skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biosimilars couldn’t come soon enough. These companies are profiting off these billion dollar blockbuster drugs, even the R&D scientists are getting peanuts for creating the novel molecules, yet the biopharma company blocks everyone from reproducing drugs under the broken patent system. Biosimilars benefit us all by reducing prices like generics do.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong
> if you're using password auth, and you are tricked into connecting to a malicious server, that server now has your plaintext password and can impersonate you to other servers.

Why would the password be sent in plaintext instead of, say, sending a hash of the password calculated with a salt that is unique per SSH server? Or something even more cryptographically sound.

In fact, passwords in /etc/shadow already do have random salts, so why aren't these sent over to the SSH client so it can send a proper hash instead of the plaintext password?
This captures the essence of the discussion I’m aiming to foster. I realize that labeling tasks as “trivial” might undermine their perceived importance, as highlighted by the examples in my title and the primary discussion here. However, my goal is to spark a conversation about those simple, mundane, or “trivial” tasks that are crucial to your workflow, yet, in an ideal scenario(perfect information/100% aligned team), you’d prefer to allocate your efforts and time elsewhere. Additionally, I recognize that describing these tasks as both trivial and essential might seem contradictory, creating a bit of an oxymoron.
It's not actually unusual for three-letter US agencies to be at odds with one another.

But one possible reason is if the FBI is convinced that something the NSA is doing is illegal. They may not always be inclined to tolerate that.
> Those companies are famous for skullduggery

There are levels of skull duggery. Hiring someone to pretend to work for a competitor while secretly sabotaging them is a whole other level of skullduggery with a lot of liability attached. I don't think that would be worth it to them.
What kind of a reputation do you think Facebook has?
If your application is evading AML then your scale will always be limited. I don’t know how you could possibly feel like that’s a serious pitch. Sounds like, “We’ll just evade the law”. I guess ICOs got away with it for a bit.

They want it sure, but again, not enough to create a profit opportunity. Profit is revenue minus costs, so there's a lot of revenue opportunity (from the bank deposits by the way, not the payments), but the costs are huge. The revenue has to justify the legal headache involved with processing payments in under a minute. That's why the only live solution needs a DeFi bubble to support it.
eBay continues to enable theft, counterfeiting, and fraud.
I have a 2080s and build my ai software for it and above. 4090 is a good purchase
And lumber for other parts of houses as well, and wooden furniture, and paper products. And since trees in managed forests are grown denser than they grow naturally, a thicker, more carbon-capturing forest was planted in its place.
Don’t wait until the last possible second to make a big strategic move—do it early on your own schedule. Especially when growing at a high rate.
> symbolic solving of equations got obsoleted with numerical solving

That never happened, symbolic and numerical mathematics coexist to this day. Cryptography, for example, relies on exact arithmetic.

On that note, good luck trying to solve problems in cryptography with "SAT instances".
Where/how was landlock supposed to be used?

I guess you cannot really use it in a generic library like compression/decompression. The library has no clue what the program is supposed to do and what should be restricted.

For a program it might be clearer.

The sshd attack was using liblzma as a library. So disabling landlock seems unrelated? A sign that there is more bad code waiting to be detected / had been planned to be inserted???
I ran it through an Nvidia translation AI and it came out as "give us money"
How do you keep warm at night in the USA? Blankets and sheets I am guessing?
This is a really impressive Rust service. Happy to see such a high quality no cloud ETL option. I'll be looking for a reason to try it if something applicable comes up!
A100 (> 5yo GPU) has a 1-bit tensor core engine
The big problem with precise weather simulations is that we don't have the sensors in 3D. They are all pretty much sitting on the surface, apart from some weather balloons. So we don't have precise data for wind, temperature, pressure apart from the surface. And all of these factors change A LOT with altitude.
This is a great article; I didn't think I would read the whole thing but AFAIK, its a reasonable thorough account on the rise of Bukele.

As an aside, I find it incredibly amusing that the China-funded library is decorated with rather Western culture - Harry Potter, Star Wars, and even Mario. Even Chinese money is used to uphold American cultural hegemony.
Lots. It's basically an extra processor that runs at all times, even when your computer is supposedly "off." Its firmware is bigger than you'd think, like a complete Unix system big. It's frankly terrifying how powerful and opaque it is. It provides a lot around remote management for corporations, lots of "update the BIOS remotely" sort of features, and also a bunch of those stupid copy protection enforcement things. Plus some startup/shutdown stuff like Secure Boot.
It looks like they are trying to get rid of C, so maybe in luck!
Which is pretty much the the thing keeping me from ditching edge, and the thing that made me use it in the first place. It just works.

I've tried the various hacks available for Firefox to achieve a similar result, but nothing comes close to Edge here. Closest I got to edge is Midori, though unfortunately that one is still pretty buggy.
> Do you think there can only be shortages if there's price fixing?

