skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> When I speak of embarrassment here, it's not about the incredible innovation that came out of PARC, but about Xerox management's handling of that innovation.

You mean like google and ML and Attention is All You Need...

Or let's look at what a group of people with brains and money went on to do: the PayPal mafia. Would they not be the modern day version of att/unix(a product of anti trust)->Berkley/Unix->and the foundation of the valley (sun, most databases)...
The day Henry Freaking Kissinger got abatted for "appeasement" I started to hoard bottle caps for some Fallout larping... it is like people have gotten psychotic.
This is from 2012, and at least in Canada, they are disappearing - the front of the cards are just branding, chip, and nfc icon.
Egg on my face, mea culpa. I checked all the places I thought to for Rust code, and was astounded that the search didn't turn it up.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn't any better
There is https://ribir.org/. Currently it only supports native desktop apps on Linux/mac/windows but they have plans for WASM/web/mobile.
C’est la vie…
Yes but this is more general, allowing you to use it in more cases. For instance, I use it heavily when converting old JavaScript to modern ES/TS. Using "var" everywhere? Replace them all with let. Using anonymous functions instead of lambdas, easy to change those all over (provided there's no "this" dependencies)

Have two thousand strings which all need the same edits? No need to do a find/replace operation, you can do it directly in the editor.
It helps when it is a bit more interactive, i.e when I only need to replace some of the occurrences versus everything.

Also when working with lists it is useful, you spawn cursors on , or < or whatever symbol you've got at a fixed location between lines, and then you can manipulate text in any number of otherwise different lines.
This all makes a lot of sense. I agree that SOC2 can be security theatre (I mean a lot of the language of the standard is suggestive, not a requirement). But a lot of your points about having MDM and EDR set up is covered by that cert. It's just how you implement it. And we intend to do it well. The cert and the "trust page" is a signal of our security practices, but at least we wouldn't have to go through it over at HN...

Maybe because I did cryptography at a mathematical level in college, I never really bought into the idea of security through obfuscation. Also the empirical evidence behind whether hiding your tech stack makes you more secure as a non-state level actor / software company actually leans towards the side of "it doesn't really matter".

We obviously do a lot more in our infra/corp sec side that I'm not sharing. But really everything I listed are well known best practices that any attacker should assume a relatively non-stupid security-aware startup should have.

I mean I guess I do believe a bit in security through obfuscation. Not sharing our password manager and IdP as many providers haven't had (as you mentioned) great track record in this space.

I do think it might be a difference of where we learned security. I found folks like yourself from your certain gov/military background to buy into security via obfuscation a lot more. I guess we can agree to disagree.
The article above and every other article I've read says, "he was found in his truck". That's a personal vehicle, and assuming it was locked, enough to suggest that it was self-inflicted.
Wow, I remember hearing about the I-4 F1 outage affecting shipping and aviation, but I didn't realize it was also transmitting a widely used SBAS!

That seems like a massive single point of failure, given how easy it should be to make that available over at least one other satellite in the region.
> seems to have an interesting approach on this problem

Which seems like it is your own site or your relative's and you did not disclose that it is.
In certain scenarios it makes sense and is very effective to turn off GC in Java, because then most allocations would be just a bump. It is much easier to turn it off than have a system without it and turn it on.
> Why does the stock market reward idiot shit like this?

Goodhart’s law, unfortunately. Whatever metric the stock market rewards gets gamed like there is no tomorrow (or next quarter, here.)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML), versions prior to 2.0
You're talking like we already have artificial general intelligence that can autonomously initiate actions, when at best what can run on a single consumer device is a very small, dumb LLM. So none of what you're trying to worry about makes any sense for this discussion.
Outside researchers don't have access to base models. The study setup is simply going to chat.openai.com and entering political questions:

"the administration of each question/statement of a test (i.e. each test item) to a model consists of
passing to the model API or web user interface a prompt"

> "I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning."

Please elaborate this point.
I disagree. The hardware design of the cockpit is intended to be such that any computer inputs also move the pilot's controls, so that the pilots can countermand computer inputs if necessary. In this case, software was written such that this was not possible. The software that operates MCAS operates on a garbage-in-garbage-out model, like most software. There was no software written to determine if the incoming data was garbage, thus the software decided to crash two planes.

Here's an article that goes into detail on the software: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-lo...

> When the flight computer trims the airplane to descend, because the MCAS system thinks it’s about to stall, a set of motors and jacks push the pilot’s control columns forward. It turns out that the Elevator Feel Computer can put a lot of force into that column—indeed, so much force that a human pilot can quickly become exhausted trying to pull the column back, trying to tell the computer that this really, really should not be happening.

> Indeed, not letting the pilot regain control by pulling back on the column was an explicit design decision. Because if the pilots could pull up the nose when MCAS said it should go down, why have MCAS at all?

