skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning is explained in the very section of our Github org README you quoted this sentence from. Our main open source project is Fix Inventory (https://github.com/someengineering/fixinventory) and that is very well documented (https://inventory.fix.security) and uses no commercial 3rd party libraries.

The Fix SaaS frontend that you're referring to and that you find at https://fix.security builds upon Fix Inventory. We could have just made it closed-source like every other SaaS (think Grafana Cloud). But because I'm a big proponent of OSS we decided to open source our entire SaaS stack, frontend, backend as well as all internal tooling. The main intend here is transparency, not so you spin up your own SaaS environment.

Essentially we develop the SaaS for ourselves first and foremost, but saw no reason to make it closed source. So that is why it might be using any number of commercial 3rd party add-ons.

> I'm curious to know what Material UI provided that any other open-source UI library did not.

I believe it was some MUI X table features like multi row sorting that we didn't feel like re-implementing. I'm sure there's other open source libs that would do that, but we've settled on MUI and are not going to start mixing different UI libraries for different visual elements if we don't absolutely have to.
What about history? Don't people perceive it as even more unnecessary than maths? Shouldn't we expect to see all sorts of theories on how history should be taught in more practical ways if your explanation is correct?

I'm only picking on history or languages as examples. I could have picked literature, or almost anything, really. A lot of what is taught at school isn't necessarily a bunch of super applied skills

There are lots of bad teachers in every discipline, and I'm sure that everything could be taught a lot better. I'm still not getting why maths is singled out.
I'd like to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the "Bayesian analysis" being used in this article. I'm referring to the long chart of probabilities that are multiplied together to give the final odds. The article mentions the problems that occur if you fail to account for correlation between the factors, and there are obvious problems about leaving things out, but I suspect there might be other subtleties as well. Is there a good link that covers this on a beginner's theoretical level? Or suggestions of the right search terms to use?
Customer service in general has been on a downward trend for years now. Everyone pushes you to the chat tool with predefined options and you have to hope and pray that one of the options will lead you to an actual agent.

I hate how most of them don’t even list a phone number visibly and you have to click through 25 different links to find it
Peer pressure happens when someone like a teenager wants or has to be around some other peers (teenagers) but has to follow the whims of the peers in order to continue to be around them or to not be harassed by them.

The peanut gallery of non-contributors are only peers in the sense that they pretend to speak on behalf of some OSS community. And the fact that they are spokespersons is by default suspect. The attacker is a peer in the sense of being a contributor. So is he a peer pressurer? Again we come back to the teenager who has to follow the whims of his peers in order to be included. The maintainer is already inside of his own playground. So the pressure to be part of the “community” is really the incredibly abstract thing that the peanut gallery was referring to: you ought to do so-and-so in order to be whatever I think of in my head as an OSS maintainer.

This can be rejected out of hand if you really believe that maintainers don’t owe anyone anything (because of free labor).

But this gets incoherent if you want to assert both of these things:

1. There is no social contract for OSS maintainers: they can toss their PC out of the window and go on a five-year pilgrimage without telling anyone

2. There is some community which has power over the maintainer to peer pressure them

If you really want to double down on (1), the “cure” is what the OP suggested: say no and walk away.
The cybertruck, as a kitchen appliance rather than a car, does not have FSD.
If they only showed the measures, yes.

The meaning of the measures is determined by the experiment, not by the data. "Data" is itself meaningless, and statistics on data is only informative of reality because of how the experimenter creates the measurement-target relationship.
Rule question: In the tutorial, on the "Combatants" screen:

> Only words touching another player's words are involved in a battle. This means you can win battles even though your board contains invalid words.

> Try playing playing "TO" against your opponent's "FT".

> Even though your board is mostly valid, the only words involved in the battle were "TO" and "FT", so you won and "FT" was removed from the board.

This doesn't make sense to me. It seems to me that "TO" should only battle the opponent's "F" because the opponent has "TOUR" adjacent to "F".

If my interpretation was right, only "F" should have been removed.
Over simplifying but the real questions are - How long did it take to create - How long did it take to streamline manufacturing - What were the associated costs and so on. Then what's the real cost distribution over current practices. I'm sure the answer isn't a 1000$ and certainly not 5$ - but maybe something in between or a bit less? Articles like these are too simple and lack perspective for clicks...
That only works if you turn the wood into biochar. If you burn the tree down completely, only ash remains.
Not every student needs algebra 2. UC should be flexible on math requirement
LLMs for writing suck if you value good writing

