skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to go against the grain and say thank you to devices like the Flipper Zero for getting vulnerabilities like this out into the public eye for scrutiny.
Where does the model come from?
> How is booting your encrypted partition in a VM within Tails more secure than booting it directly?

There will be no proof of an operating system existing at all, just random data. If you use VeraCrypt along with a hidden partition normally, you would still have the VeraCrypt bootloader or an apparent Windows installation on the drive.
Hah, I saw this:

Steve was not a big fan of authority, so he also liked the idea of a site without editors.

and remembered him getting prod database access to censor comments criticizing him. I guess it's true what they say about power corrupting you.
I think that's a little unfair. The Dropbox comment was "it's absurd that people would need this consumer-friendly thing; just do [thing that only fairly-technical people could realistically accomplish]". This situation is "so-called easy-to-use consumer device is blocking you from doing something? here's an alternative that requires some technical know-how, but unfortunately there isn't a great solution here".
Well it is apparent that so many people got confused (me included) that it deservedly became part of the conversation.
I notice that the c version looks like it uses memcopy as a convoluted typecast from a pointer to text (presumably a postgres typedef?) to a pointer to char (null terminated?)? Could this actually have a purpose?

Ed: I don't think PG uses c strings? Looks like memcopy might be needed for call-by-reference, return-by-value - but not really in the simple function that only walks the array?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xfunc-c.html#XFUNC-C...
This sounds great.

In a past role, my job was to develop an immersive, online learning platform. We used Oculus Quest 2s to do foreign language training for DoD personnel. WebXR, Three.js, etc, because I had had enough Unity3D for one lifetime and we didn't want to submit to app store reviews. We had a fleet of our own devices, so it was fine.

One of the biggest challenges with the project was creating a workflow for didactic content. By myself. I had an employee who I supervised working for me, but most of the work was of such high technical level that it was way over their head and we couldn't afford to hire anyone else. I eventually landed on having our actual language instructors use PowerPoint to create PDFs, use a bespoke editor I created to upload the PDF into a content database and position them in the training environments, and then used PDFJS to render them to canvas elements to then texture on a 3D quad.

Something like this would have made it possible for me to avoid having people go out of band into PowerPoint to make those materials. The PowerPoint route did dramatically improve our workflow speed over a previous attempt to get people to author images in Photoshop. But if I could have built the "sign" editor into the app, it would have improved it even more by eliminating the "guess what will look good in the environment, export to PDF, upload to the database (oh, BTW, not a lot of people know how to keep files well organized), then find out how it really looks" cycle.

Oh well. We didn't have a business development team or market department that knew anything about selling products instead of services, so I guess the point is moot anyway.
Congratulations on the launch! I was unable to use this library: I was trying to evaluate different non-OpenAI models and it consistently failed due to malformed JSONs coming from the model.

Any thoughts about using different models? Is this just a langchain limitation?
Why is the opinion of people unfamiliar with the field of programming (i.e the majority outside hacker news) interesting?
Every Macbook or Macbook Pro I've had since ~2012 has had this issue. It doesn't present primarily as a "metallic taste", though. It's more of a barely perceptible tingle when my fingers touch the metal casing. It's especially noticeable when it's cold and when the ambient air is dry.

It only happens when I'm using the power brick with the two-prong "duckbill" plug; it doesn't happen with the old three-prong extension cable attached. From that, I assume it's a grounding issue.
I wasn't expecting it, it's on the front page of one of the world's leading news organizations. Their main competitor CNN only has racially motivated stories on their front page today.
This is the most plausible explanation I’ve come across. Thanks; the mystery was bugging me.
For some reason I am as bothered by the "feel good" posts as the nasty ones. I really can't put my finger on why, but that type of content really just rubs me the wrong way too.

For example, the top post on /r/all right now is:

>TIL that singer Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “bitch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bk944c/til_...