Clearly not. I just got finished pointing to government intervention as the most likely reason for a shortage. How did you manage to not finish reading the comment before replying?

Price fixing can also theoretically lead to a shortage, but this is the least likely case. Usually price fixers want to push the price higher than buyers are looking to spend, not the other way around.

> If there's only enough food for 90 people out of 100 today, it's easy for anyone with enough money to get fed, but it is also a shortage of food.

Agreed, in two ways:

1. It is apt to end up a shortage as many governments have 'price gouging' laws that would prevent the vendor of that food from charging the fair market value in this type of event.

2. In this scenario, eventually no amount of money can buy food. You could be the richest person on earth, willing to spend every last cent you have, but you're still not eating if you happen to come late to the party. Price is unable to select a buyer, relying on a first-come, first-served mechanism instead.

That doesn't match the housing situation, though. The richest person in the world isn't going to find himself unable to buy a home, even if he takes his sweet time deciding whether he wants one or not. Even at the peak of housing insanity, there were still many houses available for purchase by anyone in the market.
procedure linkage table
I doubt it will generalize well. At best its just an arms race.
A long time ago when I was buying speakers for my home, and the shop said I could bring my own music to test them, I chose Solitude Standing and specifically Luka to do so. It's nice to read now that I was not the only one.

> I had heard some people used it to test their speakers — not just that song, but the whole album, because of the sonic quality.
This is one of the reasons why the only upgrade path available for me after Windows 10 is Linux.
yep, but how to reverse such a blunder?
Nice summary from Anton Petrov:

Extraordinary Object Found in Orbit Around the Milky Way Galaxy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehj5Tq8JrTA

Conclusion: a small star cluster embedded in dark matter that keeps it stable.
Ah, wacky fun. https://youtu.be/yHPvOeahQnc?t=87
> Again, this is intended to be portable software.

A scathing criticism of the OpenSSL library by the BSD team was that it was too portable in a (very real) sense that it wasn't even written in "C" any more, or targeting "libc" as the standard library. It would be more accurate to say that it was "Autotools/C" instead. By rewriting OpenSSL to target an actual full-featured libc, they found dozens of other bugs, including a bunch of memory issues other than the famous Heartbleed bug.

Platform standards like the C++ std library, libc, etc... are supposed to be the interface against which we write software. Giving that up and programming against megabytes of macros and Autotools scripts is basically saying that C isn't a standard at all, but Autotools is.

Then just admit it, and say that you're programming in the Autotools standard framework. Be honest about it, because you'll then see the world in a different way. For example, you'll suddenly understand why it's so hard to get away from Autotools. It's not because "stuff is broken", but because it's the programming language framework you and everyone else is using. It's like a C++ guy lamenting that he needs gcc everywhere and can't go back to a pure C compiler.

Job ads should be saying: "Autotools programmer with 5 years experience" instead of "C programmer". It would be more accurate.

PS: I judge languages by the weight of their build overhead in relation to useful code. I've seen C libraries with two functions that had on the order of 50kb macros to enable them to build and interface with other things.
I can totally see why they want to stay on RDS, but think the other considerations should almost certainly outweigh that.

My main point is this decision makes no sense on its face[1]. Obviously I'm lacking the real context, so there may be overwhelming circumstances which mean that it was the right decision anyway, but these weren't explained in TFA for me. In TFA the reasoning was superficial, and this is the sort of decision that really should be held to a very high standard because as I say these types of internal goals have the potential to burn a ton of valuable engineering time on things which don't affect the customer-facing offering.

Now we have in a sibling thread someone from notion saying they did the same thing and for me exactly the same reasoning applies. It could be that all these different Saas companies are so special that them each building their own individual postgres sharding solutions to work around the fact that they can't get a sharded, managed postgres instance makes sense. Or not.

[1] That's what I mean by saying it doesn't pass the sniff test. It might actually be the right decision but your instincts should rebel against it because it feels very wrong. So there needs to be a serious examination before going down that path.
don't you know HNers are astrophysics experts? they always list their theories about the cutting edge in comment threads lmao
I wonder how did your website pass QA, when that animated side-bar ad-thingy covers the middle of the whole article on an iPad.
Good to know, will install the latest release.
I mainly use lubuntu because of better browser support and driver support (I'm cheap and buy cheap laptops which have unsupported hardware).
This could be overcome if I got off my ass and started to code in ANSI C89.
Still need to finish my OpenStep ICHX IDE Driver.
Congrats to the team :)
If I remember it right, the llm big bird had something like this. For a particular word it would attend strongly with its closer neighbours but weakly to words far from it. Look for sparse attention. I think that's the relevant terminology. Not sure if it matches exactly what you described
> There was nothing wrong with "unmaintained" lzma two years ago.