But the vast majority of the world doesn’t, and LLMs are fine for the filler content that plagues the internet
https://archive.ph/3Ms2B
Poor man's attempt:

var speed = 50
// Prime the result output
for (col of [rin, bin, gin]) {
rin.valueAsNumber = 0
bin.valueAsNumber = 0
gin.valueAsNumber = 0
}
rin.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));

async function tryit(col, incr) {
// Increment a single color
col.valueAsNumber = col.valueAsNumber + incr
col.dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
submit.click()
await (new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, speed)));
var res_text = result.innerText.split(/[ ()%]/)[4]
if (res_text === "Splendid!") {
throw new Error("Finished")
}
return (parseInt(res_text))
}

async function trymany() {
// We need to iterate at least twice due to rounding
// in result percentage, sometimes making neighbouring
// colors have the same result.
var last_res = 0, max_tries = 3;
while (--max_tries > 0) {
for (col of [rin, gin, bin]) {
while (true) {
var new_res = await tryit(col, 1)
if (last_res >= new_res) {
// set last value and break
await tryit(col, -1)
break
}
last_res = new_res
}
}
}
}
await trymany()
No, the problem is that we don’t know how common it is.

We only know about the ones found.
Discussion two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764954
The GP did not state that pressure does not work. They stated how to they think one should think about people trying to pressure. Or about contributions. They named the industry's self inflicted problems.
Bird Flu Found in Michigan, Idaho Cows as Virus Spreads in US
you forgot the word People's
> It was never committed in plain sight.

It was though. I have seen those two test files being added by a commit on GitHub. Unfortunately it has been disabled by now, so I cannot give you a working link.
Russia and China Observer Joe Blogs YouTube Channel Hacked
The Joe Blogs Channel was hacked and hijacked on 29th March. At that time he had 360,000 subscribers, over 108 million views and around 1,000 videos. In this video he provides an update on the situation and says thanks for all of your support.
I don't understand - what is the moat to these companies?

I head over to their website: https://www.cognition-labs.com/

It's just a landing page. Some information about Devin, their main (only?) product:

https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin

Have they trained their own network? Is it a fine-tuned version of something else? Is it just some interface against another LLM?

Is it just some startup that's waiting to get acquired, based on hype and valuation alone?

So many questions.

EDIT: The article is paywalled, so can't read it.
Forgot to add before ./configure

cd openssh-9.7p1
Nope, given that it has a plugin architecture and in time it would have been everywhere.
https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/b1391e1c57be71c1e2a...
https://archive.is/Rgjny
It may look messy but this is really the minimal amount of info. You need the location of backup, operation, time for restoration, pattern to restore and the destination. If you already set up the backup part of restic, then this command shouldn't be hard to understand / reproduce at all.

You could maybe default to latest and default to restoring to ".", but that carries some risks. This is only as complex as necessary.
That'd be a distinct #66666 ... very boring middle grey. But not too bright.

This would of course just be the median colour. It'd be black and white film because it was cheaper, completely incorrectly exposed so that the blacks were bang at the bottom and the film would be much too high an ISO so it'd be grainy as hell. And there would be someone with a really bad hair cut smoking in it.

Source: still own my Zenit from back then :)
and that is the appropriate price for a collection of reddit(?)-messages grouped by topic.
May I ask why you want inkjet specifically?

In my experience, it’s often not worth it.

I have settled on a monochrome laser printer from Brother. It’s very reliable. Buying a toner cartridge is not exactly cheap but not really too expensive either. They last quite long. The printer itself does what it should, without hassle.

At least for me, I rarely have the need for printing in colour. And AFAIK, inkjets need regular use to not “clog up”. So I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t suite my common use-case.

In a situation where I must have color I can go to the office, or the local library. Or even a print shop if I need something really fancy. But honestly, I think the last time I printed something in colour was over five years ago.

Sometimes my wife print photos, but that can be ordered via Internet, so we haven’t found that to be a reason to buy an inkjet either.
> I think one solution could be in licenses that force companies/business of certain sizes to pay maintenance fees. One idea from the top of my head.

Yet people have huge opposition for those licenses. The big scream of "not free anymore" starts and the entity gets cancelled.
Is that really true?
You could just take whatever you want to describe to be part of the language and arrive trivially at a description length of 1...?
> The most consequential (rightly or wrongly) technologists of our time are failing to properly think about trust.

Because that's an insanely hard problem that's outside our area of expertise.

Consider how much money governments spend on all the red tape they add to increase trust. If there was naturally perfect objective alignment and trust I bet any infrastructure project would cost about 10% of what it does.
Tips for LLM Pretraining and Evaluating Reward Models
QA is gone. It's now DevOps, which includes the QA responsibilities implicitly. Most of which are in automated tests.
For anyone confused about why so many of the early comments on this story seem kinda dumb it is a combination of two things:

1. It took about 50 minutes before a link to a non-paywalled version of the story was posted so many early commentators were going just on the title, which normally works pretty well but can fail badly when the submitter does a poor job of picking a title.

