skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, it confuses what's actually stated in the ruling with the direct results of the ruling, which would be a trial on the merits of this, in which they'll have to establish by the preponderance of the evidence that they're not a link in the chain of whatever radicalized this guy.

So I can see that it's misleading about what the ruling says, but not about the net effect of the ruling. But it actually links to the actual ruling here, so it still comes out as a C+ article over all, merely because of the terrible state of legal reporting.
I associate it with just doing things because they need doing. When I was young I’d always wonder how all these amazing things came to be. As I get older I realize it’s because someone just got started and has been plugging away at it for years.
You can buy bulk lego compatible parts from AliExpress that are basically identical to real lego pieces.
He's not trying to create 500 new Googles.

He's trying to inspire the one kid that will actually create the next Google.

Alternatively, if only one person in the upcoming generation tries to create the next Google it will probably be a crap company. If 200 million kids try to create the next Google the one that succeeds in creating their own survivorship bias story will likely be a stellar co.

Competition necessitates excellence.
Moderation as censorship typically does not cater to, or curate content for, distinct individual users, let alone audience groups. There are of course exceptions but this is about a different extreme.

This all started with ads. Now all content is an ad, so that you can be served more ads. It's ingenious but also evil.
The query hints thing is actually quite useful in an educational context.

There's DB internals/performance course which I'm a TA for and we lean heavily on being able to force Oracle's rule-based or cost-based optimisers --- because then we can get the students to analyse and compare the plans.
True threats are illegal.

However, "go kill ni*ers for a high score" is not only not a true threat, it's the kind of speech that Brandenburg v Ohio, which established the current incitement-to-imminent-lawless-action test, explicitly said was 100% protected free speech.

Pretty much anything less than leading a mob and telling them who is their next lynching target will be ruled protected speech.
>rail

Wrong niche. This is in the same market as conventional air freight.
How to copy the filter data?
I'm curious, hoe do multi-constellation receivers use them all at once? Are the signals just all the same thing? On some level I know they're just atomic clocks, and the governing equations should work if all of them are synchronized, but I can't help but think that feeding data different constellations in all at once wouldn't produce a good result. Or perhaps you can answer somewhat the opposite question - if the data IS all the same, then why are there multiple constellations and standards? Apart from Beidou, which I believe can actually serve as a radio repeater of some kind, aren't they all doin the same thing?
Over nine hundred nuclear weapons, many of larger size, were detonated in Nevada from the early 1950s to 1992. The way the article presents that aspect is odd and suggests an author surprisingly unaware of the history of Nevada and the weapons program.

I actually find it somewhat surprising the weapon-stimulated experiment was never attempted, as these kinds of experiments were conducted secondarily to a weapons test fairly routinely. A large portion of Nevada tests supported secondary research by other government agencies, universities, and private industry. A prominent example was a set of buildings to test earthquake-hardening methods, taking advantage of the consistent earthquakes incidentally produced by nuclear tests. I believe the client on that project was the University of California, but that's from memory and sources are hard to come by on older NNSS programs.

One of the more famous commercial tests was by the Mosler safe company to demonstrate that their vaults could survive a nuclear attack, although this wasn't totally an independent project as Mosler had a close relationship with the military and the survivability of their vaults had implications on nuclear deterrence, their being used to store parts of the weapons stockpile.
Looking at the result (figure 4), the model looks more like a good classifier than an image retriever, the generated images have the same subject as the original but are very different, even the colors of the subjects.
Definitely heartening. Games like Stardew Valley demonstrate that an individual (or small team) can make worthy games and be recognized for it.

As for multi-billion dollar studios, why would they be humiliated by such games? They have completely different objectives.
Yes, this is what happens in Singapore. There is a requirement to post job vacancies on a government job portal for a certain time before a company can apply for a work visa.
Many companies maintain ghost job vacancies just in case.
Um. To a fifteen year old. Who distinctly did not want to receive such.

Notably, the guy was already a registered sex offender.

Sure this is the hill for you?
G.711 is what's used on the actual PSTN, so there's not even a hypothetical benefit from G.722 unless you're going direct over IP to another host supporting 722, and if you're doing that then you're probably better off with T.38 or just dropping the modem entirely for serial-over-IP.
For context:

The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests (by official count) between 1945 and 1992, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests.

a good number of these were within USofA, in Nevada, and several drifted fallout across US population centres.

"Nearly bombed Nevada" is a small claim next to "actually bombed Nevada" .. or "detonated an atmospheric bomb and used it as a backdrop for a showgirl" (1953)

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/05/18/friday-image-the-...
When Apple sells their other hardware they can make money with other things that go along with it. App royalties, cloud storage, TV shows, movies, and music, accessories (watch bands, phone cases, more royalties especially with lightning stuff but also with MagSafe).