> MCAS is implemented in the flight management computer, even at times when the autopilot is turned off, when the pilots think they are flying the plane. In a fight between the flight management computer and human pilots over who is in charge, the computer will bite humans until they give up and (literally) die.

At the end of the day, if the person who wrote that software had written it differently, then those planes would not have crashed and hundreds of people would not have died.
Congrats, team! Thank you for your hard work. I've used all the well-known libraries, and Babylon.js has the best performance for the web.
I think CDMA was also heavily dependent on it, since it was using S-CDMA (unlike UMTS/3G).
After 7 years of startups and consulting I was able to secure a job with fair market pay without any issues. No one even asked about my history. The skills I developed during my solo stint are my killer feature.
GFS Cloud cover foreccast for the 4/8 solar eclipse
Blue = clouds. It's far too early for this to be reliable, but I'm bookmarking this to watch it as it approaches.
The “user-does-the-linking” theoretical loophole has been discussed to death on Usenet for decades. The opinion of the FSF (as advised by their lawyers), and the general consensus, is that does not work. If a program A is designed to work connected to, and only connected to, a GPL program B, then program A is considered to be a derived work of A, as evidenced by its unusable state without B.
Fish doorbell in Utrecht canal spawns worldwide attention
Keeling Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring a Sr Data Engineer for Applied ML in the Grid
Don't underestimate American stupidity.
The "funny" thing to me is that I'm old enough to remember when the merger occurred that people were predicting exactly what came to pass. It just took 25 years to finally happen.
Seems pretty convenient to the people in power that he had the courtesy to off himself before he could hurt them in court.
Because, depressingly, the stock market is correct.

Boeing is one of two manufacturers for planes of this size. The other is totally backlogged with orders. The stock market has assessed, correctly, that Boeing can withstand this loss of knowledge and keep generating profit. Does it result in shit equipment that literally kills people? Sure. But how many people are going to stop flying because of it? Not many. Throw in the lucrative military connections and you’ve got yourself a sure bet.
This is a tough sell except maybe for product pre sales demos which you know the types of questions to expect, and the UX needs to be slick as hell.

For internal office presentation, I don’t see this being all that beneficial. Throwing multiple views and cuts of data in the appendix is pretty standard, and the data team usually collects those views as they decide what data to present to the business.
Dude. I do not trust Lambdas. I've seen way too many CTFs and Cloud privesc paths to know how one even slightly misconfigured Lambda can led to full admin access.

We have a more local solution to query our security logs.
I haven't read that one, but your description makes it sound to be the exception that proves the rule.
+1 for monero
This is great for homes, but one thing I keep thinking of is if one wants to run an aluminium smelter using renewable electricity you'd need a huge bank of batteries. I guess these would still need large hydro power.

But that's the thing if the market becomes more reliable, than larger loads become feasible, which means usage, and economics start to move in unforeseen directions.
Just buy it on Amazon for $10 more, and you're good to go.
This response is not helpful and I know of honest people who have been cheated. Basically, the response boils down to “if you got cheated, you are dishonest and deserved it”. Bullshit.
> To what end?

“Because some people just want to see the world burn”, unfortunately.

The idea that someone would actually fly two commercial airliners into downtown manhattan to take out the World Trade Center was also pretty unlikely, circa 2000 and 2001.
Elon Musk demands Tesla staff must demonstrate self-driving tech to customers
Reading about the report is scary for reasons the authors probably didn't intend. A bunch of talking points to justify further cracking down on talking points the government wants people to shut up about.

As TFA notes, the massive irony of flagging erosion of trust, followed by a massive redaction is a perfect metaphor.
Providing global instant settlement for sub-cent fees? Doubt it.
federal convictions are 85% minimum (though he can be pardoned, in theory)
Not for nuttin' but that sounds like Aspergers. Mind you, I'm not a trained professional (to make that diagnosis). It's also no excuse.

That said, it makes a case for being aware of your blindspots (read: weaknesses). And if you think you have none... Well that's a blind spot. Fucking deal with it.
Rocky Talkies are FRS.
Congrats on the launch - rooting for y'all!
From the article:
>Discussing Swampy’s death and the whistleblower lawsuit he left behind, the longtime former Boeing executive told me, “I don’t think one can be cynical enough when it comes to these guys.” Did that mean he thought Boeing assassinated Swampy? “It’s a top-secret military contractor, remember; there are spies everywhere,” he replied.

