skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t know if they overlap in general but for SpaceX and Tesla specifically there seems to be significant overlap/sharing of technology. Like development of metal alloys and, if I remember correctly, using Tesla motors as actuators in Starship?

>>I’m guessing there’s also significant overlap in electronics development. I know the automotive sector has special requirements for chips and electronics, and I’m guessing SpaceX uses some of the same requirements/methodology for in-house electronics design.

This, but even companies like Nissan had an aerospace division (it was in Sunnyvale near the AMES NASA location) at one point (prior to the Renault partnership) which it sold to IHI in 2000 [0]. The engineering and tooling fabrication necessary in aerospace often overlaps with auto, obviously to much higher fault tolerances. And lastly companies like Nissan (brand I'm most aligned with despite not owning anything made since Ghosn took over) still dip their toes and make prototypes like these as a PR exercise [1] with partnerships with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for example.

Lots of talent floats back and forth at Tesla/SpaceX between the two, the lady that did my interview at SpaceX (Browning) was the same one I met at Tesla in Fremont, and there were a few other heads I recognized that day from Model 3 hell/ramp, too.

I'm sure contractors and sub contractors for specific parts/assembly lines could also overlap, but the truth is I'm not privy to all those finer nuances that go into making a specific bolt or suspension piece but from conversation with people who do those things as suppliers/general contractors it is a common thing.

I lived with an elderly couple in Switzerland who owned a company that repaired assembly lines for bun machines for Burger King but also helped provide specific tasks for the development of the tools/machinery for the Euro-fighter program for example.

PS: Elon is cosplaying an aerospace engineer, the fact you cannot tell is why this narrative around him exists despite him showing how incompetent of a CEO he REALLY is with Twitter/X when he can't take credit for other more talented people's work.It's the leadership and dedication of Shotwell--an actual aerospace engineer with experience in both auto and aerospace--you should really be impressed by regarding SpaceX's success, Elon just funded/paid for it which is a vital but far less impactful part of the equation.

The man doubted Falcon Heavy until the day it launched for FFS!

0: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/02/14/national/nissan...

1: https://global.nissannews.com/en/releases/release-db8318528a...
Mosh is indeed glorious, esp when tethering over a spotty mobile connection. I just wish they would support gpg forwarding, otherwise chefskiss.
sending another customer's data to the wrong customer.
Some more feedback after trying to play the game again in a mode where I'd at least be certain of the outcome of my own moves:

- Opening the dictionary lookup requires two clicks, and then a third to focus the text entry. It needs a hotkey, and must focus the text entry no matter how it was opened.

- I'd expect to be able to dismiss the dictionary lookup page with Esc, but it requires yet one click.

- The dictionary lookup covers up parts of the board, and makes the visible parts hard to read. This makes looking up multiple words in one go pretty inconvenient.
Does 'similar cost' include all the down-stream healthcare and lost productive life years cost?
Its been 58 days since launch. Other than the initial first time/week mostly wow reviews, I haven't seen continued chatter about usage.
The engine intakes will be blocked by the body in high angle of attack.
SAFE looking at scrum affectuously from afar...
Getting a new manager who lies to their reports and their manager.
It would be interesting to see what the most common compile feature checks are for, and see what alternative ways could be used to make the same information available to a build system — it seems like any solution that requires libraries being updated to “export” information on the features they provide would have difficulties getting adoption (and not be backwards compatible with older versions of desired dependencies).
I think it was somewhat irresponsible to block everything. It hampers instigation of the repo's history. It's good that Lasse had another mirror.
This was news … 5 years ago, I think, I don’t know why it blew up again. But context matters:

Onavo provided a compression + VPN service for people traveling; they let users use little or no data while roaming, and still get internet access. I do not know what their original business plan was, but Facebook bought them for the ability to spy on users.

Their MITM was, in fact, the raison d’etre of Onavo. And then, they were bought by Facebook. And then there was just some more analytics added. At no point, as I understand it, was it built explicitly for evil - and I suspect very few employees were in on the real reasons.

Plausible deniability works for many things.
There are two factors to this.

1. If your partner is not in a PhD program themselves, then you can rely on them during what I call “crunch time”, and there are a few of those in every PhD when you’re doing 16 hour days 7 days a week just to get something out of the door. Single students don’t get that luxury and thus inevitably have to be miserable during that period.

