skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in a sense that should be the way to go I think. Your constituency wants something, you try to implement it with your means and see if it sticks. If it doesn't, you'll have to see if you can get wider support and fall back to just admitting that other rules supersede it. Call it blaming but it's the truth at the end of the day.

Its just an issue that illegal laws can still be laws, but then again if everything needed a comprehensive legal check we'd get nothing done.

I just have a sinking feeling that in some of your examples it's pretty blatant obvious corruption and certain politicians will get a comfy retirement soon. For example the highway tolls scandal was blatantly illegal and the idiots even signed laws on it. Costing us money now.
For Ruby on Rails there is: https://github.com/flippercloud/flipper
The part that blows my mind all the time is that there are all sorts of cups - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

Mile unit is another one of the same sort - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile with the exception that only two kinds have survived if I'm not mistaken - US mile and nautial mile

I guess it can be very simple in US, especially if mug/cup volumes are defined in terms of a "cup" multiples, but in europe I get totally lost when I see the cup unit in the recipe since I din't know what volume it refers to
But as this article points out, liblzma is used in other crucial processes, and is generally trusted, often probably being run as root. The known bad actor contributed lots of code to xz that isn’t involved in the SSH backdoor. To assume it’s all innocuous would be truly foolish.
I can tell you how is going to play out. The people with less money for lawyers will be held liable. Normally the captain.
To be truly honest - this feels like all of the lockin and downsides of a framework, without the upsides.

Putting this through a security review even if it was free greatly outweighs the upside. It also reflects badly on me as a developer if I was to propose this?
PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU
But this suggests reimplementing xz/lzma. Which would cost money. Hence, won't be done.
I was once asked by a friend to help him commit suicide. He was encouraged to ask by a conversation in which I supported the right of any competent adult to do so. But I refused. Several years later he killed himself without anyone's help.

I still feel the same. I won't try to stop someone other than by persuasion. I can imagine a circumstance in which I might want to help, for instance someone in unmanageable pain who wants to die but can't do it themselves. But for someone who does have the physical and mental capacity to do so, I would not. I can certainly understand how the act could be incredibly difficult, to pull the trigger or slash open a vein. But I think that is generally a feature not a bug.

If you can't bring yourself to do it, then neither can I, and maybe while you are condemned to live for a while longer you might find something to live for. It happens.
You need to separate the concept of EVs from the current state of battery technology. EVs are almost certainly the future, and as our battery and charging technology keeps improving the whole package will become greener and greener.
What Supabase functionality are you using? Database, Auth, etc.

What has your experience been like with them?
Mind elaborating on what you are saying about Cillian having a crew member on his back? I'm a little confused..
> Struggling to start boring or complicated tasks?

This is absolutely absurd. If we are reaching a point in society where we need an "AI Coach" to help us do boring and repetitive tasks, it means we have become true cogs in the machine whose sole purpose is to further technology. How is it that after all this fancy stuff like advanced computers, we are still working on mindless, repetitive tasks? And in fact they seem to be getting even more prevalent...

Work today of the intellectual kind is getting increasingly meaningless. I can imagine a future where we are semi-conscious, pushed into various tasks by AI, so that we can keep furthering technology.

Frankly, products like this are the clearest example that we are heading down a terribly wrong path in society: the fact that many people accept them as normal reflects an immense pathology.
The Matrix Awakens demo had some of the assets released to the Unreal Engine marketplace as separate packs, [1]the map, [2]buildings, crowds, and vehicles.

The matrixcity map is different, but is somewhat similar to that of the map in Matrix Awakens. You can see from the design breakdown on [3] this page by a technical lead on the Matrix Awakens project.

edit. If you look further into the [4]github codebase, under the MatrixPlugin section it explicitly states that they used the city-sample project.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/city-...
[2] https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/learn/city-sa...
[3] https://quentinmarmier.artstation.com/projects/xYeKNO
[4] https://github.com/city-super/MatrixCity
> And I don't see why a white-only association would be unusual in the current climate.

Are you white? I am, and I don’t think any white person would claim this. At least where I live and work, we get reminded weekly how much a small contingent of ultra-progressives hate us.
I once got a (probably scam) offer for adding a cryptominer to a library that I maintained at that time. And a more serious offer to add trackers to a popular >1M installs app.

