skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess, with AT&T being an enormous and ancient corporation long past it's glory days, is that internally its a stale mess serviced by people unwilling to dive into it.

The breach did happen, but things under the hood are so bad that they have no idea it happened. The layers of incompetence and don't-give-a-fuck completely obscure the evidence. The IT team, staffed mostly by young green cards who weren't even in this country 3 years ago, stare blankly at AT&T's internal auditing system developed in the 90's with a long dead and strictly proprietary language. Doesn't matter because the system didn't even catch the breach anyway. As you move up the chain, people just get more divorced from reality as they live in the delusion of AT&T still being a forefront technology company. So of course the breach didn't happen to them.

At least that it my theory.
You can absolutely solve 1000 captchas in a day. If we say it takes 10 seconds on average to solve a captcha, that’s 10.000 seconds for 1000 captchas, or just under 3 hours.
Can't someone feel good that they dodged a bullet that another person was not willing to dodge?

That's whats going on here. OP isn't going to a buffet and mocking starving kids - both folks were intelligent people, one of whom is justifying their life trajectory, and the other is taking a different tack.

I bet you'd be able to conjure up instances where you go "whew I'm glad I didn't do what that person did". We all can. That's not reveling in their misfortune, it's learning.
Globs are a thing?
> Yes, we are aware of typst. I think it’s cool, but C++ hasn’t replaced C, Rust hasn’t replaced C++, Typst is unlikely to replace LaTeX. Likewise, many are aware of LuaTeX, but, again, the entrenching of a 40-odd year system is not to be underestimated. I am rooting for typst, anyway, and hope it finds its place.

Well here's the process I went through in the last few years:

I found out about LuaTeX, saw it was supposed to replace pdfTeX and thought the future of TeX was bright.

Then I saw the continued efforts in LaTeX3 and thought that was weird and wasteful: code now looks even worse with all \ExplSyntaxOn ... \ExplSyntaxOff sections and the new command syntax like \exp_args:Ne. If you're going to have a mix of two languages anyway, it makes much more sense for the second language to be a a minimal but real programming language like Lua.

Then the LuaTeX devs moved their efforts to LuaMetaTeX and I found myself scratching my head.

Then I spent some time with typst. Now I don't care what happens in TeX land... The experience with typst is incomparably better, and the pace of development is high in both the core language and the ecosystem. Features that took a decade to be fleshed out in LaTeX are sprouting like mushrooms in typst. It's not a fair fight.

The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and gatekeeping publishers, I know it's a matter of time.
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Well, and add to that the fact that it's probably not clear what all these expensively-trained and equipped physicists should be working on. That may not be totally fair but you essentially have a large subset of scientific academia that has very little idea of how to go forward.
The 4% rule is from the Trinity Study, which was based on a 15-30 year retirement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study

For an indefinite time period you'd need a 3-3.5% inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate depending on how many 9s you want in the portfolio survival rate.
Not much details in the original source:

> Additionally, companies in the technology industry own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. For example, on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims. As we face increasing competition and become increasingly high profile, the possibility of receiving more intellectual property claims against us grows.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...
> Yes, we are aware of typst. I think it’s cool, but C++ hasn’t replaced C, Rust hasn’t replaced C++, Typst is unlikely to replace LaTeX. Likewise, many are aware of LuaTeX, but, again, the entrenching of a 40-odd year system is not to be underestimated. I am rooting for typst, anyway, and hope it finds its place. A good place to start would be to provide a compilation toolchain from typst to TeX, if they really want to replace TeX.

Pandoc[0] can convert Typst to LaTeX.

IMO If you are able to write in Typst, write in Typst, it's so much better and readable. Your final LaTeX3 macro are hard to read and difficult to parse with the eyes... Also Typst is easier to learn.

[0] -- https://pandoc.org/try/
If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.
One of the main goals of GrapheneOS is to release security updates as soon as possible, so if it's patched upstream GrapheneOS almost surely includes the patch.

Sometimes they even adopt pre-release AOSP security patch levels or backport security fixes from unreleased AOSP or kernel sources.
It was fun until I split "Latitude" and it gave me "Lat" and "itude"! Nice implementation though.
I think what AT&T is saying is that it wasn't taken from AT&T servers. Rather, AT&T gave the data to some third-party data-processor (i.e. to some ad company), and that company then lost it.

... Honestly, that shouldn't really make us feel any better about them though, like why would AT&T give out data that includes SSNs to third-party data-processors.
Well, there aren't hundreds or thousands of authors writing autogenerated stories with as many names and plot elements as possible, then using anyone who uses the name "john" or a plot twist in their own creations.

In other words, the trolling issue is not occurring in book writing as it appears to in patenting.