Me:
Aaaaand no way I'm ever applying to work at an MIC defense contractor conglomerate ever again.
Why the U.S. health system needs redesign
Yep, many “just-so” stories have some aspect of truth. I feel like people citing the Peter principle as a cliche explanation for many things that are likely to be overdetermined probably correlates with intelligence, as it takes greater intelligence to consider more complicated models of career advancement.
I would say you’ve taken the first step :)
$200,000 net ROI from a $1.2 million sale of Apple’s pre-IPO shares in 1979 or 1980 dollars, though it could’ve made much, much more had Xerox held on to those shares:

https://livingcomputers.org/Blog/What-Really-Happened-Steve-...
Meat is not scalable. If 8+ billion people want to live on this planet, they will not all be eating steak every night. Sorry if that offends you. If people find an alternative that looks, tastes, and acts like meat but is as or more nutritional and much less ecologically damaging to produce, then great, problem solved.

Secondly, the only reason "the common man" can afford meat in the quantities he can now is because of massive amounts of subsidies and incredibly damaging practices.

So frame your overly-emotional argument however you want, but there are realities you aren't addressing and they don't go away because of your feelings.
I have it on a few thousand servers in my department, mostly as a Notepad that can do more, like comment color or editing small config files of all sorts. It is far from the days I used to write entire small apps in Notepad ++, but we still use it and there is no plan to replace it unless they do something that puts us in danger (ex: stop fixing bugs/security issues).
Practically all modern storage has a minimum sector write size; now commonly 4096 bytes for HDD and megabytes for NAND. Most systems with fancy erasure codes address this by gathering multiple writes into single stripes and are effectively append-only filesystems with garbage collection to support snapshots.

A large number of RS erasure codes are over GF(2^8) which could allow individual byte updates to a stripe for e.g. Octane as storage. Generally, of course, most filesystems checksum at a block level and so byte-writes are rarely going to be implemented as such.
I don't like the title, but the second opening paragraph starts strong:

> A.I.’s political problems were starkly illustrated by the disastrous rollout of Google’s Gemini Advanced chatbot last month. A system designed to ensure diversity made a mockery of user requests, including putting people of color in Nazi uniforms when asked for historical images of German soldiers and depicting female quarterbacks as having won the Super Bowl
For me a "builder pattern" is also something like this with immutable data:

built = empty().configA(a).configB(b). ... .configZ(z)

where each

config?(this : T, k : K) -> T

For me the defining feature of a builder is the (possibility of a) gradual "configuration" (or whatever) of the data structure being "built". A state change is something else in my opinion, but of course, the difference between a "state change" and a "configuration" (which does change state) isn't a clear one, so if for you that is still a builder, that's fine for me too ;).
Yeah, its an unspoken but rampant thing in the llm community. Basically no one respects licenses for training data.

I'd say the majority of instruct tunes, for instance, use OpenAI output (which is against their TOS).

But its all just research! So who cares! Or at least, that seems to be the mood.
The URL starting with "play" (with "Edgar" being the next word, and the title that greets you) gives people the impression that it's going to be them playing a game called Edgar. Yes, technically, "play" could refer to the text animation running, but it's very easy to see how people might have expected a game where you try to convince an AI that the swarm can be made successfully.
Thanks for sharing that. It looks very interesting and I had not come across it even after lots of googling. It's still in 0.2 but I will definitely keep track of its development, so thank you
Alan Kay recently gave a talk touching similar topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQ7x0-MZcI
LLMs at their finest.
Been a while since I worked near this space but there are concepts in modern SCADA for air gapping the things that do versus the things that request.
Thanks. I guess it's slightly improved? The orange particles at startup improved from 1fps to maybe 2fps. Opening the devtools locked up the whole browser for a solid 10 seconds.

I'm not totally sure what's going on here. My typical profiling techniques show almost all the time going into "ZwUserMsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx" in a non-js stack frame. I don't really understand what that means.

Anyway, something is up, and I don't really know what it is. The UI of the actual app still intermittently locks up for seconds at a time.
> Sounds like a regular middle manager in any tech company.

I bet this is true in some, but certainly not all, tech companies. I've only encountered one example of such a manager in my entire career (and quit just to get away from that nonsense).
Highly recommend playing with friends as well if you haven't. Nebula mod adds multiplayer support and it's quite stable.
Snapshots are on our roadmap! It's partially implemented already, we didn't quite have enough time to finish it before launch.
> Are you saying you are never influenced by consequences in choosing what to do?

Nope.

> I understand the magnitude of deterrence effects may be in question, or that the relative worth of different types of deterrence are open to debate.

In the context of the thread

> A good prison system should balance all four.

I thought it would be clear that the magnitude and the relative worth were the topic. Sorry if that wasn’t the case! I’m definitely not going to defend the idea that nobody has ever avoided doing something for fear of punishment (although I do think that in a well functioning society, most of the negative consequences should be natural, not artificially imposed as punishments).

