skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely admit I dont know all the fine points (I'm a diesel engine mechanic by trade) but ive worked on large diesels for tankers. Theyre a mechanical Goliath, and they cost nearly as much as the tanker. The shipyard that contracted us frequently ganged engines together to a single controls system from Siemens/Fischer or part of a larger command system with a small "service mode" override you could patch a laptop into for diagnostics. Newer ships just send that diag data straight to us over satellite or wifi (sending techs is costly)

Also another problem I noticed is the engines are often on the ships controls (network maybe?) As the manufacturer name. Something like MANN1 and MANN2 or MITSU1 is a dead giveaway: thats propulsion.
That suggests that no statistical method could ever recover hidden representations though. And that’s patently untrue. Taken to its greatest extreme you shouldn’t even be able to guess between two mixed distributions even when they have wildly non-overlapping ranges. Or put another way, all of statistical testing in science is flawed.

I’m not saying you believe that, but I fail to see how that situation is structurally different from what you claim. If it’s a matter of degree, how do you feel things change as the situation becomes more complex?
> First, "manually control" engines and rudder isnt a thing.

I think you're taking "manually control" a little literally here. Based on the other comments I saw that used this phrase (or roughly similar phrases), it didn't sound like they expected a crew to strap a rope to the rudder and start pulling.

It sounded more like a way to physically disconnect everything "smart" in the event that it became compromised, and have a way to interact manually with the rudder (now air-gapped) via dumb electronics (probably integrated circuits and an analog pid system) would meet their criteria.

That may or may not be possible for various reasons on modern ships, but what's being implied in this comment doesn't seem to be being suggested.
Victim Impact Statements:

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...
Seems like a dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857837
Yes, because Circle will either start using whitelists at which point it will shrink to the point where competition is trivial or it'll just shut down completely. If for some reason there's massive demand in the next decade for sub-minute international money transfers then surely CashApp will get back on that. There's just not, existing slower solutions work fine in most cases and not enough people need something better.

Also important to emphasize, I know I said it'll be outcompeted by a centralized solution. But actually USDC is centralized because it has a multisig, and all of its contracts are 100% upgradeable. So it's like a very inefficient centralized solution that really doesn't belong on a blockchain or at least not a popular one with high fees. But again, DeFi protocols exist, and people want to swap USDC for crypto hedge funds to frontrun.
I get the malware-infection potential, but it's still blows my mind that the fake package wasn't caught earlier by the actual users. All those downloads and nobody wondered why X feature that depends on it wasn't working? Whatever happened to testing things and having decent coverage?
> ...which I know for certain the serious hams would report within hours.

In reality this is a myth. There are very few people who go to this length. And even the serious Hams will need some serious gear (e.g. KrakenSDR) to pinpoint quickly. Lots of Hams take themselves way too seriously. Folks like NotARubicon on YouTube do a good job of calling it like it is.
Now that I've tried Javascript, I could branch out to other languages in the future. I chose Javascript initially for its popularity and easy use on web browsers.
Other examples include Xerox and Kodak.

I also wonder if it has happened in the past, with a subsequent recovery, to some American car companies? GM pre-2008 perhaps?
If this is a problem the UK government should ask for their money back and the developer should ask their college for their money back. The only useful property of the barcode is verifiability and its not hard to avoid this problem.
> It is unethical, creepy, and offensive.

If it's limited to traditional customer service roles (which aren't allowed to deviate from a script), I honestly don't understand how this would be any more unethical or creepy than it already was to begin with. The experience is a lot like interacting with an LLM chatbot today, except somehow even more creepy because you know it's a human behind the phone.

I don't really have a stake in this because I know customer service is going in the shitter either way. But I do find it interesting how people perceive the progression.
Very impressive reference. Well done.

But... is it classy?
If you park your car on the side of the road, that also doesn't allow anyone to do with it what they please

If you write an article and post it on your blog, people can't just come along and take the text verbatim

If you license your blog as public domain, then someone takes the content and does something objectionable with it, you can (in many countries) still make use of moral rights if you'd wish to correct the situation

If I post something publicly on a forum, I'm well aware I may have agreed or consented (depending on the forum) to terms that allow this type of processing, but that is not the default. There exist restrictions, both legally and morally (some legal ones are even called moral rights and are inalienable). Hence my question how this plugin handles extending the allowed data processing to cover taking the content and making automated decisions and claims that may or may not be accurate. I would not be comfortable with that being an automated behind-the-scenes process flagging my posts as good or bad towards the moderators, since they likely won't care to read back hundreds of comments and see whether the computer did a good job
Do you have a reference on “random linear projections as memorization”? I know random projections quite well but haven’t seen that connection.
How well does it handle having repeating collections, or complex state interactions that something like React can handle beautifully. Or reactivity (for example a feed of live production system information updating a display with lists if controls with buttons and actions that depend on that state)?