Oh, and you do see people here criticizing the length of copyright protection in the US.
I still wonder why anyone would create such awful grammar for a programming language. Considering LaTeX's initial release was 40 years ago, there were certainly other programming languages from which to draw inspiration.

And I certainly don't believe that LaTeX DSL was the most suitable solution for solving typesetting problems.
>> > where the people speak a language that is not English

> How would that be relevant...?

私の懸念は、私が同意しないことと、一次資料のレビューには障壁があることです。グーグル翻訳でも。
Reblog of a better article on https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/18/do-not-update-macos-son...
In The Netherlands you can remove asbestos yourself and bring it to the local trash collection and recycling center for free. You do have to get a permit (free, but takes a few days) and follow some simple guidelines for handling and packaging. But, this applies only to private homeowners.

In my case, my house had a facade made of aluminium frames with prefab slabs slotted in. The slabs had a layer of asbestos on the inside. I just slotted the slabs out, packaged them in two layers of plastic and took them to the recycling center.
A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool!

A similar spirit to projects like https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/ , but this has a lot more useful detail.

The ripgrep author has a blog post on performance and benchmarking that is an interesting read in itself: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
"Developper Experience", eg good developper tools / libs
Still massively prefer it to Windows when those are the only two choices (picking a work computer).

Apple has been fucking these updates up more often than they used to though, that’s for sure. They’re still just a tech company behind all the fancy marketing sheen. Disappointing, but not surprising.
Yup, the execution is insanely difficult. To make an analogy to golf - the best strategy is to hit the ball 300 yards down the fairway, hit the approach shot on the green close to the hole, and then make the putt.
I failed this twice. Wasn't there an article on HN a few months ago about how AI was already better than us at these captchas?
And not surviving would.be the best outcome in a large number of cases.
That floppy eject mechanism was top notch
What do you mean no consequences? Haven't you heard they use this data to manipulate public opinion to push certain political agendas? And that is just one example of the tip of the iceberg. Information is power. They are not collecting it just for fun.
This is expected as OSS developers are, for the most part, amateurs. Nobody is paying them for their work. They're not professionals, so one shouldn't expect professional behavior. It's not even bush league. Once they graduate from high school or college and write software for a living (if they get there), their standards will improve. Of course, at that point they don't really have time to contribute to OSS anymore. So it's all n00bs, all the time.
if you aren't paying for it then you are the product being sold
Can you explain how this is supposed to work? Wouldn't basic prompting and few-shot style examples handle this with something like "That's off topic, sorry"? Is the fact that this is the first line of Macbeth supposed to trip up LLMs but not humans?
"make your own ad bureau" was the remedy suggested when this shoe was on the other foot, politically.
GPU hardware is crawling with bugs. Hardware is only re-spun for things that cannot be worked around in the driver at an acceptable cost. That approach is possible because GPUs do not allow relatively direct hardware access like CPUs do.
I'd like to push back on this sort of gently but in a few ways.

1. Scientists are entirely human. Sometimes I think people expect more from both science and scientists. In the end, getting knowledge is hard. I have a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Epistemology which I keep on my night stand and every once and awhile it amuses me to read the first few chapters the upshot of which is "Fuck, we don't know how we know anything, really." Science works by having lots of unfruitfrul research programs. I won't say that research programs don't get "pathological" from time to time, in the sense that more energy is invested in them than it should be, but this is often only really discernible in retrospect. Even if a naysayer turns out to be right after a program has been explored, it doesn't mean that the naysayer was justified before the cards were all on the table.

2. Whether we like it or not, the search for truth is a practical matter, involving courting reputation, earning research money, winning war of ideas. This isn't so much new as it is profoundly more democratic than it used to be. Newton was famous for aggressively defending his reputation, to the point of arguably claiming to have invented things that he did not. Now we just have many, many, many more humans involved in science.
> the best governance should take into account system scope or level for that competition. Are you competing at the level of hotel rooms and restaurants within a hotel, at the level of hotels, at the neighborhoods clusters of hotels are in, at sectors of ecosystems like hotels versus transportation versus other people uses of land and resources

I think there's competition at all of those levels, and that's a good thing.
And Beyond, (but not too far beyond)
If you're traveling near Dayton Ohio or near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ever I HIGHLY recommend visiting the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

They have a XB-70 on display and it's amazing how large the plane is! There's also a pretty good documentary on it from Discovery's "Great Planes" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2158498/) if you want to nerd out.

It was definitely ahead of it's time.
>> I'm not sure how likely it is that any of them will see humans walk the Moon again.