Both cases I obviously ignored it. But it made me aware of a nasty attack vector: someone who's thanklessly building a wordpress-plugin, pip, npm, or whatever software, thanklessly dealing with issues, PRs, support, maintainence, often for no pay, suddenly gets offered three figure sums to add a few lines of "affiliate stuff" or such. There are many places in the world, or people in situations where this amount of money really makes a compelling case.
Would be nice if we could see experienced mathematicians endorse this, please. It would help to decide whether to put time into it. At first glance it looks really nice.
Hopefully they don’t get legal pressure from Redis Labs over name similarity. Didn’t OpenTF have to change to OpenTofu for that reason?
I wonder how that happened. The post isn't even flagged
If you spent 10-20 years writing C++ and all of the code you interact with is written in C++ and all the libraries you are calling are C++, why would you write in Rust?
Good point. Of course, that US centric viewpoint - valid as it is - doesn't help the overall climate picture much. I guess what we need is more global cooperation to ensure that renewables are promoted as much as possible, as quickly as possible?
Right, IFUNCs make sense for library function where you have the function pointer indirection anyway. Makes much less sense for internal functions - only argument over a regular function pointer would be the pointer being marked RO after it is resolved (if the library was linked with -z relro -z now), but an if avoids even that issue.
> "I'm a man" is no more meaningful than "I'm a Libra".

I think you're overstating things here, by a lot. I understand not wanting to get mired in gender politics, as I find it tedious as well. But "man" and "woman" goes deeper than star signs.
The greater concern should be how many other sleeper contributors are out there. Anonymous contributions are accepted every day, and we know of cases with malicious intent such by "James Bond" (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200809221453.10235-1-jameslou...).

I am not specifically worried about other contributions by "Jia Tan", those are being extensively looked at right now. They and other sleepers may just as well have contributed to any project with a different name and therefore "Jia Tan" does not pose more danger than any other contribution whose submitter cannot be held responsible.
A fair bit of the cost increase of HS2 was NIMBYs wanting it to be in tunnels after the route had been chosen, replacing a bridge should be easier to estimate.
I was excited about the LS-120 but I never quite convinced myself to stump up the money to pay for it.

My recollection was that it was:
- Slightly larger than the contemporary Zip disks.
- Cheaper than a Zip drive.
- Could just replace your existing floppy drive, since it was backwards-compatible.

I don't know if it was as fast or robust as a Zip disk - it definitely didn't have the same mind share, though.
Being the cause of the bubble doesn't make you immune to the bubble: I think Stable Diffusion is also equally important to the GenAI topic, but I wouldn't want to be one of their investors; and much as anyone saying "moat" in this context my eyes roll[0], just like every other business in the history of forever there can be no certainty that competitors won't undercut OpenAI on pricing and/or quality.

And until the dust has settled on intellectual property issues (and I don't just mean lawsuits: regardless of the results of those, governments may change the rules), all of the current models and labs are at risk.

[0] it's a thought-terminating cliché spoken by organic stochastic parrots.
That is exactly right. The only reason why we get perspectives as in the article are because the author and people like them are deeply offended and have ritualized their feeling of being offended into their personality so that they can't help but take out their disharmony on everyone else by seeing false falsehoods towards them.
Yeah, I think I remember seeing the sysops load the VAX CPU microcode using a floppy on the front panel (?)

I don't disagree in general. Writing a disassembler must have been a real challenge.

It's a waste of gates in the CPU. You put a lot of unnecessary combinatorical logic on the critical path, which limits the clock speed.

RISC chips remove everything that is not needed for the output of a C compiler, making the chip smaller and faster.

But from the perspective of Stallman writing a C compiler and having to generate and read lots of assembly code, I can see how the VAX assembly was easy to deal with. He could skip past a lot of stuff like BCD/CRC.

I'm not intimately familiar with 386 assembly, but my impression is that you have a lot of interdependencies and special cases? That can't be fun when writing a compiler. But at least it's not an accumulator-based CPU architecture like the 6502 or the PIC16, where everything has to be done through a single register.
On the other hand, what if it comes out that the engine failed due to contaminated fuel?
Intel was never in the HBM market - you might be thinking of their 3D XPoint/Optane memory developed in collaboration with Micron and discontinued in 2022.
Most AMD desktop chips. Intel chips have a fairly linear power vs performance curve, i.e. you will lose significant performance when you reduce power.
:-)

Slight snag -- I had a few days off and I may have caught COVID again, and am feeling rather unwell. Poorly timed as I am far from home and any of my testing kit.

I hope that my editor will still be happy to take and run such a story in a week or so's time.
Show HN: New engine for programmable financial workflows
Hi HN!
We’ve been working on Luna Protocol (https://www.luna-protocol.com)

It is a self-serve platform for creating financial products, their related workflows and data integrations.

There’s still a bunch to do, and we’re posting here for feedback on usability, how well this can support (and accelerate) engineering flows, and any other thoughts people have!

Find out more here: https://docs.luna-protocol.com/

# What does it do?
We offer a simple Python language interface onto our contract engine, a robust managed ledger and orchestration over existing systems.

Applications include creation and operation of borrowing base structures and asset allocations, variable interest rate and FX products, complex waterfalls, and more.