If you answer “brilliantly” I am genuinely curious to give it a go!
The author knows, it's just a bit of fun. Read the page.
Too much acceleration and far too high a mass, as confirmed by the accident statistics. Tesla routinely leads the pack.
I like the theory someone else offered of other people "using up" the numbers o pre-existing stamps which would be feasible if the numbers were predictable.
I wholeheartedly agree. We live in a world where the value of everything must be justified on a regular basis. The fundamental challenge with research is that it’s inherently risky, yet research institutions are expected to demonstrate “impact” (a.k.a. papers, patents, and $$$) on a regular basis in order to stay funded. This pressure is passed down from the shareholders and executives to middle management (or, in an academic context, the administration and tenured faculty evaluating non-tenured faculty and staff), who then passes it on to the researchers.

I apologize if I come off as bitter, but as someone who got into research because I was inspired by reading about people like Dennis Ritchie, Alan Kay, and many other researchers from the previous generation, it’s a shame what science has become, but it’s a reflection of our society where the worth of persons and individuals is quantified in terms of money, and where anything that’s not perceived as making money is denigrated (such as the liberal arts).
LSP (Language Server Protocol) a way for editors to talk to language tools to provide auto complete, warnings errors etc. this means the language tools can be written once and then any editor that has LSP support can use it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol
As a former Expo employee and someone who took a run at this space (moxie) before running out of steam, it’s really exciting to hear this is the approach you’re taking! I’ll be keeping an eye out :).
How quickly do GTOs burn through rubber if one drives like a teenager? Same thing with similar behavior an EV. Saying it's a defect is a bit silly.
I don't recall this potential bombshell (maybe because it was shortly before a Christmas, and the NYT headline looked like just more of the same ol'):

> And in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

2018-12-18 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/report-facebook-...

2018-12-18 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
I appreciate this reply, thanks!
As always with Molly White, this is a good, thoughtful summary. But I'm particularly struck by SBF's lack of remorse.
if you have a lead foot, torque will absolutely munch rubber. And even more so on a heavy chassis.

My motorcycle tires last about 6 track days, on a 400lb bike. (that accelerates to as fast as 130mph and then decelerates to as slow as 15mph about 45 times an hour for 8 hours per track day...)
Eating some chocolate might be good for you – here's the research
Grok-1.5
> Virtually everyone I know my age (from the US) has been to Europe multiple times.

I hate to tell you this, but your experiences may not generalize.
But racist white supremacists like Elon Musk blamed it on "DEI" (which is their new dog whistle for the n-word). Same thing they say caused a container ship to hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

‘A Black guy’ didn’t cause Boeing’s midair blowout. Capitalism did:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/boeing-airplane-safety-dei-...

Baltimore mayor claims 'racist' critics use 'DEI' instead of N-word to attack him:

https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/baltimore-mayor-claims...

>"Listen, I know and we all know and you know very well that Black men and young Black men in particular have been the boogeyman for those who are racist and think that only straight wealthy white men should have a say in anything," Scott said. "What they mean by DEI, in my opinion, is duly elected incumbent. We know what they want to say but they don’t have the courage to say the N-word."

>Scott was elected in 2020 with 70% of the popular vote. He is one among five mayors of color to have led the city since 2007. Over 60% of Baltimore residents are Black, according to Census data.

Lyman blames DEI for Baltimore bridge collapse, but admits he didn’t write social media post:

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/03/27/utah-governor-candid...

>Utah Republican Phil Lyman, an outgoing state representative and current gubernatorial candidate, suggested diversity, equity and inclusion programs were to blame, at least in part, for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday.
...what are you comparing to?
> It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living organisms, it still takes Edgar 54 days to do the same. Extracting metals from humans can't be the most efficient - or even in the top 100 of most efficient, likely - way to get metals. So why would Edgar do that?

Well, it doesn't include decimal points. One of those may be 54.0314 days and the other may be 54.0312 days; obviously the latter is preferable.
The spread of organic farms may prompt growers to use more pesticide, not less
Apparently the newer ones are significantly improved. https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/baofeng-spectral-p...
I looked into it more. Caresoft CEO did an interview with Autoline and in the interview he confirmed they spent 200,000 man hours on this. Reason they put so much effort into it is because there is several Chinese companies that are paying them to learn about these methods before Tesla actually implements them.
> You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it

False. You can't leak a user's data if you never have it to begin with. If you process it, you are at risk of leaking it.
What sound does a magpie make? That depends on what's within swooping range
> but at the end of the day, nobody has died on an American carrier in a Boeing plane in a very long time.