Well, that's not exactly true. The first patch from Jia Tan is a minor documentation fix, and the second is a bugfix which, according to the commit message (by Collin), "breaks the decoder badly". There's a few more patches after that that fix real issues.

Mark Adler's zlib has been around for a lot longer than xz/liblzma, and there's still bugfixes to that, too.
Yes, and second part optional.
Your mileage may vary, I enjoyed it :)

Obit: https://australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/journal-c...

Artwork: https://www.aasd.com.au/artist/1861-david-banggal-mowaljarla...

Short trailer for a movie filmed in David's country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJv1AVvPK3Q
Autoconf lets you check for all sorts of things:

- instruction set architecture
- OS versions
- ABIs
- libraries (whether they are installed)
- and what functionality they provide
- commands/executables
- anything you can write a macro to check

All stuff too disparate to reliably have the OS be able to answer every question you might have about it and the stuff installed on it. You can't wait for any such system to learn how to answer the questions you might have about it, so some things you can only detect, either at build configuration time, build time, or run time.
I suppose if you had a fondness for that particular arrangement of trees, yes, it's sad they're gone. But there are other forests in that area which look practically identical to what you saw in the movie, believe me, just waiting to be hiked through and camped under. Some of them are literally in city parks.

I remember the day that my dad told me that tourists actually came to Humboldt to see the trees. Boring old trees? Really? Having grown up among them I didn't understand how unusual they were yet.
I make a distinction between western culture of Magna Carta onwards as distinct from mass marketed corporate manufactured culture. Encouraging the later probably serves Chinese interests.
> (...) and even Mario

Cool Japan would like a word with you ;)
Its weird. Like i would consider doing two unrelated backdoor-esque things in the same project really sloopy. Seems like it just significantly increases the risk of being discovered for minimal gain.

Its very confusing. Parts of this sega seem incredibly sophisticated while other parts seem kind of sloppy.
Nominative determinism strikes again
you can have ten comments about the name of a variable, but no one bats an eye at a new npm package introduced. Also, devs that wrote code that Google depends on can't pass the leetcode gate check to get a job there.

Our industry is a laughingstock.
>Even Chinese money is used to uphold American cultural hegemony.

It makes me think of German barbarians who, after sacking the urbs aeterna, couldn't think of a better name for themselves than Holy Roman Empire.
All of this was obfuscated. None of this will be detectable with current static analysis techniques.
For the chat model

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B-Chat/blob/8a2d...
Exactly. Different tech and different buzzwords over the decades but the idea of building a global GIS or a spatial model of the world is not at all revolutionary. Not by half a century. "Digital Twin" is just the latest buzzword, and it's falling short of expectaations per usual. I was hoping the AI buzz would kill the digital twin. But now it looks like we're getting "AI-enabled digital twin". Hype trains a rollin'.
Post locally on Craigslist or use a site like Upwork. Another option may be finding a local bootcamp/educational facility with folks who want to partner for experience/portfolio building.
The creator of the page discussed here did so while working at NCSA on the Mosaic web browser. All you young people can ask ChatGPT what that is. And by the way, at the time he knew very well, tyvm, all the meanings of the word "factoid".
A misplaced punctuation has some plausible deniability. Like the author could say he was distracted and fat fingered nonsense, honest mistake.

A utf character from a language that has zero chance of being mapped to your programmer's keyboard in the middle of a code line, that would be obvious intentional tampering or at the very least raise some eyebrows.
> That's a 10 year old article. Although [the] top 6 are from the US these days […] so not much has seemingly changed

Well, thanks for the update. Correcting a citation an out-of-date article that is - as you admit - apparently still relevant as cited was definitely worth everyone’s time.
I've had my Pantum laser printer since 2015 that I paid $45 for an have never had issues with. Though fwiw I don't print much so it hasn't had much wear.
Literature that is not simply read from start to end in the normal way.

This is a but vague, so examples may help. Choose your own adventure series, House of Leaves, ELIZA, One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems.

If you want to stretch the idea, you could consider LLM output to be ergodic literature of the training data in that it cuts up the corpus and resynthesizes it.
Curiously, Mario's inception was a result of Nintendo's expansion to America, and the need to provide arcade games with a relatable narrative.
No that's not true.

The international audience usualy does not understand the lyrics because it does not speak English.

So it does not care at all.

That leads to funny cases where childish sounding pop music wiht juicy texts gets played everywhere.

I recently read an article about a pop song about small dicks which was popular in europe for some time.