2. Secondly, successfully navigating a relationship/marriage takes a lot of the same skills as successfully navigating a PhD. A good PhD at the end of the day is built on a lot of compromises: between your vision and your advisors’, the fields’, your collaborators, and if you’re interning, your industry partners. A relationship teaches you how to navigate that without burning bridges, which may not be true for a headstrong “I’m gonna change the world but I don’t know how” PhD students.
Yes, I think that’s what made this attack so effective: that kind of abuse is normalized in much of the tech world so it’s very easy to miss that in this targeted case it was coming from accounts with no prior involvement in the community. I like the open feel we’ve had for the last 3 decades but I do think this will likely mean a lot of projects becoming less open, which is warranted but going to suck for people trying to start a career.
OpenAI held back release that can clone a voice in 15 seconds for safety concern
Never connect a TV to any network. If you need to update it do it by USB stick.
The real question is how that gets defined. We have multiple sources which disagree.

All I can say about my original post is that I've been in that area in the evenings after it gets dark and there's no lights which would seem to suggest that there's no one living there.

Additionally, I've looked in the ground floors of a few blocks and they look as though they've never been occupied.

If you're in Dublin it's well worth going down to the Point when it's dark and counting the number of apartments with lights on.
Speak for yourself. It's enough for plenty of people, myself included.
Compiler tampering is a species of malevolence I try not to think about so I can continue to code in a somewhat sane matter, lest I crumble like a lovecraftian protagonist
These energy levels are all relative, though. If you’ve spent most of your life in a depressed state, then suddenly having energy (possibly because you’re dealing with your mental health for the first time) then a lot of things are going to look like “hypomania” in comparison and I feel like that is the case for a lot of people.
> Would you bat an eye at this? If it were from a trusted developer and the code was part of a test case?

well lets all agree that now, if we see commits affecting / adding binary data with "this was generated locally with XYZ", that now we will bat an eye at it.
> So I still don't see a big difference here between 90 meals and 90 houses for 100 people.

The difference is that once the meals are consumed, that's it. 91st in line can't buy food no matter what. No amount of money is going to produce the 91st meal. As such, when food stocks are tight, you cannot rely on price to determine the buyer. You have to resort to some other mechanism. Given the limited information you provided, it would appear that you chose a first-come, first-served mechanism.

On the other hand, 91st in line for a house, if he has enough money, will buy a house from someone in the first 90 who got there first. There is always a house for sale. They don't disappear (freak disasters excepted). They are not consumable items. Even during the tightest inventory periods we've ever witnessed, there were still many houses available for sale.

Price can continue to determine the buyer here. Those who cannot afford them leave the market. Economically, this is not a 90 houses for 100 people situation. If there are 90 houses, then only 90 people will remain in the market. The other 10 are priced out. Those 10 are not market participants, they are simply dreamers. Dreamers don't count.

Socially, there can be a 90 houses for 100 people situation. I get you are wishing you could use shortage here, but what are you communicating? Everything with a price attached has more people dreaming of ownership than there are units available. That's why there is a price attached. That's literally what price is for – to reduce the number of potential buyers until the number of buyers matches the number of units available for sale, with price increasing until that is satisfied. Basic supply and demand.

When using shortage to include dreamers, everything is in shortage, always. What is the point in drawing particular attention to something that is always the case? It's pointless. You are not saying anything. Nothing has been communicated.
I mean yes, tons of discussion has moved to places like Discord to disappear forever.

But unlike the previous poster, who blames the information creator for revoking what they published, why are we not blaming the actual abusers? Every site that is build on growth, Facebook, Google, Reddit, et al eventually turns into an authoritarian capitalist nightmare dystopia. Gobble up, lock down, and extract wealth.
I like being told what to make. Clearly defined requirements of a problem that I have the skillset to solve - that's my dream, not my nightmare.

My nightmare tends to be times when I'm told to make something that includes x, y, and z technologies, but just make it flexible enough to handle whatever problem we think we might want to solve with our vague mission statement. (Oh, and hurry up!)
I'm not looking for a loophole or a legal hypothetical, I'm wondering if our laws are keeping up, which they very often do not with tech.

This is not unauthorized access, but is also clearly wrong. I'm wondering if its illegal, or if its unauthorized access . . .
What lead to it was the fact he was already micro-benchmarking postgresql along with a couple of other bits of fluke. We were all extremely lucky.
Data brokerage is big business, and the revenue share is significant enough for many businesses to hold their nose, turn their head, and sign on.
That kind of thinking is such self-defeating misery. If you have something to contribute, it doesn't matter where you go. You go to the University of Nowhere In Particular and make it a center of the new hot subject in research. If you can't do that, then it doesn't matter if you go to MIT or TIM or whatever, because that's just a way to earn renown from the work of others, rather than your own.
This is very likely just a mistake and not deliberate.

a) absolutely nobody uses cmake to build this packet

b) if you try to build the packet with cmake and -DENABLE_SANDBOX=landlock, the build just fails: https://i.imgur.com/7xbeWFx.png

The "." does not disable sandboxing, it just makes it impossible to build with cmake. If anyone had ever actually tried building it with cmake, they would get the error and realize that something is wrong. It makes absolutely no sense that this would be malicious attempt to reduce security.
> Do people not want 3rd-party Mastodon or Matrix clients

No, there isn't a reasonably sized market for many 3rd party Mastodon or Matrix clients.
> it should significantly enhance the human civilization in one or multiple domains (so things like rendering Mandelbrot set infinitely faster does not cut it IMO

I feel compelled to note that "greatness cannot be planned" [1] and often things that significant enhance human civilization didn't seem like that at first.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKazBM3b74I
Drawing/sketching.