This is coincidental. When the plug ripped out of the plane over Portland, it was pure luck that no one was sitting in that row. The seats were shredded. If someone had been sitting there, they also would have been shredded.

Boeing and their deteriorated quality culture is directly at fault for that one, and the only thing that prevented a fatality is a coincidence of seating arrangement.

As far as I'm concerned, that resets their safety clock.

If a new 737 were to literally disintegrate in midair, but by pure happenstance it was entirely staffed and occupied by skydivers wearing parachutes and as a result no one dies, that also shouldn't be handwaved off as "oh nobody has died in a long time" just because luck prevented an otherwise sure death in that specific scenario.
That's a nice tool, I'll have to try it.

Out of curiosity I asked bog-standard web ChatGPT (4) if it could do the job in awk, took it five times to get it right. Whatever prompt shell-gpt is using, it works.
Funny. I made a captcha challenge of calculus problems for a comment section on my personal blog page. But 5 years after college, I couldn't remember how to even do them myself so I changed it :-/
We have some blog posts too if anyone is interested: https://www.querypal.com/blog/
C++, CUDA apis?
i don't why this is downvoted. it seems pretty logical to me. if someone commits a crime and then goes to jail, they can't commit the crime again, right?
I’d say it’s more that transformers are in the lead at the moment, for general applications. There’s no rigorous reason afaik that it should stay that way.
Lots of luxury vehicles are heavy and high powered, causing them to eat through tires that are $600 each.

My boss was just complaining about his wife going through rear tires on their X6 in 8-9,000 miles
I’m mostly with you but

1) blazers, specifically, are awesome, they’re wearable purses that also make you look sharper. They’re a superior version of the open button-up shirt I’d wear in high school because it was trendy back then and which also had (less well-realized) utility and useful-in-a-pinch value, and

2) loafers are the best shoe for everyday not-very-active stuff, and it’s not a close call. Slip on! It’s insane that they’re considered even a little dressy. A small miracle.
Is the goal here to do everything in Javascript, or it will also be Javascript for the glue and c++/c/fortran/other-compiled-language for heavy lifting? This is more of a node-based effort, or it will work both frontend and backend.
They're saying the quiet part out loud. Remote folks have been snubbed for promos at lots of places since forever. Completely unnecessary for people on a tech ladder. (Managerial level requires more F2F but doesn't require full RTO)
Over-reliance on metrics leads to fragile organizations.
Wouldn’t WebGPU be the key to unlocking speed?
(1) In what sense is that a step back from current state?

(2) Why would it be bad?

There is something of a hysteria at the moment where people are piling on to Boeing because the management has been reverting to the mean. We're looking at a world where that doesn't need to happen because once management reaches a peak we can just stop fiddling with the algorithm. Culture won't change because the management culture can be encoded in a chatbot. Management is mostly talk, this is one of the easiest targets for the tech. That doesn't sound like politics ... until you look at what the current political firestorms are, it hits a lot of them.

It is hard to cast opinionated chatbots as a step back. The scary political implication is we're also looking at a point where maybe 1 man can control an army and that would be terrifying because the control on armies going rogue in a democracy is all the soldiers are voters. But consistent opinions are generally a good thing - we use the word principled for that sort of thing.
The cluster of allegations is that the Onavo acquisition put FB-designed and built rootkits underneath TLS on a significant fraction of all smartphones in the United States and that FB/IG (now Meta) used clear text access to ostensibly secure HTTPS sessions to extract arbitrary data from both competitors and partner companies to play poker with X-Ray glasses on as concerned all competition in an ostensibly free and fair and competitive marketplace while simultaneously creating scope for arbitrary other advanced actors to exploit the same intentionally crippled OS-level security at the cost of weakening the entire world’s digital security infrastructure for pure financial profit without so much as a FISA court order to justify such actions.

If substantiated, such accusations would be among the most damning in the history of technology.
Helmet Gives You Echolocation Powers [video]
currency exchange service.

hold enough amounts of main cryptocurrencies (such as btc, eth, bch, usdc, usdt) and you can be a market maker making a few bps per transaction.
The problem is the core idea is flawed.

The same concept (don't store the data) was applied to creditcard account data 10 years ago in many point-of-sale systems. Malware simply evolved to logs the data itself.

Not collecting user data in the first place might be a solve, but don't let simply not storing it create a false sense of security. Your user's data is still very much at risk.
A lot of people going into entrepreneurship because of unemployment and its a good enough reason for them to build a successful business.