When you sell a router that’s it. You’ve got to provide security updates forever for free or convince your customers to upgrade at some point.

Some router companies are trying to do the service thing but I don’t know how successful that is.

From what I can see TP-Link’s annual sales revenue is reported to be $2.8 billion. That’s the world’s leading networking company in sales with close to a 20% global marketshare.

For comparison, Apple makes $8 billion per quarter just on home/wearables/accessories, which is only 10% of its total revenue. $385 billion in revenue for all of 2023.

That means if Apple put a bunch of effort into making networking equipment and took 100% of TP-Link’s marketshare, it would increase their revenue by less than 1%.
how many pictures of genitals did you receive when you were 15?
math isn't covered by copyright law

really my opinion is copyright should be 7 years from publication date, but whatever it is, i would like for it to be applied equally
What he did was terrible. It's good that he was convicted.
Just saw Scotland is also saying it won’t meet its 2030 goals:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/scotland...
> Nah, I don't think Spolsky is responsible.

It's hard to read his guide now with recent eyes and not completely agree with him. [1] . Software had been hiring for a while and never hit it. Plenty of other professions have very technical or algorithmic thinking without it. I'm not convinced it was inevitable as you say.

1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
The UK is the 0th state in the union.
It's also simultaneously possible to have low unemployment numbers and have companies be pretty deliberate about new hires and have people tending to stay where they are.

And, anecdotally, I see mostly pretty senior people leaving--maybe retiring a bit early. Was just having a conversation about this with a friend of mine.
> But going back in the '70s with a bunch of 4090s will not help them much, as they wouldn't have enough data to do very meaningful things.

Not at first. But the corpus would have been built over time. Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971. Imagine a world in which the Copyright Act of 1976 requires an electronic copy of every book to be deposited with the Library of Congress.

The best single work of fiction ever created about LLMs' capabilities (and, perhaps, dangers) is Colossus by Jones. Although I think the film is even better than the book, only the latter mentions how, despite being created specifically for US national defense, Colossus is also fed unrelated data including Shakespeare's sonnets, because its creators do not know if it could be important.
1. These will be the most accurate GPS satellites available for civilian use. Precision costs money.

2. GPS has huge military implications. These satellites will be leveraged by the military. There are literally military secretes involved in these satellites.

3. The 100M is for the launch, not the satellites. Space X's standard fee is 67M/launch. It seems fair to attribute a lot of the premium to extra security costs around handling military technology.
Too expensive considering the risks and that fact that most people won't want their health to be in the hands of flawed AI, which can't even change a bedpan.
The government should treat these are trash and send out fines.
> More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing.

Sounds like securities fraud
The recent Boeing situation is that there's literally lottery ticket odds of dying in a Boeing plane and it's still, by far, the safest form of travel. What point are you trying to make?
> sending a photo of a steak to a vegan would get you 5 years in prison?

Two issues. The question is what was your intent. Proving that it was sent with the intent of causing distress or anxiety is much harder in that case. For example I don’t know a single vegan who would react with distress or anxiety to the image of a steak. That is just nonsense. They would just say “yuck”.

But if from the circumstances it is clear that that is the intent, perhaps because the vegan in question repeatedly expresses distress and the accused in question still keeps sending them then why would we not punish that? As in do you want that kind of behaviour in your society?

That was issue one. Issue two is about the 5 years. You say that as if that is the standard length of punishment a first time vegan abuser should expect. In reality this person has previously been convicted of a sexual crime and then commited infractions against multiple people. Surely these factors played a role in the lenght of prison sentence he received?
Invest in CIBR. It’s the NASDAQ’s Cybersecurity ETF.

Not financial or investment advice but I have invested in it directly myself. It looks attractive with the election coming up this year.
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You can have as many different symbols as you like, so long as you can actually write them on paper. As soon as you tell me that one of those symbols is a number with infinite digits I will disagree with you, given that you are unable to tell me what those digits are before the universe ends.
I loved the setting and the style but it seemed very grindy and monotonous after a while. Maybe I'm not the target audience but manually watering a field full of virtual plants is just not my idea of fun. I guess eventually you can automate a lot of this?
The median active developer merges 2 PRs per week
This isn't the 1970's, we have many alternatives. WFH could easily offset any loss from FF, because it has already.
More precise, perhaps. There are a whole lot of GNSS satellites up there already, but they comprise four separate systems, so you need to know a lot of inter-system timing bias information in order to fuse them into one big effective constellation.

If you meant a single LEO swarm operated by a single entity, yes that's possible too, and there are proposals to do it, because LEO birds can provide much stronger signals, you'd have a decent shot of it working indoors and stuff.