> There’s a good chance some or all 7 will see people walk on the moon

Chance that a 88 year old male will live 6 more years is about 27% according to the tables [1]

So, a chance that at least one of those 7 lives 6 more years is about 89% (a bit less because some are older than 88), but that is the ballpark figure

I would call that more than a good chance :)

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Seems that Zeabur reallocates AWS resources and it helps small teams and startup projects to save money. Sort of a full stack alternative to vercel.com.
Ok since these types of threads are typically filled with complaints, just to add another data point: I’ve upgraded last week and have not experienced any problems at all.

And yes, I’m using USB hubs, printers and even Java.
Why? To any of this?

If you aren't fixing/investigating the problem, why get in the way of the people who are on the basis of trust issues, or some ICs idea of what's "good for a incident"?
I think we're talking about different types of multiplexing. Are you referring to the browser domain connection limit? HTTP/2 does essentially solve that.

I'm referring to opening multiple data streams on a single connection, which is very useful in a number of contexts. This is supported by HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, but it's only exposed directly to the browser runtime through WebTransport.
I experienced this for the first time a couple of weeks ago - the uncanny valley of conversation. Some customer service bots do so little they're nothing more than a serial form, one textbox at a time. But My most recent encounter - I still can't decide whether it was human or trained software - a weird experience - very uncanny.
Because when the world blows up, people need someone to step in and get the system going again. If they don't it will take forever to get the economy going again.

See the GFC as an example. The US economy was about to implode, but the govt stepped in and said, heck no, not on my watch and fixed it. Instead of taking many many decades to right itself, we did it in 1 and the US govt made a nice profit to boot.

A counter point is Japan, they chose not to fix their capital markets and it's 30+yrs later and they finally are getting back on track.
Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX
Hi HN!

We’re Ulysse and Ned from Okapi. We’re making a modern CRM. It's kind of like if Airtable/Notion built Salesforce today. https://okapicrm.com

When I was fresh out of college, working for startups, Salesforce was this big mystery to me. It's the perpetual second screen for everyone in sales. They were building this gigantic obelisk downtown. What was this thing? And why did every salesperson I knew seem to live in it all day, and yet hate it so much?

Turns out Salesforce is basically PhpMyAdmin for salespeople. It's just basically two things:

1. A really generic database, and a UI for CRUDing your data.

2. An API and ecosystem of integrations.

In other words, it's the back-office CRUD app to end all back-office CRUD apps. People call the result a "CRM" (Customer Relationship Management).

Salesforce is slow and clunky. And that doesn’t matter because people don’t buy Salesforce to be delighted. They buy Salesforce to avoid being screwed over.

SObjects are how Salesforce does that. It’s the best idea Salesforce ever had: make everything in your product be built upon a generic data layer that your users can configure. Just like how you can add a new sheet or column in a spreadsheet, in Salesforce you can add new objects and fields. You can CRUD, report on, and do automations on top of custom data in exactly the same way you do it for built-in data.

The graveyard of wannabe Salesforces is littered with people who forgot about this key insight.

We think the way you win in CRM in 2024 is by keeping the flexibility of SObjects, and then tacking on modern UX. That first part takes engineering discipline, but the second part is much easier than Salesforce had it 25 years ago. Just about every part of a modern SaaS product has dozens of vendors that do most of the work for you.

We're really excited to get feedback from HN on what we have. Here’s a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uRBf_9CRyM - and you can try it yourself:

https://app.okapicrm.com

Email: hn.login.user@okapicrm.com

Password: sk9ueEAfhXP9j4cuxLCVmw7.

You can test out our email integration, send an email to: hn.demo@okapicrm.com

And see that email (up to ~10min latency): https://app.okapicrm.com/objects/emails/records

We’re very eager for your honest feedback. What do you think we're missing? One thing we can’t decide if it’s a need-to-have is Apex -- is having in-transaction custom scripting really necessary for a CRM? Or is that just something they tacked on as Salesforce became more of an app platform and less of a focused CRM product?
If this is true, and they sent SSN willingly to random third parties, they should be forced to pay for a decade of credit monitoring.
It is not just the mechs that make it special

It is the combination of having to play as pilot, when you are small and nimble but fragile, AND as mech, when you are big and clumsy but durable and powerful.
> 10^36 yr lifetime [1] which is within experimental reach.

For this might want to assume that for each proton its lifetime is a random variable that obeys a Poisson process.

That's asking a LOT, might be seen as putting some severe constraints on what is going on with a proton and its internals.
These physicists aren't that expensive, in the grand scheme.
One problem with Qt is that some modules are under the GPL and it is easy to end up inadvertently with a GPL dependency.
Also it seems the Qt company makes it confusing on purpose.
One percenters are people too
Needs a "Put Shoe on Head" and "Banana for Scale" options. On second thought, don't offer the banana one...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/put-shoe-on-head
Don't forget the 24GB P40, which is a third the speed but also a third the cost if a 3090 (both used).
> Is there really room for AI in medical imaging?