2. The submitted title was "WSJ: AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue".
How is it clear that coding assistants have an upside for anyone past a complete beginner?

So far, the utility on existing codebases is less than zero.

> continue to improve quadratically

Using what metric?
You are already being tracked by your cell phone pings, how is this any different?
You can also restore the entire backup to /dev/null (this device has lots of free space) or pipe the output into a checksum generator. Borg also has a consistency checking command.
"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post."

Good enough to what? Give me a headache when I try to read any of the articles that Google coughs up when I search almost anything these days?

The auto-generated pap that passes for "good enough" is literally a tsunami of near-meaningless word-porridge that is burying the Web in nonsense. Might as well shove large chunks of lorem ipsum into your "articles" or "social media posts".
Yes and No.

Yes, insofar as you can trivially publish and be on Amazon or your website. Doesn't mean anyone will find you of course.

No, as in historically at least, getting published through a major publisher opened up the possibility of book tours, reviews in major publications, bookshelf space in stores, and various types of editorial assistance. That's all generally less the case than it used to be though.
If the cover is not already inside out, then grab two duvet corners in on hand and pass to one cover corner (inside the cover ofc.) use your free hand to pinch cover corner and one of the duvet corner from the outside. Now place the remaining corner inside the cover(keep pinching the other corner). Pull your arm out, pinch this corner, shake to align.
> The resulting country is also completely ungovernable.

Another way to look at it: By any reasonable measure — and for all its indisputable problems — the U.S. is clearly the most successful large, multi-ethnic society in all of human history. Sure, it's always a work in progress. But let's consider the movie, not just the freeze-frame.

When people can vote with their feet, it says something that net migration to the U.S. seems to dwarf that to, say, China [1] or India [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China

[2] https://www.indiaspend.com/governance/millions-of-indians-se...
Or the good (old) Scanner from http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ (a <1MB executable)
Bar Works
Indeed. For another wild example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
$2B is a low valuation for a company that ostensibly can replace most software developers.
More or less, yes. Also see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883598

Also: as far as I'm concerned there is no "peer pressure" here because these people aren't "peers". They're just some random people who, as near as I can tell, have done fuck all. There is not even an attempt to help out. Not even the question on how to help out. These people are supposed to be the maintainer's peers? Yeah nah. They're just shouty entitled internet nobodies that have not even attempted to contribute anything constructive or signal any willingness to do so (not even "I have been using the patch in production for half a year without problems", which would actually be a small but useful way to help out).

When it comes to these types of things you need to accept that you can't change every person in the world; you can only change yourself. If you cycle a lot you better learn to anticipate assholes doing asshole things. Is that fair? No. But it beats being run over and getting hospitalized, or worse.
If we ignore the information contained in the score numbers, only comparing which score is higher, we could optimize using ternary search (or golden-section search). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-section_search

(Note that binary search does not apply here. This is searching for an extremum, not a zero point.)

- Start at the range of 0-F, measure the score of 6 and 9 (2 tries)
- Depending on which is higher, narrow the range to 0-9 or 6-F
- Suppose the range is 0-9, measure the score of 3 and 6 (1 try. 6 is already measured)
- Narrow the range to 0-6 or 3-9
- Suppose the range is 0-6, measure the score of 2 and 3 (1 try. 3 is already measured)
- The worse case is 3's score is higher. The range is now 2-6. Since 2, 3, 6 are all measured, in the worst case you need 2 more tries for 4 and 5.
- The other case is 2's score is higher. The range is now 0-3 and 0, 2, 3 are all measured.

So in worst case there are 6 tries per slider. ~5 tries on average. I suspect this can be further optimized but I'll stop here :)
Didn't know about all these (especially some flags) so thank you! I've personally used the bisect feature a lot to track down WTF bugs and git blame is essentially embedded into VSCode for me with the git extension, which also helps a ton.
Organisations shield moles and infiltrators very effectively. They are
rarely alone. It may be harder to get in as an outsider, but once in
they've protections a lone wolf does not enjoy.

You can save a lot of time reading John LeCarre novels and take a
short summary like this one of Adam Curtis [0].

If you watched the recent Oppenheimer film you'll know the name Klaus
Fuchs. But what about Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt? If
MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are. almost by tradition stacked to the rafters with
defectors and spies, enclaves of enemies within, and enemies within
enclaves of enemies... how does anyone expect a commercial company
motivated by money and with such a weak perimeter as a "job market",
to do better?

Trust does not have an organisational solution.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9...
I have hard time grasping the NIMBY concept. How does it have a negative connotation? Why would anyone out of the blue willingly make their personal area worse? It's like asking for a quite significant donation out of nowhere.
All of those things affect your property value and life quality, why should anyone out of the blue have to be compelled to do that? If that is the case, they should be paid appropriately for the damage that a new building/infra causes there. You should spread out the damage, so increase taxes for everyone, and pay the damage from those taxes in a fair way.

