skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Either way, it's your preference and I will follow your lead. Jia Tan

> It's out of the scope for this patch, but it is something worth considering. Just trying to do my part as a helper elf! Jia Tan

Sounds like someone pulling the strings and using the "it's your idea, I'm just following!" strategy.

My hunch from reading over all the language used is that this person spent a good deal of time in America and has a carefully crafted 'customer service' manner of speaking. I may be wrong on the spending time in America part, but they are most definitely used to putting people at ease with their word choice.

I also found this bit interesting, as it's one of the few times they referred to "us" and "we"

> https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00644.h...

> Please let us
know if there are any concerns about the license change. We are looking
forward to releasing 5.6.0 later this month!
I run the docker container locally. As far as I can tell, it doesn't call home or anything (from reading the source and from opensnitch). It is just a cgo wrapped llama.cpp that provides an HTTP API. It CAN fetch models from their library, but you can just as easily load in your own GGUF formatted llama models. They implement a docker-like layers mechanism for model configuration that is pretty useful.
Given up? Not really...my goal is to promote the dissolution of large corporations and big tech in particular and I think that is entirely possible.
Thanks for the great reply! I definitely need to take a closer look.
Ex-Workers at Temu Parent Say Noncompete Penalties Crush Their Finances
Of course MS wants to stay in the good graces of its biggest customer
https://archive.ph/CPYUi
Unfortunately a lot of legal protections for unsolicited spam only apply to consumer usage. For b2b, every marketer with the ability to know your email address is entitled to send you as many messages as they want.

If it wasnt walled, it would be completely unusable.
To be honest, I’m less worried about the person(s) behind the alias. It can be anybody at this point.

Maybe it’s China? Or maybe it’s Russia using Chinese VPNs and aliases? Oh wait maybe it’s Israel…

These are questions that the political asshats down in Washington DC ask every time shit like this happens. It’s almost always inconclusive.

I would rather focus attention on what can be done to improve software supply chain security.
Villain lair!
It is free.. So why not just audit the source personally to put your mind at ease and build locally if that’s a major concern of yours?
Guessing based on years old physics knowledge: Without the fluid, the surface of the stone appears foggy because it's diffusing light (like frosted glass.) The fluid creates a smooth surface on top of that which doesn't diffuse light (like clear glass.) The refractive index refers to how much light bends when it enters a substance. To see clearly, the refractive index of the fluid and the stone should match as closely as possible. Otherwise, the surface of the stone would still be visible under the fluid.
Does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
Taming PostgreSQL WAL File Growth
Vim has Motions, Commands, and Commands that affect Motions.

Move-by-word is a motion: w

Search is a motion: /foo

Next match is a motion: n

Delete is a command that takes a motion:

* dw
* dn
* d/bar

...nearly ad-infinitum. (eg: numeric repetition is a command that takes a command or a motion: 3dw, 3j)
While something like GPT4 cannot "do more research before answering a question", it is well established that telling an LLM it's an expert in something and asking it to spell out the steps in it's decision making process does make it more accurate in it's responses.
All of them increase risk of cancer (EDIT: upon further review, maybe not all of them? Or maybe just with combination therapy?) and severe infection. Many of the biologics are also quite new, and the long term effects of taking them are not well understood. Plus, in some cases they don't work well enough alone and so multiple drugs are required (a biologic in combination with something like methotrexate or azathioprine is typical), which further increases risks. Anecdotally, I know of a couple people who had bizarre and severe immune reactions to biologics that left doctors baffled, so that's something that can also occur, apparently.

Also some people are just prescribed steroids like prednisone for whatever reason, which has some pretty negative long term effects.
probably april's fools but not a good one. a good one would be "google is shutting down ads"
I wasn't luck with my iPod Nano 3rd Gen however. Recently took it out of the box and I had the same issue with the battery swelling.

The battery pushed on the screen causing a dark spot. It is apparently a common issue with iPods. I will order a replacement battery and fingers crossed I can also revive this little guy. While it was connected with the cable it worked great. And there is an app called Flooza or something that's kinda like a light iTunes that let you manage everything on it.

I didn't make a heavy use of the MBP so there's that. Took it to India though! It survived a night long trip from Delhi to Dharamshala. There was such insane potholes and the bus was shaking so much, and the laptop was in my baggage at the underside of the bus. I thought it was done for :P

I guess it's a nice thing about old hardware is they have a story.
This is the first that I am hearing about the reversal. I am a bit disappointed, but I did see news about the rollout. It was pretty intense and probably not much regulation. So, is this a reactionary response to minority issues or was there a consistent issue?

