on the timeline by positioning the playhead. There is an upfront cost for proxy editing, so if your source material is high resolution and long, expect to wait a long time for it to process the clips before you can play or edit them. I've found that when performance starts to suck you'll have to manually rebuild the proxies—maybe go to lunch.

I haven't tried Kdenlive, but its editing ability looks similar to Blender in that you have to put the clip on the timeline before doing anything. Coming from Lightworks or Media Composer this workflow sucks. I'm still going to give it a try, but I'm not sure it is for me.
> The vast majority of Android users use the Play Store (or the Amazon thing) exclusively

Are you sure? Android phones are pretty big in China, which is by far the world's largest smartphone market, and I guess Play Store & "the Amazon thing" (I don't remember the name either) adoption there is close to 0%. Anecdotally I have noticed a lot of people using phone vendor app stores in India (the second largest market, though half the number of devices as China) and Indonesia (another huge market). Taken together I'm very skeptical that Play Store + Amazon have a majority of Android users.
Whilst the focus is often on "obese" people, it is highly apparent that even "normal weight" people can be abnormally unhealthy internally.

Normal weight people can still get disease, cancers, poor liver function, obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension.

Furthermore, ultra processed foods can contribute to mental illness and generally feeling like crap
Relate to this much? https://xkcd.com/1324/
https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn't given up hope of fixing it yet
> mindless "recommended" IG Reels/YT Shorts or FB Pages

Only these clearly do work for the majority of people. They're ubiquitous in popular culture (and in fact culture is often built within them) and are essentially the whole business model for those services. If they don't work for you, great, it means you've successfully avoided using those services enough that they can't profile you accurately, but that doesn't mean that they don't work at all.
Question from another field that does a lot of simulation - why is the assertion that deterministic simulation testing, rather than something stochastic, is the gold standard.
Yes!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.windyty.an...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windy-com-weather-radar/id1161...
You tell them to use the service's web page because their app isn't available from a trustworthy source. And if their web page sucks, you encourage them to use a competing service whenever possible and only use the inconvenient one when strictly necessary. Which, as others do the same, pressures the service to do what you want and put their app in the existing store.

This is the same thing that Apple does if they refuse to follow the process as it is, right? You're being insufficiently stubborn. And excessively dismissive if you think users making choices have no power. There are demonstrably people committed to having it their way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685700

Unless you think tech companies have gotten too big and people don't have a choice anymore. If you have a monopoly, what you want is not another monopoly to fight them over which gets to fleece you, it's to smash them both by any available means. One of which is resistance through personal choices, one of which is... anti-trust enforcement.
I'm not worried about being targeted by Pegasus, but I am worried about getting targeted for adshit by Google, or them selling all my info to databrokers, or having them disable all my accounts for arbitrary reasons. I think we have different threat models.

Maybe you're special enough to be worth targeting for bespoke surveillance, I'm worried about avoiding ordinary mass-market adtech surveillance.
Wikipedia page[0] mentions having a fixed nose visual can reduce nausea, which is something I've read/heard elsewhere as well.

According to several studies, introducing a static frame of reference (independent visual background) may reduce simulation sickness. A technique called Nasum Virtualis shows a virtual nose as a fixed frame of reference for VR headsets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness
Are there any? I've never heard of one.
If there is a gender component to risk of VR sickness, it seems likely it is related to some calibration factor being wrong due to differing head size - eg. The distance between the eyes, the center of rotation of the eyeballs, etc.

I'm sure VR companies are working on it, because nausea isn't good for business...
> I don't think I've ever searched for something on the app store and not got a scam as the first result

It’s cool to crap on Apple and all these days but this is all categorically false. What you are referring to is the Ad on the top of the page. It’s clearly labeled as ad and has a light blue box around the whole ad.