But, the ground-segment necessary to keep track of the clocks on a large number of satellites would be formidable. They'd also be out of view of ground stations for a larger portion of their orbits (since they're so much lower), which means some new work in tracking the clock drift, which is one of the main limitations on accuracy.
Isn’t the story that some crazy old seed man gave him a Hass seed and we don’t really know where it came from?
Right - but even then, if a super fit endurance athlete stops exercising, they don't immediately become diabetic. The upstream cause (what biochemical stimulus is driving the fat deposition?) is probably where the key insight lies.
> Since you don’t want to have account enumeration, this means doing a primary authentication, e.g. passwords.

Nothing prevents site from sending a blob of random data when real key is not found.

> While hardware backed Security Keys for 2FA is great 2FA, there’s a tangible cost, both in UX and $ that leaves many users left out (not everyone can afford $20 for a security key)

Both major desktop operating systems come with WebAuthn support - Windows via Windows Hello and macOS with Secure Enclave backed key store. That not a problem at all in corp environment. Buying a Yubikey (or two) for each employee in the company is minimal cost comparing to laptop, desk, chair, software licenses

We use WebAuthn as the first factor, and we love it because it completely eliminated password brute force problem. Password attacks (brute force and stuffing) is a much bigger problem, than account enumeration, especially in corp environments where usernames follow a name-based pattern and everybody is on LinkedIn.

BTW, we are paid Bitwarden customer, and our Helpdesk was not too happy when Bitwarden update resulted unexpected prompt interrupting WebAuthn authentication flow for users. )
Looking for fast GPT-4 level LLM usable via API. (not via OpenAI)
Hey, I'm looking for a fast LLM to use via API, that's as good or almost as good as GPT-4, better than GPT-3.5-turbo at least.

GPT-4 via OpenAI is too slow -- 100 token output takes >3 seconds.

Where can I find one?
> it’s highly ironic you picked Moneymaker as your example poker pro, since he’s famous in the poker world for being a very bad amateur player who got extremely lucky at the perfect time

You may be overly generous in your estimation of MY poker skills! However bad Chris is, I am sure I am not anywhere close.
I take purple spotted with lilac.
GLP1 analogs could help. They can cross the blood–brain barrier and stimulate the GLP1 receptor in the brain.[1]

There is also research showing improvement in Alzheimer's disease symptoms. [2]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11931352/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287782...
There are narratives like lower interest rates -> more money circulating -> more speculation -> crypto goes up. Or higher interest rates -> crypto goes up as a hedge against inflation. This still leaves you the problem of deciding what model to use.
In another life I sandblasted heat exchangers in power plants and oil refineries - the first refinery I ever worked in had pipes overhead wrapped in asbestos insulation. It was all very well marked and had plenty of warnings to not go near it unless authorized and properly protected. Honestly though, I was crawling into a hole I could barely fit my body through to blast out thousands of pipes which flow liquid sulfur through them, with a grit that should the blast hose split was under enough pressure to inject sand straight through your heart, while wearing a sensor on my hard hat that I was told if it starts to beep I had 60 seconds to climb up out of the hole before I’d be dead. Asbestos exposure wasn’t a worry I had in those places, because everything else was trying to kill me too but much more urgently.
“Normal human anatomy” is what you say if someone’s swimsuit slips in the surf, not when a sex offender sends a child pictures with the intent of forcing them to think about him sexually.

The difference is intent: he knew it was unwelcome, and he didn’t care about that lack of consent. Now might be a really good time to think about why your first instinct is to defend the guy committing mid-level sexual assault rather than the child he targeted.
The cost of failure is way too high in this country for people to take a risk and venture out on their own. This is a privilege that has been reserved for the wealthy.

Larry. Sergey. Mark Z. Steve.

All of these people were born into families where both parents either had advanced degrees or were well off due to their success in the field. Failure for these people does not mean much. Maybe just a hit to their egos. But otherwise they keep living life, just not as the billionaires of today.
Yes, and doing a startup involves risk. If you fail, you’ll lose time and likely money. I’m now 10+ years behind on my retirement savings. I’ll likely need to work until 70-75.
For whatever it's worth, my cousin's baby agrees with your copilot; my pinky toenail is refusing to answer. That's a pretty good signal, 2/3 non-experts can't be wrong.

Edit: my apologies, the baby changed their answer when they realized the question wasn't an offer of string cheese. Results are inconclusive.
Is this less serious if you have some reverse proxy not passing the Connection header on?
Show HN: Iteratively Building Virtual Creatures in Minecraft
"Creatures" is a stretch given that the environment is Minecraft, but the idea is simple: iteratively add blocks conditionally (tensor convolution) on the current environment (blocks) to maximize some reward. In this case I use PPO RL to train creatures to touch a glowstone block but you can adapt it to use any algorithm and reward (easily, as it uses the Ray framework).