> Whilst the majority of users seem to be fine, it can absolutely and seriously ruin some people's mental health.

I never doubt that marijuana can negatively affect certain people with the potential for mental health issues, but are there any hard science about the affect on mental health? You mention "majority" vs "some". Is that 51/49? 99.99/.01? The former sounds significant; the latter sounds like a stat to push an agenda.
Haha its the funny day where we all post unfunny misinformation
My experience with more traditional (non-Whisper-based) diarization & transcription is that it's heavily dependent on how well the audio is isolated. In a perfect scenario (one speaker per audio channel, well-placed mics) you'll potentially see some value from it. If you potentially have scenarios where the speaker's audio is being mixed with other sounds or music, they'll often be flagged as an additional speaker (so, speaker 1 might also be speaker 7 and 9) - which can make for a less useful summary.
I feel like we've all accidentally dabbled in self-harm enough to make up our minds on it. I've stubbed my toe and wacked my elbow on enough sharp objects to know it's not for me.
No. Eg of the hardware discussed on the article, the Raspberry Pi uses an ASIC that's slow, cheap and low power vs the Intel or AMD chips.

In some cases ASICs are faster than general purpouse CPUs, but usually not.
In Praise of Resource Description Framework (RDF)
I wrote a blog post on something that I find is often misunderstood and under-appreciated: Resource Description Framework (RDF). I explain what RDF is, what it is not, when you may need it, and its virtues and vices. RDF is good to know about in our increasingly AI-dominated world, since it has its roots in knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), which is a field of AI, known as good-old-fashioned symbolic AI.

I explain RDF first as a data model and compare its pros and cons with relational and property graph model. I then explain RDF and the standards around RDF, such as RDFS and OWL, as a "knowledge representation system". I cover RDF's roots in knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), traditional symbolic AI systems. I also discuss several directions I have seen people pursue to improve LLMs with RDF-based or more broadly KRR-based technology (see especially the link to Doug Lenat's last article (I think) on the subject before he passed on).

It's a bit of a long read but I hope people find it useful to think about RDF.
Fair enough! I agree with that and looks like I missed your main point.

It’s a bit naive and generally ahistorical to think we’ve “transcended paradigms”, whether within tech or outside. It’s similar to the bias of thinking that current year/western/majority perspectives are “enlightened” and free of bias. Usually just means we’re unable to see the bigger picture.
Until you start comparing the bandwidth/speed of that RAM and SSD, at least…
One of the nice things about concrete -- if done right -- is that it produces emissions only once. We have Roman concrete structures which were still standing 1500 years later (and went down due to war, rather than wear).
There was a time when I thought this sort of gamification might turn out to be a good idea for me to try. Then I realized I have a hard enough time wrestling my brain into a state where I can enjoy games purely for fun in my free time.

This would be immediately labeled a distraction from real work in my mind and would have no effectiveness whatsoever. I'm also not motivated by competitions between teams to achieve various stats for silly rewards. Just show me what needs to be done to make progress on the company's actual goals and let me figure out what I think is the best way for me to help.
And since you did the audit yourself, you could help out the maintainers by adding a privacy policy.
I don't care anymore if you take me seriously. The fact you are so in denial about the extent of what is happening makes me think you're not arguing in good faith. Maybe you wrote the blog post?

In your defense, I'm sure the general trend over like 30 years is that air travel has gotten safer, probably because of increased use of autopilot and other software, and general equipment advances. However, that does not disprove the fact that there is a recent spate of ridiculous failures that probably haven't even made it to statistics yet. Shall we overlook a dramatic increase in embarrassing incidents because the larger trend is downward? I don't think so.

I do appreciate the clarification about an industry definition of incident vs. accident. By your own definition, incidents and accidents appear to be on the rise. If you believe every stat that the government comes up with, I have a bridge to sell you. When they don't like a number, they redefine it and keep calling it by the same name. Just like CPI, unemployment, GDP, etc. Or average temperatures. We do need stats but you have to think critically about where they come from and who would be blamed if they were bad.
I think this is a really important point. Every commercial contract I've been involved in has clauses that are intended to mitigate supplier risk, eg that they go out of business, and the contracts people do due diligence on suppliers to vet that they are who they say, try to eliminate the one-person operations, and generally mitigate risk if they really need the code but the only supplier is a tiny startup.