Apropos of the other HN article on the elder mathematician who credits his success by studying the simple things until he understands them really, really well, I'm practicing drawing boxes in any/every orientation in 3D space. This includes drawing two boxes connected by a common edge - imagine a box with a lid the same size as the box itself, slightly opened.

For me this is profoundly difficult to visualize. I've taken to learning the basics of Blender just so I can create these various boxes accurately to use as reference material. It's been slow going but the progress is tangible and the process is fun.
Rattlesnakes on Santa Catalina Island have learned to be unusually aggressive
That’s one of the links in the original article, which postdates the workaround in clang. It doesn’t explain why the incorrect ABI was previously worked around in clang instead of fixed in LLVM.
Things out of my control. Spending days tracking down a bug only to find that there is no mitigation other than modifying some upstream library. Bonus terror: deploying the changes would involve numerous clients also out of the team's control. Cue weeks and months of begging to make the upgrades.

(Edit: one more:)
Deploying changes that don't have an easy rollback mechanism. E.g. a risky change involving apps or browser cookies, and both deploy and rollback take e.g. a day.
I heard of this project on HN sometime last year, I never used their instance but I have been using their YouTube UBO filters and even contributed to fix some after some YouTube updates.

And the UBO filters are fairly easy to maintain which is why I was a little surprised that they are shutting down this project, I understand the instance might be hard to maintain but the filters can very well be maintained I think.

Either way, there seems to be other alternatives that do similar things. I will likely be using those then.
I was pretty careful to credit Tesseract.js - it's linked at the top of the tool itself https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr and prominently in the article I wrote: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/

What else should I have done?
There are no code review on packets with 1 active maintainer.
Apologies in advance for the swear words, but this deserves swear words.

WHO FUCKING GRANDSTANDS ENDLESSLY ABOUT CYBERTHREATS AND THE NEED FOR BETTER SECURITY?

WHO FUCKING SITS ON BILLIONS IF NOT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FUNDING?

That would be the FUCKING GOVERNMENTS OF THE FIRST WORLD. Whose modern economies increasingly rest on open source to a degree they possibly don't understand.

Yes I understand part of this comes from funding from another part of these governments. Oh well, cat and mouse. Once we wrung our hands over these governments having power over these. Well, these days we are facing far more totalitarian state threats and totalitarian wannabes in the private sector.

Government save me, as the less totalitarian option!

Linux and BSD the operating systems should UNQUESTIONABLY be funded to the degree of multiple billions per year by, I'll just put it, "NATO". Here's the true value of open source in this model: it is the perfect public record, unlike untold other aspects of government output.

You must produce public vetted code in Linux/BSD.

This person should not have been "a person". This should have been 5 people, funded likely at least 10-50k/year for their roles.

The described "hit" by the intel services of course is frighteningly easy. But what is most horrid is that this poor person is being subject to very common abuse that comes from non-state-actor manipulation. The article says it:

"this is where our software comes from" -- this poor dude that is trying to help and being abused by state actors on one hand, and ridden thanklessly and for no monetary or fame benefit by massively deep pocketed corporations, governments, and billionaires.

For all of Linus's famous swearing abilities, he hasn't used it to address this publicly. He should be dressing down all corporations and governments at this point that need Linux. There isn't a "going back" from Linux at this point to some closed source option.

Linus and Linux have massive sway here. They could threaten to stop work on the kernels.

I guess fundamentally, this makes me angry because this is basically bullying the nerd in high school to get his homework/answers. The nerds need to realize their power here.

Other vulnerabilities snuck through the commit chain? I get that, usual spy stuff. They actually kind of messed up here. Usually it is within the "cordiality" of things, just quietly ride the overworked unpaid nerd to benefit. Here they inadvertently exposed the real truth of everything: the hidden contempt we treat these people with as a society.
OpenAI reveals Voice Engine, but won't yet release the AI voice-cloning tech
Yes, the eat and exercise thing has never been tried. Why didn't anyone think of this first?