I mean... what? It obviously didn't influence him substantially, as he still used "bitch" in his songs. I just don't get the point of something like this. It doesn't make me feel good, it just makes me confused at why this is a popular post.
None of what you said is incorrect.
I don't think they are claiming that it was real money, but most people who weren't named Sam Bankman-Fried didn't know it was a scam.

I put my money into Vanguard ETFs. I think that's generally considered an OK thing to do. I might see my returns go up, and so I decide to remodel my kitchen. If it turned out that Vanguard was actually not doing what they claimed, and someone posts about how "paper wins inside a scam were never real money", well yeah, no shit, but I didn't know it was a scam.

If I had known that Gemini Earn was a scam, I don't think I would have given them my money.
I do that as well (Android user, so it's pretty much the default), but aside from not having to pay Google, there isn't a meaningful difference here: it's just trading one company's propriety cloud backup for another's.
Colluded? The parents were instrumental in the scheme. The father was the one to architect the legal structure to avoid regulation and the mothers connections to politicians kept the regulators from looking into FTX. Without them it wouldn't have been possible.

The parents had enough connections to get themselves out of jail by pinning all the blame on their son.
I live in NZ, there's no standard here. It's damned annoying. I've heard that Facebook Messenger is the most popular, but I only know one person who uses it and I don't have an account myself.
Im not conspiracy minded but if you go to the /r/Canada subreddit it is so ridiculously pro Pierre Poilievre that I think something is up.

Not a single one of the 3 parties in Canada have a likeable head, it's shocking to see the people on there go nuts for this random goon.
Does anyone have a similar solution for drawing graphs / charts in a Node environment without a browser dependency? Last time I explored this I couldn't find any good solutions.
Isn't the local equivalent of Reddit just NextDoor? Which seems to mostly be worse, from what I can tell.
React and MaterialUI enabled me, a great backend dev and terrible front end dev, to create the early versions of a front end for a product I’m working on.

It made front end approachable and for that I’m grateful.
Yes, but it depends. The PDF-viewer should have <a href> HTML markup to which link preview popups can attach. I know people have integrated Linkz.ai into the PDF.JS open source lib.
> i.e. the vastly-profitable Google couldn't add to or enhance the product while smaller, nimbler competitors were able to ...

The real reason is that Google's chart now looks like how Microsoft's used to be[1], while MS seems to have gotten better.

[1] https://i.insider.com/4e0b340dcadcbbdd35120000?width=1000&fo...
That is a significantly higher barrier than phishing.
Yes, I can't really fathom how much I've saved on fuel costs working remotely the past 15 years, it truly is astounding.
Taiwanese betrayal? I’m not sure I understand the reference.
I wonder if this will encourage people to buy even more stuff online, knowing that it'll be super convenient to return later on. Somehow I can't see how this doesn't lead to more waste of resources.

How about a platform that is in between people having bought the wrong thing and people wanting to buy the thing for a bit cheaper than new. I guess that's ebay.
It'd probably be hard to prove they were insiders.

However, this is exactly what RICO [0] was created to prosecute.

I'd assumed, given the sprawling nature of the case, FTX / SBF was already being charged under RICO. But maybe not?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Cor...
That's a completely different scenario and those IT departments already have their own mechanisms of enforcing lockdowns, they wouldn't want others to impose lockdowns on them (the administrators) too. For devs, such an Apple imposed lockdown on MacOS would destroy the Macbook's popularity, since it would regress and turn into a glorified ipad.
> Their idea was bad though. And since we thought then that we were funding ideas rather than founders, we rejected them

> ... we wanted to fund Steve and Alexis, so if their idea was bad, they'd have to work on something else

> There needed to be something like del.icio.us/popular, but designed for sharing links instead of being a byproduct of saving them. So I called Steve and Alexis and said that we liked them, just not their idea, so we'd fund them if they'd work on something else.