The artist got invided to a live performance in a Spanish Kindergarten.
If the extremely low crime rate is true, that is amazing. However, my concern is that as a de facto dictator, he can fudge the statistics. Just like Mussolini was credited for making the trains run on time only to later be found out that he simply forced the news to report that the trains ran on time.
Although, if, as the author writes, people on the street love him and they all claim that crime is down. Then maybe the ballpark figure is right.
Smart TV is snooping on you. How to limit the personal data it gathers
I've worked at places like this
I'm going to look on the bright side of this. Look at how far we've progressed in collaboration! We complain about Jira etc but it does have a lot of great features that an emailed, weekly manually reconciled Excel spreadsheet does not.
> Gang crime seem to be a common weakness of democracies.

I've read many histories and that hasn't been a problem. I've lived all my life in democracies and it's never been a problem anywhere that I've lived.

I also don't see a correlation. Countries with high levels of corruption, of every form of government, have organized crime problems. Haiti has a very serious gang problem but never much democracy. You might not read about gangs as much in dictatorships because, first, the government is a gang - they are a gang that took over government. And also there's no free press.

And on the other side of the correlation, modern democracies are the safest, most prosperous places in the history of humanity. And they have a free press to report on everything. Nothing is perfect, of course; but compare them to the alternative (and to history), not to the almighty.

Also, the premise that democracy is optional is irrational. If the people don't get to select their leaders, who the f- does? Who will do better? If they are so clearly better, why not have a vote?
After living with a duvet cover for a year I decided the entire concept was patently moronic and went back to a simple blanket.
> Demand comes in two forms. Demand for housing and demand for property investments. We should not lose site of the drivers of the second type of demand.

Has the US ever lost sight of the second kind? To me (as someone who feels hopeless about home ownership) that seems to be the only demand we care about. There’s barely anything new being built, constant blocking by NIMBYs, and investors buying up so much property when interest rates were dirt cheap. I really wish there would be some form of housing market crash but it’s nowhere in sight. My biggest fear is it’s going to come the moment I do end up buying after saving so much.
Back then, I learned to swim via a correspondence course. Thank goodness for video these days.
I haven't found (or searched) much use for AI but it did give me a wonderful new sense that I can only describe vaguely as the opposite of lifelessness. Robot writings and speech have now managed to capture everything that was noticeably missing in the previous effort which leaves it lacking only where we don't consciously notice it.

This dead voice is hilarious, after listening to its videos for 20 minutes or so it becomes unbearable. It is like my subconscious is signalling me the real data is missing. Before this I wasn't able to filter out the fine bouquet of emotions expressed.
RCU objects are garbage when they're held by old readers thay will no longer utilize them in the remaining code path before they exit. This code path is virtually always of non-zero length, because ensuring they are deallocated in the absolute shortest path is an NP-class problem for sure. I don't see why the fact that this code path might sometimes be longer in GC would preclude RCU from being GC.
I think people forget that universal suffrage and male suffrage are pretty recent phenomenon, so when talking about democracies we should understand that historical democracies were very different. As such this weakness may be more of a character of modern universal suffrage democracies. There might be a middle point between everybody voting and one person voting that would be more optimal.
You get a margin account from your broker and request permission for shorting... then open a position by selling x number of shares of the stock (assuming the stock is available to short). You make sure you have enough $$$ in your account so that in the event of the stock price going up, you aren't forced to sell at a a loss.

Grossly oversimplifying things, rather than short, you can also buy put options on the stock which will increase in value if the stock goes down. Taking an options position is far more time sensitive than an outright short.
Do you have evidence of the first sentence? Or is it circular?: If crime goes down, they are 'good' dictators.

What about the victims of those dictators, who lose lives and families and freedom? They don't much benefit from the 'good'.
Agreed. A good policy is to include ticket number and a short description.
> "Jia Tan" does not sound Russian

It's not a real name.
Except all the physical evidence for climate change and none for God

Will go with my current living experience, steeped in modern physics and math, over a long dead philosopher who had never encountered a light bulb

The past was wrong as much as right, and generally less civil than now. I don’t really see the necessity in relying on it.
Because you can either do it with excel spreadsheets or insanely expensive PDM/ERP software like SAP which is insanely expensive to setup and anyone who has ever used it will tell you is terrible. There used to be middle road options like netsuite but they were bought by SAP. There are alsoneays to do it in Catia, etc like the airplane folks do, but that's also insanely expensive.

People are now using airtable to do it
Honestly if they were previously getting their writing from freelancing websites then yes, they didn't value writing that much.
I was intrigued, thinking that someone had managed to clone an 8086 with a gate array. What a disappointment.
Beautifully stated. At this point, with so many sources of unavoidable artificial light, it feels like a basic education in the way light behaves is critical for everyone so they can keep themselves sane.
When the government is the most powerful gang, with all the firepower of government, then they can seize power and overcome other gangs. But that doesn't reduce the gangs in people's lives.
I wonder, what is the current in-favor issue tracking tool if Jora is out?