# How to get started on the API:
- New users can signup without an api key (email verification is required)
- Login without an api key, to get a bearer token
- Create an organisation using a bearer token or existing API key (the creating user will be automatically added into the organization)
- API keys can be created within an organization, using a bearer token or existing API key

# Why does this matter?
Today, many institutional financial transactions are run on technology which does a few things well, but lacks the robust, scaled approach that is common in consumer or public markets.

Where there are no systems, Excel fills the gaps. A lot of human support (and cost) is needed as volumes increase or new structures are needed. With most vendors, complex changes or migrations are required to support new structures.

Instead:
Imagine having a deal environment with the expressiveness of MS Excel, with the power and scale of AWS and the python ecosystem behind it.

# What makes Luna different
Financial Institutions can execute technology change significantly faster using Luna, particularly for new or novel deal ideas.

No more changes across the whole stack: just write a Luna contract with any required integrations into existing systems, and focus on the user experience you want to take to market.

If you can write basic Python, you can create a financial instrument with Luna.

Luna contracts can ingest data from any source, and publish data to any source (e.g. loan management systems, ERP, email, Slack, anything really).

Let us know what you think - we’re excited to get feedback!
#teamLuna
We could all be Jia Tan.

Someone could be bought, killed and replaced, or simply shadowed when they die or go to jail. Anonymity makes this even easier.
You can pre-answer most autoconf sections using /etc/config.site, and a system distributor can create an /usr/share/config.site[1]. It's just really hard to get right, nobody uses it effectively.

Autoconf also has a config.cache[2], which it uses to store answers to reuse across multiple of the same checks and reruns of the configure script.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/h...

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.65/h...
Do we have any idea at all who has done it? From what I've read there's no credible attribution in public sources.
Lol they shouldn't be relying on GitHub in the first place.
I believe this is a nation state actor and there are a a fleet of 'Jia Tans' working on other OSS projects to backdoor operating systems.

And some have probably succeeded.
Buy the phone you want and connect them to a network. Then adb connect remotely.
Stability AI defaulted on payments to AWS, owed Google Cloud and CoreWeave money
Broadcom execs say VMware price, subscription complaints are unwarranted
As a German, this is exactly what whole numbers means - numbers such as -1, 0, 1. Natural numbers are whole numbers > 0.
That's just a shortcut to the conventional tarball distribution method.
Russian influence network in Europe: list of promoted politicians
https://archive.is/Er5j3
I'm a simple man: pyenv virtualenv + poetry.
I’ll play with you:

It might not be such a bad thing to increase cost of trans-oceanic transportation. Right now we’re shipping stuff that makes little sense no to produce locally simply because (cost of overseas labor + cost of transportation) < (cost of domestic labor). I would suggest this is absurd both from an ecological and from a humane standpoint. Increasing the cost of transoceanic shipping might help flip the scales a little bit

Alternatively, I’d suggest that the premiums might not increase that much.
Cost of insurance would be (cost of a claimable event)*(probability of such event). I’d hope the latter tends towards zero, significantly reducing the product of the 2.

We can also look at the potential impact of such a “new” policy on total insurance costs. Apparently, the Dali is able to transport 10k containers. And current shipping prices of $4,000 per container, that means that the cost of the trip alone is in the $40M range. If we take the lowest possible value of the goods, that’d be $40M and the arrival location. I’d argue that the probability of losing the vessel and its cargo is higher than that of hitting a bridge, especially if ports start deploying tugboats around their facilities
This is a pretty inaccurate summary of the linked article.
How do you know what 'pre' means given that pseudo-anonymous identities are free and Tan is already suspected of having some (e.g. Hans Jansen and Jigar Kumar: https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline)
Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Releases with Essential Refinements
Should Terraform be applied before or after merge? A consideration of tradeoffs
There are many ways of sending files between phones, none of them good.

Bluetooth can work, but it is slow as hell, and Apple doesn't support it.

Cloud services are convenient, but you not only you need some signal, but you also uses up your data plan.

If you have USB OTG support, you can simply use a thumb drive, like with your PC, but it is cumbersome and you need the hardware.

There are some somewhat proprietary systems like QuickShare and AirDrop, which are supposed are great when you have support which is not always the case.

Other options include having one phone act as a WiFi AP and host a local HTTP server, there are apps for that (ex: MiXplorer). A bit uncommon, but the advantage is that only one phone needs to do weird stuff, for the other, it is just downloading from a URL.

There are also apps like SyncThing based on P2P networks.

Generally, phones are pretty terrible at dealing with files. Their OS is designed around apps controlling their data rather than around interchangeable files like traditional desktop OSes. The way they want you to work is not by exchanging .gpx files but instead by using some built-in "share" feature of your hiking app. It may be .gpx under the hood, but they don't want the end user to see a file.
It's what we all mean without saying it, because singularity
There's quite an interesting youtube interview / chat with him out recently

'Canoo Tony Aquila Fireside' Chat https://youtu.be/AlTG8S0F_fo

It sounds like he's actually doing quite a good job as CEO. The vid from minute 3 to 7 gives much of his strategy and how he got into it.