What I like about this work: iteratively finding solutions has a long and colorful history of doing things well: gradient boosting, ResNets, Stable Diffusion, etc. We're after some end optimal state and usually try to get right to it via some flavor of SGD. Baking in improvements as part of the problem structure is helpful. I like to think of this as solving the derivative of the solution with respect to time and then integrating over time. The Minecraft environment naturally prevents overfitting because you can spawn creatures in a diverse array of environments and train one policy over them all.

What I don't like about this work: Minecraft was chosen for computational reasons but doesn't make cool creatures that walk around and look like cheetahs or whatever. I've compared it against nothing, but it works real good! <g>. Videos in the README.

You can install / run with Docker and observe metrics with Tensorboard. Should be plug and play. If not comment. Enjoy!
Glad to see this here! About a month ago I was ready to start a new farm and held off to wait for this update. I haven't read the changelog because I want to go in blind to any updates, but I'm constantly amazed by ConcernedApe.

One of my favourite things about Stardew Valley is seeing how different people play- I like having lists of things to do, but always celebrate the festivals and mingle with the townsfolk. My brother has spreadsheets on top of spreadsheets to min/max crop yields. And we both have a great time!
Air freight is phenomenally inefficient compared to rail.
Would you have a similar opinion of someone exposing themselves in person to your children? It's just human anatomy, after all.
The government in the U.S. literally requires these "non-jobs" to be advertised.
Call me when there’s a nix flake for it!
Facebook's algorithm is boosting AI spam
I appreciated finally having a seat at the table in regard to project decisions and team direction. I got to introduce a lot of ideas I had to improve developer experience and really went to bat for my team addressing the gripes I knew they had.

What I didn't like? Finding out "how the sausage was made." I found out very quickly that decisions weren't made on real metrics like we were always told. Everything was literally just "X screamed the loudest this week and I need to impress them for my next promotion so this is now a priority." In more than a few meetings I found out that a lot of the non-technical managers just looked at the dev team as an assembly line of labor to be pushed to the breaking point just so they could pretend the needle was moving (which often led to a lot of shoddy code that was just made to 'get it working now').

I made it a point to still be a hands on developer by taking non-critical path items on our projects... but even then I eventually had to step back for a while as I discovered in some orgs, any empty space on your calendar will be filled with another inane meeting where nothing is actually discussed or solved.

Going back to being a senior developer in a new org in a few weeks and looking forward to it. I am leaving my team in a good place, got a lot of farewell messages thanking me for always going to the mat for the team and showing them my appreciation even when upper management wanted me to chop heads off. I knew how hard they were working, the long hours they were putting in, and how exhausted they were.

I like leading and mentoring, but I will never ascribe to the school of dictatorial / machismo fear-based leadership. A good leader is a servant that reduces friction and clears the way. A good leader has empathy and compassion. My management above me wanted to beat that out of me and it left me burned out and exhausted. Don't sell your soul to the company... remember your team is made up of people.
2012. They had some M&M-like production leftovers.
Her being 15 doesn't stop me from thinking over five years is too much. What a weird argument to act like those are mutually exclusive.

That a pretty big fraction of what you'd get for murder.
"It's not clear when - or even if - the case will go to trial. But it's headed that way unless the platforms successfully appeal or settle the matter. The result could set a precedent that makes it harder to use Section 230 as a get-out-of-jail-free card for social media platforms - something that US officials have long tried to do."

They always settle.

Could also set a precedent that makes it _easier_ to get cases dismissed on Section 230, but "Big Tech" will settle for a larger amount than it costs to go to trial and get that result. Year after year they do this.
"Penicillium camemberti can produce the mycotoxin cyclopiazonic acid. However, it only produces a very small amount of this toxin, and it also prevents the growth of other undesirable molds."

"Cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) is a mycotoxin and fungal neurotoxin produced by the molds Aspergillus and Penicillium. It is a heavily substituted tetramic acid that can contaminate food sources, animal feeds, and agricultural commodities."
Claude Haiku.
I love the fact that the details of the photo were provided by a Russian. Are their archives of our nuclear tests better than ours?
This spam account needs to be banned.
Dictionary Based Attack macOS Tutorial for Dummies (Zsh)
This project focuses on the usage of Homebrew and Bettercap for launching a dictionary-based attack on a WiFi network, along with providing additional information such as downloading the tutorial, contributing guidelines, licensing, credits, and contact details.
>Competition necessitates excellence.

There is always room for competition.
Not his first time. He was already a registered sex offender. Seems he didn’t learn his lesson.
Young people becoming less happy than older generations, research shows
Because they're more expensive and inferior? There's a reason that ISRO's only launches in like the last 5 years are domestic launches, and two launches for a competitor to Starlink that needed an alternative after Russia invaded Ukraine (and ended up launching twice as many satellites with SpaceX regardless).