Next up, the "just don't do bad things" approach to improving society. It's genius!
I didn't say there's anything wrong, I meant that choosing the OS distribution with the oldest packages isn't an indication for how widespread the distribution of this package was.
When I was getting my undergraduate degree one of my chemistry professors taught us that "I don't know" is one of the most important sentences a scientist can and should say. You will be viewed as a source of knowledge or as an expert, do not fill people with BS or guesses.
Unfold: Modern Django admin theme for seamless interface development
What do you mean?

That there are tasks out there that some ought to do for free if someone else thinks these should be done for free?

The "pay what you think it is worth" model is not a scalable and viable approach. It most likely only works when everything costs money and "pay what you think" is a novelty that gains sympathy and attention.

But as soon as the novelty wears off it is not a sustainable approach.
As a counter example, I will offer my own experience in graduate school. I was one of the few married students and observed that nearly all the successful graduates students had the following in common:

1. They had competent PhD advisors
2. The advisors had stable funding sources
3. They were single

Of those three, #1 and #2 were by far the most important. Certain professors just knew how to run a good lab and were able to shepherd their students through the program efficiently.

As for the impact of #3, I found as a married student I had to balance my research and teaching responsibilities with the needs of my spouse. It added a level of mental and emotional stress my single colleagues didn’t have to deal with.

Ultimately, my balancing act was unsuccessful. I eventually dropped out of my PhD program and ended up divorced.

So yeah, based on my anecdotal (N=1) experience, being married doesn’t not help you to be successful in graduate school.
I see, so we’re still fetching the metadata to gpu, and rescaling on gpu, just on-demand and discarding metadata when we’re done with that layer?

Why not do the same optimization for layer weights themselves?
From what I can tell there is no actual code with this ebook. It is just posts from Reddit with coding ideas. This post should be removed.
Imho, the correct way to evaluate corporate potential corporate trust is on self-interest.

In Microsoft, Google, and Apple's cases, they all have substantial enterprise business that would shit a brick if they were caught doing this.

Ergo, it's not in their best interest to do it.

Safer to rely on a company's desire to make money than any sense of "good".
This comment reminds me of another comment I read some years back on this site. There was discussion about newsletters/mail advertising and one of the writers of such software that power it chimed in.

All of the "legitimate" mailers have a disclaimer that says it can take up to X number of days before the changes take effect, which normal developers were obviously calling BS on.

The commenter said it wasn't intentionally written to be slow at his company but they deal with massive lists. But then the commenter said his company could probably make it faster or near instantaneous but when a user indicates that they want to unsubscribe from their spam they have gone from a potential source of revenue to being valued at zero. He complained that it made no sense to make the unsubscriber's lives better by immediately unsubscribing them instead of focusing his time on trying to make sure the spam got out to more people.

It was a thoughtful, rational comment that made me want to be a better developer instead of scum that makes the world worse.

I applaud the project author for not being scum.

Edit: andsoitis edited his comment after being downvoted. Here is the original reply I replied to.

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> I have to applaud taking even "failed" projects serious enough to come up with a reasonable exit plan (unlike some large companies).

That's time the author will never get back that they could have spent on their new mission.

Maybe it only took them 5 minutes, but I doubt it. Even if it was no time, it reveals a mental model that I think will continue to lead to their frustration.

When they say "This project is making the commercial web more bearable, but I'd rather spend my energy on making the non-commercial web more attractive." it is saying they would rather spend time making their 800 users get a soft landing spot for a product that the author has said is futile, than spend their energy on their new mission.

The next sentence I think is reveals more: "I want to support communities and applications that respect their users and value what we have to say." If those communities and apps already respect their users, then do they need this author? What difference would they make?
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I followed the given instructions on my MacOSX 10.15.7 following brew installs of vagrant and virtualbox, but running vagrant up resulted in

==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key
default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...
...
Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot. This means that Vagrant was unable to communicate with the guest machine within the configured ("config.vm.boot_timeout" value) time period.

I cannot find any config.vm.boot_timeout in Vagrantfile
Canada unfortunately too focused on itself to bother with such things as international trade, which is why Mexico passed Canada as the largest trading partner with the US for the first time just last year. Sadly will prly remain that way for a long time to come.
Can you add some detail to that second one, sounds interesting!!
Imagine if it was 1 million million trees... AKA 1 trillion...
It’s telling that your examples are theoretical physics, math, and computer science.

You should visit a lab that does actual experiments. I don’t think anyone is doing cryo electron microscopy in their spare time. Most science just takes a lot of time and money. No way around it.

Also, most research is incremental, and thats’s totally fine. People lionize the “great men” like Einstein who have these earth-shattering discoveries, but those aren’t really worth anything without the decades of exploration and hundreds of scientists testing theories and figuring out their consequences and implications.