He was a billionaire investor with a background in car parts and servicing that looked at 12 or so EV companies to invest in and figured Canoo was the one and then the board asked him to be CEO.

I guess if you are a struggling EV company looking for some billionaire to save you you may have to put up with him using a jet.
I'm a software engineer myself so I don't know a lot about this, but there are a few patterns that are not far off of what you're describing. For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_shaping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...
No, obsolescence comes from having your role replaced by something else. Infantry should be obsoleted since WW1 thanks to invention of machine gun. But it is not, because there is nothing to replace its role on the battlefield.

Yet at the same way, you don't see horses on the front. Because they were replaced by combustion engine.
Case in point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad#Brazil
You're gonna have to read it for yourself though
EU could have a competition for Namibia and Angola etc and pay for successful elephant protection. (This might already be in place.)
You already have to inspect everything if you want to review/audit a build script. Small functions - and I specifically mean functions being written small because of misguided ideas of "clean code", as opposed to e.g. useful abstraction or reusability - become especially painful there, as you have that much more code to read, and things that go together logically (or execution-wise) are now smeared around the file.

And you can't really name such small functions well anyway, not when they're broken down for the sake of being small. Case in point, some build script I saw this week had function like `rename_foo_dll_unit_tests` calling `rename_foo_dll_in_folder` calling `rename_foo_dll` calling `rename_dlls`, a distinct call chain of four non-reused functions that should've been at most two functions.

Are all Python build scripts like that? Not really. It's just a style I've seen repeatedly. The same is the case with inscrutable Bash scripts. I think it speaks more about common practices than the language itself (notwithstanding Bash not really being meant for writing longer programs).
This is a great question with a lot of interesting nuance! I don't have deep expertise in maritime insurance but I do know enough to be dangerous.

Let's just look at the boat insurance, because the bridge and the cargo all probably have different policies covering them with vastly different terms. Marine insurance is odd because it actually just sucks as a business to be in. Boats aren't cheap and they sink too often for normal companies to realistically make any profit. But we still need insurance on our boats, so the industry basically has created a big mutual insurance pool. There are like 8 or 9 insurance companies that are owned by the businesses that purchase their policies (this is the definition of a mutual insurance company). So when a big claim is paid out like this, the entire shipping industry bears the cost because these same companies essentially share the risk on all shipowner's policy. Shipowners can't complain too much - there is literally no one else who will sell them insurance so they have to do it this way (Not having insurance is a bad idea 99.9% of the time). The deal is not all bad though, if there is a good year with fewer claims, the shipping companies get some money back. And because the risk is pooled via mutual insurance companies, they keep appropriate stashes of money in case there is a bad year. Actuaries are tasked with figuring out how much money to hold on to at any given time so hopefully there is never a capital crunch.

Will this cost be passed on to consumers? Tough to tell. I'm stepping a bit out of my expertise here, but my inclination is that there won't be outsize costs put on consumers. Roughly speaking, since the entire industry bears its fair share of marine insurance costs on a company by company basis, if one goes up, they all go up. So if that means shipping a crate from China to USA is more expensive because the space on that boat becomes more expensive, then consumers pay more. What's that saying again? A rising insurance premium lifts all shipping costs? However, I don't think that consumers will unfairly be paying additional costs to get their goods because of the mutual nature of boat insurance. Furthermore, the company you transact with (say Wal-mart) may just eat the additional cost of shipping in their margins or force shipping companies to eat the cost instead. This is all assuming the federal government doesn't pay for the rebuild. I don't think the government will pay any substantial amount on this claim given how well insured all parties seem to be.
Trusting people in general is inadvisable. I haven't trusted anyone for years and I am richer than ever.
As the article elaborates, for many years the dying sun was expected to be much, much sooner than that.
Related material:

Dutch Euthanasia Report 2021 (English PDF): https://wfrtds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/RTE_JV2021_ENG...

Number cases (1998-2022): https://www.statista.com/statistics/1363041/netherlands-euth...

Odd internal variations by district and other factors: https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/a-critical-look-at-...

I haven't found a before|after comparison of suicide in the area, the report distinguishes between "Termination of life on request" (the bulk of cases) and "assisted suicide" - the criteria for differentiation of these likely has to do with terminal illness and quality of life.

In 2021 it was 7,459 Termination on request Vs 189 assisted suicide (as per this linked article).
Thanks Dave! That's a great summary of my experience.

Most of my experience has been with a more "boring" stack, so I was interested in trying some of the more "hyped" technology choices, to see if I was missing out on anything.