I tried all those things you mentioned and the first result after the clearly labeled ad is what I searched for.
It's not a fair comparison since the A350 is newer, has less planes in operation and less flight cycles. It does have 1 hull loss with 0 fatalities due to human error either in the ATC or another plane that resulted in a crash - nothing to do with the A350 or its crew in any way outside of its and their good management of the crash (the plane composite materials delayed the fire long enough for the crew to be able to perform a perfect evacuation and save everyone).
I spend at least a week a month there. It's more my second home than a full-time business. It is not profitable.
> I’m guessing

I'm not, at least in the extent I've participated in subpoena response and had conversations with an employer's counsel in that connection.

If you're b2c and past a certain point of scale, it just becomes an overhead, a bit of a pain but no big deal. That's if you respond promptly and completely - any company that screws around with something credibly subpoena-shaped is taking a dangerous risk; that's a great way to draw the interest of courts ("contempt of"), and SDNY in particular is known for being quite proddy.
You are literally agreeing with me and yet phrase it as if we’re arguing about something? I’m confused.
> OEM ROMs that passed Google certifications and everything have been found in the past to

That's really good to know to keep things in perspective! Thanks for taking the time to bring that perspective. Although I would say that it seems like LineageOS kind of does all of those kinds of things at once, whereas OEM ROMs might do one or the other each? Or am I wrong?

Edit: also, I can't find any info on your ASUS claim, and the OnePlus one seems misleading (it's not some vulnerability or passive background thing that just broadcasts your clipboard, it was an app you could electively use to send clipboard stuff to other computers).

> There is EXACTLY one app (k k k, two because of Play Store fake too) that bypasses signature verification, and you can VERIFY, which app does it, and WHICH signature it fakes.

I'm not familiar with Lineage OS — does this mean that you know only one app will ever do this and can verify that, so it's just one specific exception to the rule, or is it just that the spoofing was made possible for just that one app, and only one app is known to do it, but any app could without your knowledge in theory?

> As for madaidans-insecurities, they are extremely biased.

Like I said, their factual knowledge is generally useful, but their framing (including context, so you can get some perspective) and analysis is usually wildly biased IMHO. I wonder what their damage is.
They are looking for signs of life.

Anything they see that is not certainly a sign of life will be treated as a potential sign of life.

It's special because it's 72 seconds of 0.001% in years of 0.000000000000000000001%
*swipes left*
can you say more about the network issues with thousands of k8s nodes? I'm regularly running 2-3000 nodes in a GKE cluster, majority have GPUs, is this something I need to be worrying about?
Wow, I never imagined these aircraft could make violent maneuvers like this, at cruise speeds, without structural damage.
What happens when the app for some piece of hardware you bought is on a 3rd party store?

What happens if the app is only available for iOS? What happens when all your friends use iMessage and Facetime? Apple isn't saving us from platform lock-in; they're benefiting hugely from it.

I don’t own any other Apple hardware, but bought my phone (after a long line of Android hardware starting from the original ADP1) specifically to not have to deal with any of this. I don’t have the time and energy to deal with any of this anymore.

What is "this"? My Android phone works fine with zero maintenance, but when I occasionally want to do hacky things with it I can.
Why does what China is doing with their laws bother you - should we institute the same internet restrictions because they are?

China's support of Tiktok isn't what's allowing them to win out here in the US and that's what's of relevance to us in the West.
> LLMs as they are today are already amazing mental prosthetics, and I couldn't see myself going without

For me, it's a stack overflow ++, but is also hit or miss.

Common experience: I want to make a simple change to this bash script. Seems simple enough to ask GPT-4. It produces some piece of code, seems to do the job. Code review -> you don't handle this corner case. Shit. GPT-4, what's wrong? answer is suspicious... A couple of "man" later, I got it. Basically, it made me lose 30 minutes. I could have lost 30mn more if had insisted to get the answer from it.

I'm not saying it's not useful, but it's not the graal that will save us from learning our craft.
I wouldn't deny that there's probably some people in govt who want to what you are implicitly assuming. However you have to deny the reasons given (which you do) to make your case. Unfortunately you can't just gainsay someone because your version fits your narrative better. I dont even think you realize you're doing what you claim the g-men are doing.