Perhaps large corpos need to apply their standard risk mitigation lens to their supply chain. Their stack or their security depends on these 390 packages. 27 of them have less than 3 maintainers. Recommendation: find alternatives.
I believe this video had the comments iI'm referring to. However, it has been a while since I watched it:

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw45-pa-g...
Sure, if you're running a customer service chatbot, you can ask customers what the problem is, then start running rag async to populate a proper context for a smart LLM, and have the chatbot continue asking some questions to clarify details to give the background RAG process time to fetch data and run a quick summary, then have the chatbot give some indication it's thinking, run the full context query on the smart LLM, generate a summary answer then feed it back to the chat LLM and say "I may have found a solution to your problem" then switch to the response from the smart LLM.
Nitpicking but it's rare I get to use my trove of useless knowledge about Mega Man -- I'm guessing the games being referenced at the end and final PCB image are actually Mega Man X2 and X3. I tried to follow the snescentral link cited as the image source but the page isn't working for me (edit: the site is up, it was a me issue)

I was confused at first because Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3 are NES games, not SNES!
My wife is on a biologic for psoriatic arthritis. We are scared of the long term impacts around cancer. Within 8 years of being on various biologics she was diagnosed with cancer late last year in her early 40s. No family history of cancer.

We have no evidence biologics caused it but the fact that they reduce t-cell activity, it is definitely plausible. That is why all of them disclose the blanket cancer risks. She is not currently cancer free but we are concerned that the next one will be something with a much worse 5 year outlook

We would rather her not be on them but they are the best thing that currently exists.
One of those shogi chips was actually a 32 bit ARM processor:

https://snescentral.com/chips.php?chiptype=ST018
I wouldn't say this is where humans suck. On the contrary, this how we find human language is such a fantastic tool to serialize and deserialize human mental processes.

Language is so good, that an artificial language tool, without any understanding of these mental processes, can appear semi-intelligent to us.

A few people unable to do this serialization doesn't mean much on the larger scale. Just that their ideas and mental processes will be forgotten.
TIL. Would it be better to say that Prolog is a general purpose PL, albeit more archaic than what we typically think of?
Yep the 8GB RAM is definitely a limit. I haven't done much coding on it yet tbh, for the light use I make of docker (php/apache/mariadb/vueJS) the RAM seems just ok. And it wouldnt run games that require more RAM anyway. (ps: for VSCode I did what was suggested online and turned off a bunch of extensions I don't really need).

In my case I had a left over 240 GB Samsung SSD from my last PC build. Replaced it with a 1TB nvme. So it was nice to also use a left over SSD. :)

Since then I read I could put a 1TB in it if I wanted - but that seems overkill as it's going to be more of a backup laptop.

What makes the experience so nice is in Ubuntu it would also show a nice popup for the media keys like volume up/down and brightness.
Your compiler also falls under that bucket, though.
It sounds like you absolutely did sign up for the emails, though.

I'm not sure how you could "unwillingly technically sign up" for something like that, especially at the scope of an MLB team which is going to have a team of lawyers, marketing policies, etc. They're not just going to spam people the risk is way too high.
An Erlang actor like model where a program’s sub components call each other by message passing with each having its own security context may work.

However, there are multiple security contexts at play in an operating system; with regards to the XZ backdoor it’s mostly about capability based security at the module level, but you also have capabilities at the program level, and isolation at the memory level (paging), isolation at the micro architectural level, and so on. Ensuring all of these elements work together while still delivering performance seems to be rather challenging, and it’s definitely not possible for the Unix-likes to make a move to such a model because of the replacement of the concept of processes.
> the number of people who increasingly choose to die is startling.

I expected this sentence to be followed by some statistics, but the article didn't give any. The review committee does publish yearly reports: https://www.euthanasiecommissie.nl/de-toetsingscommissies/ui...

The total number (8720 in 2022) is indeed increasing. But the number due to psychiatric disorders was 115, and the number of people under 30 was only 28. To me it seems like the case reported here was a (tragic) outlier. The vast majority was elderly people with terminal diseases, as you'd expect.
They probably meant "murderer", not "murder". First search using that instead resulted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_massacre
> systemd and libsystemd is an absolute mess

how? Because they link against a third-party library?

> is there a dependency graph that would show how many programs use a specific utility library

Agree, important topic

> is there a dependency graph that would show how many programs use a specific utility library

Depends on the distro, but your package manager should be able to do that. On a global scale, that's likely impossible, because there's no true register of how programs are linked - in fact, the inclusion of libsystemd was distro-specific
IMO: Global Integrated Shipping Information System (Gisis)
So I guess I hacked Samsung?
I live in Sri Lanka (~7° N) and the one thing I can't get used to is that the Sun will, at some point in the year, come from any given direction. There are all sorts of architectural assumptions in the temperate regions that don't work in the tropics.
This isn't even really a fairness thing: The headline left out a critical, factual piece of information. "America is divided" leaves out the clear distribution along political lines. It's not likes support for child labor is uniformly and randomly distributed across political or demographic lines on the issue--it is clearly supported by one party and opposed by the other. By leaving this fact out, the headline is softening the blow and providing cover.
What someone learnt when they replaced their Pi 5 with a Amazon mini desktop
CasaOS – A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system
I can sympathize with the author. I've lived in France for nearly ten years, I'm on track to become a French citizen, and I've even argued a case in front of a French court and won. But, yet, speaking French still sometimes feels like wading through waist high water, like I don't really know the language, I've just memorized a bunch of n-grams.