So PG is saying the seminal idea behind Reddit wasn't even conceived by the original founders? If so, it's not clear to me the post's concluding sentence ('Steve is not out of ideas yet') offers much solace.

But I disagree that the idea responsible for Reddit's success is link-sharing. I think Reddit's success has a lot more to do with the ease of creating a dedicated discussion forum for any given topic simply by navigating to `reddit.com/r/[topic]`. Wikipedia already uses this approach for article creation, but there wasn't anything like that for discussion forums (in the US at least[1])

[1] Baidu Tieba preceded Reddit by 2 years, and Reddit is commonly referred to in China as the 'American Tieba' (e.g.: https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2024-03-21/doc-inapaxhk7062...)
Why do you assume it must be driven by subsidies? Changes in demand can move the needle too, if our consumers prioritize domestic production it wouldn't matter if technically someone could import it for cheaper.

If you are going government intervention, they could reach for tariffs and import taxes rather than subsidies. Forcing prices high enough for domestic production is painful at first but would eventually work all the same.

I fully agree with you that too much of our current infrastructure is dependent on China and other countries. It isn't really a problem if we aren't concerned with major shocks though. It sounds like the difference is that I see the risks high enough to invest in domestic production if possible, you see that solution as unrealistic and that we're better off avoiding/preventing all shocks.
>He had a tendency to spend his free time with the same individuals who ended up doing phenomenally well.

There's a causal relationship here, but it's not obvious what direction it points.
Five years for "always will be" is above industry average. If you see "always", "perpetual license" for a good deal - expect 2-3 years of validity.
Totally procedural, but…

I wonder how they select a venue for these cases. Looks like it's being heard in New Jersey, even though the California attorney general is on board.

Since Apple is based in California, it seems like the case ought to default to being heard there. Would suck if you were a smaller company and had to pay to fly your legal team to wherever whim the DOJ selected, for however long a case takes to hear.
That's the thing most people have difficulty wrapping their head around. What you need to remember is it's not the structures evolving, it's the instructions evolving. If for example you have a small molecular pump that the cell uses to suck up sodium ions, and a mutation causes the part of the rotor sticking out of the cell to just be longer, which might be due to a single change to the gene controlling the length of the rotor, then congrats, you now have a shitty flagellum. The mutations don't even need to be useful for the eventual purpose. For example the highly dexterous fingers which enable complex tool use that humans used to conquer the world and with which I type this comment now started out as structural reinforcement for fish fins, absolutely useless for object manipulation. And those reinforcements in turn are just extremely bastardized version of a calcite growth which offered some protection to a soft body organism hundreds of millions of years before.
Apple could revoke Zoom's signing certificate, if they were discovered to be doing this.
These kinds of apps are becoming dime a dozen. It would be nice to know how this one differentiates itself. Not obvious from the website.
RaveForce is awesome, you have a new GitHub star! Glicol is fascinating, but to be honest I'm not sure what the use case for writing music with code is? Please follow up since I'm curious to learn more. RAVE VST is also awesome, I played around with it a lot when it first came out.

I 100% agree with your point about Suno AI. If you're an amateur you want to be able to have the ability to control and change the output, otherwise how can you call the music your own? If you're a professional, without the ability to control you can never achieve your specific goals! This is why we feel confident in our musician-first approach.

WRT Midi generation we are absolutely considering it, but we don't think we can really offer anything unique there. We believe our ability to create natural sounding instruments is key to enabling the creation of all genres of music. With that said though, the ability to generate MIDI is #1 on our Canny board so maybe that should be next :)

Our text-to-sound model takes roughly 10 seconds to generate, and our Infinite Sample Packs are instant since we pre-compute output to hide latency.

Thank you for your thoughtful questions!
FWIW, I have a colleague who worked at an office collaboration software firm that applied a "no company tech into China" to everyone.
I hope WhatsApp is the past and RCS is the future.