It's also not a competition for who can hurt Americans most, and it's certainly not a "well we can't do perfection so we will do nothing."
I really think the all-in-one-ness of Flash is what made it so easy to use. Not only that you can make almost everything for a game/cartoon in one interface (IIRC audio wasn't included), but also that the output was a single file you could share easily.

The rampant piracy of old Flash versions probably helped a lot too.
Probably “contract for difference”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_for_difference
Guys Apple told me if I gave up all my freedom they would keep me safe.. I don’t feel so good..
> or have we given up pretending people use bitcoin for everyday use?

I don't think I've heard anyone pretending this in the last 10 years.
I have found OPA to be a fairly reliable and performant system in production. We were able to build a scalable RBAC solution that used OPA as evaluators. We had around 40k OPA instances serving around 350K qps with p99.9 hovering around 6ms.

You can find our talk here https://www.styra.com/resources/videos/snap-inc--snaps-journ...
From the article:

> any modulation with a period of less than 10 seconds or longer than 72 seconds would not have been detectable.

With a carrier of 1420 MHz, I'd expect modulation at a much higher frequency than 0.1 Hz.

The narrow band and power of the signal is what made it stand out.
From a cursory look at the code, I don't see any use of fused-multiply-add (FMA) which would likely help with precision issues in a number of places with the float version. The "problem in more detail"[1] readme specifically calls out computation of `x^2 - y^2` as a source for error, and that has methods that dramatically reduce error with FMAs[2].

[1] https://github.com/ProfJski/FloatCompMandelbrot/blob/master/...
[2] https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2019/11/03/difference-of-floats
What do you mean my small codebase. I hope not the normal todo repos or basic apps. Can this be run on production codebase like a java application having dozens of microservices inside it.
Without escaping, it wouldn't be suitable for arbitary binary data.
Zsh + powerlevel10k + zsh autocomplete
contract for difference

in this case: extremely short term highly leveraged bets
On hn everything is public so if you only have the time at which two or three posts where submitted you can find the user in question easily.
It'd be nice to be able to do this without a keyboard event so that you should show an indicator in the password field that caps lock was on before they started typing.
>for any US citizen, the bigger danger is the US government and its access to Meta/Google/etc data on its own citizens than what the Chinese government can do to Americans living in American.

I disagree. (I'm American.) Danger one is considerable and not to be scoffed at, but danger two is greater in my estimation because for example Tiktok and other Chinese sites can help the Chinese steal machine-learning models created in the US.
Something you wish but can't do on Zapiar?
Have you encountered integration/automation needs that seem to fall under Zapiar, but it simply doesn't work there?
> Bombardier

Protectionism bullshit by Boeing forced them to sell to Airbus, they only do business jets now.

> Embraer

Regional jets only. They saw what happened with Bombardier and they're highly unlikely to move upmarket in short haul jets.

> Mitsubishi

Cancelled their regional jet, so nothing.

> UAC

Severely hampered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting supply chain collapse and sanctions. The MC-21 and SSJ-100 were decent planes on paper, but cannot be manufactured because critical components are European or American (like the engines). The Tu-214 is back in production but it's a pretty obsolete plane by modern standards.

> Comac

By most accounts, roughly a decade behind equivalent Airbus planes in terms of efficiency, but realistically the only real alternative to Boeing/Airbus in the medium term.
Thank you for that perspective. I spend a week a month in my airbnb, so it is considered more of my second home than a business. There are photos of my wife and I in the house, and I think the house feels "warmer" for guests because it's not just a sterile hotel or full-time business.
A study hit the news wires this week https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/06/every-step-a...

“Every step above 2,200 steps a day reduces risk of early death, study finds. Research suggests every extra step up to 10,000 reduces risk even if rest of the day is sedentary”
Do people really download anything from the MS store...? I got Python from there once and it's been nothing but annoyances. I guess I'm technically one of that billion users, but I'll never download anything from there ever again.