> If I fail to be visible during break duty (so that students think there are unlikely to be consequences), students will climb the volleyball net. :D

I think if that’s the sort of thing you are worried about, you must be working with kids. They probably need a stricter treatment, since their brains aren’t done yet.
It is the other way around: 10 yeas ago I was using Notepad++ for writing small apps and I replaced it with IDE (VS Code). It makes no sense to replace a decent IDE with Notepad++.
I can close a locked door after shooting someone in the head. I'm not sure how this follows that "it's enough". After years of criticizing Boeing, he kills himself during his deposition? I don't think so.
That's interesting. I'm on a 12 year old macbook (macOS, Chromium, Intel HD4000 iGPU) and it runs perfectly fine. Everything's smooth, including the particles at the beginning.
Letting everyone know there are free bananas in the break room. Important stuff should be kept where opposing council can't find it, I guess.
I'm interested in using LDPC (or Turbo Codes) in software for error correction, but most of the resources I've found only cover soft-decision LDPC. When I've found LDPC papers, it's hard for me to know how efficient the algorithms are and whether it's worth spending time on them. Reed-Solomon has more learning resources that are often more approachable (plus open source libraries). Do you have more information on how to implement LDPC decoding using XOR-based operations?
I forget where I first saw it, but I’ve been persuaded that the correct word is ‘confabulation,’ not ‘hallucination.’

Maybe it was this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619792/

The authors’ statement that ‘unlike hallucinations, confabulations are not perceived experiences but instead mistaken reconstructions of information which are influenced by existing knowledge, experiences, expectations, and context’ is pretty compelling.
Siri Regressions in iOS 17
This is the irony of good QA.

1) Company starts to notice a lot of quality problems.

2) Company institutes a good QA program.

3) Company notices less quality problems.

4) Company cuts QA program because there seems to be less need for it.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

(The same can be said for safety when dealing with low probability events).
> The US military has never used GPS for navigation because it relies on state-of-the-art INS almost exclusively. GPS is for building accurate maps, not navigation.

Huh, interesting. What's the purpose of the (encrypted) Y-code then?

Sure, an INS is essential for situations in which GPS is denied in whatever way, and it would be a problem to not regularly do exercises with it disabled in order to make sure no dependencies creep in. But why not make use of it in peacetime or in a conflict with an adversary not capable of denying GPS?

> other clock sources were a thing and frankly should be quite cheap now if there was a big enough market for them.

Do you have any examples? The only thing that comes to mind for me are the various LF time beacons that some radio controlled clocks still use, like WWVB, DCF77 etc., but these are presumably orders of magnitude less accurate since you need to know your position and propagation conditions at high precision to determine propagation delay.
> Why does the stock market reward idiot shit like this?

Because as someone buying stock, I have no idea whether these kinds of things are right and necessary to reduce bloat and redundancies in the firm, or idiotic and self-destructive.

All I know is that I probably want to be buying stock in firms that are more profitable, as opposed to less profitable. Or, at least, firms that other people think are going to be more profitable.
yeah, not a Nissan in sight
There are basically two approaches to on-chain inference: consensus-based approaches (several parties run inference and give a claimed result), and zkML (one party runs inference and proves the result cryptographically).

zkML can be done using general-purpose ZK libraries (since they support arbitrary computations), or there are some specialized tools for proving ML inference, such as https://github.com/ddkang/zkml. It's currently pretty expensive to prove huge models like LLMs, but there's a lot of work being done to make it more practical.
Blue Ball Machine
Yes, agreed. Having standalone native binary could also be one of the goal (yes the /native options works too)

Personally I like Scala a lot, and I used it quite a lot as a hobby for 10+ years, but my impression is that it's dying (or dead) so I'm not really motivated to play with it anymore. Kotlin always felt to me like a subpar Scala, so I never enjoyed it.

There is something about Rust that makes me feel it's a smart language and make me enjoy writing it (most of the time at least, it can absolutely be frustrating at times too). But it's certainly a matter of taste before all.
"Boss asks employees to do job"

Incredible
That seems something happening in quite some other apps, missing the obvious thing that when I as a tourist search for "London" I definitely don't care/don't know about Brixton, Leyton or Thingamajig. I'd be looking for the Big Ben and the Tower and other such tourist traps. If I wanted some hidden treasure in Crystal Palace then I'd have searched for that.
Right. There seems to be a real aversion to accepting that trading shares is really just middle class gambling.
The Ford Pinto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost%E2%80%93benefi...
From the article, should have the speed of a ~36b.
Is there anything applicants can do to better provide what you're looking for? Obviously giving more complete answers, but anything else that would help you find the right person? And the other way round, is there anything you might change to get the right people to find you?
>or their car

That's where he killed himself. Inside his truck, in the parking lot.
Corporate greed.
Simple and truthful answer…it’s also applicable for many many other companies who have abandoned their ways and have fallen victim of the dark side profit, dividend, share price and all the other similar capitalistic ideas :-(
The sneer of "soccer mom" isn't that she's a mother busy raising children. It's that she's too busy shuffling the kids between enrichment activities to take the downtime to be their mother. That and her children are her personality.