Insane to me the amount of WhatsApp evangelism I read on this site. Sure, let's trade international protocols for Zuckerware. What could go wrong?

SMS/RCS are flawed but can be improved. Advocating instead for Meta-produced software is irresponsible and reckless IMO.
Most of this sounds like the DOJ doesn't understand the tech at all.

iMessage is an Apple service, created as a way to provide additional value to people on Apple platforms so that they aren't limited by SMS. The DOJ argument appears to be "oh, you made a better mousetrap, and now you have to let people outside your platform use it." Why? What's the rational argument there?

They then extend that argument to the watch, which is just bananas. It's designed to work with one set of platforms. The tightly coupled nature of Watch/Phone/Mac provides benefits, but Apple is never going to open the technical kimono up to Samsung (e.g.) watches to use the same hooks, and they shouldn't be required to do so.
WebKit is also open source. https://webkit.org/
Looks great! It has lsp support for code completion? Supports C++?
There's a AI powered devtool in this idea somewhere
Superconductivity researcher found to have committed misconduct
> This should be on the scale of the Manhattan Project or the Inflation Reduction Act.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/aoc-sanders-unveil-... ("AOC, Sanders unveil ‘Green New Deal’ for housing")

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018e-5eee-d570-adaf-fefe1...
Are you suggesting your Mom has/would have the same experience on macOS? For whatever reason it doesn't seem to be as much of an issue.

It probably doesn't need to be as cumbersome as a jailbreak. Maybe it's just a "Allow apps not approved by Apple" toggle hidden deep in the settings. I actually would love the ability to set "IT administrator account" on device setup. Then mom can't even change the setting without notifying "dmix" :)
I don't know much about it, but I think this has been tried?

https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/

Looking at the repo though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.
You can save your workspace (state) in R. It's generally bad practice to do so.

R is VERY VERY good at handling tabular data. Python can get kind of close with Pandas but IMO, it's still more awkward than base R data frames and way worse than data.table.

R also has a lot of built-ins geared for statistics and built by statisticians. If you're do it statistics there's value in not having to find a library or libraries that do that.
It is. That's why I do all of my banking on iOS.
They're also not the best for firmware putting it mildly.

They don't have much of an engineering org anymore, they're just a marketing brand that white boxes contracted out designs.
Good idea on communicating ROI this way. I have not though about it.

As for casual bloggers, there is a "free" version. But message me through the chat on Linkz.ai, I'll do a special plan for casual HN bloggers :)
Thank you for asking this question.

To answer this question, I will explain two directions of Ragas.

The first one is the horizontal expansion of the library which involves features like

- Giving you the ability to use any LLMs instantly without any hassle

- Asynchronous evaluations, integrations with tracing tools, etc

- Automatic support to adapt metrics to any language

The second is vertical expansion or adding more core features like metrics to Ragas which includes.

- Synthetic test data generation: this is something that is heavily loved by our community so we are continuously improving the quality of it. https://docs.ragas.io/en/stable/concepts/testset_generation....

Now, as we expand in both directions we aim to solve the problem of how to evaluate and test compound systems. Now, to solve this we will be innovating and working on features like feedback utilization, automatically synthesizing assertions, etc to solve this hard problem.

I hope I was able to answer your question. Would love to discuss more.
Which majors have you gotten into for each?
There are plenty of junk apps in the App Store now. Apple does a good job marketing trustworthiness, but having competing app stores may at least get them to put more effort into backing it up.
This is widely accepted business theory. It’s hard to innovate when you depend on suppliers external to you for key technology.
I see it as Apple allowing a facade around their browser. You can't really call Chrome on iOS as "Chrome" if it's still just Safari under the hood. It's like putting Ferrari body on a 2010 Honda frame. Is it a "Ferrari" or is it really a "Honda"?