If it doesn't show survival and problem solving instinct, I don't know what is and not sure why is it considered a red flag.
Vesting period
I thought the whole point was that you don’t need training? Most of them literally talk you through and and all the administration is computer controlled.
They killed 346 people just 3 years ago due to badly managed MCAS software testing. I guess I can't disagree as you as years is plural and, try, more than one year ago.
"A magpie had learned to use the name of a dog on a property in New South Wales. The owners also had a cat that had tried everything to get rid of the magpie. When the cat approached, the magpie did not fly away but called out the name of the dog; the dog came running and chased the cat away. Calling the dog was not mimicry any longer but a most effective way to use the dog's name."
Language Server Protocol.

It's more or less a way for standaline plugins/programs to provide language-specific functionality like autocompletions, syntax-highlighting, and diagnostic errors (like type errors) independently of a specific editor.

The idea is that standalone programs are made called language servers which can provide these features. Editors tend to communicate with them using JSON-RPC over stdin. So one can only write a language-specific parser once and integrate it with any editor.

Usually (at least in VS Code), there's a third part which is an editor-specific plugin which contains custom code to connect the editor to the language server, but this part is meant to be a thin layer.
The evidence indicates that the TPU marketplace caused a ton of friction and hampered Google Brain’s ability to innovate. They got merged with Deepmind after all.

Google’s golden years / Bell Labs years came from plumbing ads monopoly proceeds into blue sky projects. Contrast with Bytedance / Tiktok, which ruthlessly out-competed Facebook etc in the marketplace for attention. Googlers don’t want to actually build a good product and compete for users, they just want what suffices to feed their personal nerdy interests.
Yes. EVs are by nature high torque vehicles. High torque combined with aggressive driving burns through tires. Most people don't actually drive that way.
We don't actually care. We're interested in how the product is doing so we know how little we can get away with ordering (to the warehouse). I think the rewards are for sharing with other brands or stores that are owned by the same parent. I doubt they would sell to a competitor. That would directly reduce their own sales. Selling to another industry doesn't make sense either. No one wants more liability for retaining irrelevant data.
Not sure if you've already seen this, but back in November, Rocket 0.5 (stable) was released, and a 501(c)3 dedicated to Rocket was formed that now owns the Github org, etc. As a result, it's been getting much more regular updates, with the original maintainer still involved in development but no longer the only person with push access.

I'd certainly agree that it's no longer the de facto top leader, but as a batteries-included HTTP server, it works well (it's been chugging along powering my personal website for years now) and as far as I know still has quite a sizeable userbase.

[1] https://rocket.rs/news/2023-11-17-version-0.5/
They control the registers; they can identify or at least bin users by the selection and quantity of products they buy.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536186
It seems likely that you know passkeys better than I do (you wrote a blog about them after all), so I've got a question.

My impression is that there's a server side component. It's not just a key in your device, it's a key in your device that's blessed by someone who maintains a server. My further impression is that the people who manage the servers (either the authenticating-you server or the supporting-auth-for-you server) will be able to configure allow/deny lists for each other. They can say:

> sorry passkeys.jimbobsmomsbasement.com, you're not on the list of servers that I trust, so I'm not going to accept this key

Quoting GP here:

> Right now all my data is held by corporate types who don’t give a shit.

Is it true that passkey providers will be able to use this feature band together and prevent passkey providers that they don't like from being useful? It was something about attestations--I didn't fully get it the first time it was explained to me.

If so, doesn't that make the "corporate types who don't give a shit" problem worse? At least with a password the corporate types couldn't deny you the right to authenticate because in their estimation your password provider isn't corporate enough.
>that occasionally delivers mail

Roughly once every two weeks, here.
Yes, there are plenty. A serious crime requires serious damage in some countries so a single counterfeit won't tick that bar.
This is a discussion of an article. You'll find a link to it at the top of the page. If you read the article, I am sure someone as intelligent as yourself will be able to use context clues to figure out what I mean by "down hill". That article is what I am backing up my claim with.
Ask HN: What are some underrated sci-fi books?
Given we have several shows that came out recently depicting the books (Dune, Three Body Problem), which are quite popular by mainstream measures. What are some underrated sci-fi books that are worth the time to go through?
Secure Shell?
Do you mean McDonnell?
From what I read Madoff didn't seem to, he never actually tried to invest the money and couldn't really have expected his ponzi scheme to become a permanent engine of the economy or anything..

I don't really think that has the moral conclusion people try to imply though. Thinking they could get away with it as a permanent secret gap that no one need ever know about is actually a worse moral character.
You know, this could be opportunity for some new technology, as ISDN (x.25) is just too much for meters (fixed rate 64kbit via one pair, ISDN usually two pairs, so 128k), even when it is really fit on power (traditional telco line is powered, enough for modern CMOS circuits) and cable length.