Sure, there are many applications and more coming. In your example of an actual result as is found in this body, the image segmentation [0] and recognition task is applicable.

One of the bullet points in the above is "Intra-surgery navigation." Let's say there is a known position of a tumor within an organ based on previous imaging. The human body is squishy and interior organs may shift in position or shape when a procedure is performed. Deformable image registration [1] guides the surgeon (human or robot) to the tumor location with greater precision than what was possible before.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_segmentation

1. https://paperswithcode.com/paper/voxelmorph-a-learning-frame...
Most of the increased average life expectancy during the 20th century came from lower mortality rates for kids. Life expectancies for the over-20 crowd hardly budged (and might even be decreasing in the US).
Which means, if it was a human, they were probably acting robotic because they're just going through a script on their side.
My upgrade to Monterey (MacOS 12.x) broke my Canon D530 printer driver. Re-installing the driver didn't help. Now I have to print to a PDF, copy that to an old Snow Leopard 10.6 machine, and print from there. FYI, Snow Leopard is 11 major OS revisions behind Monterey. Printing worked fine in Mohave, 3 major revisions ago.

I also can't write any files to /, even with SIP disabled, and during the Monterey upgrade, Apple deleted all files and directories in / that they didn't recognize, including my system backup. I had to recover that from Backblaze. Can't say I'm a fan of recent MacOS. If you think you are in control of your Apple machine, think again.
This sounds fantastic and very much needed!
aka The Everything's Okay Alarm
The Infinite Craft game was sending queries up to ChatGPT to make the new items, if I recall correctly. This one is happening so quickly it must be happening locally. Is that right? Is it using a local Javascript LLM?
Aren't LLMs still bad with letters inside words and such?
It's a reverse centaur:

> AI researchers talk about "centaurs" – machine-human collaborative teams that outperform either computers or people. The greatest chess players in the world are collaborations between chess-masters and chess software.

> But not all centaurs are created equal. A "reverse centaur" is what happens when a human is made to assist a machine, rather than the other way around.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex
A lot of us didn't grow up with ticks but have moved to places like the Bay Area where we do get them.

I think this serves as a good reminder that folks should be aware of common tick procedures like checking at the end of a walk if you have any and knowing how to remove them carefully (you don't just pull them, you have to get the mouthpiece out - tweezers are recommended).

I've already had a tick bite this year from a walk in Marin county which is quite early. Fortunately, I felt it bite me and was able to remove it quickly.

It's also worth noting you can get ticks tested for Lyme disease but it's about $40.
You're reasoning about an economics thought experiment, not real situations. An exploitative industry in an underdeveloped region is not an idealized free market where individuals voluntarily choose based on enlightened self-interest between working or starving. As a starting point for understanding the nuance, consider what the owner might do with its profits.
Groupon founder's farewell letter to employees (2013)
The only issue though is that Qt does not agree that mobile apps on app stores can use LGPL license due to anti-tivotization clause. Nevertheless they do have a somewhat reasonable pricing for small business of 500$ per year.
LLM Agents powered with metacognition that can adjust their strategy over time
It's a great city with a beautiful history. Sadly, over the past 10 years, it's been turned into a gentrified Wild West LARPing ground for Austin influencers. Housing has become egregious, and it has lost its local charm because of the influx of visitors. Most businesses are no longer locally owned.
A lot depends on exactly this, and what types of applications or features the developer org is responsible for building.

IaC could be useful if you're constantly spinning up new standardized apps, but if you're looking to increase deployment velocity it's not going to do much.
Why on earth would you expect something literally called "currency" to have any longitudinal attribute in time? Currency is meant to be used immediately. That's it's entire value proposition, as the lubricant of trade. If your time horizon is longer, you shouldn't be holding your assets in currency.
A nice intro to making macros, which is one of the most powerful parts of LaTeX indeed.

Autoref itself seems a fine way of messing up your references and making your source code less readable. The beauty of naming is that you have the context at hand. Moving around blocks of text, or adding and removing text, happens throughout the process. With autoref, you now have to remember to _sometimes_ update the refs or get subtly different references. I wouldn't trust myself to get that right.
Exactly - robotic human, or human robot.
I actually think you missed something, but it also depends on which cut of the movie you saw.
The article itself is great.

> I will remove the second sentence towards this goal

Your critic decided their negative emotions about a miniscule matter are more important than the actual contents of your post and worthy of derailing the conversation. And then they called you rude.

There is really no need to cater to such people. It obviously has zilch to do with you in actuality.