I've sort of accepted that that's how it's going to be. I still study new French every single day, but I'm never going to be as smooth or as funny as I am in English. But it's given me a new perspective, and a new sense of understanding, for other immigrants I encountered back in the US growing up.
This could be a pretty interesting use case for a botnet as well, compromise computers, compromise email accounts, for the sole purpose of selling the ability to mass-spam your competitors. Obviously immoral but simply from a technical standpoint I'm wondering if it would work and what scale you'd need for it to be effective.
So all of Fabrice Bellard's projects (https://bellard.org/) should not exist?
I disagree. The spacing of the stylized TeX/LaTeX logo is very sensitive to the font used (especially the LA pair); most LaTeX users already don't adjust it when they use a font other than Computer Modern. Even when they can see the A halfway on top of the L, they don't change the spacing.

But with PDF you at least have the knowledge that the font will be the same no matter who sees it. Webpages have no such guarantees (and indeed some people disable web fonts completely for whatever reasons) and it will only end up looking ugly as hell.

On the web, the typographer's instructions are more of a suggestion, and we should lean into a more declarative style of layout, instead of trying to hack up something resembling precise position that will end up looking completely out of place anyways. I say this remembering in horror the many websites where people wanted the staggered look, and ended up producing a monstrocity.
API and mobile app are blocked because of multimodality conflict with EU legislation (images etc)
GHunt – Offensive Google Framework
That's a smart way to do it. When I was in this situation without having thought of that, I ended up chunking the monster commit into as small changes as possible with `git add -p`, and then used git rebase as my bisect (since I didn't know how bisect worked either) by rewinding through time until i had found the micro-commit that contained the error.
Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and 'proud' of past work
EV companies are hungry for Argentina's lithium. Little is left for Argentines
> What specifically are teh workflow issues people have with teams?

Quoting myself regarding workflow: Two problems with information are duplication (too many copies around, all of them slightly different) and finding where it is. MS Teams makes it easy to store duplicate data and hard to find it later: did you upload the data as a file in the "development" channel, or as a link in the "updates" wiki? Nobody knows, not even the search function. And with each new project manager creating five channels per project, only two of which will actually see any activity...

> When the meeting comes I click the link, everyeone's face shows up, we have the meeting and then close teams.

When I get a Teams link I first try to open the web interface - there used to be a native Linux client, but it has been discontinued. That interface has consistently failed me for at least two years - it enters an infinite loop where I can join a meeting but get kicked out immediately with no explanation in Firefox, Chromium and Chrome. Nowadays I can only join from my phone.

> cant' think of a single time its failed me or crashed or slowed down during a meeting.

When MS imposed Teams on us during the pandemic I had to request a new laptop because the one I had could not keep up - it was fine for PyCharm which is not precisely lightweight, but Teams was just too much. Whenever I had a meeting I had to close all other programs. And do you know what what was in short supply during the pandemic? Toilet paper. But also laptops. So I spent several months dreading every single meeting until I could replace my perfectly-good machine with a newer model.

I have so many issues with Teams that it's not even funny anymore.
Show HN: I built an affordable cold email tool for Startups and SMBs
Yeah, it's all a joke until it's not (see: the attempted autogolpe in 2021).

It's obvious that the current approach is more threatening to the PRC than the old one...perhaps that's why the PRC wants to bring him back? Seems like his recent flip-flop on TikTok fits into the equation too.
Feynman talks about this in his "Symmetry" lecture, and how there's no way to discern "left" from "right" without a shared artifact. (You can try to get clever and use a magnet, but there's also no way to discern magnetic north from south without a shared artifact, so that's ultimately the same convention.) It's like how any complex number can only be a±bi; a+bi doesn't actually mean anything by itself.
Nobody is spoofing anything, DMARC won't help. This is marking legitimate emails as spam at scale to trigger actual spam controls against the legitimate organization.
XZ attack analysis in a single page diagram
French, Physiology (Sullivan's lectures) so that I can move on to pathology and then pathophysiology. I want to learn more about the human body.
I'll try in a week+ when I'm back to a fast connection. Thank you.