I would also be opposed to anything that makes my neighborhood less desirable, it's all a property value drop. If my property is right now 300k, and new development makes it 250k, it's like I'm making a 50k donation out of nowhere. Now imagine, I bought the property on loan, and I owe 300k, and I have to essentially hand out 50k.

Why not also shame anyone who is unwilling to make donations that everyone else aren't compelled to make? If it's taxes, it's fine, but it makes no sense to have random or directed donation asks.
$2B is a low valuation for a company which can replace 1% of software developers.
A few minutes reflection on “who can I trust” would lead one to discard the extremely egalitarian ethos built up around open source software. But casting out meritless ankle-biters will immediately lead to being attacked as an unreconstructed egotist who needs to be hung from the neareat Code Of Conduct
Just wait until this becomes so big that like backblaze starts crashing on March 31st because of the flood of uploads.
Works where archive.{ph,md,is} is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=230782937255&w=NYG4LSGzXMn...
Can We Help Scholarly Journal Editorial Teams Escape the Commercial Publishers?
I think focusing on big organizations (e.g. above certain revenue/profit should help).

There must be some sweet spot, after all, the organizations that rely on it should want it to be maintained as well.
Where are talking about when it was supposedly burnt during the civil war with Caesar/Cleopatra? Or some other event?

> for hundreds of year
> Truely heartbreaking to think about about all the information we could of gleaned about their worldview from the annotations they made on those works.

It’s heyday supposedly lasted ~100 years. It was unavoidable though because how unstable rhe ancient world was. Basically you had to have an extremely stable central authority willing to dedicate enough resources to it for hundreds of years for that to happen. While in reality libraries like this rarely survived for longer than a few generations. Decentralization seems to be a lot more sustainable longterm (e.g. 50 medieval monasteries instead of a single massive centralized library)
Put it in a special folder that is ignored from the build.
As far as we know, they're rare...
Hah, this is definitely a cultural thing. Except that I’ve visited the US, I wouldn’t even be aware that blankets were still a thing; when I was a kid in the 90s duvets had already largely taken over (Ireland is a blanket -> duvet country).

Someone should make a map colour coded with this.
Hitler said a lot of common sense, otherwise the masses wouldn't agree with him. You mix common sense with common nonsense and you get convincing nonsense.
Nothing “just” about it. VMs weren’t cheap when the C world started using autoconf - that was a feature mostly known on IBM mainframes – and in any case that couldn’t do what you need. The goal is not to figure out what’s there on systems _you_ control, it’s to figure out what is actually available on the systems other users are building on. Think about just this library, for example, your dozen VMs wouldn’t even be enough to cover modern Linux much less other platforms but even if it was (drop most architectures and only support the latest stable versions for the sake of argument), you’d still need to build some reliable prober for a particular bug or odd configuration.

The problem here wasn’t the concept of feature detection but that it was sabotaged by someone trusted and easily missed in the noise of other work. What was needed was someone very carefully reviewing that commit or build output to notice that the lockdown feature was being disabled on systems where it was fully enabled, and we already know that maintainer time was in short supply. Any other approach would likely have failed because the attacker would have used the same plausible sounding language to explain why it needed to be a complicated dynamic check.
In battles, weak words compromise all of their letters. "TOUR" would be safe, but the "FT" ruins the "T" by making it part of an invalid word — and an invalid word that loses is removed in its entirety.

Thanks for pointing it out! It's something we have had come up before, and the sort of thing we keep iterating the tutorial toward explaining better, so we'll take another crack at it!
The computer did not look like 1994 to me either because of the more rounded aesthetics, the CD drive, and kind of because there's no 5.25" disk instead (something has to fill that bay). Also the bundled speakers.

The internet says it came out in 1995. http://pbplanet.info/wiki/index.php/Force_482CDT Which seems like a quibble, but Windows 95 changed everything.
Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
I'm unable to access reddit via browser when using VPN. I see an error message both on regular 'reddit.com', as well as 'old.reddit.com' subdomain.

This is new develompent. They started blocking VPN access on their regular website three months ago[1], but back then 'old' subdomain still worked; today it no longer does.

I'm testing with desktop Safari and NordVPN from EU; curious if others are seeing similar results.

[1]: I posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666028
Phrasing it as the "Western understanding" of how market economies work suggests there's an alternative, perhaps in your view more correct, understanding of how markets work. Usually we don't use the phrase "Western understanding of gravity", despite it being originally formalized in the West.

Is that your intention here? If so, what would be a more suitable market environment to allow for your production of no-name inkjet printers? :)
Hotdog or not?