No, I do not think it's fair to say that Apple allows other browsers, and neither does the DOJ.
Can it transfer the photos you have in iCloud? Or the passwords that Apple will “conveniently” store in its internal password manager? Or the bookmarks you have on safari? Or the messages you have on iMessage? Or the notes you have saved in your phone? Or the reminders you have set up? Or the alarms that you have?

I also recently switched from Android to iPhone. There was also an app that automated a lot of it. But there are a ton of tiny things that build up and lock you in to a platform. And they’re all marketed as helpful little addons! Why not backup your pictures to iCloud or get more storage space? It’s great in theory, but it makes that transition so much harder. It’s funny too, I’m actually very unhappy with my iPhone and want to switch back to an android, but I’m waiting. Why? Because it took me like 3 days to fully switch all my stuff over the first time and I don’t feel like going through that again.
Instagram is also full of these scam ads, and they remove maybe 1 in 20 I report. Many of them are obviously fake or hacked accounts, e.g. having "Nail Salon" as the business type on their profile, but their posts are promising $$$ if you have an account on Binance.
That means I cannot install uBlock origin and other extensions on FF, so we can call it one way or the other, but it's restricting.
> unless the framework re-implement everything itself

In which case, we're able to make an "inspect element" tool, which we could use to copy text out, and at the very least draw black rectangles on top of adverts. https://xkcd.com/2677/
Game code tech debt has some of the juiciest, hackiest tech debt out there. LoL is no exception there, some crazy gremlins that they've talked about publicly.

Invisible minions/NPCs isn't unique to LoL either, that's a tried and true hack / tech debt thing. To the point where I question if it's even debt anymore. See e.g. WoW and invisible bunnies (https://kotaku.com/the-invisible-bunnies-that-power-world-of...).

I like the 3 metrics of tech debt here.
Phones are unique in the consumer space because of how thoroughly they can restrict end user usage. Once you buy an iPhone you can use it physically as a hammer if you wish, but if you want to digitally use a non-Apple wallet then you are restricted. Most consumer goods don't behave this way; my TV lets me watch anything I input into it, my bike lets me ride to wherever a pedal to, my vacuum lets me clean my counter if I want it to. Consumers are choosing a desirable physical good with undesirable digital restrictions. Apple is flexing its hardware power to its advantage and end user's disadvantage in software.
The only open question (in my mind) is if Google's E2EE extension is intrinsically tied to Jibe. If it wasn't designed to eventually become part of the RCS standard, it could be real messy trying to open it up after the fact while remaining security.
I’m sorry that happened. I didn’t mean for my reply to be so dismissive.

I was trying to make the point that compensating scam victims based on the asset value that was claimed by the scammers (rather than the money put in by the victims) would be very difficult in the general case.

Imagine a pyramid scheme that promises 50% daily returns, and shows you the gains on a website. You can only get some of that money out when you’ve recruited N people as investors. Everyone at the bottom of the pyramid is seeing a massive paper gain when the scheme collapses. There might not be enough money in the world to compensate them for the asset value they imagined.

FTX was a milder version of the same because they showed users asset values but didn’t actually have matching backing assets. (Yes, banks do this too, in the sense that they don’t hold cash to account for the sum of all balances. That’s why they are so heavily regulated.)
You didn't read him correctly; he's not saying Blackwell is AGI. I believe that he's saying that perhaps Blackwell could be computationally sufficient for AGI if "used correctly."

I don't know where that "computationally sufficient" line is. It'll always be fuzzy (because you could have a very slow, but smart entity). And before we have a working AGI, thinking about how much computation we need always comes down to back of the envelope estimations with radically different assumptions of how much computational work brains do.

But I can't rule out the idea that current architectures have enough processing to do it.
Can one write a tree-sitter grammar for English (or any other natural language), that basically labels each sentence as a statement, so I can use difftastic to show changes on sentences rather than visual lines?

This is because visual line diffs for an essay is bonkers. Usually the sentence changed starts in the middle of a visual line.
SpaceX planning rapid turnaround for next Starship flight